observations from a window seat in the handbasket headed for hell
The dress code at the Blue Star restaurant inside Baghdad’s Green Zone now calls for vest and hat. Flak vest and Kevlar helmet, to be precise.[...]
[A] State Department official, after initially denying that State had ordered its 1,000 Baghdad personnel to wear protective gear, said that a copy of the order obtained by McClatchy was an undiscussable security breach.
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And other words of wisdom...
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. --George Orwell
When you hold up your arm and swear to uphold the Constitution, you don’t say, “Except in wartime.” -- George McGovern
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IVAW: Iraq Veterans Against the War
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