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    what we’re not being told about afghanistan

    Yes, we hear that the rate of casualties among coalition forces has now exceeded those in Iraq, but we have heard nothing like this from the MSM. We have to get it from Rolling Stone:

    By the time we reach the town of Salar, only 50 miles south of Kabul, we have already passed five tractor-trailers from military convoys that have been destroyed by the [...]



    makes sense to me

    I thought at the time there was something hinky going on, but I didn’t know the specifics about this until Mike Malloy mentioned it last night:

    The exposure of New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer’s tryst with a luxury call girl had little to do with the Bush administration’s high moral standards for public servants… Timing suggests that Spitzer was likely a target of a White [...]



    Cenk Uygur, “REAL patriots died to get us those rights”

    Apologies to Cenk for copying his whole post below but this cluster f@#k is too important to ignore:

    The Republicans and Barack Obama Are Going to Give Into the Terrorists

    The Republicans, and most of the Democrats, are about to surrender some of our rights. Today they are set to give away the Fourth Amendment to Osama bin Laden.

    Real patriots died to get us those rights. Real [...]



    they just keep wanking away, and hope we won’t notice

    From Glenn Greenwald this morning:

    Just as Nancy Pelosi ran to Time to justify her support for the FISA bill, Steny Hoyer yesterday spouted his justifications to The Politico and said this:

    In an interview with Politico on Monday, Hoyer called the FISA legislation a “significant victory” for the Democratic Party — one that neutralized an issue Republicans might have been able to use against Democrats in [...]



    CALL TO IRAQ VETS AND THEIR FAMILIES

    CALL TO IRAQ VETS AND THEIR FAMILIES
    We are a writer and photographer team collaborating on a project about recently returned soldiers from the war in Iraq. We are seeking soldiers or ex-soldiers who have spent time in Iraq and are willing to speak about their experiences with a focus on the process of re-entry or reintegration.

    Our desire is to create a very full and human [...]



    When your spouse cheats on you

    Good article over at OpEd News about the state of our country. An analogy of our current state of affairs comes to mind of the spouse (i.e. we Americans) who refuses to acknowledge that his/her mate is unfaithful (i.e. our government’s illegal and immoral Iraq occupation and the lies supporting the occupation). The cuckolded spouse makes up all kinds of excuses and rationalizations [...]



    a question for dems in congress: do you hear what i hear?

    Bush this morning on FISA:

    In August, Congress passed the Protect America Act, a bill to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978… Since this important measure took effect, our intelligence professionals have been able to gather critical information that would have been missed without this authority. And keeping this authority is essential to keeping America safe.

    That would be great and all,* if they weren’t [...]



    Private Spying is Killing the Intelligence Industry

    Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda’s Secrets
    Firm Says Administration’s Handling of Video Ruined Its Spying Efforts

    A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its secret acquisition. It gave two senior officials access on the condition that [...]