tags: Iraq War
2003
February
- 2003 Feb 25
- Why Gandalf Chose Not to Remove Saddam Hussein
If you’re going to parody something, either use the source material in a completely bizarre and unrelated way, or try to stay true to the source so that all the allusions are consistent
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March
- 2003 Mar 20
- Shock and Awe
This sequel sucks.
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- Burning Out
Sometimes you just gotta curl up into a little ball and cry yourself to sleep. Then it’s easier to pull yourself together the next.
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2006
November
- 2006 Nov 25
- w’s karma
Today I heard an awful story about an Iraq War veteran. 25 years old, beautiful wife, beautiful kids. On his third tour in Iraq, he runs into an IED. Now he’s paralyzed from the neck down, raging angrily in the Spinal Cord Injury unit.
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2015
November
- 2015 Nov 16
- Aside from the Fact of Colonization…
Ignoring the fact that France colonized Syria in the first place, it's almost like France refused to help us break the Middle East, we called them cowards for refusing to sanction an unjust war, and now they're the ones suffering the consequences and have to clean up our mess.
· Read more… - 2015 Nov 19
- Blowback Part 75
The things about ISIS is that it really wasn't unforeseeable. People knew that invading Iraq was a terrible idea. People knew that torturing and murdering Iraqis was going to create new enemies. People knew that creating a power vacuum meant worse people coming into power.
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