Category Archives: Iraq Invasion

The Watershed

9/18/2008 – 11:28 am

Come gather ‘round people wherever you roam
As we prepare to bury the life we have known
And accept that from now there’ll be no going home
Your money’s no longer worth saving
The meat is all gone, we’re left nothing but bones
For the times, they are a changin’
Apologies to Bob Dylan, but my mind has been rewriting the [...]

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Follow-Up Questions

4/10/2008 – 9:00 am

Before the New Hampshire primary, John McCain had his now-famous colloquy with a voter in which he said he doesn’t care if American troops are in Iraq for 100 years, provided those troops are not getting killed or wounded.
There are a number of Republicans running around now, saying Mr. McCain never said that, but he [...]

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Blood and Treasure

3/27/2008 – 8:49 am

Less than a week later, Adrienne and I headed back out for the vigil. The half-dozen senior citizens and nuns who have been there every day for nearly seven years were happy to have us back, even if it meant one of our infrequent thresholds – in this case, the 4,000th American death in [...]

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Waiting for Godot

3/20/2008 – 9:53 am

Because there’s an energy crisis, we have gone to daylight savings earlier in the year. Because we’ve gone to daylight savings earlier in the year, it was still light when Adrienne and I arrived at the sidewalk in front of the Unitarian Church just before 5 p.m. for the vigil.
How many times have we [...]

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Tet Again?

1/31/2008 – 11:39 am

Happy New Year. Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the launch of the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. Tet, short for Tet Nguyen Dan, is the Vietnamese new year. Based on a lunar calendar, Tet will begin on 7 February this year.
I’ve been thinking about the Tet Offensive because 1968 was an election [...]

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Pants Aflame

12/4/2007 – 4:30 pm

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo noted the other day that former White House adviser and current Fox News commentator Karl Rove was meddling the lie that it was the Democrats in Congress and not George W. Bush who pushed to have a vote on the Iraq war resolution before the 2002 mid-term elections.
Mr. Marshall [...]

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Surged or Scourged?

11/20/2007 – 1:31 pm

Six to nine months after the surge in U.S. troop levels in Iraq, violence is down, or at least we’re told violence is down. How would we know, really? Pentagon press releases? The mainstream media?
Last week’s issue of the New Yorker has a piece on the surge by Jon Lee Anderson, in [...]

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