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It has been evident well before 9/11 that George Bush would invade Iraq in the name of the United States of America. The carnage, the savagery, the tribal, sectarian and feudal brutality was foreseen by many, including me. Some of us have been writing and speaking against this butchery since Bush took office. […]

Wanna have some fun?
Next time you’re in a pharmacy, ask if they have emergency contraception - aka the morning after pill or Plan B.  If you get some blathering on about “moral objections to filling that prescription” ask if you can get your prescription for antibiotics filled.  Tell them it’s to clear up your gonorrhea.
Get some popcorn, […]

I have the good fortune to belong to a church that takes community seriously. Most Wednesday nights we have dinner in the social hall. Last night, over a delicious and thoughtfully prepared meal, I’d guess at least 50 people socialized, laughed and connected with one another. I ate my dinner with a group of teenagers, […]

Starbucks workers need your help to continue organizing a union with the Industrial Workers of the World. With members at seven Starbucks locations and growing, the IWW baristas are proving that workers at large multinational retailers can gain an independent voice on the job. However, we can’t do it alone. The coffee giant […]

Over at tompaine.com, Paul Waldman has an intriguing article about the important dynamic of this year’s election - conservatism repudiated.
Waldman writes:
After Lyndon Johnson made Democrats the party of civil rights, a grand exodus occurred among conservative Southerners from their traditional home in the Democratic Party to their ideological home in the GOP. As a consequence, […]

Robert Gates, Bush’s nomination to replace Rumsfeld said,
There is no military solution in Iraq.
I heard it on KCPW but haven’t found the source yet.
This will be a breath of fresh air (dispite the guys dirty hands) for our troops hope of coming home. But I wouldn’t be surprised if he Bush recinds the nomination […]

…almost. As reported today newly elected Senator Jim Webb “wanted to slug” George. I think I speak for most of the people on the planet when I respectfully submit, I wish he had. I’m pretty sure it would have come off quite well as world opinion goes. Frankly, its more the sort […]

Cliff posted a nice working draft of impeachable offenses involving both President Bush and Vice President Cheney. These included violations of the US Constitution, U.S. laws, International Laws and Treaty Obligations. Among these was the ban on use of chemical weapons for offensive purposes. This was signed by the United States in 1980. It is […]

CJ (everyone is anonymous there) over at SoldiersPerspective.us just deleted my post after I raised the issue of his profiting from his site.
Yesterday, he accused me of celebrating US Troops killed as per the counter of the top-right of this blog. The top-right of HIS blog is a PayPal donation button, with the […]

DailyKos has an insider’s view of the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group (ISG). The source is anonymous but “trusted” according to the poster.  The ISG is expected to recommend a regional conference to encourage more responsible behavior toward Iraq by Syria, Iran and other neighboring countries.  Here’s an excerpt, the whole thing is worth reading […]

The news that NBC has finally admitted Iraq is in a civil war has generated quite a bit of reaction.  John Stewart at the Daily Show last night responded to Matt Lauer meandering explanation for the change in language in a brittle, funny, commentary that concluded, “It’s not just a civil war, it’s a Matt Lauer […]

My friends at SoldiersPerspective.us posted this video. The premise of that blog is that the invasion and occupation of Iraq is supportable.
Today, they posted this video. I guess they are trying to say that because Democrats under Clinton made warnings about Iraq, that somehow that justifies the invasion.
I think that is utterly hypocritical because […]

Via Kos.
Holy Joe Lieberman (Party of One, Conn) has hired Republican Marshall Wittmann (and McCain cheerleader) as his official spokesman. Dems on the Hill wisely don’t want one of John McCain’s biggest cheerleaders listening to their strategy meetings. I’m not sure why our Dem officials are finally realizing Lieberman - like McCain […]

For this post, I have several streams of thought merging so bear with me.  It’s going to take a while to get where I’m going.
Driving from Orem to Salt Lake City the last few weeks, I have noticed a billboard.  It shows the top of the Mormon Temple in downtown Salt Lake before a perfect […]

Not! Read on:
Christmas peace sign causes subdivision stir

i know that politics are the lifeblood of most blogs. The average blog ready is a voracious consumer of media in a wide variety of forms - print, television, media. But tonight, I’m not feeling very political. This may be a bit to personal but apparently I have poorly developed boundaries.
In my […]

We knew this day was coming, but here it is. The invasion and occupation of Iraq has dragged on for three years and just over eight months, which is longer than the U.S. involvement in World War II. In American history, the length of the war so far is exceeded only by the Vietnam […]

n 2004, The Lancet, the most respected medical journal in the world, published a study of “excess deaths” - being deaths in excess of ordinary mortality - attributable to the Iraq war, and gave a figure of 100,000. These were mostly women and children killed in the air campaign. In 2006, The Lancet […]

From Dailykos - Powerful stuff.
We’re finding out right now. First, from this report by Michael Ware on CNN last night. Here he discusses the violence:

MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, firstly, let me say, perhaps it’s easier to deny that this is a civil war, when essentially you live in the most heavily fortified place in […]