Occupation Officials, angered and disappointed by their own hand-picked Iraqi Governing Council, let it be known that they are looking to dump the council. Within hours of the release of this story, it was announced that US guards shot and killed the leader of the...
Oh, Iraq Will Be Like Germany, Alright
Ralph Peters gulps the Ipecac of political correctness and vomits some lovely reflections on the perpetual collective guilt of Germans. For more on this phenomenon, read Paul Gottfried's "Hating the Krauts." A slightly more benign version of Peters' view holds that...
The Unkindest Cut/Putting the Free State Project to Use
Antiwar.com's own Alan Bock had this to say in Sunday's OC Register: Dennis Kucinich, who drove Cleveland to bankruptcy before getting himself elected to Congress, is a buffoon who seems determined to use his campaign to discredit the anti-war movement. Ouch....
Not Enough Troops at Home for Veterans Day Parades
They're all in Iraq and Afganistan (and Korea, Kuwait, Qatar, Pakistan, Germany, Uzbekistan, Japan, Colombia, etc.
Wounded Numbers
As of today, the official wounded count stands at 2230. As usual though, gov't numbers are untrustworthy. From the Stars and Stripes: “It is unmistakable that Iraq is still a war zone,” Miller [R- NC visiting Landstuhl in Gernmany] said. He said there is an average of...
Did Al Qaeda Exploit Government Jihad Support?
If the FBI could carry out a pre–Sept. 11 sting operation against Hamas that included the use of no-warrant wiretaps, dummy companies, informants, overseas recruitment, etc., why weren't those same aggressive techniques used against al Qaeda? One possibility is that...
Feds Pull Selective Service Announcement from the Web
Within the past week, there has been a bunch of articles about the Pentagon's announcement that they were trying to fill local draft boards. Within the past 24 hours, the announcement has been pulled from the "Defend America" site run by the DOD. You can still view...
Counter
The "Casualty Counter" (see upper right hand side of the blog page) is now available for anyone with a website and a bit of html and javascript knowledge. Visit this page for the easy directions.
Our Tax Dollars at Work
What's this about opponents of the PATRIOT Act being "Anti-American"? Liberty-leaching PATRIOT actors claim that the Sept. 11 attacks succeeded because US spies and secret police were hamstrung by excessive caution and concern for civil liberties. How then to explain,...
More about Izetbegovic
The same day as The Real Izetbegovic, Izetbegovic's former colleague in the Bosnian Presidium, Nenad Kecmanovic. published his obituary of the not-so-dearly departed Bosnian Muslim leader in the Serbian weekly NIN. The full article, availabe in Serbian on NIN's...


