It's unclear exactly what is going on south of Baghdad other than utter chaos, but here are two bizarre stories in the news today: At least 10 Iraqi policemen were killed in a gun battle with insurgents south of Baghdad on Thursday, police sources said. The battle,...
I added a new feature to our Quotables that appear on most pages. Just find a page that has a random quote on the top (see here), click on the quote's author and you are sent to that specific quote on our quotes page. As we continue to update the database, this will...
Ballot-counting in Iraq isn't going very well:Iraqi officials said Wednesday they must recount votes from about 300 ballot boxes because of various discrepancies, delaying final results from the landmark national elections. Hundreds perhaps thousands of other ballots...
I'd like to thank the Pentagon for providing yet another in a seemingly endless string of great material on which to comment. The Nazis had Leni Riefenstahl to make their propaganda, and now the US has ... The Pentagon Channel (I didn't make that name up; that's what...
R.J. Rummel calls for an end to free speech in America. Why? Cos' he's a freedomist, silly. Back in November, we ran this eminently unobjectionable piece in which Rummel wrote,The more power those who rule have, the less libertarian the government, the more likely the...
Whoops! The IDF "accidentally" attacks an Israeli town with fake Katyusha rockets. via xymphora
As you may have noticed on the main page, our fund drive is pretty darn sluggish. We're less than halfway to where we should be by this point. Which must be good news. I mean, if Antiwar.com can't scrape up a few bucks each from a fraction of its daily readers, it...
You'll never believe who said this:I am — just bite down hard and say it, man — with Senator Edward Kennedy on this. I want U.S. forces to leave Iraq ASAP. If the place then descends into chaos, I'm fine with it. What's that you say? It would be awful hard on the...
now let's go home. I'm glad to see Derb is setting a good example for his fellow warbots: just because you're morally crippled doesn't mean you have to be stupid, too! Of course, Derb seems to be taking some heat from his red-state fascist readers, so he may need to...
In today's Backtalk:Carl Webb, a soldier protesting the Iraq Stop Loss Program, announces his new website: CarlWebb.net. Monica Nouwens seeks Iraq veterans in southern California for her documentary: monicano@earthlink.net.Tim Gillin continues the "peak oil theory"...
