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Effwit: Telling It How He Sees It
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Friday, September 14, 2007. Telling It How He Sees It. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday U.S. President George W. Bush's Middle East policies had failed and he and others would one day be put on trial for "the tragedies they have created in Iraq.". America has failed in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. America's policies have failed in the Middle East region," Khamenei told worshippers at Tehran University in a speech broadcast live on state television. Iran and the United States cu...
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Effwit: Civilian Death Toll Numbers in Iraq Grim
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Friday, September 14, 2007. Civilian Death Toll Numbers in Iraq Grim. A new survey says that the civilian death toll from the Iraq war could be more than 1 million. The figure from ORB, a British polling agency that has conducted several surveys in Iraq, followed statements this week from the U.S. military defending itself against accusations it was trying to play down Iraqi deaths to make its strategy appear successful. The survey was conducted last month. It was the highest estimate given so far of civ...
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Effwit: The September Petraeus Charade
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007. The September Petraeus Charade. If the Iraq war was winnable, we would have won by now. The whole premise that we would be able to set up a client-state from scratch in that part of the world, and especially in a Shiite-majority nation, was wrong from the get-go. The longstanding sectarian conflicts there were also not conducive to such an endeavor, and should have been an early danger sign. A chart displayed by Army Gen. David Petraeus that purported to show the decline ...
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Effwit: U.S. Dealing With Mookie
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007. US Dealing With Mookie. US diplomats and military officers have been in talks with members of the armed movement loyal to Muqtada Sadr, a sharp reversal of policy and a grudging recognition that the radical Shiite cleric holds a dominant position in much of Baghdad and other parts of Iraq. Posted by Effwit at 9:07 AM. Enter your search terms. Sunny South Kensington, SW7. View my complete profile. The September Petraeus Charade. Sharif Gets Off Easy. The way of tea has nothi...
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Effwit: A New NeoCon-Driven Information Campaign
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Thursday, September 13, 2007. A New NeoCon-Driven Information Campaign. It looks like the NeoCons - with an indispensable assist from Israel - are again trying to exploit President Bush's flawed good vs. evil worldview to their insidious ends. It will probably work. Others have speculated that Israel was testing Syria's air defenses in preparation for a raid on Iran. Syria has signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty but has not agreed to an additional protocol that would allow for enhanced inspections...
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Effwit: Say What?
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Monday, September 03, 2007. Drug and alcohol-induced memory impairment? One of the most heavily criticized actions in the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003 was the decision, barely two months later, to disband the Iraqi army, alienating former soldiers and driving many straight into the ranks of anti-American militant groups. The policy was to keep the army intact; didn't happen," Bush told biographer Robert Draper in excerpts published in Sunday's New York Times. Draft GAO Report ...
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Effwit: Greenspan on the Reason for Iraq War
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Saturday, September 15, 2007. Greenspan on the Reason for Iraq War. Buried in a Bob Woodward article about Alan Greenspan's new book. On his years as Fed Chairman:. Without elaborating, he writes, "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.". Posted by Effwit at 8:53 AM. Largely" means it was also about doing Israel's dirty work. Yep The other main reason. Enter your search terms. Sunny South Kensington, SW7. In the blue night.
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Effwit: Blackwater License Yanked By Iraq (For Now)
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Monday, September 17, 2007. Blackwater License Yanked By Iraq (For Now). A good test of Iraqi sovereignty will be to see how long it takes the U.S. to persuade Iraq's government to rescind this order. Hint: It won't take long. The Interior Ministry said Monday that it was pulling the license of an American security firm allegedly involved in the fatal shooting of civilians during an attack on a U.S. State Department motorcade in Baghdad. The Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman said witness reports pointed ...
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Effwit: A Triple Threat
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Friday, September 21, 2007. A better combination of wishful thinking, risible cluelessness, and getting off-message would be hard to come by:. Gates Warns Shiite militias against alienating Iraqi civilians. In an interview, Pentagon chief observes the Mahdi Army may be making same mistakes that caused Sunnis to turn against al Qaeda. "The excesses of force and violence.may have caused people to start to think," he says. Posted by Effwit at 1:19 PM. Enter your search terms. Sunny South Kensington, SW7.
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Effwit: How To Lie With Statistics
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Thursday, September 06, 2007. How To Lie With Statistics. It would be a challenge even beyond the Stalinist-like deniers of reality in the administration to portray the political situation in Iraq as improving, given the public nature of the evidence. So they are doing the next best thing, dicking with the (mostly classified) official measurements of violence to claim military progress. The intelligence community has its own problems with military calculations. Intelligence analysts computing aggrega...
