Tag Archives: Iraq

Sick of hearing about Hillary’s damn e-mails?

October 19, 2015 · by · in Hacktivism, History, Protests, war crimes · Leave a comment

In earlier posts, I’ve lamented the fact that the US is up to its neck in conspiracy theories that may actually be factual. And I mostly believe that we’ll never get to the bottom of these as long as we have a status quo in a functioning government. That, like the dissolution of the German […]

Back to the future in Iraq

June 14, 2014 · by · in History, Protests, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

The above clip is then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney explaining why we didn’t invade Iraq and depose Saddam after the Gulf War. The time is 1992 on the eve of the election that would sweep Poppy Bush from the White House. He also told the BBC in this interview: Once you got to Iraq and […]

General Petraeus, War Crimes and culpability

September 23, 2013 · by · in History, peace protesters, Protests · Leave a comment

We had a lively discussion (code for ‘I seriously lost my temper’) a few weeks ago on Sex and Politics. I thought we’d be discussing the proposed bombing of Syria, but the topic was General David Petraeus. For those of you not keeping up, he has been hired to teach at CUNY, and there are significant […]

Don’t Know much about History: Ron Reagan, War Criminal

September 11, 2013 · by · in Don't know much about..., History, Protests, Uncategorized · 7 Comments

Finally–someone (in the form of Stephen Colbert) called out Bill O’Reilly for constantly bringing up Ronald Reagan in all the discussion of Obama’s reaction to Syria’s alleged poison gas attack. I don’t take Bill-o terribly seriously anyway, but since the memes about Reagan are constantly being picked up, let’s be clear: Reagan inarguably made the […]

Iraq at ten years out

March 21, 2013 · by · in History, peace protesters · Leave a comment

A quick look at the Calendar (I HAVE been kind of busy lately) tells me we’re at the ten-year anniversary of the regrettable decision by our last president to go to war with people who had NOTHING to do with 9/11. On the Sunday before the war, my former church (Washington Square United Methodist Church) […]

Bradley Manning spends his 1,002nd day in jail without trial

February 25, 2013 · by · in Protests · 2 Comments

On Saturday, there were vigils and protests all over the world to commemorate the fact that former US Army PFC Bradley Manning has spent one thousand days in jail without being given a trial. His crime was leaking information to Julian Assange and the Wikileaks consortium, which then appeared everywhere. In particular, Manning had leaked […]

Don’t know much about history…

January 14, 2013 · by · in Don't know much about..., tax policy for the 99%, Uncategorized · 5 Comments

I know when I’m watching a bad interview on TV or the Internet. The question comes up: “What was the most influential book you read in (high school, college)?” Standard answers include the Bible, Catcher in the Rye, Atlas Shrugged (though not in MY crowd), A Separate Peace, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. You know […]

Crap Republicans (apparently) believe

September 4, 2012 · by · in Uncategorized · Leave a comment

Okay, I started thinking about putting this up a few days ago after experiencing convention burnout. This list probably seems patently unfair to Republicans, and (to be fair) not all Republicans believe everything on this list. And Democrats believe some rather astounding things as well. And there’s a larger issue of what Americans believe that […]