Via James Wolcott, we have an article from The Economist detailing the American military's tactics in the insurgent hotbed Al Anbar Province: In Ramadi, the capital of central Anbar province, where 17 suicide-bombs struck American forces during the month-long Muslim...
Jeff Jarvis attempts to compare Saddam Hussein to the tsunami disaster. In a post titled Catastrophic equivalencies, he says:By the latest count, 160,000 people have died in this tsunami. A month ago, Tony Blair said that 400,000 victims of Saddam Hussein's tyranny...
Sistani-endorsed United Iraqi Alliance, represented by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim and Ahmed Chalabi held a press conference today. The shocker: "We will need American forces to be in Iraq for the foreseeable future." That position is likely to be a surprise to average Shiite...
Yes, I read other blogs besides Clark's but this is too funny: The "blog of the year" proves its worth by announcing some good news from Iraq ...So, read Clark's post and then read this one from Raed Jarrar. Clark: IT WAS REPORTED ON A BLOG, WHICH MAKES IT MUCH MORE...
Do you think the photographer responsible for taking the lower photo in this post is an accomplice to murder? Roger Simon:But these allegations about the Associated Press are even worse. If true--and I don't, of course, know that they are--they mean that people...
Who knew that the Pentagon has experts in the use of enemas as torture? ....after a review, Mr. Rumsfeld issued a final policy in April 2003, approving 24 techniques, some of which needed his permission to be used. None of the approved techniques, however, covered...
Charts show U.S. military deaths and injuries as well as attacks on U.S. forces by month for 2004 and 2003; includes chart showing states with most troops killed so far this year. (AP Graphic) Link via yankeedoodle at Today in Iraq
InstaGlenn says the best way to help aid the victims of the tsunami disaster is to go to a devastated area and booze it up on the beach while watching the corpses float by. Ah, the smell of rotting flesh and the cries of starving locals! It'll be a vacation to...
Mark Gisleson at Norwegianity directed me to this James Wolcott post, What kind of a maniac puts eagles in a Christmas tree?, that I, devoted Wolcott reader though I am, somehow missed. Here are just three sentences of Wolcott on Matt Taibbi's Time Person of the Year...
(see 10 for introduction) John Nichols didn't make it, the streak ends at 109 Capital Times columns, it just wouldn't be December 30th without him using the word "Israel" for the first time. Last year it was refusenik pilots, this year it's Richard Ben Cramer. In a...
