The Era: July 2006

Live Vote: Impeach!

Reign of Error

I don't know if I really believe the WMD poll. How could it jump up from 36 to 50%? It's amazing! We're not that dumb are we? Anyway, something must be done about these people that continue to spread disinformation. It's pathetic and sad.....

Reign of Error
By Paul Krugman
The New York Times

Amid everything else that’s going wrong in the world, here’s one more piece of depressing news: a few days ago the Harris Poll reported that 50 percent of Americans now believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when we invaded
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The Art of Hypocrisy and War

Take a look at two headlines just a few days apart!

U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis
VS.
1st Shipment of U.S. Aid Arrives in Beirut

This is just sick....

Isn't it Wonderful!

Over 60 Killed As Iraq Violence Escalates
Observations from the occupation of Iraq from The Wash. Post
Fighting the Insurgency One Unit's Aggressive Approach
'It Looked Weird and Felt Wrong'
EXCERPT: "I can't help but feeling like I was part of an execution," Pfc. Nathan Stewart, the other soldier who was there, later testified. The facts of the matter aren't in dispute. Werst then pulled out a handgun, fired it into a wall, and told Stewart to smear the dead man's fingerprints on it.

This is GOOD news...
Japanese 'oppose PM shrine trips'

Black and Blue

By Paul Krugman from The New York Times

According to the White House transcript, here’s how it went last week, when President Bush addressed the N.A.A.C.P. for the first time:
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Our achilles heel in Iraq, or Bush checkmates himself?

From John R. Bomar

With the Shia dominated Hezbollah forces in south Lebanon under attack from Israel, with our tacit support and using our weaponry, their cousins in southern Iraq may indeed feel the call to begin attacking American supply lines (see below). Al Sistani, the spiritual leader of the Shia, who has been a moderating voice, has just issued a Fatwa condemning Israel's disproportionate use of military might in Lebanon and Gaza. Continue reading here...