Check out this video from the BBC, via Information Clearing House, about the 130 mile march of antiwar Iraq veterans from Mobile, Alabama to St. Bernard’s Parish in New Orleans, Louisiana:
We’re Sorry: Former US soldiers on the personal cost of war in Iraq.
It begins with a young man explaining how isolated he feels since returning [...]
PEN American Center, “the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, the world’s oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization,” has decided to give Sibel Edmonds, the “most gagged person in American History” their First Amendment award:
“Translator Fired from FBI for Blowing Whistle on Intelligence Failures to Receive 2006 PEN/Newman’s Own [...]
Howard Kaloogian, California congressional candidate and co-founder of Move America Forward, gets busted passing off a photo of Istanbul as evidence of a bloodless, bustling Baghdad. Kaloogian pleads confusion (scroll down to actual Baghdad photo, apparently taken by the Cassini-Huygens probe).
Previews of David Hare’s new play Stuff Happens began last night at New York City’s Public Theater. The play explores the reasons for the war in Iraq using characters ripped from the headlines; actors actually play Bush, Powell, Blair, Rice and Rumsfeld, transforming real life into profound drama. John Lahr of the New York Times [...]
when he says,
“I wish Iraq well, but I as a foreign policy analyst from the United States am not willing to take responsibility for what takes place in Iraq.”
It is your responsibility, not simply for being an American, but because you pushed it.
when he says,
“The only way to drive U.S. influence out of the Muslim world, bin Laden has long maintained, is to tie it down in a series of small wars that bleed it financially. The nearly $10-billion-a-month wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are doing just that. Iraq, as even Bush admits, has become an incubator, [...]
Via Scott Horton, the human rights attorney (no relation):
Eric Haney, the former command sergeant major of Delta Force, and a key advisor to CBS’s program “The Unit” gives an interview to the LA Daily News and puts it straight.
“Q: What do you make of the torture debate? Cheney …
A: (Interrupting) That’s Cheney’s pursuit. The [...]
Tuesday afternoon I talked with investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss about America’s switching sides in the Iraq civil war and the likelihood of conflict with Iran.
Click here to download the mp3. (about 40 minutes)
In a brief on the Hamdan case before the Supreme Court, Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) argue that a a bill passed last December invalidates Hamdan’s suit. They cite their own remarks in the Congressional Record during the debate on the Detainee Treatment Act as “legislative history” that must be considered when [...]
Perhaps you already thought of it, and perhaps I should have thought of it, but one of my readers (who wishes to remain anonymous) recently gave me something simple yet profound about Iraq’s WMD:
The thought that occurred to me from the first mention of WMD’s and continued through the entire push to get the war [...]
As the wingers turn on serial plagiarist Ben Domenech – with the sort of righteous indignation others might reserve for oh, I don’t know, presidents who lie us into war – Michelle Malkin shares her pain:
As someone who has worked in daily journalism for 14 years, I have a lot of experience related to this [...]
Many things about Bush’s war are anti-Christian, but the destruction of Christianity in Iraq is near the top of the list. Writing in the current issue of Chronicles magazine, Wayne Allensworth reports how Christians in Iraq have faced contiinuous attacks since the U.S. invasion began. Because Muslims have identified all Christians with the West, Christians [...]
