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Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 5 May 2013 in UncategorizedTags: Bangladesh, cartoon, deficit, factory, garments, guns, Iraq, military, recovery, United States, war, workers
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 2 May 2013 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, Congress, corporations, environment, George Bush, Head Start, Iraq, Mississippi River, sequestration, United States, war
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 28 April 2013 in UncategorizedTags: budget, cartoon, Congress, deficits, democracy, George Bush, Iraq, Spain, unemployment, United States, WMDs
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 26 April 2013 in UncategorizedTags: Bangladesh, cartoon, corporations, George Bush, Iraq, pensions, Texas, United States, WMDs, workers
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 30 March 2013 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, George Bush, Iraq, jobs, military, stock market, United States, Wall Street, war, weapons, WMDs
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 26 March 2013 in UncategorizedTags: banks, budget, cartoon, Cyprus, Iraq, middle-class, Paul Ryan, poor, rich, war
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Mistakes, excuses, and painful lessons from the Iraq War
Posted: 23 March 2013 in UncategorizedTags: Bush, Cheney, crimes, Iraq, Rumsfeld, United States, war, Wolfowitz
Ezra Klein has admitted he made a mistake in supporting the Iraq War. And he’s sorry.
OK. He was, by his own admission, “a college student, young and dumb.”
That’s not a particularly good excuse, since there were plenty of college students who opposed the war. But it does mean, since then, he’s learned some painful lessons:
First, listen to the arguments of the people who will actually carry out a project, not the arguments of the people who just want to see the project carried out. . .
Second, don’t trust what “everybody knows.”. . .
Third, the people who are most persuasive aren’t necessarily the people who are actually right. . .
Fourth, the U.S. military is a blunt and limited instrument.
Those are certainly valuable lessons. But the biggest mistake is not Klein’s individual decision to support the war. It’s the fact that Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld & Co. are allowed today to operate today with impunity, still treated as having ideas and opinions that matter, and not put on trial for war crimes.
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 21 March 2013 in UncategorizedTags: austerity, cartoon, Europe, homeless, Iraq, Republicans, unemployed, United States, Wall Street, war
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 19 March 2013 in UncategorizedTags: Bush, cartoon, corporations, Iraq, oil, war
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