The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/12/silicon_shield_versus_silicon_winter/
American doctrine here, as far as such a thing exists, is to reduce its fab yields to zero by using 2,000 lb kinetic contaminants via the B-2 bomber deposition process to turn them back into the sand from whence they came. This would destroy more than half the world's silicon supply and almost all of the latest circuits that drive the most active sectors in IT. It would take ten years to rebuild, assuming that this could even be done with the revenue taps turned off, the world economy in massive recession, and infrastructure scattered to the winds.
Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea « bunnie's blog
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/turning-everyday-gadgets-into-bombs-is-a-bad-idea/
The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. The current discourse around the potential reach of such explosive devices is clouded by the assumption that it’s technically difficult to implement and thus unlikely to find its way to our front door.That assumption is wrong. It is both surprisingly easy to do, and could be nearly impossible to detect. After I read about the attack, it took half an hour to combine fairly common supply chain knowledge with Wikipedia queries to propose the mechanism detailed below.
Barbara Lee’s Lone Vote on Sept. 14, 2001, Was as Prescient as It Was Brave and Heroic
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/11/barbara-lees-lone-vote-on-sept-14-2001-was-as-prescient-as-it-was-brave-and-heroic/
Barbara Lee’s Lone Vote on Sept. 14, 2001, Was as Prescient as It Was Brave and Heroic
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/11/barbara-lees-lone-vote-on-sept-14-2001-was-as-prescient-as-it-was-brave-and-heroic
Proposal: keep the nuclear launch codes in an innocent volunteer's chest-cavity / Boing Boing
http://boingboing.net/2015/12/11/proposal-keep-the-nuclear-lau.html
what if the codes to launch nuclear war were kept inside the chest-cavity of a young volunteer, and the President would have to hack them out of this young man's chest before he could commence armageddon?
Absolutely Nothing: A Veteran’s Savage Indictment of the Iraq War | Americans Against the Tea Party
http://aattp.org/absolutely-nothing-a-veterans-savage-indictment-of-the-iraq-war/
First, I’m going to need somebody to explain to me exactly what it was that we were fighting for.
Absolutely Nothing: A Veteran’s Savage Indictment of the Iraq War | Americans Against the Tea Party
http://aattp.org/absolutely-nothing-a-veterans-savage-indictment-of-the-iraq-war
First, I’m going to need somebody to explain to me exactly what it was that we were fighting for.
Ritual Combat at the India-Pakistan Border - TIME
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1689795,00.html
At the Wagah border post that separates northern India from eastern Pakistan, the distance between the throngs of Muslims that gather on the Pakistan side and the mostly Hindus and Sikhs congregated on the Indian side is but a few feet. But it feels like miles for those old enough to remember the days when they could walk from one side to the other without ever leaving India. And although the nightly border guard ceremony here may be grounded in a bloody history of partition conflict, for locals and the occasional tourist it remains a symbol of a peaceful back-and-forth between two neighbors who have fought each other in three wars. And for Pakistan, the changing of the flag ceremony represents a rare refuge of decorum amid the swirling chaos that engulfs their country.
Wagah border ceremony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagah_border_ceremony
The Wagah (Punjabi: ਵਗਾਹ) border closing 'lowering of the flags' ceremony is a daily military practice that the security forces of India (Border Security Force) and Pakistan (Pakistan Rangers) have jointly followed since 1959.[1] This ceremony takes place every evening before sunset at the Wagah border, which as part of the Grand Trunk Road was the only road link between these two countries before the opening of the Aman Setu in Kashmir in 1999. The ceremony starts with a blustering parade by the soldiers from both the sides, and ends up in the perfectly coordinated lowering of the two nations' flags. It is called the beating retreat border ceremony on the international level. One infantryman (Jawan) stands at attention on each side of the gate. As the sun sets, the iron gates at the border are opened and the two flags are lowered simultaneously. The flags are folded and the ceremony ends with a retreat that involves a brusque handshake between soldiers from either side, followed by the closing of the gates again. The spectacle of the ceremony attracts many visitors from both sides of the border, as well as international tourists.
Reminder: Tis the Season Not to Be an Ass – Whatever
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/12/21/17117
Here’s the thing: If you’re using the holiday season to go out of your way to be an asshole to someone, believer or non-believer, you’re doing it wrong, and I wish you would stop. That’s not a war, it’s a slap fight and it’s embarrassing. As a non-believer, when someone says “Merry Christmas” to me, I say “Merry Christmas” back, because generally speaking I understand that what “Merry Christmas” means in this context is “I am offering you good will in a way I know how,” and I appreciate that sentiment. Left to my own devices, I use “Happy holidays” because I know a lot of people who aren’t Christians (or at least Christmas-centered) and that seems the best way to express my own good will; the vast majority of people get what I’m doing and appreciate that sentiment too.
Daily Kos: John Boehner: War drawdown savings can't go to job creation
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/17/1037479/-John-Boehner:-War-drawdown-savings-cant-go-to-job-creation
Item number 3,785 in the Republicans-really-don't-care-about-the-deficit file is this from Speaker John Boehner rejecting yet another offer of concessions from Democrats in the Super Congress negotiations.
CIA Drones Kill Large Groups Without Knowing Who They Are | Danger Room | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/cia-drones-marked-for-death
As long as the CIA — now backed by the military and the State Department — has a free hand to wage the secret drone war in tribal Pakistan, it will continue to bottle up al-Qaida and its allies, degrading the threat they pose. They will also kill more Tariqs and Waheeds. And because the drone war remains a classified CIA program, the CIA will not have to account for its actions to anybody, least of all the U.S. or Pakistani publics.
This headline is wussy. Impersonal DRONES don't kill people, assassin pilots at remote consoles kill people. This isn't Terminator, yet.
Awlaki's 16-year-old son killed by US drone
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/21/awlakis.html
What the fuck???
An End to Endless War in Sight?
http://www.metafilter.com/108618/An-End-to-Endless-War-in-Sight
An American Teen-ager in Yemen (Amy Davidson/Close Read)
http://www.memeorandum.com/111019/p98#a111019p98
Troops in Afghanistan Burn Donated Copies of Bill O'Reilly's Books [Bill O'reilly]
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/_TZYWW0Wxl4/troops-in-afghanistan-burn-donated-copies-of-bill-oreillys-books
Dan Simmons - Author's Official Web Site
http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm
"Athens failed in Syracuse – and doomed their democracy – not because they fought in the wrong place and at the wrong time, but because they weren’t ruthless enough."
Mythic's Awful Mac Gaming Mistake - Opinions by ExtremeTech
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2331142,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532
Oh for crying out loud, put on your big girl panties on and use Boot Camp to play your Windows games. It's like a 20 second reboot these days, plus another 2-3 minutes before I'm connecting to a server in Team Fortress 2 (for example). "There's just one problem with Warhammer Online though...there's no Mac version! Yep, that's right. Somewhere along the way in its development Mythic Entertainment—the company who makes WAR—decided that they simply couldn't be bothered doing a Mac version. Unlike Blizzard or Maxis who both released Mac versions of World of Warcraft and Spore—Mythic stupidly did not. "
President Bush regrets his legacy as man who wanted war - Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4107327.ece
"President Bush has admitted to The Times that his gun-slinging rhetoric made the world believe that he was a “guy really anxious for war” in Iraq. He said that his aim now was to leave his successor a legacy of international diplomacy for tackling Ir
Charlie's Diary: Alternative boondoggles
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/05/alternative_boondoggles.html
"Either way, the direct costs of the Iraq war exceed the maximum cost estimate for a manned Mars expedition, infrastructure and all, by 20%"
Elizabeth Bear - Fiction - Tideline
http://www.elizabethbear.com/tideline.html
"Chalcedony wasn't built for crying. She didn't have it in her, not unless her tears were cold tapered glass droplets annealed by the inferno heat that had crippled her."
Conscientious Objector
http://www.militaryfreeschools.org/conscienceobject.htm
"This is a way that may protect you from fighting war if you do not believe that war is a good solution to our problems."
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION AND ALTERNATIVE SERVICE
http://www.sss.gov/FSconsobj.htm
"A conscientious objector is one who is opposed to serving in the armed forces and/or bearing arms on the grounds of moral or religious principles."
The Raw Story | CNN's Cafferty: Bush putting the poor out in the cold to fund war
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Bush_to_CUT_30_Million_Households_1023.html
"No money for kids' health insurance, no money to help poor families pay their heating bills but President Bush wants $190 billion additional for 2008 for his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan"
A troubling turn in American history - The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/10/08/a_troubling_turn_in_american_history
"These developments would be disturbing enough, but what they point to is an interruption in this nation's most important public tradition - the movement from recognition of a problem to its attempted resolution."
I survived Blackwater - Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-gans6oct06,0,1155563.story?coll=la-opinion-center
"As we do the work of bridge building and improving our host citizens' lives, if the people providing our transportation and security are antagonizing, angering and even killing the people we are putatively trying to help, our entire mission is undermined
9/11 is Over
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/opinion/30friedman.html?ei=5124&en=68c518b52f765868&ex=1348804800&exprod=permalink&partner=permalink
"We can’t afford to keep being this stupid! We have got to get our groove back. We need a president who will unite us around a common purpose, not a common enemy."
Just How Far Did They Go, Those Words Against Israel? - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/weekinreview/11bronner.html?ei=5088&emc=rss&en=efa2bd266224e880&ex=1307678400&partner=rssnyt
"Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to wipe Israel off the map because no such idiom exists in Persian"
The Dilbert Blog: A Feeling I'm Being Had
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/09/a-feeling-im-be.html
The Dilbert Blog: Sorry I Confused You
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/09/sorry-i-confuse.html#comments
"In reading the comments to my post yesterday, I see that many of you were confused about my positions. Evidently all of you are brilliant, so I assume the problem is on my end. With your indulgence, allow me to clarify."
Hacker's project sends media-filled hard drives to troops - Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/22/hackers-project-sends-media-filled-hard-drives-to-troops
"A network engineer going by the hacker handle 'Deviant Ollam' has taken it upon himself to send care packages of a different sort to troops serving overseas, with him ditching the usual goods in favor of hard drives filled with movies, music and other co
Run away the ray-gun is coming : We test US army's new secret weapon | the Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=482560&in_page_id=1965
"It can throw a wave of agony nearly half a mile."
It is the death of history - Independent Online Edition Robert Fisk
http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2970762.ece
"Humankind is losing its history for the pleasure of private collectors living safely in their luxurious houses and ordering specific objects for their collection."
Let's stop channeling angry Muslims. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2169020/fr/rss
"It's impossible to satisfy "Rage Boy" and his ilk. It's stupid to try."
The Daily Dish: "Verschärfte Vernehmung"
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/05/verschfte_verne.html
"As you can see from the Gestapo memo, moreover, the Nazis were adamant that their "enhanced interrogation techniques" would be carefully restricted and controlled, monitored by an elite professional staff, of the kind recommended by Charles Krauthammer,
The Blog | Ben Schwartz: Rudy, America's Victim | The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-schwartz/rudy-americas-victim_b_48917.html
"We've already got one that doesn't feel he needs to understand the region, whose response is fear-based politics and vengeance-based foreign policy, and we don't need another. "
Bush gets ready for Iraq U-turn by Brown | International News | News | Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/20/wirq20.xml
"Gordon Brown is prepared to risk the future of the "special relationship" with the United States by reversing Tony Blair's support for the Iraq war, President George W Bush has been warned."
Occupation: The Inconvenient Truth About Iraq — Rockridge Institute
http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/lakoff/occupation/view
"In an occupation, not a war, should the president still have war powers?"
The Raw Story | Bush chuckles at Iraq success: 'Either we'll succeed, or we won't succeed'
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/President_Bush_Defines_Iraq_Success_in_0502.html
"How do you define an acceptable level of violence? I mean, how can that possibly be defined?"
Richard Cohen - A Case Against Cheney - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/01/AR2007050101419.html?referrer=email
"The percussive march of these statements is so forceful, one after another after another, that it suggests Cheney wanted war no matter what."
Quiet Bush Aide Seeks Iraq Czar, Creating a Stir - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/washington/30hadley.html?ei=5090&emc=rss&en=eab635b14d667a9a&ex=1335585600&partner=rssuserland
"the idea that the national security adviser is subcontracting responsibility for the nation’s most pressing foreign policy crisis — and must recruit someone of stature to get the attention of the cabinet — is provoking criticism of Mr. Hadley himse
Daily Kos: A Post-Bush Mentality
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/27/212025/129
"Collectively, we need to start thinking about what the post-post-9/11 world looks like, a world where terrorism will certainly still exist. It can either be a world of arm-waving fear, or a world of informed resolve"
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 04/19/2007 | Training Iraqi troops no longer driving force in U.S. policy
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17104704.htm
"Military planners have abandoned the idea that standing up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces. "
Daily Kos: The Cost of Escalation
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/3/141647/1890
"Bush is sending sick and injured troops back to Iraq, and now he's sending troops that haven't received requisite leave."
AP Wire | 02/12/2007 | Dixie Chicks to country: nah-nah
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/music/16678203.htm
""That's interesting," Maines said. "Well, to quote the great `Simpsons': heh-heh.""
Equipment For Added Troops Is Lacking - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901584.html
"Boosting U.S. troop levels in Iraq by 21,500 would create major logistical hurdles for the Army and Marine Corps, which are short thousands of vehicles, armor kits and other equipment needed to supply the extra forces, U.S. officials said."
Was 9/11 really that bad? - Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-bell28jan28,0,7267967.story
"a messy, difficult, long-term struggle against exceptionally dangerous criminals who actually like nothing better than being put on the same level of historical importance as Hitler — can you imagine a better recruiting tool?"
YouTube - Humvee Traffic Driving in Baghdad
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yco1deXOzN8
I understand why they drive this way, but man... wouldn't it piss you off if someone were doing this in your streets? "Watch and see how the American soldiers have to drive through Iraqi streets to limit risks of attacks."
YouTube - Biden - Name One Single Time Cheney's Been Correct
http://www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=&v=zfSid8cW2iI
Maybe this can be a new contest - name one single time Cheney's been correct! I'm sure there's at least one single time.
Game Boy damaged in Gulf War on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhoran/45214051
Looks positively Lovecraftian. "This GameBoy was damaged when barracks were bombed during the 1990-1991 Gulf War. It still works!"
Bush Silences a Dangerous Witness - Consortiumnews.com
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/123006.html
"Like a blue-blood version of a Mob family with global reach, the Bushes have eliminated one more key witness to the important historical events that led the U.S. military into a bloody stalemate in Iraq and pushed the Middle East to the brink of calamity
SoldierTech: The DREAD Weapon System
http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_DREAD,,00.html
"No heat, no recoil, no sound, no gunpowder, no flash -- just 120,000 rounds per minute of pulverizing power."
WP: U.S. not winning war in Iraq, Bush says - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16275638
"President Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq and said he plans to expand the overall size of the "stressed" U.S. armed forces to meet the challenges of a long-term global struggle against
Star-Telegram | 12/18/2006 | Desperation in the White House
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/opinion/16255290.htm
"Cheney understood all of it, and he bears much of the responsibility for what's gone on in Washington and in Iraq for the last six years. Keep a sharp eye on him. Desperate men do desperate things."
AlterNet: War on Iraq: How to Make Hundreds of Thousands of Dead Iraqis Disappear
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/43224
"The Lancet study that estimated 655,000 Iraqis killed since the US invasion of 2003 was based on some of the most solid research methods possible, but that didn't stop the American press from trying to say it wasn't so."
A Question Bush Can't Answer - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/10/18/BL2006101800799.html
"But if the public doesn't know what torture is or is not, as defined by the Bush Administration, how can the public make a decision on whether your policy is right or wrong?"
The Unsolved Case Of Anthrax - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/13/AR2006101301417.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
"It's been five years since the anthrax attacks shook our country and took the lives of five Americans. We cannot permit another five to pass before we close this chapter and prepare for the next one."
Bush keeps revising war justification - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061014/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_iraq
Charlie's Diary: Playing the Genocide Card
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2006/10/genocide.html
"The Lancet isn't just any medical journal ... It is not noted for publishing random speculation, agitprop, and crank letters — it's the top journal of record in its field."
Bush's 'Axis of Evil' Comes Back to Haunt United States - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100901130.html
"We started with Iraq in the 'axis of evil' side, when we thought they did not yet have nuclear weapons, and that sent the signal to others that they better get them quick"
Need to Know - PostGlobal
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/needtoknow/2006/10/bush_made_a_big_mistake.html
"the Bush administration sees diplomacy as something to be engaged in with another country as a reward for that country's good behavior. They seem not to see diplomacy as a tool to be used with antagonistic countries or parties"
Think Progress ‽ Transcript: Rumsfeld Called Out On Lies About WMD
http://thinkprogress.org/rumsfeld-called-tscript
"So I would like to ask you to be up front with the American people, why did you lie to get us into a war that was not necessary, that has caused these kinds of casualties? why?"
YouTube - Ray McGovern 0wns Donald Rumsfeld
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=&v=MInHphR4zBg
"The audience member then read Rumsfeld's quote back to him, leaving the defense secretary speechless."
Now the Iraq war hinges on a sex scandal - Sunday Times - Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2393411,00.html
"The war, in other words, is in the balance in this election. And yet the outcome may well be decided on the basis of someone’s online sex life."
BBC NEWS | Americas | Iraq war justifications laid bare
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5329350.stm
"The Senate Intelligence Committee has found no evidence of links between the regime of Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda."
Crooks and Liars ‽ Keith Olbermann takes a “look back” at Bush’s first months in office leading up to 9/11
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/27/keith-olbermann-takes-a-look-back-at-bushs-first-months-in-office-leading-up-to-911
"Our goal in this report is to rise to Mr. Clinton’s challenge, and assess the record of Mr. Bush’s efforts against al Qaeda in his first eight months in office."
The Raw Story | 2001 memo to Rice contradicts statements about Clinton, Pakistan
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/2001_memo_to_Rice_contradicts_statements_0926.html
"A memo received by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shortly after becoming National Security Advisor in 2001 directly contradicts statements she made to reporters yesterday, RAW STORY has learned."
E. J. Dionne Jr. - No Silent Majority for Bush - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/25/AR2006092500878.html
"In 2006 it's the administration trying to keep Iraq out of the campaign and to move the public conversation to anything else as an alternative to an accounting for its war decisions that so many middle-of-the-road Americans now regret."
CNN - President wants Senate to hurry with new laws - July 30, 1996
http://www.cnn.com/US/9607/30/clinton.terrorism
"But while the president pushed for quick legislation, Republican lawmakers hardened their stance against some of the proposed anti-terrorism measures."
War Room - Salon.com - Revisiting GOP attacks on President Clinton
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/09/25/clinton_2/index.html
"The claim that Clinton paid insufficient attention to terrorism was one that virtually no Republicans made during the Clinton presidency."
Army Warns Rumsfeld It's Billions Short - Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-military25sep25,0,5555967.story
"It's kind of like the old rancher saying: 'I'm going to size the herd to the amount of hay that I have"
Charles Krauthammer - Tolerance: A Two-Way Street - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092101513_pf.html
"Religious fanatics, regardless of what name they give their jealous god, invariably have one thing in common: no sense of humor."
CNN.com - Air Force‽chief: Test weapons on testy U.S. mobs - Sep 12, 2006
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/09/12/usaf.weapons.ap/index.html
"If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation"
Best-Connected Were Sent to Rebuild Iraq - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600193_pf.html
"O'Beirne's staff posed blunt questions to some candidates about domestic politics: Did you vote for George W. Bush in 2000? Do you support the way the president is fighting the war on terror?"
Crooks and Liars - Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Bush: Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have. May this country forgive you
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/11/keith-olbermanns-special-commnet-on-bush-who-has-left-this-hole-in-the-ground-we-have-not-forgotten-mr-president-you-have-may-this-country-forgive-you
"Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have."
Crooks and Liars - Matt Lauer goes after Bush over secret prisons and torture
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/11/matt-lauer-goes-after-bush-over-secret-prisons-and-torture
"Matt Lauer went after Bush over his secret prisons and the use of torture on the captured terrorists via The Today Show this morning. He was uncommonly strong and didn’t back down when Bush gave his pet answer."
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bush: Saddam not responsible for 9/11
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,,1870427,00.html
"The admission that Saddam had no connection to the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon was a departure for a president who is famously averse to any expression of regret."
Crooks and Liars ‽ Ann Coulter gets her freak on
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/08/24/ann-coulter-gets-her-freak-on
"Whenever Ann is faced with the reality that Osama hasn’t been caught yet by this administration–well–Poor Ann. Kirsten Powers actually responds to Coulter’s ridiculous line that Afghanistan is going swimmingly and brings up the fact that Osama is
Foreign Affairs - Is There Still a Terrorist Threat? - John Mueller
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060901facomment85501-p0/john-mueller/is-there-still-a-terrorist-threat.html
"Despite all the ominous warnings of wily terrorists and imminent attacks, there has been neither a successful strike nor a close call in the United States since 9/11. The reasonable -- but rarely heard -- explanation is that there are no terrorists withi
Bush Must Negotiate to Make America Safer, Say Former Generals - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20060818/wl_oneworld/45361379581155875399
"the generals who signed the letter say Bush has been stubborn, and a poor student of history."
The Guns Of August
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/09/AR2006080901514.html
"Two full-blown crises, in Lebanon and Iraq, are merging into a single emergency. A chain reaction could spread quickly almost anywhere between Cairo and Bombay."
BostonHerald.com - Herald Columnists: Psalm 9-11: I will fear no evil
http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=152575
"You must decide for yourself that you will not let them deter you from your path. If they rise against you, you must be prepared to meet them. Prepared to be ruthless in defense of what you love. It may mean that you will die. We all do someday."
Philadelphia Daily News | 08/11/2006 | BUSH AND CHENEY'S REIGN OF ERROR
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/opinion/15249007.htm
"To exploit a very real terror threat that could have led to major casualties, and to even indirectly implicate Americans who were exercising their democratic right by going to the polls and making a choice borders on the criminal, to say nothing of the i
Kung Fu Monkey: "Wait, Aren't You Scared?"
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/08/wait-arent-you-scared.html
"Quick, do whatever we tell you, and believe whatever we tell you, or YOU WILL BE KILLED BY BROWN PEOPLE!! PUT DOWN THAT SIPPY CUP!!"
Stop using this lame evasion, Condi. By Fred Kaplan
http://www.slate.com/id/2147398?nav=ais
"Scholars who enter the chambers of power should use their training as a tool to help them make decisions. Condi Rice is using hers as a chant to wish away the consequences."
Boing Boing: Only traitors try to make us afraid of terrorists
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/07/only_traitors_try_to.html
"The point of terrorism is to create terror, and by cynically convincing us that our very countries are at risk from terrorism, our politicians have delivered utter victory to the terrorists: we are terrified."
Think Progress ‽ Rumsfeld: ‘I Have Never Painted A Rosy Picture’ About Iraq
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/03/rumsfeld-iraq-rosy
"Here’s just a few of the “overly optimistic” comments made by Rumsfeld (and no, we did not have a “dickens of a time” finding them)"
Just a Bump in the Beltway: Losing the Right
http://www.node707.com/archives/008275.shtml
"That's the record. That's the policy. A total failure."
CNN.com - The end of cowboy diplomacy - Jul 9, 2006
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/09/coverstory.tm.tm
"Around the world, both the U.S.'s friends and its adversaries are taking note -- and in many cases, taking advantage -- of the strains on the superpower."
If Necessary, Strike and Destroy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/21/AR2006062101518.html
"North Korea Cannot Be Allowed to Test This Missile"
The founding fathers save America's soul - Sunday Times - Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-2252652,00.html
"The conservative intelligentsia in America have also shifted dramatically from a conservatism that protects the individual from government towards a conservatism that wants to impose democracy abroad and enforce morality at home."
Damn Interesting - Atomic Annie and Her Nuclear Projectile
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=213
"her shells packed a nuclear payload with the equivalent destructive power of 15,000 metric tons of TNT."
FRONTLINE: the dark side: watch online | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/view
"Amid revelations about faulty prewar intelligence and a scandal surrounding the indictment of the vice president's chief of staff and presidential adviser, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to investigate the internal war that
Wired News: The Scariest Terror Threat of All
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71152-0.html?tw=rss.index
"Terrorism has always been rare, and for all we've heard about 9/11 changing the world, it's still rare."
Sploid: White House ignored Iran's 2003 make-nice
http://www.sploid.com/news/2006/06/white_house_ign.php
"Former administration officials said that in failing to consider the overtures made by Teheran, the U.S. missed an opportunity to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear capability."
MyDD :: The So Called War on Terror is for Weaklings
http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/5/30/14359/8492
"It is a metaphor for the scared, the dishonest, and the weak."
Analysis: Euphoria gone for Bush and Blair - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060526/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_blair_analysis
"Bush's approval ratings hover in the low 30s. Blair's are even deeper in the basement, at about 26 percent. Both men are approaching lame duck status, as well."
Bush, Blair Concede Missteps on Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501316.html
"While Bush increasingly has begun to acknowledge missteps in handling the war, his comments last night -- together with Blair's -- represent his most explicit acknowledgment that the administration underestimated the difficulty of the central project of
Wired News: What If They Gave a War...?
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70980-0.html?tw=rss.index
"In short, where the hell is everybody?"
US considers use of nuclear weapons against Iran - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060408/ts_afp/usirannuclearmilitary
I cannot come close to coherently expressing the rage and anger this produces in me. Impeach this fucking President.
Barack Obama on energy independence | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist Magazine
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/2/28/225014/029
"Now is the time for serious leadership to get us started down the path of energy independence. Now is the time for this call to arms."
firedoglake: 02/26/2006 - 03/04/2006 - The President Either Knew and Lied...Or He Doesn't Bother Doing His Job
http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2006_02_26_firedoglake_archive.html#114133299338283535
"I've wracked my brain this afternoon to come up with another alternative -- but no matter how I twist it around in my brain, it comes back to "he knew and lied" or "he doesn't bother doing his job."
Boing Boing: Halliburton to build "immigration detention centers" in US
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/06/halliburton_to_build.html
"Call me paranoid, but seeing "Halliburton," "Homeland Security," and "detention centers" in the same article doesn't make me feel safe at all."
Daily Kos: "Jesus would lose the war on terror."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/3/145418/6340
"It was a very unpleasant look at the twisted, ugly innards of the soul of the Republican party. Suddenly I knew what it must be like to be Ann Coulter's gynecologist."
Bush's Can't-Lose Reversal - Wednesday's speech will set the agenda for withdrawal from Iraq. By Fred Kaplan
http://www.slate.com/id/2131125
"More to the point, does the president have a plan for all this? (The point is far from facetious; it's tragically clear, after all, that he didn't have a plan for how to fight the war if it extended beyond the collapse of Saddam.)"
US use of white phosphorus in Iraq might constitute a war crime - Wikinews
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/US_use_of_phosphor_in_Iraq_might_be_a_warcrime
"The denial of use followed by the admission will simply convince the doubters that there was something to hide."
Bill Clinton Calls Iraq 'Big Mistake' - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051116/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_clinton
"Clinton cited the lack of planning for what would happen after Saddam Hussein was overthrown."
KR Washington Bureau | 11/16/2005 | In challenging war's critics, administration tinkers with truth
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/13185357.htm
"Bush, Cheney, and other senior officials have added several other arguments in recent days that distort the factual record."
Bush Rewrites History To Criticize His Anti-war Critics - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20051114/cm_thenation/336405
"...as he paid tribute to veterans of this war and others, he did not accept responsibility for sending American troops into battle for a cause that did not exist."
Revision Thing (Harpers.org)
http://harpers.org/RevisionThing.html
"A history of the Iraq war, told entirely in lies"
Foreign Policy: The Blame Game
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?fpsrc=ealert051031&story_id=3266
"This is President Bush’s war, and America’s failure will be his legacy."
Daily Kos: 7 soldiers in Iraq killed in Iraq TODAY. Feel safer?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/31/113120/03
"The best way to honor the sacrifices of our troops and their families is to demand action and accountability from our leaders."
THE DARK HEART OF DICK CHENEY - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucgg/20051029/cm_ucgg/thedarkheartofdickcheney
"This week, unprecedented in history, an elected vice president of the United States of America proposed that Congress legally authorize the torture of foreigners by Americans."
JohnKerry.com - Kerry speaks from his heart and conscience on Iraq
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2005_10_26.html
"An open-ended declaration to stay ‘as long as it takes’ lets Iraqi factions maneuver for their own political advantage by making us stay as long as they want, and it becomes an excuse for billions of American tax dollars to be sent to Iraq..."
The Blog | Arianna Huffington: Plamegate: Worse than Watergate | The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/plamegate-worse-than-wat_b_9522.html
"No one died as a result of Watergate, but 2,000 American soldiers have now been killed and thousands more wounded to rid the world of an imminent threat that wasn't."
CNN.com - U.S. military death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000 - Oct 25, 2005
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/25/iraq.main/index.html
"The war in Iraq saw two milestones Tuesday that reflect the country's path toward democracy and its human toll as officials said the referendum on a draft constitution passed and the number of U.S. military deaths reached 2,000."
Cheney Plan Exempts CIA From Bill Barring Abuse of Detainees
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/24/AR2005102402051.html?nav=rss_politics
"This is the first time they've said explicitly that the intelligence community should be allowed to treat prisoners inhumanely"
Film rolls as troops burn dead - World - smh.com.au
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/film-rolls-as-troops-burn-dead/2005/10/18/1129401256154.html
"The incident is reminiscent of the psychological techniques used in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison."
Daily Kos: Gephardt admits mistake
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/17/125119/29
"It was a mistake ... I was wrong."
Invasion of the Isolationists - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/opinion/31fukuyama.html
"We do not know what outcome we will face in Iraq. We do know that four years after 9/11, our whole foreign policy seems destined to rise or fall on the outcome of a war only marginally related to the source of what befell us on that day. There was nothin
Bush: Vacation Ruined By 'Stupid Dead Soldier' | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40081
"It is the president's opinion, and that of the entire administration, that the best way to honor the brave sacrifices of our fallen soldiers is by enjoying a relaxing vacation and not thinking about their deaths."
Senator Will Ask Rumsfeld to Testify to Panel on Iraq - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/29/politics/29congress.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1125348997-aWI/HGn3XOkR1kmpzjwCIw&pagewanted=print
"The idea that we would be sending American servicemen over to Iraq on the basis of the Iraqis developing a new constitution is just so remote, so distant and so fallacious"
Regret The Error: Fox pundit's mistake terrorizes family
http://www.regrettheerror.com/2005/08/fox_pundits_mis.html
"Both have issued apologies Fox in a one-line statement to the Los Angeles Times and Loftus in an e-mail to the family after being contacted by the newspaper. The Voricks say they have yet to see or hear a correction."