Just in case today’s spotlight piqued your interest, here’s the e-mail circulated by Wall Street Journal Baghdad correspondent Farnaz Fassihi. Not-so-shockingly, the warbloggers, who lap up every syllable of WSJ op-eds, have thus far left this one alone.
Between Juan Cole’s entry from yesterday and what Abbas Kadhim writes, it appears conclusive that Najaf has been destroyed.
Antiwar.com contributor Al Lorentz, whose troubles I discussed here, gets a write-up in Salon. I’m looking forward to the enormous support Sgt. Lorentz is sure to receive from the “Support Our Troops” crowd.
The DoD reports:
Sgt. Skipper Soram, 23, of Kolonia Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, died Sept. 22 in Baghdad, Iraq, when a vehicle-based improvised explosive device detonated near his security post. Soram was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.
According to the CIA Factbook, Micronesia is under US [...]
From Bob Novak’s column of today:
A few hours after George W. Bush dismissed a pessimistic CIA report on Iraq as ”just guessing,” the analyst who identified himself as its author told a private dinner last week of secret, unheeded warnings years ago about going to war in Iraq. This exchange leads to the unavoidable conclusion [...]
Al Lorentz, a Texas reservist serving with the U.S. Army in Iraq, has gotten into hot water for writing this courageous appraisal of the Iraq disaster. Specifically, the military may charge him with “willfully causing or attempting to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty.” Lt. Col. (ret.) Karen Kwiatkowski suggests that another Texan [...]
Alot of bloggers are decrying this Rumsfeldian comment:
“Let’s say you tried to have an election and you could have it in three-quarters or four-fifths of the country in some places you couldn’t because the violence was too great,” Rumsfeld said. “So be it. Nothing’s perfect in life. You have an election that’s not quite perfect. [...]
An excerpt from Riverbend’s latest:
After Bush finished his piece about the glamorous changes in Iraq, Allawi got his turn. I can’t seem to decide what is worse- when Bush speaks in the name of Iraqi people, or when Allawi does. Yesterday’s speech was particularly embarrassing. He stood there groveling in front of the congress- thanking [...]
Sorry I haven’t blogged anything in awhile, but this is something most of you will probably get a kick out of.
How to Avoid Becoming an Anti-American
I normally try to excerpt the good stuff, but I’ll just reprint this in full and let all you anti-Semites chew on it (bolding mine):
Blame It on Neo
Don’t call me a “neocon” unless you are a friend.
BY JULIA GORIN
Last week Pat Buchanan appeared on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” and liberal host Jon [...]
Given the Bush administration’s fondness for failed Soviet initiatives, they may want to consider another one that has just come to light: putting a military base on the moon. From The Moscow News:
In the days of the Cold War Soviet commanders and their best scientists were working on a project to build military headquarters on [...]
Is the US still holding Al-Douri’s wife and daughter hostage? The US admits to having two women prisoners and it is for these two women’s release that the Tawhil wal Jihad is currently beheading their American and Briton hostages. Scotsman.com reports that Dr Rihab Taha and Dr Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash are the [...]
