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Afutilestan (VII): The Great Game Revisted

by Propagandee December 5, 2009

President Obama demonstrating the logic of his Afghanistan policy
Geography is destiny, Napoleon is reported to have said.
I began to appreciate that political truism early on, thanks to marathon games of  Risk I  played as a kid.  According to Wikipedia, Risk was originally released in France in 1957, as La Conquête du Monde—The Conquest of the [...]

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Afutilestan

by Propagandee September 21, 2009

The contents of General McCrystal’s top-down review of Afghanistan ordered by President Obama found its way into the front pages of the NY Times and Washington Post today. As expected, it paints a grim picture and calls for more of everything– more troops, more money, more nation building– on top of the $ 4 [...]

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Rumba In The Dumba

by Propagandee September 9, 2009

Praying this young lady has good health care insurance…
In an historically rare prime time presidential address to a joint session of Congress concerning health care reform, all the major networks will carry it live, except one:  Fox Broadcasting, which instead will show its regularly scheduled reality show, So You Think You Can Dance, the same [...]

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Cheney Agrees To Star In Memento Remake

by Propagandee May 27, 2009

Dick Cheney reprising the role of Guy Pearce
So where are you?  You’re in some motel room underground bunker. You just – you just wake up and you’re in – in a motel room bunker. There’s the key. It feels like maybe it’s just the first time you’ve been there, but perhaps you’ve been there [...]

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Torture In Context

by Propagandee April 22, 2009

Demonstrating an “enhanced interrogation technique”
In 1999, Bush’s family biographer, Mickey Herskowitz, reports that W. told him he was intent on invading Iraq, saying that his status as a war time president would give him enough political capital to push through his conservative domestic agenda.
(That would include the privatization of social security whose blood rich corpse [...]

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Bush Bids Adieu

by Propagandee January 15, 2009

Tuesday, George W. Bush held his final cabinet meeting where he said:
I tell people I leave town with a great sense of accomplishment and my head held high.
The problem with that is, well, obvious.

George W. Bush in a rare moment of introspection
As the worst president in US history winds down his delusional legacy protection tour, [...]

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Change You Can’t Believe In

by Propagandee July 23, 2008

Photo of McSame’s Botched Nip/Tuck & Hormone Treatment Said to Resemble Trash Media’s Bat Boy

ABOARD THE DOUBLE TALK EXPRESS  (C.U. News) — In an effort to close the perceived and actual age gap between himself and his much younger rival for the presidency, presumptive Republican candidate John McSame has apparently taken the advice of [...]

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New FISA Bill: A Pre-Emptive Attack on an October Surprise?

by Propagandee June 21, 2008

With the Progressive blogsofear up in arms over the House’s passage of Bush’s FISA bill, and even more incensed at Obama’s essential support for same, I am reminded of how the Dem leadership caved on the Protect America Act, with rumors that from behind the scenes the Administration was warning of an imminent 9/11 [...]

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Reply to “America the Community”

by Propagandee April 26, 2008

[Due to formatting limitations in the comments section, I have chosen to reply on the main forum.]
Hi Stan:
Thanks for reminding us of the bigger picture. I’ll have fewer bald patches from frustrated hair-pulling that way.
A few passages from The Urantia Book (TUB) lit up my synapses as I read along. But in the ecumenical spirit [...]

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