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Selling A War-Shill Exposé
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I say this mainly because this post's got the least views, and I'm a kindly gent who buys the biggest turkey in the shop and gives it to a little orphan kitten.
If it is - please limit the amount of YouTubery to none. Let's have a deep discussion about something that's on everybody's mind - should the discus still be included in Olympic competition?
11/30/08
What the hell you talking about?
It is Saturday, not Sunday Night Fever, and we call it SNF on this side of the ocean.
11/30/08
Did you see how tight those pants were? Testicles-almost-in-the-pockets-tight.
(it isn't one of your home movies, is it?)
11/30/08
suit yourself
pant suit
11/30/08
Mind you, that wok is such a slut.
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Best thing about using a turkey as a murder weapon? You can eat the evidence. And the "evidence" can last for days if you pace yourself.
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I know. Shocking.
11/30/08
I can't help but be astounded by this incredibly naïve attitude that lies at the root of the public's accepting these statements so liberally. People don't understand that these generals show their dissent in subtle ways, and they hardly ever do so in front of cameras. There is just no culture of that in the Pentagon. Just think of what a ruckus it caused when McCaffrey and those three other generals testified before a Senate committee that the Iraq war plans were flawed from the outset because the Bush admin called for too small of a force. Even in that case it is debatable whether they were going against the official Pentagon line, because the Pentagon was totally against Rumsfeld's war plans from the very beginning. But it just goes to show how much of a stigma there is attached to generals speaking out publicly and not merely as unnamed sources. This shouldn't, however, detract from the essential sleaziness of all these double dealings.
11/30/08
Oh, that's McCaffrey. I should really start actually reading these posts.
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12/01/08
Come on, Ryan! This is the same dude who as drug czar decided the best way to deal with our country's crack and heroin problem was to launch those lovely ads against smoking weed. Because weed is a gateway drug, and most of us who used to smoke pot now blow sketchy dudes for drug money.
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"According to an article written by Seymour Hersh published in 2000 in The New Yorker, General McCaffrey committed war crimes during the Gulf War by having troops under his command kill retreating Iraqis after a ceasefire had been declared. Hersh's article "quotes senior officers decrying the lack of discipline and proportionality in the McCaffrey-ordered attack." One colonel told Hersh that it "made no sense for a defeated army to invite their own death. ... It came across as shooting fish in a barrel. Everyone was incredulous."
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Fish in a barrel: it's a U.S. military tradition!
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I am watching videos of Helen Thomas right now on youtube. She is really tenacious. Observe: Once you get to that age and you are female, you are fully authorized by society to speak truth to power and anyone who attacks you for doing so will look downright evil for having done so -- think of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina. I guess it's society's way of paying women back for all the needless shit they have to take throughout life. I think the real loser here was the Bush administration -- they came off as both evil and weak for moving her to the back of the room.
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