Archive for December 30th, 2006
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
New Word: “Victory Deaths”
From The Onion:
Thousands More Dead In Continuing Iraq Victory
America marks three and a half years of winning in Iraq, and nearly 3,000 victory deaths
December 18, 2006 | Issue 42•51
Statistics released by the Department Of Defense estimated that 2,937 U.S. troops and over 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died in the ongoing American military victory in Iraq.
General […]
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Execution Before Full Prosecution
One of my dearest friends is a Kurdish-American Iraqi immigrant who lost 40 relatives to Saddam Hussein’s genocidal campaign against the Kurds, the Anfal. She was condemned by Hussein’s government for her work with foreign NGOs, and eventually evacuated to America from Iraq as a political refugee in the mid-90s. Anyway, we were talking yesterday […]
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Not the Lower 9th Ward
Where did John Edwards announce his presidential candidacy? Reading the blogs and opinion sites, it’s easy to get confused. Here’s what different people are saying:
Nancy Scola at MyDD: “the yard of Orelia Tyler’s house in the 9th Ward of New Orleans.”
My colleague Ezra Klein on his LA Weekly site: “the upper 9th Ward.”
My colleague Ben […]
