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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 (VI): Obama’s Decision

by Propagandee December 1, 2009

Back to the future in Afghanistan
Irony often has the most exquisite timing. Today President Obama announces a massive escalation of the war in Afghanistan, doubling the number of troops that Bush left behind. And next week he travels to Oslo to pick up his Nobel War Peace Prize.
So, what did those three months of careful [...]

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Afutilestan (III)

by Propagandee October 30, 2009

Afghanistan opium poppies waiting to be transformed into weapons to kill Americans

As President Obama continues his deliberations about what the hell to do about Afghanistan, this week saw a lot of fuel thrown onto the fire:

The number of US troops killed hit an all time monthly high.
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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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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Who Does She Remind You Of? UPDATED

by Michael Hart September 25, 2008

“And as our leaders are telling us, in our military, we do need to, ramp it up in Afghanistan, counting on our friends and allies to assist with us there, becuzz these terrists— who hate Amirrica, they hate what we stand for, with the… the freedoms, the democracy, the the women’s rights, the tolerince, they hate what it is that we represent, and, our allies, too, and our friends, what they represent.” Sigh.

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The Surge Is Not A Success

by Propagandee August 2, 2008

                 Urban renewal project in beautiful downtown Baghdad
Chris Matthews‘ substitute host, McCain enthusiast Mike Barnicle, reacted incredulously Wednesday to a comment by Iraq war vet Jon Soltz, co-founder and chairman of VoteVets.org, that the so-called “surge” has not been a success. Pressed by Barnicle, who refelcts the corporatist media’s official narrative of [...]

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Wrecking the Economy

by Propagandee July 29, 2008

Impact of two terms of Bush’s management of the US Economy
The Bush Administration today issued a mind boggling record deficit projection of $482 billion for 2009. And that’s not even counting the off-budget estimated $80 billion being spent in Iraq and Afghanistan, nor the cost of the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac and homeowner bailout bill.
That’s a [...]

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