BRAZENLY LIBERAL — a fact-based initiative

The warmongers complain that nobody ever tells the good news from Iraq. Okay, here’s the good news:
Explosions, Shootings Shatter Calm in Iraq
Seven Shiite workers were gunned down Saturday in a religiously mixed area of west Baghdad, and explosions in the heart of the capital shattered a one-day calm after a ban on private vehicles [...]

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8 GIs accused of murder
Seven Marines and one Navy corpsman have been charged with murder and kidnapping in connection with the April death of an Iraqi man in a small village west of Baghdad, Marine Corps officials announced Wednesday.

The corps said that the eight sought out Hashim Ibrahim Awad in his Hamdania home, [...]

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The two missing soldiers were found tortured and killed. “Killed in a barbaric way,” as though any of the 2500+ Americans and many thousands of Iraqis who died in this war were killed in a non-barbaric way.
Look at them. They were just kids for God’s sake! Nice kids, by all reports. [...]

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This Rude Pundit post (found via Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish) has a pointed and poignant observation regarding the two captured American soldiers:
…What if we get pictures of the soldiers, nude, cowering, screaming in a corner, shitting themselves on the filthy floors of a makeshift cell, as their captors hold snarling dogs on leashes just out [...]

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So the House rejected the notion of a schedule for withdrawal from Iraq. Aren’t you shocked?!? Couldn’t you just plotz!?!
No, of course not. You knew it would go this way. The GOP engineered it to go this way. It’s a nonbinding resolution strictly for political reasons. A way to [...]

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My man in the 2004 Democratic primaries was Dennis Kucinich. I didn’t really expect him to get the nomination because the Democratic Party was so afraid of looking like a bunch of, well, Democrats, it did its best to convey the image of being GOP-Lite.
Kooch always did tell it like it is and that [...]

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Where the huskies go?
No huskies in the desert, but Tony Snow looks like a quick change might be in order.
All Spin Zone has the priceless screen cap

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George Bush didn’t know anything about the slaughter of innocent civilians, including small children, at Haditha until months later when a reporter from Time asked him about it.
It’s hard to be surprised at this claim. The man has made a career of being out of the loop when anything potentially embarrassing was going on.
He [...]

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My God! Have you had enough?
Photographs taken by a Marine intelligence team have convinced investigators that a Marine unit killed as many as 24 unarmed Iraqis, some of them “execution-style,” in the insurgent stronghold of Haditha after a roadside bomb killed an American in November, officials close to the investigation said Friday.The pictures are [...]

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The Domino Theory has to be one of the great insanities of 20th Century foreign policy. Or so we thought when we were protesting the Viet Nam War.
Proponents held that if the enemy (in that case communism) was allowed to have power or influence in South Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia, it would inevitably take [...]

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Regrets, I’ve had a few
But then again
Too few to mention
My big, fat Texas mouth
Went running wild
But I brooked no dissension
But in an unusual admission of a personal mistake, Mr. Bush said he regretted challenging insurgents in Iraq to “bring it on” in 2003, and said the same about his statement that he wanted Osama bin [...]

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If I read them right, the good folks over at Think Progress believe George Bush was deflecting when he said his approval ratings are so bad because Americans are “unsettled” over the war.
NBC White House correspondent David Gregory interviewed President Bush this morning on the Today Show and asked him why so many people disapprove [...]

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I can’t wait for the transcripts!!!!!!
Career appointees at the Department of Agriculture were stunned last week to receive e-mailed instructions that include Bush administration “talking points” — saying things such as “President Bush has a clear strategy for victory in Iraq” — in every speech they give for the department. (Full Story)

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I never thought I’d live to see the day that loathsome tool of the Far Right, Fox “News,” would be linked on this blog. But I imagine it’s being gleefully linked on just about every left-leaning site in the blogosphere this morning. I’m sure the rightwingnutjob blogs are linking it, too, though with [...]

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Executed for the crime of entertaining the children
FOR the crime of staging a children’s show, Faud Radi and Haidar Jawad were executed by the new moral guardians of Baghdad.The actors were part of the Happy Family Team, a troupe adored by millions of Iraqi children from its frequent appearances on television. The theatrical group and [...]

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