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Blog Graphics Retrospective

Lee on Aug 31 2008 | Filed under: Art, Lee's Page, Uncategorized

I was searching for an image on my backup drive today and came across a cache of header graphics I’d thrown together for posts over the years. The diversity of subjects was kind of interesting as a gallery. Here’s a few rather random selections:
The HIV Epidemic:

Eurabia:

Slobodan Milosevic:

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Swordsmen into Social Workers

Lee on Aug 05 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web

It seems Muqtada al-Sadr is getting out of the mayhem & militia business in favor of social services. Not strictly as a Hamas style prop for publicity and popularity either. Iraq may well become that strangest of political landscapes where bad ideas went in, only to come out transformed into benefits. Perhaps that’s the transformative [...]

More Like This Please

MichaelW on Apr 21 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, MichaelW's Page, Military Matters, Notes on the war

I was pleasantly surprised, and mildly irritated, to see that Condi Rice basically called Muqtada al-Sadr a coward while she was in Baghdad recently (via: Instapundit):
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end [...]