Billmon:
November 2, 2006
WB: Seeing the Light
WB: The Joke’s On Us
Billmon:
I do wonder how deeply into the doo doo the empire is going to have to sink before someone decides that leaving the allocation of power to a zoned-out mob of reality TV addicts and cable news carnie barkers isn’t such a great idea after all.
A Real Hero
Withstanding peer pressure:
“Peterson objected to the interrogation techniques used on prisoners. She refused to participate after only two nights working in the unit known as the cage. .."
Sad that she couldn’t take it.
“But on the night of September 15th, 2003, Army investigators concluded she shot and killed herself with her service rifle”
U.S. Soldier Killed Herself After Objecting to Interrogation Techniques
WB: Who Says We Haven’t Brought “Democracy” to Iraq?
WB: Coultergeist
Billmon:
WB: Treason in the Blood
Billmon:
Halperin makes a fairly plausible substitute for Zinoviev or Kaminev or Bukharin, or any of the other "Old Bolshevik" who groveled before the cameras and meekly confessed their mostly imaginary crimes in Vishinsky’s court. They begged Stalin for forgiveness and were shot for their troubles — just as I suspect Halperin is still going to lose his job one of these days, no matter how hard he cries for Hewitt’s mercy. He just can’t shake those "liberal" social origins.
WB: Whatever It Takes
Billmon:
November 1, 2006
WB: Stopped Clocks
Billmon:
But in the meantime the oil will continue to flow, and Middle East Mukhabarats will continue to hunt and kill Al Qaeda operatives and keep Islamist movements under close surveillance. At this point, that’s about the best the American gas guzzling public can hope for — that is, barring a complete 180 in the direction of U.S. imperial foreign policy.
WB: Lessons Learned
Billmon:
When a stupid comment by John Kerry about the war in Iraq becomes the big October surprise, you know the Republicans are truly grasping at straws.
WB: Contingency Planning
Billmon:
If and when the time comes, I’ve no doubt the Secretary and his crack squad of commando surrogates will be ready to lay down a withering barrage of talking points and text messages, followed by a blitzkrieg assault on green rooms from Washington to Manhattan.