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It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right upfront with you, I like brawling
Marine General Is Told To Speak 'More Carefully' By Ann Scott Tyson The Marine Corps commandant yesterday urged a three-star general to choose his words "more carefully," after the general told a San Diego conference this week it was "a lot of fun to shoot" the enemy. Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis, who commanded the 1st Marine Division in the 2003 Iraq invasion, drew the subtle reprimand after making the remarks at a panel discussion Tuesday on lessons of the Iraq war. While many U.S. military commanders speak with blunt bravado about killing, Mattis's remarks sparked criticism from military ethicists for creating the impression that he relished the act.( Read more... ) © 2005 The Washington Post Company |
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And manna from heaven and free lunches for everyone
JUAN GONZALEZ: We turn now to the domestic portion of the president's State of the Union address. He devoted a large portion of that to his push to restructure Social Security. The address kicked off a five-state campaign-style tour to advocate the privatization of the system. The plan faces nearly unanimous opposition from congressional Democrats, few of whom stood up or applauded during the Social Security portion of the speech. In his address, the president argued that the retirement system was headed towards bankruptcy. ( Read more... ) PAUL KRUGMAN: And manna from heaven and free lunches for everyone. There's no way you can make the tax cuts permanent and also do a major reduction in the deficit. So, this is -- he's demanding -- it's like the mythical story of the legislators who demanded that all wheels have circumferences three times their diameter. Sorry, the arithmetic doesn't work. It's amazing stuff. It's basically a belief that he can say a lot of stuff that just doesn't add up, and that he won't be called on it. AMY GOODMAN: On that note, I want to thank you very much for being with us. Paul Krugman of the New York Times, Eric Engen of the American Enterprise Institute. |
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Officials back away from Iraq turnout estimates: Editor & Publisher
http://www.editorandpublisher UPDATE: Officials Back Away from Early Estimates of Iraqi Voter Turnout Everyone is delighted that so many Iraqis went to the polls on Sunday, but do the two turnout numbers routinely cited by the press -- 8 million and 57% -- have any basis in reality? And was the outpouring of voters in Sunni areas really "surprisingly strong"? By Greg Mitchell (February 02, 2005) -- Everyone, of course, is thrilled that so many Iraqis turned out to vote, in the face of threats and intimidation, on Sunday. But in hailing, and at times gushing, over the turnout, has the American media (as it did two years ago in the hyping of Saddam's WMDs) forgotten core journalistic principles in regard to fact-checking and weighing partisan assertions? ( Read More... ) He added: "This was my stab at just trying to tell readers the 60% figure that had been so widely touted was hardly definitive, and it may be lower." All credit to the brave Iraqis who did vote, and in many places they did turn out in droves. But it occurred to me, watching the moving TV images on Sunday of people standing in line outside polling places in Sunni hot spots, that maybe, as so often, the camera lied. In many embattled Sunni cities, we'd been told, many if not most polling places never opened. Wouldn't this likely cause a crush, by even a few hundred voters, at the relatively few places that did open? Not that anyone, that I know of, was asking. |
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The Lunchbreak Haulocaust Washington DC
 http://intervention.org/lunchbreak/inde 45 - Photographs - The Lunchbreak Haulocaust Washington DC © Keeley 2005. goto http://intervention.org/lunchbreak/inde Chris |
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