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Welp, today is Day Two of our drive to fix Iraq by, you know, setting packs of hungry bears and pumas loose in Baghdad. Above: Progress in Baghdad As you can see, we’ve managed to hold and clear an area not far from Haifa Street, as well as several markets and I think a stray […]

Via bear-guided messenger bear-puma comes a final reminder from Doodle Bean: Where: People’s Republik, 876 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02139, (617) 492-8632 When: Sunday, April 27, 2008, 5 pm to whenever Above: Take the Red Line to Carnal Request

Here’s Mark Noonan at Blogs For Bush, once again getting all grandiose about the measurable and not-at-all-number-juggled evidence of progress in Iraq: Remember back in January where the President was supposedly on the political ropes and would shortly be forced to begin withdrawing from Iraq? “Lame Duck” didn’t even begin to describe President Bush as […]

ABOVE: Svelte heart-throb Kevin Dujan Shorter Kevin Dujan, Kevin Dujan and/or Kevin Dujan,1 Hillbuzz: People Magazine Done2 Lost Its Mind Another way that liberals discriminate against white people is by putting a big fat ugly black woman on a list of the world’s most beautiful people. Speaking of ugly black women, there’s always Michelle Obama […]

Fr33d0m is sooooooo keeeeewwwwl: The Americans imposed order a few months ago by recruiting and paying local men to turn in the names of suspected jihadists. Similar armed groups have popped up all around the city. Each has its own bizarre rules; some threaten to kill women who don’t wear veils in public. The shop […]

When Mike Kinsley isn’t being an annoying contrarian-for-the-sake-of-contrarianism, he can be pretty good. This is one of his better efforts: Imagine that you had been told in 2003 that when George W. Bush finished his second term, dozens of American soldiers and hundreds of Iraqis would be dying violently every month; that a major American […]

Marc Lynch writes: I was surprised at the consensus on our panel yesterday… about where Iraq was heading: towards a warlord state, along a Basra model, with power devolved to local militias, gangs, tribes, and power-brokers, with a purely nominal central state. I was talking to a friend about this the other day. He understandably […]

Morons on Parade So, whether due to our fearless leader’s cluelessness or lefty black ops, Acepalooza almost collapsed before it began. However, we’re all now successfully drunk and posting like the losers we are, so if you have any comments for us, post away. As it happens, we found ourselves perambulating down Boylston Street at […]

Yglesias: We learn in this report that a whopping 6 percent of Iraqis have “a great deal” of confidence in US and British forces. An additional 12 percent have “quite a lot.” 30 Percent say they have “not very much.” And 52 percent say “none at all.” The Iraqi police, the Iraqi army, local political […]

The mad Dr. Strangekraut Lovehammer declares, “Mein Dubya! I can surge!” We should have given up on Nouri al-Maliki long ago and begun to work with other parties in the Iraqi parliament to bring down the government, yielding either a new coalition of less sectarian parties or, as Pollack has suggested, new elections. The choice […]