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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Troop surge in Afghanistan? What should we think?
Is it a good idea to be sending another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan? Will this bring us closer to closure there? Will it help us “win?” How much will it cost? Do the Afghan people think this would help? Can … Continue reading
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Where does all your tax money go? To the military, stupid!
Barney Frank (Dem, Massachusetts) cuts right to the chase about military spending (from HuffPost). Why does the US, he asks, feel like it needs to be militarily everywhere in the world at once? He also nails the political conundrum: most … Continue reading
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When all you have is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail. (Collateral Murder video)
If you haven’t seen the video that just broke showing the massacre of civilians by sadistic US army helicopter gunners, it is very highly recommended. I’ll say more on this later, but first it urgently just needs to be seen. … Continue reading
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Tagged collateral murder, helicopter, manning, war crime, Wikileaks
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How much do we remember about the political rhetoric leading into the war?
This stuff is incredible to listen to in hindsight, because it is so blatantly disingenuous and so flagrantly…wrong. One learns a lot though about how easily the Americans are manipulated. Let’s learn to think, learn to study history, learn to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush, Iraq war, media, Rumsfeld, six weeks, weapons mass destruction, WMD
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