Saddam Hussein
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue--Syria edition
Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Wed, 04/18/2018 - 5:10am
WARNING: This OT is not as cheerful as Something Old usually is. The subject is war. Next week the thread will be back to its usual self. Just letting folks know so they don't get blindsided (I hate getting blindsided myself, ever since a movie that purported to be a cheerful romance between two elderly people ended up being a wrenching narrative about Alzheimer's!)
Sunday Open Thread: November 5 is Bank Transfer Day
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 11/05/2017 - 5:00am
World History this day
1605 -- Guy Fawkes was arrested.
1911 -- Italy annexed Tripoli and Cyrenaica (to help them, no doubt)
2006 -- Saddam Hussein, deposed by a US war of aggression, was sentenced to death
US History this day
Chalabi is Dead, Long Live Regime Change
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Tue, 11/03/2015 - 1:19pmAhmad Chalabi, the lying wannabe who greatlypushed & helped Bushco lie us into war is dead. He had a heart attack on Tuesday without fulfilling his ambition of becoming President/King/Shah or whatever of Iraq with the blessing and support of the U.S.,
Monsters Inc. - Starring Hillary T. Inevitable
Submitted by joe shikspack on Sun, 05/10/2015 - 4:47pmEvery now and then one of our "representative" leaders lets the mask slip and Americans get a peek at the monster behind the mask. The monsters that represent us are well-known elsewhere in the world by the people who are variously invaded, bombed, incinerated by flying death robots, disappeared, held in gulags, tortured, sanctioned, starved, treated to heaping helpings of depleted uranium, attacked with banned weapons like white phosphorus, brutalized by authoritarian dictators and puppets that our monsters support with weapons Made in America(tm). I could go on, but you get the picture.