© Tom Tomorrow As soon as you look away from this page, you will instantly forget how this really happened.
© Matt Bors I haven’t seen much mention in the US media about how Osama bin Laden used to be on the CIA payroll.
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Satirist Andy Borowitz reports that a new poll shows that 97% of Americans favor SEAL Team Six — the elite unit that took out Osama bin Laden — landing on the US Capitol building and taking out Congress by force. According to the study “There’s a broad consensus out there that the Navy SEALs get […]
Conservatives are trying to promote the idea that former president Bush deserves some, if not most, of the credit for finding Osama bin Laden, and that torture provided the information that helped find him. For example, Representative Steve King (R-IA) wrote “Wonder what President Obama thinks of water boarding now?” and the Tea Party Express […]
Ranker has a fascinating article on internet reactions to the announcement by President Obama that Osama bin Laden had been located and killed. Number one on their list was Fox News getting it terribly wrong: If that weren’t bad enough, they did it again: But they weren’t the only news organization with that particular fail: […]
© John Sherffius Don’t get me wrong — I’m all for the second amendment. But some people’s priorities seem a bit screwed up. I also believe in free speech, but that doesn’t include the right to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. So why is it that someone on the terrorist watch list can be […]
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The Obama administration has authorized the CIA to kill a US citizen. We aren’t talking about a soldier in a war (or even anywhere near a battlefield), and there will be no trial or any due process at all. In other words, our government claims the right to murder anyone it pleases. It is judge, […]
Many people have theorized that Dubya wanted to invade Iraq in order to gain retribution for (or just one-up) his father’s failure to topple Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War. Well, it seems like we might have something of the same thing going on between Liz Cheney and her father. Dick Cheney was chronically unpopular […]
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Friday, February 19, 2010
The Taliban’s top military commander has been arrested in a secret joint US-Pakistani operation in Karachi, Pakistan. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was a close associate of Osama bin Laden, and is the highest-level Taliban figure to be arrested since the war in Afghanistan started, back in 2001. So, how long do we have to wait […]
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© Matt Bors Many claim that WWII was the thing that ended the Great Depression, but I don’t think the current wars (Afghanistan, Iraq, Terror, Yemen, …) are making things better.
I already posted about this, but Rachel Maddow says it so much better than I ever could: Full transcript here.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Eugene Robinson and Juan Cole have wickedly good rebuttals to Cheney’s nonsensical attack on Obama from Tuesday, showing how Cheney is acting like a raving lunatic. Go read them. But one thing that Cole mentions in passing really caught my eye, and deserves further attention. Cole points out that according to anti-terrorism experts, Al Qaida […]
Thursday, December 31, 2009
© Matt Davies Once again, the problem wasn’t gathering intelligence. We already had all the information we needed to know that Abdulmutallab shouldn’t have been allowed on that airplane. Heck, his father even went to the US Embassy to warn us about him. We didn’t need to torture anyone (or even violate anyone’s rights) to […]
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Yesterday, Pat Buchanan stated on TV that the person who attempted to blow up an airliner, but only succeeded in burning his own crotch off, be denied pain medication for his burns as part of “hostile interrogation.” And then he added with a straight face “I’m not arguing for torture.” It is interesting that the […]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Republicans have often accused the Obama administration (and Democrats in general) of being soft on terrorism. Former VP Cheney even claimed that Obama’s policies were increasing the probability of a catastrophic nuclear or biological terrorist attack. Indeed, in the wake of the recent attempted airline bombing over Detroit, Republicans have tried to blame the unsuccessful […]
