tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34383582011-12-14T18:50:14.748-08:00Warblogger WatchKeeping track of the war exhortations of the warbloggers.Warhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17837894681892504690noreply@blogger.comBlogger5581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1107797867914926932005-02-07T09:37:00.000-08:002005-11-11T17:29:10.763-08:00Waxy.org: Links MiniblogA.Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1107760517182416972005-02-06T23:07:00.000-08:002005-02-06T23:15:17.183-08:00
"Rall" /Rall/ verb To brawl with or maul a right winger whose views you find offensive and lacking in common sense or where you sense financial reward was exchanged for spouting his/her nonsensical thinly veiled fascist propaganda... A left version of Fisking, a wingnut term used to deride a courageous journalist (probably marked for death) who goes to war zones and writes what he thinks is Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1103994921318524032004-12-25T09:14:00.000-08:002004-12-25T09:15:21.320-08:00
I brazenly stole that from Tom Tomorrow.
And here's a Christmas Wish from Riverbend:
Saturday, December 18, 2004
Christmas Wishlist...I have to make this fast. No electricity for three days in a row (well, unless you count that glorious hour we got 3 days ago...). Generators on gasoline are hardly working at all. Generators on diesel fuel aren't faring much better- most will only work for 3 Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1099377690724000862004-11-01T22:37:00.000-08:002004-11-01T22:41:30.723-08:00This hasn't been a time of writing for me. I've worked the last seven months at America Coming Together and my pithy web entries have slowed to a crawl, probably from exhaustion. I have personally knocked on over several thousand doors, talked to several hundred voters and registered over 300 of them to vote. I led the Pittsburgh office actually. And I'm tired. But hopefully, we'll get some good Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1095006702170711042004-09-12T08:30:00.000-07:002004-09-12T09:49:43.206-07:00
Hilariously tragic new counter-propaganda toons' from disgraced yet still gifted cartoonist Micah Wright.
And this just in: Weapons of Mass Destruction have finally been found! Let's all just be grateful that Colin Powell doesn't lie about the important things...
And thank God we're beating the terrorists, except for this of course. Then again, who cares what happens to Australians? Isn't Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1090829826816030052004-07-26T00:59:00.000-07:002004-07-26T01:23:10.150-07:00I just wanted to add a few things to the last post. Right now, Kerry is winning. If the election were held today, and I'm assuming daft Aussies know very little about electoral counts or trend lines, but there's this Time Poll.
NEW YORK, July 25. — Democratic challenger Mr John Kerry would have an advantage over incumbent Republican President Bush if the presidential elections were to be held Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1090345859873693092004-07-20T10:36:00.000-07:002004-07-20T10:54:07.996-07:00I haven't posted here in a while because, like other commentators I suspect, I have more important things to do than critique the obvious failings of the worst intellectuals of our time. And I don't miss the clueless often nameless Aussie commentators ("'ealth care is free in Amurica by crikey...you scum!") who defend them. In fact, after the Dean debacle, I decided to get away from the keyboard Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1084564861048243902004-05-14T12:49:00.000-07:002004-05-14T13:13:29.616-07:00There's an interesting piece by Naomi Klein today. And by interesting, I mean people who were intelligent enough to see the folly of the war before the pictures, general mayhem, and puppet governry that are all too apparent right now. Besides, the usual suspect warbloggers are just, well, totally incoherent at this point.
Naomi Klein, who made what I thought was a suicidal mission to Iraq to Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1084017944956588582004-05-08T05:05:00.000-07:002004-05-30T15:42:39.653-07:00
Ted owns that of course. By the way, this is his newest outrage, along with his most recent column. I don't think either are that outrageous to be blunt about it. How intelligent is it to not only to sign up to die, but to kill people who do not pose a threat to you? What possible career upside could counter those downsides?
Here's the first graph of Ted's column:
AN ARMY OF SCUM
Or, We're Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1083391685265340032004-04-30T23:08:00.000-07:002004-05-30T15:46:59.866-07:00I'll be posting more this weekend. First, Micah Wright has new pics up and I wish Doc had used this one for his LGF quiz post.
Second, here's Why They Hate Us. And the answer: for very good reasons. As usual, Tacitus, the only sane rightie left, has it right.
Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1081805281937962002004-04-12T14:27:00.000-07:002004-04-12T14:30:51.186-07:00The LGF Quiz
LittleGreenFootballs or Late German Fascists?
I was inspired to build this quiz when I noticed that comments on Littlegreenfootballs.com (a popular warblog) tended to be indistinguishable in tone and content from the writings of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and the other architects of the "final solution."
Always indistinguishable? Well, maybe not - but close enough and often Dr. Menlonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1077347022464373352004-02-20T22:17:00.000-08:002004-02-20T23:05:40.326-08:00A WALK AROUND THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD. Betcha never thought you'd see me again. But here I am, with a purpose.
I am a former contributor to this site (Comrade Olivier said I "traded down" back in March 2003 to run another rag- and bone-shop of the heart; let history judge, old friend) who recently grew nostalgic and took a jaunt through the WBW archives.
What I saw cheered me. Not only because theroy edrosonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1073301807174658492004-01-05T03:23:00.000-08:002004-05-30T15:49:50.290-07:00
New Micah Wright pics are up.
Phil, Phil, Phil...How insightful you are. Don't worry about the "local draft board" here (I'm already defending you). Dean has about as much chance of winning ass (sic) McGovern did against Nixon (the reason most Conservatives are actually rooting for him).
Herc142 | 12.17.03 - 6:56 pm | #
I'm looking forward to your despair in '04 when Bush is re-elected,Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1073301037744810362004-01-05T03:10:00.000-08:002004-05-30T15:55:10.510-07:00
New Micah Wright pics are up.
Since they really don't care about American troops and they don't further the George Bush Jr. reelection campaign, expect never to see pictures of our war dead over at the Instapundits and Pejmanesques of this world.
Here's a reminder as to why we opposed this senseless, meaningless war. It might be nice to see pictures of innocent Iraqi civilian casualties as Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1071427845120605412003-12-14T10:50:00.000-08:002003-12-14T11:03:14.700-08:00TARIQ ALI: In fact, if Saddam Hussein died a natural death or was captured and killed or whatever, the resistance far from dying down would actually increase, because many who are not coming out at the moment fearful that Saddam might come back, would then join the resistance. I have absolutely no doubt of that. So the notion if we just captured the headman, classic colonial talk, capture the Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1071230479146033542003-12-12T04:01:00.000-08:002003-12-12T04:07:48.576-08:00
A few weeks ago, I asked some of our brave anonymous fellows in the comments section to give their names so that I could submit them to these new fangled neoconned birthed draft boards. I would think they would just be wildly enthusiastic to have their number called, even though I often suspect they're not of draft age yet, which I guess would explain the immaturity and childishness of their Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1071229715800409572003-12-12T03:48:00.000-08:002003-12-13T11:20:26.250-08:00
PRESIDENT DUMBASS STRIKES AGAIN: It looks like our feckless president, through the dark bloody hand of his infamous advisor Paul Wolfowitz, ticked off potential allies and friends yet for another time. You know, and this is a wild thought, perhaps those countries like Russia, France and Canada (a stalwart ally in Afghanistan by the way that just didn' think this Iraq thing made sense...see Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1070603529474465922003-12-04T21:15:00.000-08:002003-12-04T22:14:58.530-08:00The Warblogger vs. Peaceblogger Grudge Match '04!
So following a link today from the blogdex, I checked out the 2003 Warblogger Awards, and was a little amused to see that Misha's brethren have named him the 'Most-Annoying-Right-Of-Center-Blogger' by a landslide 37 votes! (The next closest had 20 votes.) Go, Misha!
So I went over to Misha's own nicedoggie.net to get his response, and found his Dr. Menlonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1069614547093281432003-11-23T11:08:00.000-08:002003-11-23T11:09:35.950-08:00Remind Us: Why Did the United States Government Invade and Destabilize Iraq?Dr. Menlonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1069241315282948482003-11-19T03:28:00.000-08:002003-11-19T03:34:38.610-08:00
Riverbend gives us the victim's view on our war on terrorism. She thinks our emulation of the worst tactics of the Israelis isn't winning us any friends or fans. Or, see the above Alex Ross pic. That will probably be true for generations to come.
Here's what she says:
"The troops were pushing women and children shivering with fear out the door in the middle of the night. What do you think Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1068147731556198932003-11-06T11:42:00.000-08:002003-11-18T13:24:40.700-08:00
Both of these, the toon and the dictionary, came from Atrios. I thought this might tide us over until the New Recruits come online. If not, me and Doc Menlo will be here for the duration of the campaign. Speaking of recruits, Amos, we look forward to your induction into the draft. I'm sure you will go proudly. .
Wingnut Debate Dictionary
All the terms and definitions contained herein werePhilip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1065157959653445082003-10-02T22:12:00.000-07:002003-10-02T22:12:39.630-07:00 I just saw this cover tonite and it made me laugh--brilliant. You know, I have no doubt that all the Anti-Bushies will coalesce behind the most winnable (not perfect, not a savior, just most winnable) Democratic candidate next year and kick Bush's ass. No doubt, that is, so long as there is a free and fair election. And then this new coalition which worked together to beat Bush will make damnDr. Menlonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1064122340026527152003-09-20T22:31:00.000-07:002003-09-20T22:32:19.846-07:00Conservatives Against BushYou didn't get the memo, trolls?Dr. Menlonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1063628318872098032003-09-15T05:18:00.000-07:002003-09-15T15:18:55.273-07:00
From the ever angry Ted Rall...
The ad hoc Iraqi resistance is comprised of indigenous fighters ranging from secular ex-Republican Guards to radical Islamist Shiites, as well as foreign Arab volunteers waging the same brand of come-one-come-all jihad that the mujahedeen fought against Soviet occupation forces in Afghanistan. While one can dismiss foreign jihadis as naïve adventurers, honest Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1063620925739478882003-09-15T03:15:00.000-07:002003-09-15T03:31:44.960-07:00
Art by the great Micah Wright...
I have been stunned by the quality and sadness that I've absorbed from a female Iraqi programmer in her new blog Bagdhad Burning. There's a point below that Juan Cole makes about how only war criminals would think that killing 200000 Iraqis is in any way "winning". It would be curious if the killing in the Phillippines or Vietnam would have been easier if our Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1063238358937782842003-09-10T16:59:00.000-07:002003-09-10T19:18:57.593-07:00
In case you're looking for an academic you can respect and who even posts ideas that don't conform to his worldview, check out Juan Cole's excellent blog on Iraq.
Notorious Bush apologists and RNC Talking Points hucksters Pejman "Still a whore for the RNC and defiantly proud of it" Yousefzadeh and Instapundit have linked to this Weekly Standard piece that talks about how swell the occupation Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1063237114593565942003-09-10T16:38:00.000-07:002003-09-10T19:19:33.020-07:00More Celebrity Warblogger Watch and there are many many winners. First off, by way of Atrios, here's a quick somewhat concise summary of your favorite warbloggers from the very very happy blog. I think it's quite accurate. I like his sensitivity to the Lileks "loves his daughter yet will kill sporadically for Israel at any cost dichotomy meme".
Nicotrol For Right Wing Blog AddictsAs a public Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1060221350877329812003-08-06T18:55:00.000-07:002003-08-08T22:19:41.633-07:00
Well, here's yet another objectively Pro-Saddam non-dead soldier who's complaining about the war effort thus far. Please write and tell him what an American-hating, Saddam loving traitor that he must be...or at least that's what Amos will do. By the way, as an aside to Another Infidel, who posted what I think is the first Ad hominem attack against a website that I've seen, ask not who the Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1060188680873341912003-08-06T09:51:00.000-07:002003-08-06T09:53:49.356-07:00Yet another edition of Celebrity Warblogger Watch. Atrios chimes in today:
The McCarthyite Right
The objectively pro-dead American soldier, soft on the fight against actual terrorism, James Taranto has this to say:Al Gore, seems to have gone off the rails. The New York Post reports Gore will be speaking to a gathering of MoveOn.org--the far-left, pro-Saddam group whose online"primary" gavePhilip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1059788185128742752003-08-01T18:36:00.000-07:002003-08-01T18:39:48.996-07:00Well, how goes our Bright and Shining Lie that is the Iraqi War? Turns out that Robert Fisk has something important to say. You might note that Bob visits these incredibly dangerous places as opposed to Instapundit or Pejman "Despite published reports to the contrary, I actually took that CIA job...can you tell?" Yousefzadeh. How about press freedoms Bob?
Hence Paul Wolfowitz, one of the prime Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1059787816235719572003-08-01T18:30:00.000-07:002003-08-01T18:30:16.220-07:00I too come from a military family - also one that lived under Nazi occupation and resisted - they were what you now call 'terrorists'. I am very angry that people resisting an illegal occupation should be called 'terrorists'. Or anyone fighting back they only way they can against immeasurably superior forces. Or that our soldiers don't know anything about Nuremberg, or the Geneva Conventions, or Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1058931239804517392003-07-22T20:33:00.000-07:002003-08-01T18:32:03.490-07:00
One of the blithering idiots, I mean, "concerned readers" in our comments section implied that the soldiers in Iraq, or living targets as their opposition must refer to them, really think the war is swell and all that bad talk you hear is the Evil Librul Media at work again.
Well, there is a site called Occupation Watch, must reading and I discovered it at Democracy Now (must listening and Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1058930627308569582003-07-22T20:23:00.000-07:002003-07-22T20:23:47.333-07:00
Friends don't let Friends have their politics driven by this guy...
First up, Celebrity Warblogger Watch. Steven Den Beste wrote a long, and I mean a long piece about why he supports the war (I don't remember any of it mentioning 10000 dead Iraqi civilians or 1000 dead and wounded American soldiers, but that's our Steven.) I believe Hesiod has the best rebuttal:
"OK, Steve...I'll formally sayPhilip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1057029270031564302003-06-30T20:14:00.000-07:002003-07-01T12:09:00.196-07:00EVEN THE CONSERVATIVE PRO IRAQI INVASION WARBLOGGER TACITUS SEZ...
To be frank, the warbloggers--now that it's becoming clear what a nightmare scenario both Iraq and Afghaninstan are becoming and the complicit nature of our clueless incompetent Resident in Chief in the aforesaid imbroglio/quagmire to be--aren't really writing too much about the war. Oh yeah, Den Beste can write about Nevada Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1056634128707490692003-06-26T06:28:00.000-07:002003-06-26T06:32:58.326-07:00Happy Michael Savage Day!
I say we try these unpatriotic fucks for treason. Why does ‘Dr.’ SavageWeiner hate America so much? What’s really fun is that it isn’t his fault that he rejected America- - it’s the lousy Japs who figured out how to “snag even
Patriots” like les Weiners Sauvages. Fucker drives a Ford for three years and thinks he’s goddamn Captain America. . .
The New York Times
Bradnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1056589817998632762003-06-25T18:10:00.000-07:002003-06-25T18:21:59.463-07:00"A pack, not a herd".Indeed. Let's hear it for the unofficial Iraqi second amendment. Or: throw us a bone Glenn about how Iraqi women, gals even, are embracing firearms. That's right up your alley.Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-1055480695738471252003-06-12T22:04:00.000-07:002003-06-12T22:04:55.640-07:00George Bush: Global Poster-Boy for Alternative TransportationDr. Menlonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-953171002003-06-04T22:12:00.000-07:002003-06-04T22:12:30.176-07:00Warbloggers were right: Iraqis have been liberated. All hail U.S.
via Warren EllisDr. Menlonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-951962712003-06-02T09:08:00.000-07:002003-06-02T09:08:33.280-07:00When both Tony Blair and unelected Resident Bush are telling you something's not a story, you can assume it's a story.
Which it is. Time, exercising its genius for euphemism, wonders this week how "the public version of the intelligence got so far ahead of the evidence" re: the vanished WMDs that Bush and friends used as a pretext for war.
More damning yet is famously martial Max Hasting's Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-950840022003-05-30T08:31:00.000-07:002003-05-30T08:31:03.043-07:00Sullivan's grip on reality - cakking it tenuous would be complimentary - loosens completely. His interpretation of the posting of a photo of Jonah Goldberg's kid on Jonah's mommy's website? A "loud and clear" declaration by Jonah of his heterosexuality.
Non-war-related, I grant you, but totally symptomatic of Sullivania - an insertion of ones pet issues/grievances/prejudices into unrelated Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-949912532003-05-28T08:01:00.000-07:002003-05-28T08:01:39.140-07:00"Hi, my name's Andy,and I cover scandals at the Timesas comprehensively as Icover myself with testostogrease."The Weapons of Mass Disappearance which threatened us so imminently that we had to wage a war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq are nowhere to be found. Handily, a chap "clad in nondescript clothes and a baseball cap" is then located by New York Times reporter/Pentagon flak Judith Miller. Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-948867412003-05-25T23:25:00.000-07:002003-05-25T23:47:01.000-07:00The Absurdity Matrix .1
Americans are so deluged with the ridiculous these days that it is impossible to keep up. We were flabbergasted over 2 years ago when our presidential office was wrestled away in a multi-faceted coup and our open jaws have only gotten dull spasms from being open so damn long since.
As Tom Tomorrow denotes, it's all enough to make your head explode.
Dr. Menlonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-946018922003-05-19T15:22:00.000-07:002003-05-19T15:30:46.000-07:00
Marginal Allied Defeat:
Short term: Saddam out of power, but not dead or captured. Casualties over 5,000, with significant tactical victories for Iraqis before their forces are destroyed. Oil fields seriously damaged. Weapons of mass destruction suspected to be smuggled into Western countries for later terrorist use.
Long term: Weakened Ba’athist-style Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-946014142003-05-19T15:10:00.000-07:002003-05-19T16:00:50.000-07:00
(Remixed propaganda from the Great Micah Wright)
As people know, I was one of the first to call this government "fascist", long before the Germans for example. Now, of course, a person that would call the Bush Administration "fascist" could be accused of being redundant or even obvious. However, there's a nice list of 14 rules that outline the fascist condition. I've linked to some of our Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-943078082003-05-13T21:02:00.000-07:002003-05-13T21:07:12.000-07:00
(Art by Micah Wright, of course...)
I'm starting a new feature here at Warblogger Watch. I'm calling it Celebrity Warblogger Watch, where we pick the best anti-war criticism from the net and share it with the world. First up, Max Sawicky, who I've found to be must reading these days:
"IMPEACH BUSH. [YAWN] The fraud underlying the war seems to get more obvious every day. This past weekend we Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-942822282003-05-13T12:25:00.000-07:002003-05-13T12:25:22.073-07:00President Bush said Tuesday that those responsible for suicide bombings in Saudi Arabia that left dozens of people dead, including seven Americans, would "learn the meaning of American justice."
Sure thing, buddy.Bradnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-939877802003-05-08T06:12:00.000-07:002003-05-08T06:23:56.000-07:00"This region was the first to get schools back up and running, to have guarded fuel stations and about 24 hours from now to stand up an interim government," US military spokeswoman Major Charmaine Means said of Mosul three days back, as the city, Iraq's third largest, was preparing to hold "liberated" Iraq's first election.
Indeed, as they say. By all accounts, Major Means and her colleagues Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-939673872003-05-07T20:17:00.000-07:002003-05-07T21:20:58.000-07:00
A Tip o' the Hat to noted Ted Rall groupie/fawning sycophant Jim Treacher
This is edition 45 of the very popular WBW series: accidental and/or ironic political commentary from comics.
JLA #83
Written by Joe Kelly; art by ChrisCross and Tom Nguyen; cover by Doug Mahnke and Nguyen
In stores July 30. President Luthor has Qurac on his hit list, and heaven help any hero who stands in the way! Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-939664052003-05-07T19:58:00.000-07:002003-05-07T20:25:10.000-07:00I was over at Dave Appell's blog the other day, Quark Soup, and I found myself debating the war. The following debate kind of sums up how I've felt about the horrorshow that is the occupation. I noted once that this would make us into the worst of the Israelis. Looks like I wasn't that far off the mark. Let me recommend Quark Soup by the way if you're looking for a guy into science who not only Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-935917402003-05-01T05:59:00.000-07:002003-05-01T06:00:28.000-07:00Dack Ragus, thankfully, continues to follow Raines Times (Thanks, Andy; oh, and Happy May Day!) reporter Judith Miller's so-called "bombshell" piece on the man "clad in nondescript clothes and a baseball cap" to whom the American military attributed a brace of smoking guns. The piece looks even schlockier today than when it first broke, and Miller's own subsequent articles bring that earlier Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-935392342003-04-30T09:30:00.000-07:002003-04-30T09:32:24.000-07:00Innumerate Andrew Stuttaford condones pillaging today over at NRO's Corner. He does allow a proviso, however. The plunder, he states, must be of a resale value "however that can be calculated" of under $1,000.
Or just under half of the Iraqi per capita GDP.
With just under 150,000 coalition troops in the country, and each helping himself to $1,000 in spoils, Stuttaford's plan would amount to anGradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-935287422003-04-30T06:21:00.000-07:002003-04-30T06:21:30.006-07:00The dance continues.Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-934631472003-04-29T06:19:00.000-07:002003-04-29T06:19:15.210-07:00Keeping the Iraqis dancing.Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-934132492003-04-28T11:28:00.000-07:002003-04-28T11:30:41.000-07:00Like the Wall Street Journal's newsroom staff is embarrassed by their colleagues on the opinion pages, I wonder if the older scribes working on the print edition of National Review are ashamed of their online adjunct. There's a plenitude of reasons why they should be.
Witness Rod Dreher's small town sensibilities thoroughly outraged by a newspaper article, reducing him to shout "slut" and "whoreGradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-934120932003-04-28T11:04:00.000-07:002003-04-28T11:31:17.000-07:00Glenn Reynolds yesterday admitted to something he thought was an isolated incident, but which I believe is his problem continually. He confessed to not catching an error in an article because he was "seeing what I expected instead of what was there."
I appreciate his candor here, but I think his problem with overlooking the obvious is more comprehensive than he realizes.
Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-932537892003-04-25T11:25:00.000-07:002003-04-25T11:25:48.233-07:00"Oh, you're going to get it, all right..."Unstable pro-death asshole Richard Perle assures a French newspaper that "We [sic, chickenhawk] are not going to stop" with the military interventions in Afganistan and Iraq.Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-932163392003-04-24T19:49:00.000-07:002003-04-24T19:49:49.556-07:00Canadian Shops Can't Keep American Psycho T-Shirts In Stock "American Psycho, it pretty much sums up what's going on," said Scott Matthews, a clerk at Toronto's Exile where the shirt also has sold out several times in the last two weeks. The $10-decal, which can be ironed onto an array of clothing items, officially became the shop's hottest seller when Susan Sarandon sauntered in and bought oneDr. Menlonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-931798422003-04-24T07:50:00.000-07:002003-04-24T07:50:48.280-07:00Jonah Goldberg's mommy with an incredibly succint formulation of what "neocons" are: "the people who like to kill people and break things."
Sounds about right. Heh. Indeed.Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-929898672003-04-21T09:36:00.000-07:002003-04-21T09:41:41.000-07:00Andyland as Bizarro World: Sullivan's back and recommending a reporter for the blatantly biased and thoroughly discredited Raines Times for a Pulitzer.
A great shame that he's no longer patrolling Ira Stoll's beat, documenting the paper's God-awful reportage. This Judith Miller piece, "Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, an Iraqi Scientist Is Said to Assert," is about the worst Miller, Head Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-928360432003-04-18T06:43:00.000-07:002003-04-18T06:43:51.343-07:00US WILL NOT FIND WMDs IN IRAQ, SAYS RUMSFELDGradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-927659722003-04-17T00:33:00.000-07:002003-04-17T00:33:47.686-07:00Here are some icons to think about:
And from Norm Jenson:
Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-926513972003-04-15T07:31:00.000-07:002003-04-15T07:31:34.733-07:00By the way, Herr Professor Doktor Reynolds never did quite explain how he can simultaneously deride the "IT'S ALL ABOUT OOOIIILLL" explanation for the war in Iraq (i.e., claim that anything smaking of the pecuniary is ridiculous) while claiming that France and Germany opposed the war solely on pecuniary grounds. Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-926508532003-04-15T07:21:00.000-07:002003-04-15T07:21:55.466-07:00Glenn Reynolds' enthusiasm in pursuing stories ("What is it with these Algerians?") is known to flag once it seems a story will not provide neat corroboration of his barbaric and class contemptuous worldview. Thankfully "Blogs" such as the excellent wyeth wire don't tire as easily.
Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-926095532003-04-14T15:11:00.000-07:002003-04-14T15:11:43.093-07:00Andrew Sullivan announces he's on spring break.
I once worked as a punch press operator, lasting about two weeks bashing sheet metal into half-rounds. I know how tiring mindless, repetitive work can be, and Lord Sullivan's been at it a whole lot longer than two weeks. You've earned your rest, old boy. Enjoy it!Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-925285782003-04-13T08:45:00.000-07:002003-04-13T08:47:09.000-07:00From the Daily Star:Douglas Feith, a top Pentagon official, has reportedly drawn up a contingency plan for a strike on Syria, but it remains under lock and key, unseen by the White House and the National Security AgencyUnder lock and key, just like the "proof" of Saddam's WMDs that Bush and Blair, not wanting to "compromise" their sources, refused to share with the world. Now that Saddam is "no Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-925145392003-04-12T21:09:00.000-07:002003-04-12T21:15:36.000-07:00Don't know how many words were deployed in sanctifying Michael Kelly, but the patriotic media spent damned few on the serviceman who perished along with Kelly. As of present, a Nexis search yields just 51 hits for "Wilbert Davis," the soldier believed to be driving the Humvee crashing into the canal, killing both, over the past 60 days. Of course, most of these citations came via casualty counts,Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-925104832003-04-12T19:23:00.000-07:002003-04-12T19:23:59.140-07:00"President" George W. Bush, White House Briefing, March 6, 2003: "He has weapons of mass destruction."
The Baltimore Sun, March 19, 2003:Should an Iraqi attack employing chemical or biological weapons not materialize, however, the burden would fall to U.S. forces to find and expose to the world the deadly arsenal that Bush and others have long insisted Hussein possesses.
"If Iraq doesn't use Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-925088702003-04-12T18:38:00.000-07:002003-04-12T18:38:54.000-07:00Bush Is No NaziDr. Menlonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-924662182003-04-11T20:31:00.000-07:002003-04-11T20:34:18.000-07:00
Judge Dredd: The New Face of America. Here's yet another installment of inadvertently political comics or how the world views the United States. Please note the Fox/CNN news anchor on the left hand side. The artist is Simon Bisley. Note to Mike Medved: Comic creators have always been wildly left of center (mostly) and iconoclast. The absence of significant ad revenue allows that. Comics are Philip Shropshirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-924520072003-04-11T14:31:00.000-07:002003-04-11T14:41:53.000-07:00Keeping the Iraqis dancing, an update:Eyewitness: "The marines shot anything they considered a threat"
By Paul Eedle in Baghdad
Published: April 10 2003 23:26 | Last Updated: April 10 2003 23:26
Continuing attacks on US forces in Baghdad by Iraqi fighters in civilian clothes produced a deadly response on Thursday, as nervous soldiers of the US 5th Marines opened fire repeatedly, hitting Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-924483112003-04-11T13:19:00.000-07:002003-04-11T13:19:13.263-07:00"There's just no reason that this can't be an affordable endeavor," said White House budget director Mitch Daniels of the present war with Iraq. That's great! The Reuters piece containing the quote reported that the administration - conspicuously committed to bettering the lives of Iraqis - is already downplaying the costs of reconstructing Iraq. "So far," the piece notes, "the White House has Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-924419852003-04-11T11:16:00.000-07:002003-04-11T11:20:45.000-07:00On April 9, the always horrid Diane of Letter From Gotham wrote:
I've decided to suspend blogging until things go back to the way I was before: inhabiting my obscure little corner of the blogoverse, howling into the Internet ether.
She has been posting steadily since then.
Diane, stop lying to those of us dreaming of the day you simply and finally shut the fuck up.
Thanks!Bradnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-924365072003-04-11T09:36:00.000-07:002003-04-11T09:39:00.000-07:00This beat is well patrolled by Atrios and others, but as warblogger Glenn Reynolds found it "hard to believe" that genteel Yalies could behave like disgusting thugs, I feel obliged to pass along these lovely stories from that esteemed institution.
"I hope you protesters and your children are killed in the next terrorist attack. Signed F--- You," read a note left at the Afro-American Cultural Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-924344752003-04-11T09:00:00.000-07:002003-04-11T09:50:48.000-07:00Get that Man a Warblog, Mark II - Tyronn Lue:"I definitely feel for the families and friends of those who have to go over there and fight the war, but we also have a war we have to fight, too--the Washington Wizards are trying to make the playoffs," he said. "It's pretty much the same thing. They're going over there to fight for what they believe in, what we believe in as a country. We're Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-924328312003-04-11T08:37:00.000-07:002003-04-11T13:21:17.000-07:00Judging by his most recent effort, Hitchens is in Baghdad, arriving, well, just a few days behind Robert Fisk. I'm sure Hitch's beloved Orwell would have remained holed up in the Kuwait City Hilton while the life and death struggle against Islamofascist-terrorist Stalinoids was being fought. As the battle joined, Hitchens joined fellow conservatives for a cocktail.
Hitchens departed from recentGradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-923676282003-04-10T09:16:00.000-07:002003-04-10T09:16:52.000-07:00More GHR: "Of course, an absence of dead Iraqis would disappoint the bloody-shirt element of the peace movement, if not the Pentagon. But Marc Herold can probably supply dead bodies as needed, in any quantity requested..."
So can the AFP.Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-923666852003-04-10T08:59:00.000-07:002003-04-10T08:59:26.576-07:00Glenn Reynolds, thoughtful bugger he is, links to a "talking points memo for the peace movement." It's great that The Professor knows exactly what the peace movement is thinking, though that's a minor feat of divination compared to his determination of just exactly what the Iraqis are thinking at present. Previously Matt Welch held the record for reckoning-at-a-distance with his count of dead Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-923154852003-04-09T14:15:00.000-07:002003-04-09T20:30:08.000-07:00I had thought those ridiculous "We Must..." titles to Hitchens' Mirror pieces were simply ill-chosen rhetorical devices. Seems the easier explanation - lunacy - was correct. A full DSM IV's worth of manias operating on him, Hitchens writes today of the war and his plans to gloat obnoxiously at an upcoming peace demonstration: "All of this has been done in my name, and I feel like bearing witness."Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-923103222003-04-09T12:48:00.000-07:002003-04-09T12:49:46.000-07:00The Bushites have named the persons they propose to install in post-Saddam Iraq. Among them: serial controversialist Robin Raphel, who left a series of "diplomatic land mines" across South Asia as assistant secretary of state; John Limbert, who was so oblivious to popular resentment against the Shah that he was taken unaware when the Shah was overthrown - and was himself was taken hostage in the Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-923061322003-04-09T11:36:00.000-07:002003-04-09T11:36:33.373-07:00GHR:Meanwhile, I wonder where all those celebrities who seemed to care so much about the Iraqi people when they were opposing the war have disappeared to now that it’s won. Shouldn’t they be organizing benefit concerts or something? Or was it all just posturing? The postwar era will be a test for American diplomacy and administrative skills. But it’ll be a test for some other people, too.We'll Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-922914122003-04-09T07:25:00.000-07:002003-04-09T13:28:31.000-07:00Two (relatively) new "Blogs" readers of this page may be interested in:
Hector Rottweiller Jr's Web Log is a collaborative effort, though the bulk of the posts originate with Curtiss Leung. Very recommended.
Erstwhile Warblogger-Watcher Roy Edroso and friends have traded down, relocating their excellent alicublog to the blogspot hosting service. The upside of occasional blogspot-related Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-922415502003-04-08T13:11:00.000-07:002003-04-08T13:11:03.890-07:00In a letter to the Oman Observer, Mohammed Ali Ramadhan of Al Suwaiq writes:
Jordan’s Prince Hassan bin Talal’s offer to play a coordinating role in the political reconstruction of Iraq appears very reasonable. After all, he is familiar with the nature of Arab politics, much more than any White House appointee can claim to know. Having been schooled in the finer points of Arab diplomacy, and theBradnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-921679462003-04-07T12:32:00.000-07:002003-04-07T12:34:40.000-07:00Liberating the Iraqis, one at a time....
This one was liberated not from Iraq proper but from Denmark, where he was under investigation for war crimes. So after ridding the world of a tyrant who used chemical weapons on his own people, the liberators seem poised to replace said tyrant with the field marshal who actually chose "the chemicals to be used and the intensity with which to drop them."
Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-921614662003-04-07T10:40:00.000-07:002003-04-07T10:40:46.590-07:00The bloggers of mass destruction sure love their polls. Lummox Taranto reports on a poll showing 81 per cent of Americans affirming that they have a clear idea of what the present war is about. I don't know why the statistic so fascinates the Lummox; after all, I'm sure even Ted Rall believes he knows what the war is all about.
Here are some more poll results the killbloggers may care to put in Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-921305072003-04-06T22:29:00.000-07:002003-04-06T22:31:15.000-07:00Glenn Reynolds comes within inches of calling one of his preferred cites a liar today. "Blogger" Josh Chafetz had told of a story passed along by an "old and trusted friend" who related the events of: "Last week here at Yale, [where] several male students, armed with a 2x4 in the middle of the night, broke into the suite of another female student and activist, because she had an American flag Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-920643942003-04-05T17:01:00.000-08:002003-04-05T17:01:33.043-08:00Sullivan's descent continues. You would assume someone who held the positions he has would have either a) a brain capable of formulating novel solutions to the day's problems, or at least articulating the conventional answers in a novel way; or b) superior information-gathering potential thanks to a developed network of contacts and/or access to various specialists and elites. You would, in Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-920533832003-04-05T11:59:00.000-08:002003-04-05T12:03:37.000-08:00Some entries in Fark.com's "What if Fox News were around during other historical events" contest.Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-920104662003-04-04T15:13:00.000-08:002003-04-04T16:04:57.000-08:00Apparent technical difficulties at David Horowitz's propaganda page. I keep clicking the "Printable Article" button above his latest editorial, but I'm still stuck with the same error and misspelling-ridden ("Yugolsavia"?) renunciation of logical argument that no sane editor would knowingly publish.
Crap joke, I know, but Horowitz does little to inspire anything better with his outlandish Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-920019502003-04-04T12:18:00.000-08:002003-04-04T14:46:22.000-08:00Andrew Sullivan gives further demonstration that his instinct for error is infallible. A post of his asks "Who armed Saddam" and links to a graph purporting to show that the United States was, as always, innocent.
The graph depicts "actual deliveries of major conventional weapons," a less-than-complete data set that would answer Sullivan's question in only the narrowest sense. But what about allGradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-919335152003-04-03T12:09:00.000-08:002003-04-03T12:09:35.123-08:00TREASONWATCH UPDATE
Turns out that Iraq is not Jerry’s first treasonous offense. . .
Bradnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-919197272003-04-03T07:57:00.000-08:002003-04-03T07:57:22.483-08:00We at WBW applaud Senator Jim Bunning’s efforts, and await his follow-up speech regarding Jerry Rivers.Bradnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-919183582003-04-03T07:32:00.000-08:002003-04-03T13:55:46.000-08:00I wonder what Statistician Sullivan will make of this poll showing how poorly Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL) is playing with the junior partner, with a minority supporting the war, 14 per cent unsure, and a full 38 per cent in traitorous opposition.Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-918628712003-04-02T11:58:00.000-08:002003-04-02T11:58:57.716-08:00Andrew Sullivan, a personal grievance obviously germinating, runs four consecutive items taking shots at another "Blogger." The last purports to show, on the strength of a single New York Times (f/k/a wholly unreliable Raines Times) report, that Josh Marshall's powers of clairvoyance are less than Sullivan's own, and that the Iraqis love the conquering army of invasion.
I'm just wondering Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-918622872003-04-02T11:48:00.000-08:002003-04-02T11:48:25.950-08:00
A fresh batch of steaming Hitchens dung in today's Mirror. A point-by-point demonstration of the man's deceptive and outright fraudulent claims would be just as wearisome for me to write as it would be for you to read; let's spare ourselves. A point nonetheless:There is no friendly or neutral country to serve as a rearguard, as there is in the case of Jordan and Kuwait, because the fools who runGradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-918612642003-04-02T11:30:00.000-08:002003-04-02T11:30:24.733-08:00Scumbag John Podhoretz jumps onto the New York Sun “let’s convict everyone of treason” bandwagon today, suggesting that Peter Arnett be tried for the crime. Scumbag cites the US Constitution’s definition of treason to bolster his argument ("Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort," and asks if Bradnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-918046682003-04-01T16:12:00.000-08:002003-04-07T22:27:20.000-07:00THE ZANY THEOLOGY OF POPE IMPIOUS
Ambrose, Augustine, Aquinas...Andy! Let us gather, Oh Brethren, to listen to the dispensation of Revealed Wisdom by one of the most visible proponents of the Church's just war tradition. Yes, watch the Right Reverend Sullivan mount the pulpit and harangue the assembled with his latest sermon, entitled, "Yes, a War Would Be Moral."
Or just ignore him and hope Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-917943892003-04-01T13:15:00.000-08:002003-04-01T21:51:40.000-08:00More stupidity at David Horowitz's FrontPage magazine.com. Horowitz, so completely consumed by his patriotic hallucinations that he can no longer read, has a link on his homepage news feed promising a "Raid Proves Iraqi Link to Al Qaeda." However the article to which the link points posits no such thing. The relevant passage:The cache of documents at the Ansar al-Islam compound, including Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-917912162003-04-01T12:26:00.000-08:002003-04-01T12:27:50.000-08:00No operational pause in Glenn Reynolds' schlock and bore campaign. He continues to charge treason and to compile lists of traitors and symps. Tiring and tiresome as such material is, it finds an alarmingly ready audience. Not a great surprise given the regrettable tendency to demonize opponents - real and imagined - and to shout down dissent.
Reynolds, despite his pretensions to the contrary, Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-917907792003-04-01T12:19:00.000-08:002003-04-01T14:15:09.000-08:00In his rush to make opposition journalists look bad, "Instapundit" Glenn Reynolds yesterday linked to a reminiscence of Robert Fisk by someone also disliking stupid Paddies. Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438358.post-917089732003-03-31T06:32:00.000-08:002003-03-31T06:32:29.826-08:00Charles Johnson, with his recent coverage of a Columbia assistant professor's idiocy and The New York Daily News' "special investigation of the textbooks used in New York’s Islamic schools," has shown himself to be a devoted follower of events in that fair city, as well as a consumer of its media. A longstanding chronicler of the presumed nexus of violence and Islam, I'm sure he will give direct Gradynoreply@blogger.com