Derek Scruggs

“Now, I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.”
Dick Cheney, March 16, 2003 on Meet the Press.
Five years later:
Iran leader’s Iraq visit eclipses US, Arab ties
BAGHDAD, March 2 (Reuters) - Pomp and ceremony greeted Iranian […]

I’m not a fan of Mitt Romney, but this is my candidate for simultaneously dumbest and most biased headline of the day:
Mike Huckabee Opts Not to Talk About Mitt Romney’s Mormon Faith

The only thing that can really destroy us is us. We shouldn’t do it to ourselves, and we shouldn’t use fear for political purposes—scaring people to death so they will vote for you, or scaring people to death so that we create a terror-industrial complex.

That would be Colin Powell .

Great comment at Slashdot that suggests an update to Godwin’s Law:
As a discussion addressing the topic of the Bush administration grows in size, the probability of comparing the Clinton administration activities to excuse Bush administration activities grows to one.

Given the explosive accusations by Anonio Taguba in Seymour Hersh’s story about the Abu Ghraib investigation, how come all the secondary coverage seems to be from overseas publications?

I didn’t see the debate last night (The election is 17 months away, can’t we just enjoy the summer?) But Andrew Sullivan did, and he believes he saw George Bush’s legacy on display:
He has decisively increased the religiosity of public debate - as well, of course, as its fatuousness. How can we “end poverty” in […]

Surely this means the times they are a changin’.
The invitation extended to Vice President Dick Cheney to be the commencement speaker at Brigham Young University has set off a rare, continuing protest at the Mormon university, one of the nation’s most conservative.

Over the last couple years I’ve written (I think) four letters to the editors of the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News. Most recently I wrote one last week in response to this letter. Today they printed it. That makes three out of the four that have made it to publication. Woo hoo!
As an aside, […]

Over three years ago, just before the start of the Iraq war, the Onion nailed it:
Is our arrogance and hubris so great that we actually believe that a U.S. provisional military regime will be welcomed with open arms by the Iraqi people? Democracy cannot possibly thrive under coercion. To take over a country and impose […]

Today is my 38th birthday, but that’s not so important. This is:

Our dear Worldly Friends, 27 years passed form the Islamic revolution in Iran. It is 27 years now that the execution of homosexuals in Iran has been legal. It is 27 years now that women in Iran have been considered secondary citizens. It is […]