Into Thin Air
He’s still out there. The hunt for bin Laden.
By Evan Thomas
Newsweek
Sept. 3, 2007 issue - The Americans were getting close. It was early in the winter of 2004-05, and Osama bin Laden and his entourage were holed up in a mountain hideaway along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Suddenly, a sentry, posted several kilometers away, […]
In light of the latest release of documents, I think back to the empathatically bone-headed quote of one of America’s finest…
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“When you die, I mean, there is supposedly a better life, right? Well, if you are an atheist and you don’t believe in anything, if you die, what is there to go to? Nothing. […]
Ga. judge rejects bid to halt execution
By RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press Writer Sat Jul 14, 2:15 PM ET
SAVANNAH, Ga. - A judge has denied a bid to halt the execution scheduled this coming week of convicted cop killer Troy Anthony Davis, refusing to hear evidence the defense says would show he is innocent and identify […]
Doug Feith’s Arabic problem.
At a recent forum, career U.S. intelligence officer Patrick Lang recounted a job interview he had with neocon war architect Douglas Feith. Lang, who had previously run the Pentagon’s world-wide spying operations, “was put forward as somebody who would be good at running the Pentagon’s office of special operations and low-intensity warfare, […]
S#!+ For Brains Award!!!
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The light colonel, an officer in Pat Tillman’s command believes atheism is causing the the fallen soldier’s family’s grief and anguish.
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Hal Brown at Capitol Hill Blue quoted the original statement Kauzlarich made to ESPN.
‘”When you die, I mean, there is supposedly a better life, right? Well, if you are an atheist […]
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An Afghan points to a the resin from poppy on a poppy field in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, April 9, 2007. Afghanistan is one of top producers of opium in the world.
(AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)
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Afghans collect resin from poppies on a poppy field in Lashkar Gah, […]
“Capt. Christopher Heathscott, a spokesman for the Arkansas National Guard, said the state’s 39th Brigade Combat Team was 600 rifles short for its 3,500 soldiers and also lacked its full arsenal of mortars and howitzers.”
–National Guard May Undertake Iraq Duty Early
By DAVID S. CLOUD, The New York Times, February 22, 2007
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“When they said I was […]
Here is a nice summary of Tony Snow’s latest incomparable bouncing around White House incompetence and deceit– from our pals at Think Progress.
‘In today’s press briefing, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Tony Snow about the Washington Post’s two-part series over the weekend, highlighting the Walter Reed hospital’s dilapidated conditions. Snow stated that […]
a Herbert Hoover P.R. bonanza compared to what follows. These may be the most obscene examples of W’s ‘Sportin’ the Troops!!
Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army’s Top Medical Facility
By Dana Priest and Anne Hull
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, February 18, 2007; A01
Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan’s room, part of the wall is torn […]
I wonder if he were doing some last minute shopping which has been a main story on CNN,, FOX and MSNBC all day.
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This undated photo, which has been handed out by the U.S military shows Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani. A top Taliban military commander described as a close associate of Osama bin Laden and […]