Nikolai at Lenin's Tomb points out another American Cultural Ignorance faux pas committed in renaming their infamous Iraqi torture center: At the behest of the IGC, Abu Graibh prison has been renamed , Camp Redemption. I shit you not. Hmmm. Where can they have got...
No matter what horrors come of the neoconservative dream, they will blame us. They're already busy.
His truth is marching on.
Steve LaTulippe over at LewRockwell.com does an "autopsy" of the Mess in Potamia. Even though the specifics all relate to the Iraq war, the conclusion is applicable to all Imperial adventures: It was a geopolitical felony, committed with malice aforethought,...
Daniel Drezner has an interesting post up taking off on a TNR piece analyzing various conservative positions on Iraq. Drezner asks, "Who will the neo-neos go with -- Bush or Chalabi? My money is on Chalabi." Especially note this bit on the end:ANOTHER UPDATE: Just got...
Mick Hume on the fake photo scandal at the UK's Mirror tabloid:Does it matter whether or not the photographs are fakes or staged, if we believe that British troops have been abusing Iraqi detainees? That is the question now being asked by the UK Daily Mirror's...
We can take it, warbots. Come on, tell us what you think about the raid on Chalabi's home. Don't hold back. We're waiting. Surely this isn't the best bit of spin you've got. Yo, Hitch, what up? Hey, Andrew, I'm fixing for my Daily Dish! Lileks, my man, what am I to...
(Click to enlarge photos) These pictures are even being aired on American television. This is the Iraqi featured in this news article: When CIA officers brought the Iraqi detainee to Abu Ghraib prison, his head was covered with an empty sandbag and Army guards were...
US forces raided Chalabi's house and office, seizing documents, a day after they announced that they were cutting his INC off it's $335,000 a month allowance. The US abstained from a UN resolution criticizing Israel's bulldozer and kid-killing spree in Gaza so it...
Mark at Rafah Kid Rambles on today's IDF attack on Palestinian peaceful demonstrators in Rafah: IDF: "We Didn't Mean To" Bloody Hell. The IDF have taken a while to come up with a story to explain the massacre of civilians today (See Mohammed's post). This, quoted in...
