Random, occasionally rambling thoughts with links to interesting, scandalous, or partisan news of the day.

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Dead Heroes
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
  

Living Heroes
We owe the liberty and freedom we take for granted to the enlisted men and women in the armed forces. They sacrifice family, ease, and even life laboring in service to all of us. The least we can do for them is honor their devotion with dignified pay scales, decent education for themselves and their children, and reasonable compensation for service away from their families and death on the battlefield. Flag waving politicians who praise the troops on one hand and cut their pay and benefits with the other should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

Blogs I Read Often
• Talking Points Memo
• Atrios
• FireDogLake
• Brad DeLong
• The Daily Howler
• Daily Kos
• Glenn Greenwald
• MyDD
• The News Blog
• Oliver Willis
• Political Wire
• The Volokh Conspiracy
  

LeCarre says the US has gone mad It's an fiction writer's odd take on American policy, and given the issues he chooses to highlight I would have to agree that our policy would look daft to a foreigner. The part that hurts the most about his comments is the truthful commentary on the woeful ignorance of the public at large. The latest poll results showing that a substantial number of Americans think Iraqis were among the hijackers on September 11 is the smoking gun of propaganda drumbeat that has tied all the world's terrorism to Iraq.

There are plenty of good reasons to want regime change in Iraq. More people should know what they are. At the same time, the administration would do itself a favor by sticking to known facts.


posted by Dave on 9:40 AM | 0 comments link

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