Category Archives: Middle East

Interesting Gallup Poll

Posted on February 26, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

A recent Gallup Poll about support for the Iraqi Occupation notes something very interesting: Jews are more likely to oppose the war, even after party affiliation is taken into account. Gallup states, “It is unclear why Jewish Americans show such strong opposition to the war.” My answer?
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When Your Foreign Policy Repulses John Negroponte…

Posted on February 26, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

…the man who helped bring you Iran-Contra, you know you’ve gone too far. Seymour Hersh has a new article in the New Yorker about the Bush Administration’s Middle East ‘strategy.’ It’s more ridiculous than Iran-Contra.
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Well, Our Iran Policy Just Got Kinda Interesting

Posted on February 25, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

What happens if you want to fight a war, and the generals threaten to not show up?
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Posted in Middle East, Military, We're Really Fucked | 3 Comments

GOP Funder Charged With Funding Terror

Posted on February 17, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Someone should tell Republican Congresscritter Don Young that if you’re going to accuse Democrats of treason and call for their hanging, it would help if your own party does not accept campaign funds from backers of Afghan terrorists.
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Iran: Deja Vu All Over Again

Posted on February 13, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

You would think that the guys who brought you Iran-Contra would, of all people, know that governments and countries often have serious internal divisions. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
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Afghanistan: U.S. Soldiers Left In Lurch By ‘Surge’

Posted on January 14, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

The frustration of the soldiers in Afghanistan must have just ‘surged.’ Why? Because, as part of the Bush-McCain surge, soldiers in Afghanistan will be withdrawn and sent to Iraq just in time for a Taliban offensive:
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Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Iraq, John "Snuggles" McCain, Little Lord Pontchartrain, Middle East, Military | 7 Comments

Bush Can Just Make You Crazy

Posted on January 12, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

By way of Litbrit at Shakespeare’s Sister, I came across a Greg Palast article about possible motivations for a troop increase in Iraq. Palast writes (bold in original; italics mine):
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Posted in Fucking Morons, Iraq, Middle East, Oil | 6 Comments

Iraq: It Was the Coffee

Posted on January 11, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Right-wing dorkball* Michael Ledeen has discovered why Iraq has not gone exactly as planned:
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Michael Fumento: Still a Disingenuous Ideologue

Posted on January 2, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

So Michael Fumento has issued a challenge to put ‘odds’ on avian influenza, thinking that somehow I’ve stated that an avian influenza pandemic is likely (he’s also accused me, a scientist, of being “anti-scientist” and “alarmist). Well, I’m not putting odds down because I’ve never said that a pandemic is likely. Then again, one should hardly be surprised when a professional conservative completely distorts what one says.
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Posted in Conservatives, Creationism, Fucking Morons, Funding, Influenza, Microbiology, Middle East, MRSA, Ninnies, Public Health, Religion, The War on Science, Vaccination, Viruses | 4 Comments

In the Land of the Blind Congresscritter, the One-Eyed Pundit Is King

Posted on December 10, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Because said officials are even more ignorant than the Pundits of the Potomac. A few months ago, Jeff Stein published an op-ed about the many officials who are charged with anti-terrorism and who also know nothing about the Middle East–to the point where they don’t know if Hezbollah is Sunni or Shiite. Stein has followed up with an interview with incoming House Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes.
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Posted in Compulsive Centrist Disorder, Conservatives, Democrats, Fucking Morons, Iraq, Middle East, News Media, Terrorism, We're Really Fucked | 1 Comment