Glenn Reynolds Defends Death Squads

Poor Glenn Reynolds, the Insta-expert over at Instapundit. The supposed bias of the MSM (mainstream media, for those not in the know) is sooooo anti-war – or anti-Bush: same thing – and they’re sloppy, too. Because, you see, that story about how the administration is...

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US troops provide INsecurity

This boy is crying because his family was in this car which was riddled with US bullets in Ramadi. This: American troops opened fire after their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb at a checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing at least two policemen and three civilians,...

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‘The Salvador Option’

In case you forgot Negroponte is still ensconced in the American Embassy in Baghdad:‘The Salvador Option’ The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq

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US “accidentally” kills 14 Iraqis

Must've been a "dumb bomb."A US air strike in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul has hit the wrong target, the US military said. The bomb demolished a house in Aaytha, killing 14 people, according to local officials. The US put the toll at five. The military said it...

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Lost limbs and body armor

A telling graphic highlights the fact that a higher percentage of soldiers have lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan than in two World Wars and Korea. Stuart Hughes, the BBC reporter who lost a leg to a landmine in Iraq during the invasion, has the graphic and...

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The dangers of trashing the Geneva Convention

Reading through the warblogs today, I came across this oft repeated sentiment in the Powerline blog:The first day of the Senate hearings seemed to confirm that the key Senators opposing Gonzales don't take the war on terrorism very seriously. Democratic Senators...

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Tortured “conservative” logic

Jonah Goldberg, conversing with the Corner Kids:So many readers have made variations of this point, many, many from personal experience: After I was captured, my hands were tied behind my back and I was struck repeatedly in the face with an open hand. After enduring...

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“Combat doctors” and torture

WIIIAI points out this hideous statement by David N. Tornberg, deputy assistant secretary of defense for clinical and program policy in the Washington Post article highlighted in Antiwar.com's headlines today:He and other military officials argue in the article that...

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Bush: No bad news

Via Arthur Silber and Yankeedoodle, we find this ominous report:BUSH REJECTS BAD NEWS The Nelson Report is a daily political tip sheet and analysis written for the past 20 years for the (US and Asian) corporate and government clients of Chris Nelson, a former Capitol...

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