Many news outlets were reporting that our involvement in Iraq has now matched the time we fought in WWII. What they haven't mentioned is that at this pace it will probably take us another 75 years or so to reach the same number of casualties at the current rate. I'll take Iraq over WWII any time. Oh, and don't we still have 100,000 or so troops stationed in Europe 60 years after the war? And haven't we spent billions (trillions?) on the defense of Europe? "Mission Accomplished"?
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It's a few days late, but just in case anyone hasn't heard about the black French policeman who protected the Jewish guys from a mob of raging neo-Nazi soccer hooligans here it is.
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Charles Rangel (D-NY) wants to make it "abundantly clear" that no one with a future would ever be dumb enough to join the army. I'll just show this video to our white middle class IT supervisor whose brother served in the Iraq to see what she thinks, or maybe my folks' best friends, white upper middle class folks whose son also served in Iraq.
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I've said it once, but I'll say it again. There are a lot of creeps in the LGF comments section, but where else can I go to get this stuff?
Jamal Miftah, a Muslim who lives in Tulsa, wrote a column for the newspaper Tulsa World condemning Al Qaeda and calling on fellow Muslims to reject terrorism.
In return, he was kicked out of the local mosque by leaders until he apologizes for his article—and threatened with violence by other members of the peaceful Islamic community of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
There's video from the local news.
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Jonathan Chait of the LA Times - So allow me to propose the unthinkable: Maybe, just maybe, our best option is to restore Saddam Hussein to power.
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