Stuart Hughes asks a good question: President Bush has told al-Arabiya that the US will "fully investigate" the alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by military personnel and "justice will be served." What, like the "full investigations" and subsequent handing down of...
Brit Hume may be smart, but I haven't heard a reasonable word out of his mouth since 9/11. And James Lileks is an "immensely talented writer"? James "F*ck you, Salam" Lileks? That giant sucking sound Ross Perot heard
From Stars & Stripes:Task force delivers its report on sexual assault in combat zone ARLINGTON, Va. — The 10-member task force probing the issue of sexual assault in the combat zone has delivered its anticipated report to Pentagon leadership a few days ahead of...
Crouching in the showers?Guardsman Probed for Iraq Naked Soldier Photos SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The head of a U.S. military police unit at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison is under investigation following charges he secretly photographed naked female American soldiers,...
A friend sends along this cartoon from Bob Ariail of The State (Columbia, SC).
The limeys are turning on us. According to Tony Blair's personal human rights envoy to Iraq, "U.S. soldiers who detained an elderly Iraqi woman last year placed a harness on her, made her crawl on all fours and rode her like a donkey[...]."The abuse occurred last year...
The Iranians are crazy. According to Nicholas Kristof, average Iranians are "fulsome in their praise" for Dubya, they adore Hillary Clinton, and many "seem convinced that the U.S. military ventures in Afghanistan and Iraq are going great." Yep, get out the butterfly...
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - The Iraqi former general entrusted with pacifying volatile Falluja said on Thursday U.S. Marines must withdraw quickly from around the troubled town and go home so stability can be restored. "I want the American soldier to return to his camp....
In addition to our troops who have been killed in this "war of choice," there is a vast number of casualities who have had to be Medivac'd back to the United States. Here is an excerpt on this topic from the transcript of last night's CNN "NEWSNIGHT" with Aaron Brown....
More Iraqi prisoner torture pictures about to be released. Via TalkLeft (who gets it from Drudge), we find that the Washington Post is set to publish some new photos. Here's Private Lynndie England again: In this cropped photograph, Army Pfc. Lynndie England of the...
