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Nope.  Billmon's blog was "Whiskey Bar."  For some time I thought it was clever to honor the old Berthold Brecht…
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Wasn't aware that billmon ever wrote on the "Moon of Alabama" blog. He was the best thing to happen to…
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Then there was the other "expert" that Kerry and McCain cited: Elizabeth O'Bagy.
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Not buying it.  Team Obama was too obviously caught off guard when Cameron couldn't deliver.  And his big speech on…
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The optimism alone was a giveaway that billmon wasn't the writer.  And that's if one misses that the voice, style,…
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A good enough recap -- would have been better if it left out the suspected but far from confirmed bits…
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Or observing the obvious as Glen Ford did. It was a strange speech, in which the real news was left…
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Most interesting State Dept. walkback: The US is confident that the results of the report will "reaffirm that chemical weapons…
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I seemed to have missed all this as well: Back in June when the intelligence community finally decided that Assad…
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Well they nixed that one.  And then moved on to Australia and god only knows how many other countries.
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Which Rand Paul are we supposed to support?
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Follow the money Booman -- the crazies are only earning their keep. Freedom Partners 501(c)6 - last year ... Center…
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Old habits are hard to break.  Almost a hundred years old now -- except for the few years we needed…
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Cambodia?  And when does your timetable for that disaster begin?   Let me guess.  After the US and ARVN forces…
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That's what we were told.  It wasn't.  But first we had to kill a couple million Vietnamese, 50,000 US service…
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Assume "good faith" among those movers and shakers in geopolitics that have repeatedly demonstrated the opposite leads to misinterpretations.  That's…
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Important to keep timelines straight which too many of the reports on this stuff don't do all that well.  The…
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Not sure I can get through it after the opening paragraph: To understand why that challenge may prove so destabilizing,…
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Not unaware.  But was it different from what the regime in Bahrain did in that same period?  Or Yemen?  Difference…
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Good work on correcting the record.  The mistake of whoever began circulating this photo yesterday is understandable given the inclusion…
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