Army platoon arrested for refusing "suicide mission"A 17-member Army Reserve platoon with troops from Jackson and around the Southeast deployed to Iraq is under arrest for refusing a "suicide mission" to deliver fuel, the troops' relatives said Thursday. The soldiers...
Larry Diamond, former senior adviser to the CPA in Baghdad, has a long, wonkish piece up at Foreign Affairs on "What Went Wrong in Iraq." It's supposed to be a how-to on occupation, not an argument against the war, but it does (unwittingly) illuminate the futility of...
Justin Raimondo delivers his Friday column early, assessing last night's final Presidential debate.
Fallujah negotiators deny that al-Zarqawi is in Fallujah:Iyad Allawi told Iraq's interim assembly that Fallujah must surrender Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, America's top enemy in Iraq, or face military action. "We want to know what proof there is that Zarqawi is in...
The Rolling Stones 1966 hit, "Mother's Little Helper," was a warning about addiction to Valium, a tranquilizer used by a legion of western women "...to get her through her busy day." Of course, there is no comparison between the relatively placid suburban existence of...
Eight people are dead and four wounded in two explosions in the Green Zone. At least two Americans are among the casualties.:It is believed to be the first time that insurgents have struck from within the heavily guarded compound that is home to the US and British...
Jim Henley on the newest rationale for the war:It is high time we recognize the grammatical inversion that has seized our Imperial Wing. While they produce sentences of the form "I support the War for the sake of this reason," the truer template is "I support this...
Comical Allawi, the man without a military, is threatening "military action" against the people of Fallujah:13 October 2004 -- Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi is threatening military action against the main insurgent stronghold of Al-Fallujah if residents...
For those who may have been wondering where the US disappears their super-secret captives, Haaretz is claiming to know:Most of the Al-Qaida detainees who were arrested in Afghanistan in the course of the war or its aftermath were transfered to the American base in...
Senators Jim Bunning (R, Ky.) and Mark Dayton (D, Minn.) are convinced al-Qaeda is out to get them. Why al-Qaeda would bother with either of these clowns is anyone's guess, but please remember their names the next time someone calls you paranoid for objecting to the...
