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WB: Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Billmon:
[T]he spectacle of Israel’s political and military establishment dancing anxiously on the diplomatic sidelines, hoping the U.N. Security Council will step in with a timely ceasefire, while their Arab enemy impassively declares his willingness to keep on fighting, is a sight I truly never expected to see.
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
WB: Hillbilly Heaven
Billmon:
I’m surprised Wal-Mart didn’t try to bill him for the imaginary water.
Hillbilly Heaven
They Have already Been Raptured
by anna missed
lifted from a comment
Like the joke I heard by some redneck comedian, that went something
like: "My grandmother has a bumpersticker on her car that says "God Is
My Copilot". And it made me wonder how it was, that the creater of the
universe has enough spare time on his hands to ride along with grandma
to the Wal-Mart store to pick up her stool-softeners"
Cont. reading: They Have already Been Raptured
WB: The New Ali Gees
Billmon:
"Is it ‘cos I is black?"
The New Ali Gees
WB: Needs More Divisions
WB: What a Fool Believes
Billmon:
Given my current opinion of "democracy" in America, I think at this point I’d settle for a reasonably competent military junta …
What a Fool Believes
WB: A Man for All Seasons
WB: Unsound Methods
Billmon:
The problem is that there are many people in the IDF who are not cold-blooded murders, and by forcing them to choose whether to become such, Halutz and company have now put them in an increasingly intolerable position.
Unsound Methods
WB: Taking the Deal
Billmon:
To sum up, accepting a ceasefire in place would allow Hizbullah and Nasrallah to pocket some extremely valuable strategic and grand strategic advantages, and avoid a potential conflict of interest with their state sponsors, while leaving them with more tactical freedom of action than their American and Israeli enemies.
Taking the Deal
WB: Incentive System
Billmon:
I doubt the applicable lesson will be lost on other designated terrorist organizations and/or heroic resistance movements around the world.
Incentive System
Remake of the Niger Uranium Scam
They are at it again.
Mixed with timely but unrelated references to the Hiroshima bomb and sleepercells who might attack British nuclear plants, the London Sunday Times reports on an alleged smuggling of Uranium ore from Congo via Tanzania to Iran.
IRAN is seeking to import large consignments of bomb-making uranium from the African mining area that produced the Hiroshima bomb, an investigation has revealed.
Cont. reading: Remake of the Niger Uranium Scam
WB: C Section
Billmon:
Just wait until Codi gets a look at the afterbirth. Yecch.
C Section
OT 06-73
WB: The Portmanteau Resolution
Billmon:
Personally, if I were Sheikh Nasrallah, I’d take the first part of the resolution (the immediate ceasefire part) and not worry too much about the second part. If the IDF’s footholds in southern Lebanon are as precarious as I think they are, the Israelis will be looking for ways to give them up before too long — particularly if the proposed multinational force never materializes or (as I suspect) proves to be not much more than a glorified version of UNIFIL. And the other conditions for a "permanent" solution (disarmament, Lebanese Army control in the south, the arms embargo) can either be evaded, tapdanced around — for example, by simply grandfathering Hizbullah units into the Lebanese Army — or just plain ignored. I mean, who exactly is going to seal the Syrian border against resupply?
The Portmanteau Resolution
WB: Every Rat for Himself
No Title + WB: Looking for Mr. Neutron
Billmon:
Looking for Mr. Neutron
Bernhard:
Israeli planes dropped leaflets over the city of Sidon, south of here, warning people to evacuate before expected airstrikes on “terrorist infrastructure”
Sidon is an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim city, rather distant from Hezbollah strongholds further south. In recent weeks it has been a collection point for many of the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the fighting.
The Israeli Army also issued a statement saying it did “not consider the Lebanese people to be its enemy and does not want to harm them.”
U.S. and France Back Plan to End Fighting in Lebanon
WB: How I’m Feeling At The Moment ++
WB: The Problem With Parody ++
You Bleak It, …
Meanwhile, to fund reconstruction without further depleting U.S. coffers, the Iraqis will ask European and Asian nations to contribute $100 billion or more over the next five years.
Do or Die Against Iraq’s Death Squads – July 28, 2006
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Japan on Thursday announced a 3.5 billion yen ($30 million) loan to Iraq on Thursday during the first visit to the country by a cabinet minister since the war.
Japan grants Iraq 3.5 bln yen infrastructure loan – Aug 3, 2006
WB: The War Party
Billmon:
Events — from 9/11 on — have moved too fast and pushed us too far towards the clash of civilizations that most sane people dread but the neocons desperately want. The Dems are now just the cadet branch of the War Party. While the party nomenklatura is finally, after three blood years, making dovish noises about the Iraq fiasco, I think their loyalty to Israel will almost certainly snap them back into line during the coming "debate" over war with Iran.
I hope like hell I’m wrong about this, but I don’t think I am. So I guess I’ll just have to accept being labeled a traitor to the cause — or whatever the hardcore partisans are calling it. Sure, why not. They’re certainly free to follow their party over the cliff (we’re all going over it anyway) but I’d at least prefer to do it with my eyes open.
The War Party
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