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Posted on August 28th, 2003 § 0 comments

In “The Dean Deception” on Antiwar.com, Justin Raimondo reveals the truth about Howard Dean. Howard Dean is not the “anti-war” candidate Raimondo thought he was. In fact, it turns out he’s a double-talking imperialist in isolationist peacenik clothing.

It really surprises me that anyone who says he supported Dean would suddenly realize that Dean wasn’t the Great White Liberal Hope. Doesn’t anyone do any research anymore? As for me, if there’s any purely idealistic component to my support of Dean, it’s the hope that his campaign is able to get people interested in politics and involved in society. That, along with getting rid of the Bush Administration, would be a start.

Posted on August 27th, 2003 § 0 comments

California Roughly Same Size As Iraq:

Two hundred and seventy seven U.S. soldiers have now died in Iraq, which means that, statistically speaking, U.S. soldiers have less of a chance of dying from all causes in Iraq than citizens have of being murdered in California–which is roughly the same geographical size. The most recent statistics indicate California has more than 2,300 homicides each year, which means about 6.6 murders each day. Meanwhile, U.S. troops have been in Iraq for 160 days, which means they are incurring about 1.7, including illness and accidents, each day.

Ooh. Fuzzy math. I mean, for Chrissake, you could look at Alaska’s land area and murder rate and say that Iraq is more dangerous than Alaska. Okay, so here’s the population vs death rate calculation:

150,000 Americans in Iraq, 40,000,000 Americans in California. That works out to a .42% annual death rate for Americans in Iraq, .00575% death rate for Americans in California, or 73 times the number. Yeah, I’d rather be in California than Iraq, thank you very much!

Posted on August 27th, 2003 § 0 comments

Woah.

The latest Zogby poll shows Dean with 38% support among likely Democratic primary voters, compared to second-place Kerry with 17%. 21 points!

A poll conducted in June by Zogby showed Kerry leading Dean 25% to 22%. Trends from comparisons of these polls and a poll from February shows most of the candidates trending downward; Dean and Kerry remain the only candidates with double-digit support. Undecided voters comprise 23% of the respondents, just slightly more than the gap between Dean and Kerry.

The poll also shows a majority of those polled believe Bush will win the 2004 election. This is a number we need to work on changing.

Posted on August 27th, 2003 § 0 comments

When we finally add up all the expenses, this is going to be one whopper of a bill.

U.S. occupation coordinator Paul Bremer told the Washington Post that rebuilding Iraq’s infrastructure and kick-starting its economy would cost “several tens of billions.”

This is on top of the billion a week we’re already paying to keep the troops there.

Billion a week… billion a week. What could we pay for with a billion a week? Hey, you could solve all the states’ economic woes for a billion a week. What else could we pay for with a billion a week? Well, with a tenth of this weekly expense we could pay for AmeriCorps and its Teach for America program.

I’m going to make up some numbers based on what little we know since no one in the Pentagon seems to want to release realistic projections:

150 billion for military during war
198 billion for military during occupation
62 billion for rebuilding Iraq
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410 billion

Ouch! Well, at the end of the day, the important thing to remember is that we have dismantled a great arsenal of nuclear warhead-tipped intercontinental ballistic missles that were aimed at our major cities; in fact, they were actually ticking down to 0 when we rushed in and saved the day (and Jessica Lynch). Oh, wait, that’s not true. Hmm. No chemicals either. Or biologicals. Er. No, no Al Qaeda. Eh. Wait, so what was this all for?

Posted on August 27th, 2003 § 0 comments