The Liberal Avenger: Finally - Some Good News from The Pentagon

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"At times, conservatives have even trod into arguing in favor of a war ethos (see, for instance the popular bumper sticker: "War Has Never Solved Anything, Except for Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism"); at other times -- as in all the talk about "shock and awe" in the Iraq invasion -- they have even suggested there is a kind of beauty to violence, especially in the service of the imposition of American will. "

"Let's do the sign of the cross. It'll make us feel real boss."

- Skafish

"Look, can we all at least agree on one thing -- if the 'I didn't do it' administration is re-coronated, that come November 3, EVERYTHING IS THEIR FUCKING FAULT."

"Arbolist... Look up the word. I don't now, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees."

- George W. Bush, USA Today, 08/21/2001

"There are no mirrors in Bush's church."

- Tim Appelo, Seattle Weekly, 12/08/2004

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends."

- Maya Angelou

"To those who consider the war a mistake but still fear the consequences of military withdrawal, we ask these questions: when will enough be enough? If not now, when?"

- An Appeal to Global Conscience (via j a c k *)

"How much productivity has been wasted, not reducing our dependence on oil, but to entice us to buy more that is made with, and which consumes for its continuance - oil. It would be as if a man who had been poisoned, rather than reaching for the emetic, reaches for another dose of the poison."

- Stirling Newberry, So We Want a Revolution, 03/18/2005


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Friday, February 18, 2005

Finally - Some Good News from The Pentagon

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Ecstasy trials for combat stress

"American soldiers traumatised by fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are to be offered the drug ecstasy to help free them of flashbacks and recurring nightmares."

Allright, gang. Say it out loud:

Military Ecstasy.

This is going to be some powerful fucking shit. The black market for military grade MDMA is going to be crazy. Psychedelics from secret government laboratories always have an extra-special edge to them.

If I were in charge of this program, I'd stamp the tablets with the #72 for the 72 virgins waiting for me in Paradise. "Want to go to Paradise, man? Here, take this."

I wonder to what extent Ecstasy exists on the black market amongst the troops in Iraq. I would imagine that it is fairly common amongst the English troops, and through them it probably makes its way into the other coalition forces. The Brits eat E like candy. On a Friday night in London if you're not on E you're on your own - just you and pregnant women.

I'm not sure that if I was in the service and stuck in Iraq if I would want to take Ecstasy, but I sure as hell would want to be on some sort of drug. Ether, perhaps. The insurgents can't scare you if you can't feel your face.

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