Monthly Archives: May 2007

Keeping the faith, Support our troops

No Substitute Yet Found for U.S. Troop Blood

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The tagline at ScrappleFace is “News Fairly Unbalanced. We report. You Decipher.” While they are brilliant at political parody, I found nothing funny about their subject and words today and I suspect they were not going for a laugh:

As the United States marks Memorial Day, recognizing those who sacrificed their lives in service to the country, scientists worldwide admit they are likely years away from discovering a “fertilizer for freedom” as effective as the blood of American troops.

“Where liberty has sprouted around the world,” said one unnamed scientist, “we usually find American blood at its roots.”

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Iran

Grave Indifference

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While they will probably not name them, I wonder who in the Bush administration thought such a meeting today was a good idea?

Grave Indifference

From Cox&Forkum:

It’s bad enough that the Bush Administration actually thinks talking with Iran is going to stop them from killing even more of our troops in Iraq. Worse still, these talks officially end our diplomatic isolation of Iran since 1979 when the Iranians took Americans hostage. But it is flat out obscene that the talks were held on Memorial Day. There are Americans at gravesides today mourning loved ones who were cut down by Iranian-backed militias.

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