I have refrained from writing about the stunning conclusions in the Lancet study which claims 100,000 excess deaths since the US/UK invasion of Iraq. Although extensively peer reviewed and done with accepted methodology for war conditions (I’d link to Spencer Ackerman’s Burnham interview, but his blog is currently experiencing some technical problems – read [...]
A headless body believed to be that of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda has been found in Baghdad today. The body was found just off Haifa street wrapped in an American flag.
I have no idea what this is all about, but this is the first time I’ve ever heard of “Iraqi forces” responding to a US convoy bombing.
Witnesses told Associated Press Television News that an American convoy was attacked early Saturday near the town of Haswa, about 25 miles south of the capital.
After the U.S. troops [...]
My column reappears just in time for Halloween. Read it and quit bugging us about Pat Buchanan’s endorsement, will ya?
Whatever happened to Osama bin Laden, anyway?
Bin Laden responds:
Bin Laden said he wanted to explain why he ordered the suicide airline hijackings that hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon so Americans would know how to avoid “another disaster.”
“To the U.S. people, my talk is to you about the best way to avoid another disaster,” he said. “I tell you: [...]
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Just as the images from inside the Abu Ghraib prison forced the Bush administration to deal with the previously stonewalled allegations of torture in US detention facilities it seems the same thing may happen with the missing explosives controversy.
Using GPS technology and talking with members [...]
What is it with the warhawks’ sudden recognition of the hypocrisy of the now discarded justification for the invasion of Iraq being to “disarm Saddam?” For an example, Andrew Sullivan, disillusioned Bushie war cheerleader writes:
The reason the story of missing munitions at al Qa Qaa is an important one is not that, in and of [...]
I saw Ron “Spread Liberty at Gunpoint” Bailey take this quiz over at Reason’s Hit & Run blog. The quiz said Bailey should vote for Badnarik and my ideal candidate is Theoretical, which seems about right. There’s no “Nuke Mecca” question or any form of government question that lets you pick “Theocracy” so [...]
Two writers, one from the hell that is Baghdad under Bush and the other from the nascent Police State that is the US under Republican Emperor Dubya the Divine make the case for throwing the current bums out of power in Washington. Lew Rockwell:
Many bad things would happen under a President Kerry. But many [...]
Today’s dedication ceremony and reenactment in Balaclava, Ukraine, in honor of the valiant charge by British cavalry during the Crimean War brings to mind once again Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s stirring poem of heroic duty. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” has immortalized the consequences of a mistaken command on a battlefield; a “blunder,” as [...]
In light of today’s horrendous news that 380 tons (760,000 pounds) of high explosives seem to have been “mislaid” in the aftermath of the war in 2003, I was reminded of a blog entry I posted in January 2004 which dealt with a similar theft, only then it was about radioactive waste and its devastating [...]
