hell’s handmaiden

Uncommon Stupidity on Iraq: All I can say is wow. He accuses Senator Webb of playing the Marine card and then responds by…playing the Marine card.
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Secondly, how idiotic can you get when you suggest invading other countries just so we can have an effective fighting force?

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Friendly Atheist also points out that Jacksonville, Florida spent $101,000 of taxpayer money to pay for a prayer meeting.

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Well, before beginning that project, read Friendly Atheist’s offering of 18 Unconvincing Arguments for God.

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There has been a recent flurry of acrimony– let’s call it ‘debate’– over militant atheism, angry atheism, and outspoken atheism, with one side holding the position that ‘religion is ridiculous’, the other claiming ‘uh-uh… its not’, and voices at various points between arguing for various degrees of moderation.

It ought to be obvious, from the title of this blog, where I stand. Consequently, I find the word ‘tolerance’ being thrown at me rather a lot. I am intolerant, the charge goes.

Not true.

The best thing that a person can do to make sense of the middle east, and Bush’s role in it, is read Juan Cole, daily.
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Actually, it is unclear what “taking the fight to the enemy” means in Bush’s ill-conceived “war on terror.” … Bush hasn’t “carried the fight to the enemy” but has rather dishonored the 9/11 dead by using their killings as a pretext to carry out his own preconceived and Ahab-like plans to “take out” Saddam Hussein. Nothing could be better calculated to increase the threat of terrorism against the United States than an attempt militarily to occupy Iraq, with all the repression and torture it has entailed.