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Josh Mull commented on the diary post War Crimes in Afghanistan? Time To Investigate by Josh Mull.
I’m not asking for Issa’s personal opinion or his party platform, I’m asking him to do his job and investigate.
Do you have a better suggestion for seeking answers, or you just wanted to make your feelings known about Issa?
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Josh Mull commented on the diary post War Crimes in Afghanistan? Time To Investigate by Josh Mull.
Again, see both pieces. From the second… “For example, I still have a hard time believing that the Taliban would go to the expense and trouble of lining every vertical and horizontal surface with explosives in a town they had already spent a lot of money to occupy without violence. It’s just so… wasteful, and [...]
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Josh Mull commented on the diary post War Crimes in Afghanistan? Time To Investigate by Josh Mull.
Click through and read Joshua Foust’s piece(s) for the complete argument laid out.
http://www.registan.net/index.php/2011/01/13/the-unforgivable-horror-of-village-razing/
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Josh Mull wrote a new diary post: War Crimes in Afghanistan? Time To Investigate
I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on Firedoglake or at Rethink Afghanistan . The views expressed here are my own. A few weeks ago, Rep. Darrell Issa, the new Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the House GOP’s self proclaimed “chief watchdog,” released his agenda [...] -
Josh Mull commented on the diary post Watercooler – What Non-Liberal News Sources Do You Read? by Bill Egnor.
Most everything I read gets saved in a searchable public feed.
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/04586273810504319061/state/com.google/starred
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/ultimatejosh?c=CJbTn_-Au6YC
Makes it easier to find stuff later.
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Josh Mull commented on the diary post Conservatives Turn Against Afghanistan War, Max Boot Goes Insane by Josh Mull.
That’s not at all what the polls are saying, the concerns are over cost, death toll, etc. Nothing about Obama.
However, even if it were true that this was all cynical politicking, I ask…so? We’re not suggesting continuing a brutal, ten year, trillion dollar war just because the Republicans hurt our feelings, are we?
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Josh Mull commented on the diary post Conservatives Turn Against Afghanistan War, Max Boot Goes Insane by Josh Mull.
OK, so maybe he’s been insane for a while now. Somebody get him another iced latte! ;)
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Josh Mull wrote a new diary post: Conservatives Turn Against Afghanistan War, Max Boot Goes Insane
I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on Firedoglake or at Rethink Afghanistan . The views expressed below are my own. Something very interesting has been happening with conservatives lately. They’re turning against the war in Afghanistan. Sure, the majority of Americans have been opposed to the war for some time [...]
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Josh Mull wrote a new diary post: Axis of Agreement Watch: Joe Klein’s “Lucky” Strategy
Last month we had the phony Afghanistan strategy review in Washington, and thanks to Politico, we got a shiny new buzzword: The “Progressive-Realist-Centrist Axis of Agreement”. It’s a fancypants way of saying “conventional wisdom”, roughly synonymous with the “Establishment” or Digby’s “Village ”. Whatever the out-of-touch think tankers, journalists, and politicians in DC happen to think this [...] -
Josh Mull wrote a new diary post: Who Becomes a Target in the Infowar?
I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on Firedoglake or at Rethink Afghanistan . The views expressed below are my own. Last week I ranted about the way many Wikileaks’ supporters were framing their work as Information Warfare, “digital bomb-throwing”, and so on. My point was that by playing into the semantic [...]
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Josh Mull wrote a new diary post: Review This: Afghan War Collapses
As we discussed previously , the Obama administration’s Afghanistan Strategy Review is basically an act of political theater, a demonstration of Obama walking back his massive overcommitment to occupying Afghanistan. Today’s speech confirmed that. Obama put a happy face (progress!) on the war, which is now an unmitigated disaster though you’d never guess that from the speech , and [...] -
Josh Mull wrote a new diary post: The Politics of (Ending) the Afghanistan War
We understand that when it comes to making policy around, say, health care, it’s a show. But War? War we have trouble with. According to what we the mainstream media tells us, the image that most Americans get of war, the whole thing just appears confusing and frustrating. Now there’s even more heavy stuff going [...] -
Josh Mull commented on the diary post Journalism is not an Attack, Wikileaks is not Warfare by Josh Mull.
I agree. For all the hype around Wikileaks, we seemed to have missed huge victories for transparency (Fed audit, CA execution drugs) that were accomplished through activism, organizing, and political pressure. In that same vein, I think Wikileaks’ radical transparency is misplaced. The USG has plenty of levers for transparency and accountability, FOIA and so [...]
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Josh Mull wrote a new diary post: Journalism is not an Attack, Wikileaks is not Warfare
I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on Firedoglake or at Rethink Afghanistan . The views expressed below are my own. Wikileaks is under attack! Journalists and politicians are calling for the criminalization of Wikileaks , or worse, the assassination of its members. The US government is coercing companies into blocking access to Wikileaks, [...]
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Josh Mull commented on the diary post Vote Now! Polls Close At 11:59 pm Pacific! by themalcontent.
1. Elizabeth Edwards
2. Alan Grayson
3. Jim Webb
4. Russ Feingold
5. Howard Dean
6. Elizabeth Warren
7. Raul Grijalva
8. Darcy Burner
9. Dennis Kucinich
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Josh Mull commented on the diary post Make the Tea Party Take This Pledge… by michaelindc20001.
I’m OK with working with the Tea Party to compromise on policy (if they’re willing to work with us, that is) but if we’re asking for a pledge, how about they just renounce violence? Curb stomping, “2nd amendment remedies”, all of it.
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Josh Mull wrote a new diary post: Afghanistan: No Withdrawal, No Reconciliation
I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on Firedoglake or at Rethink Afghanistan . The views expressed below are my own. Back in the summer of 2007, there was a debate in the Democratic presidential primaries over whether or not the United States ought to negotiate without preconditions with our enemies. [...]
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Josh Mull commented on the diary post President Bush and Selection Points for Waterboarding by joshuaclark.
I think we’re actually in agreement. I took the post more as a cold report, this is what’s happening, that sort of thing. I didn’t catch it as an express statement that torture is legal. Absolutely, it needs to be prosecuted.
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Josh Mull commented on the diary post President Bush and Selection Points for waterboarding by joshuaclark.
Excellent post. What do you think of Jon Stewart’s interview with Rachel Maddow (http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/12/5452832-the-maddowstewart-interview-uncut) and the campaign against using the term “war criminal” it seems to have sparked in the lefty blogosphere?
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Josh Mull commented on the diary post What is Anarchism? (Part 1) by veganrevolution.
Great post. I would quibble with your definition of Anarchism as “True Freedom.” I think the concept of freedom is more nuanced, something that exists in degrees and perceptions, not in truth or purity. For instance, American freedom is threatened by prohibition and our system of incarceration, but we’re still free enough to criticize these [...]
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