Monthly Archives: August 2008

Impressive numbers

Posted on 4 August 2008 by dlhitzeman

The Long War Journal has posted its latest order of battle for the Iraqi Security Forces. For those who have not followed the LWJ’s orders of battle, they paint a different picture of what is happening in Iraq compared to what one typically finds in the MSM. […] Continue reading →

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Getting information

Posted on 2 August 2008 by dlhitzeman

I believe that the Mainstream Media, especially the video media, has a particular political agenda when it reports on the events in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the general War on Terror (war against fundamentalist Islamic totalitarianism), which agenda contends that the fight against religious totalitarianism is really a fight led by American imperialists against the misunderstood. As a result, even when reporting by the MSM is factual, this agenda taints what they report and how they report it. […] Continue reading →

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Counting every vote

Posted on 1 August 2008 by dlhitzeman

One of the fundamentals of democracy is counting every eligible vote.

Unless that vote is one of 400,000 military absentee ballots estimated not to have been counted across the country during the 2006 general election. I try to avoid conspiracy theories, but I have to wonder what 400,000 votes would have done to a variety of races in 2006. […] Continue reading →

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