....here are some great stories from links stuck near the bottom of the front page of Antiwar.com: Anti-US Tunes Big Hits in Iraq: The story is a bit frightening. Some of the lyrics call for continued resistance: "The men of Fallujah are men of hard tasks," Mr....
Part of Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional The AP reports: "For the first time, a federal judge has declared unconstitutional a section of the USA P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act that bars giving expert advice or assistance to groups designated foreign terrorist...
CentCom reports:Three 4th Infantry Division soldiers and two Iraqi Civil Defense Corps members were killed this morning at approximately 7:45 a.m. when their combat patrol was ambushed with an improvised explosive device north of Baghdad In another incident, a US...
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As blog readers may have noticed, there is a new blogger in the Antiwar.com ranks: Carol Watson. She has been an invaluable volunteer researcher for last six months. The Iraq Casualties page rarely misses an important story or statistic, and I give most of the credit...
Apparently, winning the peace will take a while:Also Tuesday, Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Iraq and said U.S. troops might stay in Iraq for one or two years. 'About as far as we are looking is through the next couple of years,'...
The following email is circulating between war-supporters in an apparent attempt to refute the claims that the Iraqi occupation has become a quagmire. I thought that I would respond to each point made. My responses are the non-italic text. Subject: Iraq a Success This...
Bush's showy and controversial Thanksgiving Day flight to Baghdad has created a stir in Great Britain, where Air Force One -- in its haste and demand for discretion -- ignored international law:Of more concern, air traffic controllers in Britain are seething over the...
Updated 11/15/03 6:50 pm EST:The death toll hit 418 today, with the downing of two Black Hawk helicopters in Mosul, killing at least 17, and the death of another GI in a roadside bombing. While the Black Hawk crash appears to be the result of a collision, witnesses...
As of today, the official wounded count stands at 2230. As usual though, gov't numbers are untrustworthy. From the Stars and Stripes: “It is unmistakable that Iraq is still a war zone,” Miller [R- NC visiting Landstuhl in Gernmany] said. He said there is an average of...
