Torture Nation

They can crow all they like, but we know how this so-called "confession" was obtained....

That's right... Panty power.

Have we learned nothing from that awful day when our President read a book to a goat while our Jewish neocon masters danced in the streets? How long can ordinary Americans stand silent while brave souls like Sean Penn call for Chimpeachment and are carted off to airless cells at Gitmo, doomed to wear the Frilly Panties of Fascism on their bowed heads for our sins.

Not in our names!

Paging Andrew Sullivan:

Read TNR's accounting. It is as I predicted: honorable and, except for one small inaccuracy, it checks out. All the aspects aggressively challenged by the usual propaganda organs have been verified and corroborated. The military is now conducting its own investigation. Given the record of such formal investigations, I'm not as confident in the Pentagon as I am in TNR. Can we now expect apologies from the people who smeared and maligned the magazine and its soldier-reporter? I doubt it. The attackers are not the kind to acknowledge their own errors.

As that panty flinging torture-lover Glenn Reynolds is wont to say, "Indeed"....

Update: pdfs appear to be gone from Drudge's site. Hot Air has fairly extensive excerpts. So several possibilities exist:

1. The docs were not genuine in the first place.
2. Technical problems.
3. They were pulled because Drudge was not authorized to have them.

Stay tuned. The power of the panties will no doubt sort this all out in good time....

Worst "pirates" ever?

'I'm Captain Jack Sparrow' ...

Pedalo.

Latest Presidential Straw Poll

...from your troops in Iraq. This result was found as graffiti on a porta potty wall, so some may challenge the accuracy of the results.

Several candidates were named, along with complex instructions ("Vote"). Votes were in the form of hash marks under each candidate's name.

Results:

Clinton: 3 (Will assume Hillary)
Obama: 16
Giuliani: 0
Thompson: 0
Bush part 3: 15

Someone added Nader to the list, he got one vote.

Conspicuously absent: John McCain. Less so: Ron Paul, who no one ever heard of.

Disclaimer: I had nothing to do with this whatsoever, and didn't even vote. Just relating what I saw.

Re: Pondering Victory

With all the talk of victory or "the end" it seems like we should take stock.

Greyhawk has plenty of good observations about what the follow on events were and ponders what follows this war.

First I submit we have been involved with this war since 1979. The seizure of the embassy in Tehran is, in my view, a good place to mark the beginning of the war with radical Islam. Some observers will reject this analysis because of the Sunni/Shia difference between Iran and Al Qaeda. This simplifies the nature of the difference and the view the theological justification for their actions.

Iraq will slowly fade from the headlines; there will not even be an official armistice a la the end of the Korean War. We will have enduring contingency operating bases with a mixture of combat, sustainment, and training troops.

Al Qaeda will return to the no-man's land between Afghanistan and Pakistan. They will seek to strike closer to home in both the United States and Europe. Iran through the IRGC and Qods Force will continue to make trouble in the region and may try to bring the fight home.

There will be no victory parades down main street; no random kissing of women in Times Square. Success here contains the enemy, but real victory will mean breaking the ideology.

Looming Cultural Insensitivity Alert!!!!

There's a joke in here somewhere, people....

Activists exasperated at the failure of diplomacy to apply pressure on Burma's military regime are resorting to a new means of protest against the regime's recent crackdown: sending female underwear to Burmese embassies.

Embassies in the UK, Thailand, Australia and Singapore have all been targeted by the "Panties for Peace" campaign, co-ordinated by an activist group based in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Correct the blog princess if she's wrong but didn't we get in trouble for employing similar tactics not too long ago? I sense insensitivity to the indigenous cultural practices of the Other and brother let me tell you; once you start down that path it's just one more treacherous step before you find yourself on the otter slide to Hell:

After all, any serious student of history must ask... does life really possess any meaning once we realize Judy Miller has lost the right to tip off terrorism suspects before an impending FBI raid in the name of journalistic freedom? Have we learned nothing from that awful day when our President read a book to a goat while our Jewish neocon masters danced in the streets? How long can ordinary Americans stand silent while brave souls like Sean Penn call for Chimpeachment and are carted off to airless cells at Gitmo, doomed to wear the Frilly Panties of Fascism on their bowed heads for our sins.

Not in our names!

On the positive side, the Guardian article does contain this rather refreshing admission:

"Condemnation by the United Nations and governments around the world have had no impact on the Burmese regime.

Where, O where is the Junior Senator from Massachusetts when we need him? It's a sad day when the stern finger wagging of the International Community is openly admitted to have less admonitory effect than a good, rousing display of panty-flinging:

A message on the activists' website reads: "This is your chance to use your Panty Power to take away the power from the SPDC. You can post, deliver or fling your panties at the closest Burmese Embassy any day from today. Send early, send often."

So Women of the World, Unite! Finally we have a safe, sane, but above all effective alternative to the use of primitive warmongering military force constantly urged on us by the Patriarchal Hegemony.

Panties for Peace!!!!