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by Lee — Friday, 12/12/08, 10:06 pm

Men’s Journal looks into the frazzled mind of CNN’s Iraq reporter Michael Ware, who’s been in Iraq covering the war for so long, he’s now an Iraqi citizen. I’m always impressed by Ware, but he has truly sacrificed his sanity to be so close to such a horrific human tragedy.

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  1. 1

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 12/12/08 at 10:09 pm

    Humanity owes much to journalists and photographers who risk their lives to inform the rest of us about the realities of war, thereby stripping from battle the false patina of glory that politicians wrap around the deliberate mass killing of human beings.

    The response of the Bush Pentagon to these brave men and women was to kill as many journalists in Iraq as they could.

  2. 2

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 12/12/08 at 10:19 pm

    In 2005, The Nation published an article titled “Shooting the Messenger” cataloging numerous instances of U.S. troops targeting — and killing — journalists.

    http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050307/scahill

  3. 3

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 12/12/08 at 10:33 pm

    When journalist Ernie Pyle was killed in World War II, all of America mourned. According to Reporters Without Borders, 222 journalists and media assistants have been killed in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in 2003. See http://www.rsf.org/special_iraq_en.php3

    Yes, we won the election, but before you start feeling charitable toward our defeated Republican opponents, remember who cheered the killings of these journalists, the torturing of innocent Iraq civilians at Abu Ghraib, and the atrocities committed by U.S. soldiers in Iraq — and labeled as “traitors” anyone who criticized the perpetrators of these crimes. Kicking the criminal gang known as the GOP out of power was an important step toward rehabilitating our country, but we have yet to deal with these neo-Nazi fucks at the individual level.

    No amnesty! No forgiveness! No forgetting! That would be just as criminal as pretending the Holocaust never occurred.

    Those goat dick suckers may run, but let’s make sure they can’t hide.

  4. 4

    Richard Pope spews:

    Friday, 12/12/08 at 10:43 pm

    DAVID IRONS WINS THE LOTTERY!

    Looks like David Irons won the drawing for first position on the ballot in the King County Elections Director contest. Here are the candidates who filed in the three day special election filing period that just ended today for this newly created position. I am thinking they are listed in ballot drawing order, because this certainly was not the order in which they filed:

    David Irons
    300 QUEEN ANNE AVE N #620
    SEATTLE, WA 98109
    david@ironsforelections.com
    (425) 443-6603

    Sherril Huff
    10206 66TH AVE S
    SEATTLE, WA 98178

    Julie Kempf
    PO BOX 30111
    SEATTLE, WA 98113

    Bill Anderson
    4604 47TH ST SE
    AUBURN, WA 98092
    wlanderson@qwest.net
    (253) 887-7741

    Christopher Clifford
    2721 TALBOT RD S
    RENTON, WA 98055
    chrisclifford@comcast.net
    (425) 255-0447

    Pam Roach
    PO BOX 682
    AUBURN, WA 98071
    pamroach@aol.com
    (253) 735-4210

    http://your.kingcounty.gov/ele.....038;iPid=0

  5. 5

    Lee spews:

    Friday, 12/12/08 at 11:14 pm

    So where’s Osgood? Did I miss something? Did he miss something?

  6. 6

    slingshot spews:

    Friday, 12/12/08 at 11:20 pm

    Maybe Iraq has universal health care. Did you even consider that before impuning this man’s credentials?

  7. 7

    Richard Pope spews:

    Friday, 12/12/08 at 11:41 pm

    Lee @ 5

    Jason Osgood endorsed Sherril Huff earlier this week, when she moved to King County (or at least registered to vote here) and announced that she would run to keep her existing position.

  8. 8

    Lee spews:

    Friday, 12/12/08 at 11:43 pm

    @7
    Got it. Thanks. Have been busy this week. :)

  9. 9

    manoftruth spews:

    Friday, 12/12/08 at 11:52 pm

    you know rabbit, you’re fucking amazing. you’re camparing the gop to the nazis, so i guess i can say the jews are gangster bankers in new york raping the federal reserve and sending the money to tel aviv. is that the arguement you want to have?

  10. 10

    proud leftist spews:

    Friday, 12/12/08 at 11:53 pm

    Rabbit,
    Do you have a subscription to The Nation? I think that rag is about as objective as it gets. I have gifted The Nation subscriptions to many. Curiously, when I read the magazine in public, I have heard casual passersby accusing me of such atrocities as being–Lord help us–a socialist. Lord, please forgive those who know not what they do.

  11. 11

    proud leftist spews:

    Saturday, 12/13/08 at 12:09 am

    manoftruth
    I understand that you want to be both a man and have some acquaintance with truth. Your moniker says that. (Look up “moniker” in the dictionary.) Let me tell you, you miserable piece of shit, you have not the slightest familiarity with what it means to be either a man or a person acquainted with the truth. Idiocy has no rewards, you imbecile.

  12. 12

    My Left Foot spews:

    Saturday, 12/13/08 at 12:14 am

    11:

    Now you did it. manoftruthiness is now going to be using “the Google” all night to look up the big words you used.

    That sound we just heard was his head exploding when he read, though his beer soaked eyes, the meaning of the word “imbecile”.

  13. 13

    My Left Foot spews:

    Saturday, 12/13/08 at 12:18 am

    Lee,

    To truly know war is not something I would wish on any human being. Most of us are only acquainted with its horrors. Mr. Ware truly knows and, it occurs to me, is lost when it comes to understanding what to do with this knowledge.

    I salute his perseverance, I honor his work and service, I wish him well in his search for the answer and I hope that it eludes him not one moment longer.

  14. 14

    proud leftist spews:

    Saturday, 12/13/08 at 12:30 am

    12
    Shit. I’m not Catholic, but I always liked the idea of Indulgences–the idea that we could buy our way into heaven (assuming that heaven might exist). Of course, then you think about who might buy their way into heaven, and you think about GWB, Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, and you start thinking about whether that’s a place you want to be. Whatever.

  15. 15

    manoftruth spews:

    Saturday, 12/13/08 at 12:36 am

    proud leftist, and you’re pissed why? because i wouldnt let rabbitt call the gop nazis? i guess we dont have a right to an opinion, just like they do to us in the msm

  16. 16

    Real American spews:

    Saturday, 12/13/08 at 1:16 am

    manoflies

    i guess we dont have a right to an opinion, just like they do to us in the msm

    Is the “msm” treating you badly? You should write a letter to the editor!

  17. 17

    Mr. Cynical spews:

    Saturday, 12/13/08 at 10:17 am

    Obama already mislead the Public..and he hasn’t even taken office yet!
    What a Chicago GOON!
    So much for O-blah-blah’s Campaign rhetoric about TRANSPARENCY in Government.
    Just another corrupt Chicago GOON:

    FOXNews.com

    Saturday, December 13, 2008

    President-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff had talks with Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s administration about potential candidates to fill Obama’s former Senate seat , the Chicago Tribune reported.

    The newspaper notes that the revelation does not indicate that Rahm Emanuel was involved in any illegal deal-making for the seat — the focus of the Blagojevich criminal investigation — but if true, it again raises a question that Obama has deflected this week: whether anyone on his staff had contact with Blagojevich about his choice for the Senate seat.

    Click here to read the Chicago Tribune story.

    Communications between Emanuel and the Blagojevich administration were captured on court-approved wiretaps, a source confirmed for the newspaper.

    Another source told the newspaper that contact between the Obama camp and the governor’s administration over the Senate seat began the Saturday before the Nov. 4 election, when Emanuel called the cell phone of Blagojevich’s chief of staff, John Harris.

    Emanuel delivered a list of “acceptable” candidates, the source told the newspaper. The list named Obama adviser Valerie Jarrert, Illinois Veterans Affairs Director Tammy Duckworth, state Comptroller Dan Hynes and U.S. Rep Jan Schakowsky of Chicago, the source told the Tribune.

    After the election, Emanuel called Harris back to add the name of Democratic Attorney General Lisa Madigan to the approved list, the source said.

    Madigan on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to remove Blagojevich from office, arguing that he can no longer fulfill the duties of office.

    This story will cripple Obama as it plays out.
    People are already tired of Obama’s ACT…Joe Cool, excellent speaker……..LYING BASTARD.
    It’s Obama and his buddies Wright, Flager, Ayers, Rezko and now Bla-Sonofabitch or whatever his name is.

    Rahm Emmanual has already let his temper show when he shoved away a reporters tape recorder. BAD MOVE. The Press will now be mercilous towards him.
    What a mess.
    Obama will be brutalized for misleading the Public about his staff’s involvement re: his Senate Seat. And rightfully so.

  18. 18

    manoftruth spews:

    Saturday, 12/13/08 at 2:09 pm

    first of all, rahm emanuel has dual us-israeli citizenship and he fought for israel in the first gulf war, and he was born in israel, so to what country do you think his loyalty lies with?

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