Reality Meets Bushs WarCompare and Contrast

post from Firedoglake on 24 September 2006 01:00:24 PM. © Firedoglake

[Iraqis walk past a pool of blood at the site where a bomb exploded in Baghdad’s poor neighborhood of Sadr City. Iraq marked a bloody start to Ramadan with a Baghdad bomb killing 31, mainly women and children, and the grisly discovery of nine[...]

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Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Senator Gone

post from The Enigmatic Paradox on 24 September 2006 12:50:00 PM. © The Enigmatic Paradox

Joe Lieberman looked into the camera 18 years ago and vowed he?d never run for a fourth term, a recent caller to C-Span recalled.Now he?s running for a fourth term.Is it because he?s on a mission? Does he feel the issues are so important that Connecticut desperately needs him?So he claims.But then why has he missed one out of three Senate votes in the last three years.He was the deciding vote to[...]

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Just a Thought

post from The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks! on 24 September 2006 12:40:31 PM. © The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks!

The Poobah also appears at Bring it On!Tech Tags: politics bush religion omnipotent+poobah

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Unity

post from Eschaton on 24 September 2006 12:39:00 PM. © Eschaton

While I've touched on this before, I am truly puzzled by those who think there is some supremely noble goal in "uniting the country." While for some that's just a prettier way of saying "shut the hell up, we know what's best so stop harshing our unity man" but others actually seem to genuinely think this is important. It should be obvious that it isn't going to happen. There are fundamental disagreements about how this country should be run. Those disagreements aren't going away and more importantly nor should they. It's healthy to have disagreement and debate on the future of the country, not unhealthy as some believe. It's healthy for there to be vibrant, rambunctious, and combative political discussion, not unhealthy. It's healthy that people feel free to disagree, and to voice those disagreements. It's unhealthy to try to silence dissenting views by burying them under a ridiculous desire for consensus. There is no such consensus.

It's the same set of people who imagine that partisanship somehow creates disagreement rather than the other way around. It's true that there's some degree of tribalism in political identification, but mostly partisanship exists because people choose the party which best represents their political views. Partisanship is the political expression of disagreement, not the creator of it.

What "why can't we all agree" really means is "why can't everybody just agree with me."

Democracy is messy. Hurray!

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We Have Nothing to Fear But the President Himself

post from TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime on 24 September 2006 12:37:50 PM. © TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime

by TChris

In translation, "we're fighting the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them here" means "we're creating terrorists over there, then supplying them with easy targets." Does this make the country more safe? Not according to the consensus of opinion reported in the National Intelligence Estimate.

A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Thanks, Mr. President, for taking a serious problem and making it worse. Much worse.

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Bill Clinton on Osama: The Fox Video

post from TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime on 24 September 2006 12:31:34 PM. © TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime

Crooks and Liars has Part I (20) minutes of the Clinton interview with Chris Wallace available for you to see. (video here.)

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OUR FIRST QUOTE OF THE DAY FROM CANADA: THEY
THINK IT'S TIME TO THROW THE RASCALS OUT TOO

post from DownWithTyranny! on 24 September 2006 12:25:00 PM. © DownWithTyranny!

I know Ken is off on a well-deserved little vacation for the High Holy Days-- I hope I have my terminology correct; someone invited me to a dinner party last night and I discovered it was a holiday. Anyway, what I didn't realize is that the entire DWTQOTD Committee had taken off too. So this is a combination of yesterday's Quote of the Day along with a shameless plug. Now DWT friend Christina

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VIDEO: Clinton slaps FOX News

Democrats who fight back. See the video of today's Clinton interview on FOX, via ThinkProgress. Joe just saw it and called me, he was laughing, it was that good :-)

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NIE report proves what we already know: Iraq has
made us less safeSurprise!

NY Times: A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks. The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the [...]

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