Category Archives: Iraq

Right-Wing Militarists Beat Father of Marine

Posted on September 25, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

When you justify your beliefs based on authority, your beliefs are threatened, not by logic, but by an equal and countervailing authority. One can’t have that, so one just beats the crap out of your opponent.
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Posted in Authoritarianism, Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Iraq, Military, Tolerance | 5 Comments

Quote of the Day: The Surge Edition

Posted on September 23, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Because it’s never too late to have lots of surgetastic goodness.
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Posted in Humor, Iraq | 4 Comments

Iraq, Guilt, and Counter-Intuitive Polling

Posted on September 12, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

People are less likely to say that want to leave Iraq the worse they think the situation is. But this isn’t surprising or counter-intuitive at all: it’s called guilt.
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Posted in Iraq | 12 Comments

Iraq and the Catastrophic Failure of the U.S. Political System

Posted on September 10, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

What happens when the public overwhelmingly holds an opinion that isn’t even represented in the government or among the Mandarin class? Tyranny.
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Posted in Fucking Royals, Iraq, Little Lord Pontchartrain, Middle East, News Media, We're Really Fucked | 7 Comments

The Statistics of the Surge

Posted on September 9, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s really hard to say that the surge is working: even where the trend is in the right direction (e.g., total civilains killed), it basically looks like the surge has only brought things back to where they were before they became really awful. For the other metrics, the only conclusion is that either it has had no effect (car bombs and IEDs) or has made things worse (mortar and rocket attacks).
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Posted in Iraq, Statistics | 34 Comments