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i'm not sure how this isn't bigger news, but i was thrilled to hear we won in Iraq!

well the Yes Men predicted it, and now the White House has confirmed it. phew!

man, i bet W is happy we snuck in that victory before he left office. it was a real nail-biter, wasn't it?

spread the word! we're #1!

well, what is it now, 2008? as the NY Times reported a few days ago, it looks like (gasp) there really was a centralized Pentagon propaganda campaign, with collusion from big media, to sell the Iraq war (and smooth over all of its atrocities along the way).

slide 1: Seattle

our local protest was sad, wet, and dispirited yesterday. left me feeling the same way...

slide 2: Dick

(today's Democracy Now!, ~4:45)

Good Morning America: 2/3 of Americans say it's not worth fighting

Dick Cheney: so?

so it looks like the biggest US contractor in Iraq, Kellog, Brown & Root (part of Cheney's Halliburton until recently), with $16 billion in war-related contracts, is evading paying taxes by hiring workers offshore. war profiteering by the VP's company while they massively cheat US taxpayers. good stuff.

what have you thought about Iraq lately? anything?

i'm in a curious state about it lately. confounded, i suppose. the latest congressional chess matches -- attaching strings to the budget per voting demographic calculations -- seem like pure folly... ("we'll only give you 50 billion more and then you're really asking for it, W!")

unbelievable op-ed in the Times last weekend, arguing for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. (registration required, temporary accounts available at bugmenot.com.)

hmm, they're making all of the same arguments that saner voices were making back in 2003.

Kucinich was on Democracy Now today with
another bit of terrifying in/sanity regarding Iraq and BushCo's thinly-veiled agenda: handing over control of the country's oil to multinational corporations.

a politician, to be sure, but an order of magnitude more honest and direct than any of the other voices i hear coming from congress these days.

i just heard a fascinating piece on NPR about a partnership between the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Earth, to document the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. it seems that GE has updated their imagery of Sudan, so that you can actually see the devastation there as of a few months ago. to say it again: anyone with an Internet connection can literally see a crisis unfolding elsewhere in the world. damn, that's interesting.

picking up this discussion from the remaining relevant thread... i want to keep a concise list (roughly chronological) -- for my own memory if nothing else. i also want to start adding some overview sources.

* just to set the stage : Bush's skipping out on his National Guard service

* massive pre 9-11 intelligence failures
- more here...

* subverting of science to political aims
- denial of global warming
- Cheney's closed-door energy policy (culture of secrecy)
- EPA post 9-11
- more...

* lied us into Iraqi war