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• War Czar: Draft “has always been an option”

  Published: August 10, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Military Issues General, Lies The Lying Liars

  back as three years ago. The lies never end, because the liars never stop lying. From rampup to Ft Jackson, SC, 193 days to implement a draft is a whirlwind schedule. We're not talking about drips and drabs of eligible conscriptees coming through the door singing five part harmonies. From the time a draft is authorized through the first thirty

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• David Petraeus and the Bogus September Report

  Published: August 16, 2007, 1:44 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Bush Arrogance, Lies The Lying Liars

  working. They’re even lying about statistics right now: …U.S. officials say the number of civilian casualties in the Iraqi capital is down 50 percent. But U.S. officials declined to provide specific numbers, and statistics gathered by McClatchy Newspapers don’t support the claim. The number of car bombings in July actually was

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• Wikipedia Edits - Government Goes Wild

  Published: August 17, 2007, 10:08 am

  Tags: Politics U S, Lies The Lying Liars, Propaganda Catapulting

  In the past week, it’s been revealed that organizations as diverse as Fox News, Diebold, and the CIA have been making edits and scrubbing entries on the online resource Wikipedia. Now comes word that the practice of eliminating info and rewriting history is even more prevalent than previously suspected. And the U.S. government is leading

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• Rescue Rudy Redux

  Published: August 17, 2007, 11:47 am

  Tags: Stupid, Republican Arrogance, 2008 Presidential Election, Lies The Lying Liars

  Last week, Rudy Giuliani caused a bit of a stir when he suggested that he was at Ground Zero “as often, if not more” than rescue workers at the site. At the time, Atrios commented that such a statement was just begging for follow-up since his empirical claim could be easily verified. Indeed, as one of the prominent figures of the time,

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• Numbers Game

  Published: August 18, 2007, 7:27 am

  Tags: Iraq, Military Issues General, Bush Arrogance, Lies The Lying Liars, Propaganda Catapulting

  So once again the Bushies are dangling the prospect of “troop cuts” in order to buy a few more Friedman Units until Bush can pass the whole Mess-in-potamia off on his successor. Of course these “cuts”, should they actually occur, would really just be bringing troop levels back down to where they were before the start of the

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• Shootin’ Thru The ‘Tubes

  Published: August 20, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Media, Blogging, Republican Pundits Gone Wild, Lies The Lying Liars

  It’s Monday, and like most people feel at the start of their work week, I just can’t seem to get up the gumption to blog coherently about anything in particular. So let’s see what Shootin’ Thru The ‘Tubes: Like many who blog, I don’t get paid for my opinions. I blog for the passion (some might say obsession) of

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• Surge a Success Declares Skeptics!

  Published: August 21, 2007, 1:10 am

  Tags: Iraq, Republican Pundits Gone Wild, Lies The Lying Liars, Propaganda Catapulting

  because Levin is applying his criticism to goals that are no longer operative. Sure when Bush announced the troop surge back in January, it was said to be an effort to give the Iraqi government ‘breathing room’ to reconcile and if you go by that standard, sure the surge has failed. But ever so imperceptibly (at least to

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• Opening The Files: 08/22/07

  Published: August 22, 2007, 6:09 am

  Tags: Iraq, Military Issues General, Spineless Dems, Republican Pundits Gone Wild, Bush Arrogance, Lies The Lying Liars, Propaganda Catapulting

  Catapulting Phony Ponies Last month, an op-ed in the New York Times prompted all sorts of media attention. Here we had two so-called “critics” of the Iraq war claiming the surge as actually working. Nevermind that these two “critics” were anything but. Nonetheless, the narrative was propagated far and wide in the mainstream

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• Lessons of Vietnam Revisited

  Published: August 23, 2007, 4:26 am

  Tags: Iraq, Stupid, Bush Arrogance, Lies The Lying Liars, Propaganda Catapulting

  When word first broke that Bush would be invoking Vietnam in an upcoming speech to justify continuation of the war in Iraq, I was surprising by the response it got given this isn’t the first time Bush has alluded to that long ago conflict. But after reading through some of the speech and subsequent criticisms, I can now understand why. As

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• September Switcheroo

  Published: August 24, 2007, 7:13 am

  Tags: Iraq, Republican Arrogance, Bush Arrogance, Lies The Lying Liars, Propaganda Catapulting

  the Bushies, this one by allies closer to home. By now you’ve probably heard that Sen. John Warner, who has long made comments calling for the need for change in strategy, has now said that a troop withdrawal should begin after the mid-September report. But it really is just another bit of kabuki from the vaunted Senator, since his paltry

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• Shootin’ Thru The ‘Tubes

  Published: August 25, 2007, 7:21 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential Election, Republican Pundits Gone Wild, Bush Arrogance, Lies The Lying Liars

  Hillary Clinton is getting some flak for her comments about how Republicans might exploit a pre-election terror attack. Judging from the criticisms, it’s as if Clinton uttered some taboo claim. I mean come on people, it’s not like this hasn’t been out there in the ether. Heck there are those actively advocating for another

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• The Bias of Reality

  Published: August 26, 2007, 3:05 am

  Tags: Iraq, Lies The Lying Liars, Propaganda Catapulting

  Ever since the New York Times published an op-ed by Micheal O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack, there has been much debate about their assessment that he surge is working. Much of the criticism has centered around their claim that they’ve always been “critics” of the war and the surge. Of course a close reading of their record

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• Alberto Gonzales Resigns

  Published: August 27, 2007, 8:31 am

  Tags: Civil Liberties, Politics U S, Republican Arrogance, Bush Arrogance, Lies The Lying Liars

  You can tell that the congressional summer vacation is almost over and that investigations will be resuming shortly. According to the New York Times, Alberto Gonzales has resigned: Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned. A senior administration official said he would announce the

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• Gut Check on the New AG

  Published: August 27, 2007, 12:42 pm

  Tags: Civil Liberties, Terrorism, Bush Arrogance, Lies The Lying Liars, Doj, Domestic Surveillance

  With Alberto saying Adios as Attorney General, the rumor mill is churning about possible replacements. The consensus seems to be that DHS Director Michael Chertoff is indeed on the short list. And while some may say he isn’t that bad of a choice given his background in criminal justice and as a deputy AG, we would all to well to remember

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• Opening The Files: 08/28/07

  Published: August 28, 2007, 6:31 am

  Tags: Government Corruption, Culture Of Corruption, Republican Arrogance, Bush Arrogance, Lies The Lying Liars, Doj

  All The President’s Organs What is there to be said about Alberto Gonzales that hasn’t already been said by countless others? Outside of Karl Rove, there is perhaps no other person whose name has come up in the course of so many scandals. And it this and not some sudden desire to spend time with loved ones, which no doubt has prompted

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