Speedkill

You should all read this investigation by the Toledo Blade of a unit called Tiger Force in Vietnam. Sick stuff.

You can’t weigh our success in how many attacks are upon our troops each day, well actualy, you can.

As we progress, the attacks become increasingly worse, they are desperate.

More dead soldiers = more success?

So when all our soldiers are dead we’ve succeeded?

You obviously have no idea about the good things going on in Iraq, ignorant fool.

Sgt. Bitz, Marine, my friend, dead, and It’ll be a cold day in hell before I let you fucking liberals and democrats Vietnamize this fucking war.

Touched a nerve, I think I did.

Hopefully he doesn’t mind me posting this.

And you don’t even want to know how old he is.

U.N. Finds No Evidence of Iran Nukes

VIENNA, Austria – A confidential U.N. nuclear agency report has found “no evidence” to back U.S. claims that Iran tried to make atomic arms, but it cannot rule out the possibility because of past cover-ups by Tehran, diplomats told The Associated Press on Monday.

While acknowledging IAEA finds of traces of highly enriched, weapons-grade uranium on its enrichment centrifuges, it says the “contamination” originated outside Iran and was inadvertently imported with the equipment bought abroad. Washington says it is evidence of a weapons program.

They’re obviously hiding their program. I’m sure they have wooden drones that can fly all the way to the States and release poison gas! And did you hear about he aluminum tubes they imported? I mean look what happened in Iraq: the U.N. stalls and we go in and find huge……….well………I’ll get back to you.

Wait, we found mobile weapons labs! No, those are for hydrogen balloons.

They were shipped to Syria! Well, through Turkey, and we don’t really seem to care that much about finding them, even though they were a grave threat earlier, so maybe not.

Err………

You’re just a communist.

Titans Sink Dolphins

Clemson Upsets Florida State

Eastern Washington Beats MSU

Magic Lose Sixth Straight

Not a great weekend for my sports teams.

Or did I just miss it? Andrew Sullivan seems to be going after people using “imminent threat” lately. Saying that wasn’t the case the Bush administration made. Did anyone check Andy’s archives?

After a decent period of time to gather all the possible evidence, there should indeed be a thorough inquiry into whether and how the case for Saddam’s imminent WMD threat was made.

Not really surprising, is it?

From skippy, Book Learnin’ Equals Hate:

This brings up two interesting points, which may actually be two sides of the same coin. The first is, this may be the first time in months, if not years, that left-leaning books outnumber those that lean to the right. But Mr. Traub (and indeed, a number of pundits who are aghast at the current spate of “Bush Hatred,” as if it’s some kind of disease instead of a made-up phenomenon to obfuscate passionate political discourse) chooses not to report that Lefty and Progressive Thought is actually being chosen at will by the populous at large. No, instead, they like to announce that “Hatred Is Hip.”

This has been pissing me off lately. Oh, don’t actually read any of the books, denounce them as “Bush hatred” and move on. No need to think. No need to worry about how no one seems to be able to find any errors in Franken’s book, and Conason’s had only a few minor mistakes that he has acknowledged. That would be too worrying for their beautiful minds.

In an effort to convince myself there are good things that happen in the world, I’ve compiled this list for today:

Powell Praises Informal Peace Negotiators in Mideast

9/11 Commission to Subpoena NORAD Information

Ex-Enron Chair Lay to Give Papers to SEC

Nearly 300K Jobs Created in Past 3 Months

Some people may have (but probably not) noticed that the books in the right column are gone. The MTAmazon or Bookqueue (I don’t remember the error exactly) plugins randomly stop working, not allowing me to rebuild my template. Then I have to remove the code to post, then put it back later (and it normally works). This is a nuisance. So, from now on, I’ll have a couple books in the same spot just using Amazon links. No more of this Bookqueue nonsense. It’s a cool idea, but it’s annoying when it doesn’t work.

I flipped through Bernard Goldberg’s new book Arrogance at the book store today. I’m impressed that it’s more than pamphelt size, unlike his last book. Interestingly enough, no footnotes or endnotes, just like Bias. Also, no mention of Eric Alterman by name, or What Liberal Media?, other than 3 chapters entitled What Liberal Media? (the chapters are this book’s version of Liberal Hate Speech; a bunch of quotes from the MRC). He could take some unnamed shots at him in the book (I wouldn’t put it past him, seeing how obsessed he is with Dan Rather), but I didn’t notice any. Kinda interesting.