Saturday, September 01, 2007

U.S. Military Bans Liberal Blog (Think Progress!)


There's a reason we call this country the USSR. Think Progress, of all blogs, has been banned by the U.S. Government, um, I mean the U.S. military.

Let me guess. They hate our freedom?

ThinkProgress is now banned from the U.S. military network in Baghdad.

Recently, an avid ThinkProgress reader — a U.S. soldier serving his second tour in Iraq — wrote to us and said that he can no longer access ThinkProgress.org. . .

The ban began sometime shortly after Aug. 22, when Ret. Maj. Gen. John Batiste was our guest blogger on ThinkProgress. He posted an op-ed that was strongly critical of the President’s policies and advocated a “responsible and deliberate redeployment from Iraq.”


Read more at Think Progress . . . if you can!