Notes"If you were there then you probably already understand this. If you weren't, then this is an opportunity to share one perspective of what happened." Four more years, and we can have this EVERYWHEREUnfurl
Notes"Despite the worst foreign policy blunder in American history, George W. Bush and his millionaire supporters don't know the meaning of the word shame"Unfurl
NotesI've always wondered just *what* happened there. It *never* looked like something as big as a 757 hit the Pentagon. If it were a fighter or a missile strike... that's a bit scary.Unfurl
Notes"As it turns out though, it's actually not such a good thing to have active-duty military anywhere near a political convention - if you value your democracy." Scary as fuck, if this is a trend.Unfurl
Notes'The problem arose from an oversight in the Army’s war planning, which failed to anticipate the large number of wounded soldiers returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, said Col. Douglas Eliason, chief medical officer with the Oregon Guard." I'm sUnfurl
Notes"It is not known exactly how Kennedy became mixed up in a national terrorist database - whether by accident, or as a practical joke, or as a Republican dirty trick to keep him out of Boston during the Democratic National Convention."Unfurl
Notes"Once ensconced in the White House, the Bushites institutionalized the art of dissing dissent, routinely dispatching the Secret Service to order local police to set up FSZs to quarantine protesters wherever Bush goes"Unfurl
Notes"...the United States is going to lose its character as a constitutional republic, plant the cultural seeds of fascism, and lose a city or two to nuclear weapons through blowback."Unfurl
Notes"I don't know what the administration was thinking when it invaded Iraq even as the direct threat from bin Laden and Al Qaeda continued to stare us in the face."Unfurl
Notes'"it would be best if the arrest or killing of [any] HVT [High Value Targets] were announced on twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight July"--the first three days of the Democratic National Convention in Boston.'Unfurl
Notes"A U.S.-sponsored poll shows Iraqis have lost confidence in the occupying authorities--and that the majority of Iraqis want Coalition troops out of the country ‘immediately’"Unfurl
Notes"But while I don't know exactly where the imperial tide is taking the U.S. military, and the United States, I don't think it's going to be any kind of place I would want to go, or produce any kind of regime I would want my children to have to live under"Unfurl
Notes'There was never a "dirty bomb." Or a plan to explode such a bomb. What there was, was a failure in the legal process, thanks to recent "advances" in the anti-terrorism laws.'Unfurl
Notes"Human rights experts and religious leaders spoke out on Friday against a recent series of US reports on China's human rights situation, urging Washington to take a closer look at its own army's abuse of Iraqi prisoners."Unfurl
Notes"Bottom line, any officials who said after March 9 that there were no torture rooms and rape cells in Iraq are either incompetent fools or pathological liars. Either way, they have absolutely no business leading America."Unfurl
Notes"Osama Bin Laden is having a pretty good month. He’s a good ways toward showing his supporters that the best-armed, wealthiest, the most politically and economically powerful nation in the world can be reduced to his level."Unfurl
Notes"It was Chalabi who provided crucial intelligence on Iraqi weaponry to justify the invasion, almost all of which turned out to be false, and laid out a rosy scenario about the country's readiness for an American strike against Saddam that led the nation'sUnfurl
Notes"Stop—right now, and forevermore to come—pretending that George W. Bush and his advisers have a shred of competence." Biggest military in the world used as a tool by a foreign power. Disturbing as all hell, if true.Unfurl
Notes"The secretary of state revealed that he, the CIA and the administration were conned (perhaps too easily) by exiles supported by the Pentagon, and this fraud helped set the stage for a war and a bloody and difficult occupation that still is claiming the lUnfurl
Notes"Yes, the band that played on the deck of the Titanic was quite talented and a good distraction from the matter at hand, but there may yet be a few ways to prevent this boat from sinking and if we don't tend to it, no one will."Unfurl
Notes"Revolting millions around the world, the video footage of an American citizen's execution has also raised numerous questions concerning its authenticity."Unfurl