Slog - Comments on Happy "Last Throes" Day http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day Two years ago today Dick Cheney said... I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time. But I think the level of activity that we see today, from a military standpoint, I think will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency. Of course Dick did attach an artificial timeline to those last throes--he said we were in them, but didn't say how long they would go on. That was classified. Yes, yes: DAMF.... Copyright 2008 Wed, 30 May 2007 09:28:26 -0800 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:56:35 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe He says think a lot.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730834 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730834 News Wed, 30 May 2007 09:45:42 -0800 Comment by Gomez Man, according to Cheney, the insurgency has been in their last throes for YEARS. Those are some long throes.

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730839 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730839 News Wed, 30 May 2007 09:50:13 -0800 Comment by Boomer in NYC http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=12237

If you don't link it, you don't mean it.

]]> Boomer in NYC http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730858 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730858 News Wed, 30 May 2007 10:04:02 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe @3

Oh SNAP!

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730869 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730869 News Wed, 30 May 2007 10:12:27 -0800 Comment by monkey Well hell, what say we throw up the old "mission accomplished" sign, do a few rails and clear some brush back at the ranch!

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730874 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730874 News Wed, 30 May 2007 10:15:04 -0800 Comment by Gabriel Boomer, as much as we all dislike the fact that Dan was for the war in late 2002 and early 2003, that's much different than the delusion Cheney was expressing in the summer of 2005, when the writing had long been on the wall that the place was a disaster.

]]> Gabriel http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730881 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730881 News Wed, 30 May 2007 10:23:11 -0800 Comment by Not Coming This Year Fair is fair...

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=22626

]]> Not Coming This Year http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730884 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730884 News Wed, 30 May 2007 10:31:17 -0800 Comment by war pigs cheney just neglected to mention that he meant "throws" (not throes) and the iraqis are dan marino in his prime... or something. don't be so hard on him.

in reality however, this war has worked out quite nicely for cheney and his halliburton buddies, has it not? almost like they wanted the war to drag on so they could keep soldiers watching over that precious, precious oil for decades to come in the name of "keeping the peace" during the civil war that will continue for the foreseeable future. impeachment is too good for these criminals. if they were the leaders of some other country (3rd world at least) they would have been dragged before the Hague already.

]]> war pigs http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730885 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730885 News Wed, 30 May 2007 10:31:17 -0800 Comment by Boomer in NYC We all dislike the fact, Gabriel--but there's no disputing it is a fact. And "DAMF" is a very Catholic school, passive-aggressive way of addressing it. And that just ain't gonna fly.

]]> Boomer in NYC http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730913 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c730913 News Wed, 30 May 2007 10:57:58 -0800 Comment by Chris It's not passive aggressive. Anything at all Dan says about Iraq is subject to complete condemnation by a small percentage of people who just will not allow those who supported the war at any time to criticize it in any way, ever, because it undermines their authority as people who knew better all along, or some bullshit. "DAMF" merely acknowledges those blind idiots and dismisses them, because they ought to be dismissed. Nobody is disallowed from changing their fucking mind in this country, especially when they were clearly wrong to begin with.

]]> Chris http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c731651 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c731651 News Thu, 31 May 2007 01:12:45 -0800 Comment by Tuggers It's not about the right to change one's "fucking" mind, Chris--or clutching at moral authority; Dan wasn't so much advocating the war as raging, insanely, against those who opposed it.

I'm sure Dan is grateful for the rabid fans who are willing to ignore his stupidity. I'm also sure their support does nothing to diminish the embarrassment and guilt. He wrote the words, he made the choice, and DAMF seems an attempt to diminish and control the whole sorry affair. This may be how Dan wants to live with this, but Dan doesn't get to choose how the rest of us view it.

]]> Tuggers http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c731723 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c731723 News Thu, 31 May 2007 06:30:34 -0800 Comment by Chris Sorry you're so persecuted.

]]> Chris http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c732475 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/happy_last_throes_day#c732475 News Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:56:35 -0800