Tag Archive 'iraq'

The Army of the Good

Posted by Moonage on 30 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: International Issues

Lashkar-e-Taiba sells itself as “The Army of the Good”.  Using that moniker, they advocate fundamentalist Islam rule.  Azam Amir Kasab is apparently a member of “The Army of the Good”.  Now, this is how the “The Army of the Good” spreads its word for the “Religion of Peace”:
 
It’s kinda blurry, but that’s a rifle he’s [...]

Scott Ott and the Obama Doctrine

Posted by Moonage on 28 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Congressional Races, terrorism

Scott Ott has been one of my favorite authors for quite some time.  Here is yet another reason why:
…..Sen. Obama, a man who aspires to be our commander in chief, tells us that a nation called Afghanistan is where this threat dwells. Yet, he says, it does not dwell in Iraq. He tells us we [...]

Perspectives, California v Iraq

Posted by Moonage on 24 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Fun with Numbers

A lot is being made over another milestone in Iraq.  The 4,000th US soldier died since the war started in 2003.   That’s five years.  That’s about 800 a year.  That’s a lot.  But, not much is being made over the perspective of this.  For instance, about 2,000 people were killed in 2006 ( the most [...]

Angelina Jolie supporting the surge

Posted by Moonage on 29 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race

This is very interesting to me:

Angelina Jolie supports the surge.  She does because it’s working.  In that it’s working, it allows humanitarian aid to get to those in need inside Iraq.  And, apparently displaced people are trying to come home.  So, she’s trying to keep the surge in place so that they can safely.
I don’t [...]

the death of Benazir Bhutto

Posted by Moonage on 27 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: International Issues, International Politics

I am reading right now that Benazir Bhutto died in the suicide attack on her rally.
This is awful news.
I have heard a lot of speculation that Al Qaeda has focused on Pakistan since it’s getting its butt kicked in Iraq and Afghanistan.   That makes sense.  What doesn’t make sense there is attacking Bhutto.  Musharraf is [...]

What will the Democrats do?

Posted by Moonage on 26 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race

I was listening to a debate I think it was on CNN.  The emphasis of the debate was how qualified Hillary Clinton was to lead the country based on her own statements of how she had helped lead the country during her husband’s tenure.  There was a Republican debator, and a Democrat debator.  The first [...]

This is what too many drugs will do for you

Posted by Moonage on 16 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Conspiracy Theories, Energy Policy

David Crosby annoyed me when I was a little kid.  Crosby, Stills, Nash and sometimes Young just struck me as scary when I was real little, boring when I was old enough to know what was going on.  Other than cranking out kids for lesbian babes, he’s never done anything cool to me.  Nothing wrecked [...]

Why I’ll never run for national office

Posted by Moonage on 09 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, Conspiracy Theories, Idiot of the day

Or probably any office for that matter.  Check this out:
At the event in North Hampton, Iowa, a questioner took issue with Clinton’s recent Senate vote calling on President Bush to formally call the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. He argued that such a distinction confers the president with the ability to invade the country.
“Why [...]

Congress condemns the UN Human Rights Council

Posted by Moonage on 26 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, International Issues, International Politics, Polls

In the form of a resolution, Congress took a hard slap at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Basically, it goes like this.  The United Nations formed a council to look into human rights violations and do what it can to assure human rights are respected all over the globe.  With the continuing genocide in Africa, [...]

Ahmadinejad goes to New York

Posted by Moonage on 24 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: International Issues, International Politics, Political Correctness

Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is disappointed the US is not allowing him to roam free in the US speaking.  His logic for allowing to do so is something like this:

Ahmadinejad said the American people have been denied “correct information,” and his visit will give them a chance to hear a different voice, the official IRNA news [...]

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