What has the US learned in the 35-years since Vietnam? Not much it seems.
By Denis G. Campbell
ABOARD UA895 – Sitting comfortably at 35,000 sipping a decent Cabernet, the in-flight satellite map tracks the flight from Hong Kong to Singapore and shows us over-flying the jungles of what was once the USA’s largest military disaster, South [...]
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The Monday Line: Overflying Saigon
Posted on 02 August 2010 by Denis G Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Gerald Ford, Ho Chi Minh City, Iraq War, President Obama, repeating history, Saigon, South Vietnam, United Airlines, Vietnam
The Week+ in Political Limericks
Posted on 16 June 2009 by Madeleine Begun Kane | Comments (0) | Tags: 9/11 Sympathizers, Al Qaeda, Alternate Reality, Automobiles, bankruptcy, Bilingual Education, Blame, Cars, democrats, Dick Polman, economy, Finance, FOX News, General Motors, GM, GOP, Immigrants, Judiciary Satire, Krauthammer, Latina, Law Satire, Leonard Bernstein, lies, Liz Cheney, Maria, Mark Krikorian, Media, Media Lies, Mike Huckabee, money, Names, National Review, news, Newt Gingrich, obama, Obama Nominees, Pronunciation, racism, Republicans Humor, Sean Hannity, smears, Song Parody, Sonia Sotomayor, Speaker, Supreme Court, Talk Show Hosts, Terrorism, Twitter, Values
by Madeleine Begun Kane
Hannity Insanity
Few people are better at creating a Krauthammer-lauded “alternate reality” than Fox’s Sean Hannity. Columnist Dick Polman provides an excellent example:
On his Fox show one week ago, Sean Hannity told his credulous fans that President Obama had made a deliberate effort during his Cairo speech “to give 9/11 sympathizers a voice [...]
Beyond Exposing The Forgery: The Real Message Of Ron Suskind’s Book
Posted on 14 August 2008 by Charley James | Comments (1) | Tags: 2006 congressional elections, Afghan exchange student is asked for the first time in, Al Qaeda, Britain, CIA, failure and misuse of American intelligence, focused on a single anecdote, forgery anecdote is part of a larger story, George Bush deliberately blew the British operation wat, head of the Iraqi intelligence service, human intelligence, Illinois lawyer convinces her new client in Guantanamo, Iraq was attempting to buy uranium from Niger, Muhammad Atta trained in Iraq, production of a forged letter, run-up to the Iraq war, Suskind’s work is a book of singular beauty and importa, the letter exists, The role of moral authority in the struggle against ter, The Way of the World, the White House, unable to develop such sources inside Iraq, young Pakistani emerges from hours in the interrogation
by Charley James
Most of the discussion of Ron Suskind’s The Way of the World has focused on a single anecdote: The White House ordered the production of a rather clumsy forgery of a letter from the head of the Iraqi intelligence service to Saddam purporting to prove that Muhammad Atta trained in Iraq and that [...]
War ‘Cred’ Mojo Baby
Posted on 16 July 2008 by Denis G Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 1960, 7 years and 7 months, 9-11 perpetrators, a few difficulties, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Angelina Jolie, Austin Powers, bad mortgages, binding, Brad Pitt, Brangelina twins, Bush/Cheney, convention and 1st debates, daft dodging ‘pretender’ in chief, debate shift from trivial to real pain Americans feel, false pretences, fears will shift, fossilised war president, frequent flyer mile diplomacy, Hail Mary football passes, history will forget the previous seven years, ignore ‘mental’ recession, impeachment, inexperienced, Iraq, it wasn’t a mistake to invade Iraq, John Kennedy, Kucinich, Labour Day, made without consulting Congress or their parliament, major presidential foreign policy speech, McCain, McCain=Bush, media scrum, meltdown of the mortgage system, Mojo baby, nothing can go wrong, obama, oil, overtures to several Iraqi members of parliament, Pakistan, peace to the Middle East, Phil Gramm, photos worth $11 million dollars, progress, rattle Iran. magically produce the body of Bin Laden, record sales number of flat telly’s on credit cards, Richard Nixon, Saudi Arabia, sheepish Democratic leadership, six-years of war that never ends, smear machine, spun into a pretzel, stop agreement between President Bush and Prime Ministe, Straight Talk Express, summer vacation in France, tough offence, unilateral, war, War Cred Mojo, War Credibility, who cares, who needs it, who wants it, who’s got it
Yesterday the candidates fought before the cameras to show who has the best Austin Powers war Mojo baby (growwwwllllll, smile). War Credibility. Who’s got it, who needs it, who wants it? Who cares? We’re about to replace a draft-dodging ‘pretender’-in-chief who led us into war on false pretences and will do/say anything to show it [...]
My Plan for Iraq
Posted on 16 July 2008 by Denis G Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Adm. Mike Mullen chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, American foreign policy, assume responsibilit in 2009, better intelligence-gathering, careless getting in, central front, diplomatic offensive, distracted, fight against Al Qaeda, flip-flops, foreign policy hostage, greatest strategic blunder, honest differences over Iraq, ignored useful debate, invading a country that posed no imminent threat, Iran, Iraq, Iraq’s refugees, it’s time to end this war, limited missions, Lt. Gen. James Dubik, making false charges, McCain, Mesopotamia, military overstretched, misguided desire to maintain permanent bases in Iraq, new mission: ending this war, nonmilitary assistance, opportunity, opposed the war, political progress, Prime Minister al-Maliki, protecting American service members, redeployment, removal of American troops, residual force, safe haven, safely redeploy combat brigades, seven years after the war began, spent nearly $1 trillion, summer of 2010, Sunni tribes, surge, surrender, tactical adjustments, Taliban, timetable, timetable to remove surrender, training Iraqi security forces, two additional combat brigades to support Afghanistan., United States, war on terrorism, will of Iraq’s sovereign government
By Barack Obama
Published: July 14, 2008
The New York Times Online
CHICAGO — The call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity. We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated, and that is [...]
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