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I still strongly believe that no blogger is obligated to write about any topic, but I just find it interesting that web personalities who one would think would be big Michael Moore fans are collectively shrugging their shoulders over this. …

Nothing (so far) at Eschaton, Daily Kos, James Wolcott, Josh Marshall, Kevin Drum, Matthew Yglesias, Tapped, The Left Coaster…

– National Review blogger Jim Geraghty on Tuesday (one of three long posts on Moore’s Oscar snub)

[zip, zilch, nada]

– blogger Jim Geraghty today (as of 8:00 pm Central) on America’s deadliest day yet in Iraq

Not so much as a “we mourn the fallen” from Glenn Reynolds, either, though he does have some “good news” from Iraq, so he’s apparently still aware the place exists. Ditto Andrew Sullivan, Jeff Jarvis, and Roger L. Simon (these were the only ones I checked, but I think they’ll suffice to establish a pattern). Guess Fred Reed is right:

No one in the mysteriously named “elite” gives a damn about some kid from a town in Tennessee that has one gas station and a beer hall with a stuffed buck’s head. Such a kid is a redneck at best, pretty much from another planet, and certainly not someone you would let your daughter date. … Thank God for throwaway people.

Ashcroft-Gonzales. Powell-Rice.  Every time they get worse.  But the Bushies have their work cut out for them if they try to find a worse replacement (as is their wont) for the guy Tommy Franks called "…the f***ing stupidest guy on the face of the earth…"

Managing Editor Eric Garris informs me that our monthly Amazon.com revenues have recently doubled. The following books are our top sellers:

Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror

Bush’s Secret World: Religion, Big Business and Hidden Networks

Terror Enigma: 9/11 and the Israeli Connection

The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic

Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney’s New World Order

Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil

Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror

A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies

Take the Rich Off Welfare

Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance

Of course, you can help us out at no additional expense to yourself every time you buy anything – books, CDs, movies, whatever – from Amazon.com. Here’s how:

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Now, hit “Add to your shopping cart,” and a part of that sale will help keep Antiwar.com alive. It’s that simple!!!

As Yankeedoodle would say, Bring ’em on:

• Iraq helicopter crash “kills 31 U.S. troops”
• US soldier killed in ambush north of Baghdad
• Four U.S. Marines Killed in Action in Iraq

American helicopter crash kills as many as 30:

CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reports as many as 30 are dead in the crash of the CH-53E "Super Stallion" helicopter. All aboard were killed. Military officials are not sure yet whether the chopper was shot down or crashed for some other reason.

The crash took place Wednesday morning near the town of Rutbah, 220 miles west of Baghdad in the al Anbar province, while the aircraft was transporting 1st Marine Division forces conducting "security operations," the U.S. military said in a statement.

Arthur Silber has a petition appeal from Barbara Boxer. As Arthur says:

Just do it. It would be awfully nice finally to have someone in this administration held accountable for something, for God’s sake. And perhaps if Boxer has several hundred thousand signatures on her petition, a few other Democrats will manage to remember where they left their spines.

It shouldn’t at this point, but it nevertheless astounds me that Boxer is portrayed as the villainess in this business – simply because she’s asking the questions and raising the issues that every single American over the age of two ought to be asking. So give her some support. She’s doing the hard and absolutely necessary part, and only being vilified for it.

For those spineless Democrats who’ve let Boxer take all the heat, James Wolcott has this to say:

Why is Barbara Boxer out there all alone asking the tough questions about Condi Rice’s snail trail of deceit and fearmongering? She has the audacity to act as if the Senate actually has some traditional advise-and-consent role to play and for her pains is caricatured as a shrieking harridan on Saturday Night Live and a witch on talk radio. Boxer was terrific today on CNN, refusing to back down and reiterating her questions and objections regarding Rice with emphatic clarity while Sen Lugar mumble-mumbled some pathetic excuse-making about how Rice didn’t deliberately mislead the country re Iraq’s WMDs, she just did the best she could under the circumstances. Look, Biden and the rest of you Democratic punk-asses–get behind Boxer or get lost. She shouldn’t be up there on the parapet alone, not with this wrecking crew trying to gear us up for war on Iran.

So, OK, maybe you don’t agree with Boxer on everything, or many things or even a few. But, surely you agree that Rice should be held accountable for propagating the lies that the Bush Administration hawked in order to attack Iraq. If so, sign the thing.

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