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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
