By Wink Do you care about government waste? Republicans do. Or they say they do. Are they screaming about $31 billion to $60 billion disappearing? The bipartisan Wartime Contraction Commission is asking Congress to quickly enact recommendations to overhaul the contracting process and increase accountability. Why? According to the commission, the Iraq / Afghanistan wars [...]
By Wink The Libyan overthrow of Gadhafi is worth celebrating. Anytime a ruthless dictator is deposed the world has a chance to become a better place. A chance. It is better when a country overthrows its own dictator, like Libya did, than when an outside country does this, like the U.S. did in Iraq. Why [...]
–Sorry about getting this in so late; it’s finals week and I haven’t had time to watch my primary news source (The Daily Show)– So we all know by now the story of Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the man that threw his shoes and shouted at President Bush at his news conference in Iraq. What some of [...]
Iraqi leaders are now gently pushing us (the U.S.) toward the door. What was our purpose there again? Feel free to ignore the imaginary ‘weapons of mass destruction’ and ‘poison gas factories’ that Bush & Cheney used to drag us into an unprovoked war. Let’s pretend that the real reason, all along, was simply [...]
So after watching three debates by the Presidential nominees and VP nominees, I continue to hear the Republican candidates saying that we must stay in Iraq in order to “win.” Let’s temporarily set aside all those famous quotes by the generals of old saying that nobody really wins in a war, and look at what [...]
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