E-Lho

Blog Round Up: Politics, Iraq, and the Olympics

by E-Lho  ::  Filed Under Daily Briefing  ::  April 9th, 2008 @ 8:00 pm EST

A couple threads seem to be dominating the blog-o-sphere today. Here’s what I’ve been reading.

On Iraq
Blue Texan at Firedoglake shows Gen. Petraeus yielding a swift blow to an over-used phrase in GOP Iraq talk yesterday: “We haven’t turned any corners. We haven’t seen any lights at the end of the tunnel.”

Hannes Artens at the Agonist weighs in on the intricate relationship between Iraq and Iran (and the U.S.)…and the inability of ongoing U.S. war discourse to grasp these intricacies.

Trying to understand on-going debates surrounding McCain’s stance on a long-term U.S. presence in Iraq, Bill Scher at the HuffPo asks the question “Occupying Iraq is just like occupying…Alabama?”

Over at Kos, there are rumors a timetable for winning Iraq…perhaps a bit longer the word “reasonable” entails.

On the Olympic Torch
As the Olympic torch took a few detours on its route through San Francisco today, John Stewart’s Daily Show coverage of the torch relay and its historic origins got some attention from Hold Fast.

But on a more serious note, Hold Fast praises the EU for continuing “to be a moral leader on Tibet and the Olympics”

And something I couldn’t resist posting–a bit of entertainment stemming from the success of Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope

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