I bet the Taliban are excited.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday announced a temporary increase in the size of the U.S. Army that would boost the force by up to 22,000 troops for three years.

He told reporters at a news briefing that the increase, intended to cope with strains from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, would raise the total strength of the Army to 569,000 soldiers.

You don’t think this increase has anything to do with July being the deadliest month for troops in Afghanistan, do you? I mean, our government didn’t look at the 30 American soldiers deaths and say, “Listen, we need to increase the number of live troops going into Afghanistan in order to offset the number of dead troops going out. So how many more do you think we need to send in?”

No, that’s crazy talk. Our government wouldn’t do that. They’re just increasing the number of troops because they want to win, that’s all.

Anyways, you know what I’m hapy about? I’m happy we aren’t going to spend more money sending these troops overseas, because I don’t think our economy could handle it.

What’s that? We are going spend more money?

The Pentagon plans to absorb an initial expansion cost of $1.1 billion through fiscal year 2010, which begins October 1, without additional funding from Congress. But Gates suggested more funds could be necessary in fiscal years 2011 and 2012.

You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. Robert Gates suggesting more funds could be necessary in 2011 and 2012 is the same thing as me suggesting to a hooker it could be necessary for her to blow me.

I don’t understand this shit. We have an economic and health care crisis, which is causing both Republicans and Democrats to whine about the national debt, yet neither party says anything about spending money on these idiotic wars. Why is that?

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So a gym full of old white people get a chance to ask Congressman Mike Castle about health care. They can ask him things like: “Why isn’t there a single payer option?” or “Why is it okay for health insurance companies to drop people without warning?” or “Why is it okay for the government to run Medicare/Medicaid and the VA but not regular health care?” or  ”Why is it okay to spend trillions of dollars on killing people, but not on helping the sick?”

Do you think any of those questions were asked? Fuck no. Those old white cunts only asked about President Obama’s goddamn birth certificate.

It must be fucking nice to live in a world where you have people like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Michelle Malkin, Joe Scarborough, Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, George Will, and Peggy Noonan tell you what to believe. Maybe I should stop looking up facts and questioning authority, and start behaving like those old fucks.

But I can’t. I can’t allow myself to become ignorant like those people. I can’t blindly follow the rhetoric of hateful cock suckers. I can’t force myself to get rid of logic and reasoning.

I won’t allow myself to become a crazy white person.

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Do you think the US Military proofread this statement?

It wasn’t clear who initially captured Bergdahl, but the U.S. command in Afghanistan said he was being held by the Taliban and condemned the video as a violation of international law.

“I’m glad to see he appears unharmed, but again, this is a Taliban propaganda video,” spokeswoman Lt. Cmdr. Christine Sidenstricker said. “They are exploiting the soldier in violation of international law.”

I don’t. Because if they did they would’ve realized how hypocritical it sounded. I mean, the US Military can’t say shit about violating international law after invading two sovereign nations, torturing thousands of detainees, dropping bombs on innocent civilians, and bank rolling warlords.

But of course the US Military doesn’t think they’re being hypocritical. No. The US Military thinks it’s doing the right thing. They think they’re a beacon of truth. A pillar of virtue. The sole guardian of democracy. They believe they’re the only thing keeping this crazy world of ours together.

And they’re not alone. Millions of Americans believe their military can do no wrong. They believe US soldiers are soldiers of God, fighting the good fight against Satan and fucking Muslims.

But not me. I know how fucked up our military is. I know how they allow felons and white supremacist to enlist. I know how they allow detainees to be raped. I know how they allow the killing of innocent civilians.

So it’s hard for me to get pissed off at the Taliban for showing the world how the soldier they’ve captured during a war is still alive, is fully clothed, and is being allowed to eat; an example US Military show follow.

Update: Stay classy Fox News.

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Tags: Did we really say that, International Law, Military, Taliban, We are a nation full of retards
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What? She’s legal now.

Finally, a Senator that gets it. [Zirgar's]

South Carolina has to have one of the laziest governors ever. [Democralypse Now]

How awesome would it have been if Pat Buchanan got elected president? [Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog]

I don’t blame you if you can’t listen to the whole clip. Just make sure to listen from the 3:00 mark to the 3:40 mark. And remember, this is a grown man who believes he is his generation’s Thomas Paine. [Huffington Post]

Fuck Goldman Sachs. [Matt Taibii]

So let me get this straight, we don’t have enough money for health care, but we do have enough money for the wars? [Rebel Reports]

Max Keiser is my fucking hero. [The Smirking Chimp]

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Sorry about posting two videos in the past two days. Contrary to what the poster Waaaaaahmbulance says, I don’t live in my mother’s basement, I have an education, and I have a job - which is forcing me to do things a human being should ever have to do.

So while I labor away at a job that slowly destroyes my soul, enjoy this video of Bernie Sanders sticking it to John McCain.

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Praise Jebus for groupthink.

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Looks like Seymour Hersh was right again.

Since 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency has developed plans to dispatch small teams overseas to kill senior Qaeda terrorists, according to current and former government officials.

Mr. Panetta scuttled the program, which would have relied on paramilitary teams, shortly after the C.I.A.’s counterterrorism center recently informed him of its existence. The next day, June 24, he told the two Congressional Intelligence Committees that the plan had been hidden from lawmakers, initially at the instruction of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

Goddammit, Seymour Hersh is the fucking man. He has uncovered the My Lai Massacre, an attack on a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan by Bill Clinton, the use of false information by the Bush administration which led us to war, the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib, and now secret assassination squads controlled by Dick Cheney.

This man deserves a Hefty trashbag full of cocaine, ten hot hookers fulfilling his every sexual fantasty, and a plaque telling him how fucking badass he is. Since he’s never going to get any of those things, I’m going to declare July 14th as “Seymour Hersh’s Kick-Ass Day”, in honor of a true American with balls the size of Karl Rove’s head.

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