From Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches. “When the Americans take over our police station, they bring us all together and tell us we are no longer in charge of anything,” he says, holding up his arms in exasperation. The policeman says that all of them were made to stay...
Rigging the Results
The US is apparently going to choose Iraq's interim government rather than the UN. Let's play their game. Asked whether the US would have veto power over the candidates it didn't like who were presented by Brahimi for the new Iraqi interim govt, a State Department...
Back to Iraq
Christopher Albritton is Back to Iraq and describes his return trip in "Greetings from Baghdad," along with comments about the raids on Ahmed Chalabi's house and INC offices, as well as the wedding deaths in "Chalabi to CPA." And Riverbend, the Iraqi girl blogger,...
Pentagon: “Don’t Read This”
The Pentagon attempts another cover-up, this time by forbidding military personnel to read FOX News, the government's favorite media whore! Why? Because FOX was carrying the Taguba report on the Iraqi prison abuses at its website. Here is Vivienne Walt's expose for...
A Cronkite Moment?
In this commentary, Jonathan Tasini notes strong antiwar sentiment appearing in an unlikely place: I experienced a Walter Cronkite moment last week that signaled to me that something is in the air about what people feel about the Iraq war. No, it didn't come from Ted...
Riverbend: “Just Go…”
Riverbend, the Iraqi girl blogger, pretty much seems to sum up the feelings of most Iraqis at the moment about the occupation in this last paragraph of her blog entry posted for May 7th. ...I sometimes get emails asking me to propose solutions or make suggestions....
Evacuating the Wounded
In addition to our troops who have been killed in this "war of choice," there is a vast number of casualities who have had to be Medivac'd back to the United States. Here is an excerpt on this topic from the transcript of last night's CNN "NEWSNIGHT" with Aaron Brown....
No news is NOT good news!
This morning, I was having my coffee and reading my local newspaper when it dawned on me that something was indeed missing from this noble rag. Well, on the front page and in the main section there was the story of the hostage who managed to escape his captors in...
Those Pictures
I'll let Riverbend tell you what she, as an Iraqi, thinks of those disgusting photos taken at Abu Ghraib prison, from her blog Baghdad Burning: Those Pictures... The pictures are horrific. I felt a multitude of things as I saw them... the most prominent feeling was...
Refugees of Fallujah
Jo Wilding speaks in Baghdad with several of the refugees from Fallujah. “This is my honeymoon,” Heba said, in the crowded corridor of bomb shelter number 24 in the Al-Ameriya district of Baghdad. Married just under a month, she fled Falluja with her extended family....
