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coordinated bombings blamed on al Qaeda…

the bombing was the work of al Qaeda in Iraq and that it knew the cell leader who was responsible.

rebel against Sunni Islamist al Qaeda…

So, wait, who are they again?

 On Monday, two blasts in central and eastern Baghdad killed 19 people despite tightened security for the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

But I thought everything was quiet during Ahmadinejad’s visit, at least according to the articles from the other day.

Oh well, have some history of the violence in Islam that al Qaeda crib their notes from.

The war in Iraq will ultimately cost U.S. taxpayers not hundreds of billions of dollars, but an astonishing $2 trillion, and perhaps more. There has been very little in the way of public conversation, even in the presidential campaigns, about the consequences of these costs, which are like a cancer inside the American economy.

On Thursday, the Joint Economic Committee, chaired by Senator Chuck Schumer, conducted a public examination of the costs of the war. The witnesses included the Nobel Prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz (who believes the overall costs of the war — not just the cost to taxpayers — will reach $3 trillion), and Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International.

How can you spot the liberal bias? 1) Contradicts what the Bush administration says, which is never a lie. 2) Is reporting something that showed up on Democracy Now! last week. 3) Involves the word ‘public.’ 4) Has a Nobel Prize-winner.

…just to find out how many Americans had been injured in Iraq.

5) Claims that Americans get injured in Iraq. Everyone knows they just die.

And taxes have never been cut during a major American war.

6) They claim that other American wars have been major in comparison to this. Don’t they understand that if we lose in Iraq, we’ll have 47 terrorists waiting for us in heaven when we die?

[update: whoops, forgot to link the source article.]

Nevertheless, the question of whether taxpayers should finance embryonic stem cell research will make an appearance on the 2008 campaign trail, said its proponents.

If taxpayers are forced to keep funding the killing of middle easterners, we should fund embryonic stem cell research without a doubt. There is no ethical killing, even in war. Killing is killing. Sometimes your hand may be forced, sometime it is you-or-them. But the killing will always hang on your soul.

The Bangladeshi death toll has now definitely passed the death toll from the September 11th World Trade Center attacks. Where’s our global war on nature?

Oh, yeah, that’s right.

And tell him to post that shit on Youtube letting the world know what U.S. media corporations don’t want us to see about the truth in Iraq.

 The film’s distributor, Magnolia Pictures, ordered the faces of dead Iraqis shown in a montage of photographs at the end of the film be blacked out.

“We were always open about letting him make the sort of film he wanted to make,” Bowles said in an interview, adding not many distribution companies would have supported the film at all.

You should be happy with your own bowl of soup kid. What, do you want to get the dickens beat out of you?

The 67-year-old director said he blames “the insurance companies” for exercising too much control over film distribution. Bowles admitted Magnolia could not insure the film if it ran the unedited photos, which were too graphic to run in mainstream newspapers or television reports

Apparently the truth about what our sons and daughters are doing in Iraq is ‘too graphic’ for us to see. That scares the fuck out of me, personally, because that means some way fucked up shit is going on over there and we’re getting the wool pulled over our eyes. But go ahead, elect someone that’s willing to bomb the fuck out of Iran or Pakistan to look good politically, to look like they’re doing something for us.

Any politician that supports warring with other countries unprovoked should be forced to enter the military as a new recruit when we go to war, or be required to send their children out there. But all throughout history the sons and daughters of the aristocracy get away with murder without ever having to get their hands bloody, and they send the proletariat out to die for their convenience and enrichment. I for one am sick of this shit, but, as I said the other day, bread and circuses.

But when the empire crumbles those bread and circuses wont provide much succor against our collapsing society or an invading army, whichever comes first.

Life expands exponentially. Anyone that hasn’t noticed that the timespans of empires has gotten shorter and shorter throughout history needs to take another look at the book.

Oh wait, you’re too busy watching reruns of Seinfeld.