Well, I guess since Rumsfeld's lecture didn't work, those recalcitrant Iraqis are in for a real scolding now. Team Bush is sending in the Big Nanny:ARBIL : US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Iraq to bolster the country's fledgling...

Is conservative right-wingnuttiness a degenerative disease? From deep within the echo chamber, Charen rolls out the stock conservative whining points on the Iraqi Oil-For-Food wannabe-scandal (to prove she's objective, it's titled "Friends of Saddam"):Good morning,...

A U.S. Army reservist accused of attaching wires to a hooded Iraqi prisoner did so in a joke shared with the prisoner, her lawyer said at the start of a court-martial said on Thursday. Spc. Sabrina Harman, who pleaded innocent to charges of conspiracy, dereliction of...

A series of interesting posts here on MediaWatch the upshot of which is that Arthur "Good News!" Chrenkoffadmitted that he is paid by the Wall Street Journal for his efforts. Arthur sort of ...uh, denied this at first, but finally came clean. Media Watch: Where we...

Hospitals in Iraq are in terrible shape, as Eric Umansky reminds us. If Baghdad's biggest hospital actually runs out of sutures, what is the likely state of hospitals in more isolated areas? At least one Iraqi blogger is doing something to address the situation. Raed...

Iraqi resistance wipes out entire squad of Marines The Washington Post reports: The explosion enveloped the armored vehicle in flames, sending orange balls of fire bubbling above the trees along the Euphrates River near the Syrian border. Marines in surrounding...

NPR has posted the unedited Sites video of the Fallujah mosque shooting, as well as an audio interview with Sites. The interview begins with a discussion of the reasons the US military declined to prosecute the Marine who shot the unarmed wounded Iraqi on tape. Four...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Abu Jaafar pulls out one of the dozens of files piled on his desk and leafs through evidence that a Finance Ministry employee once served in Saddam Hussein's notorious intelligence agency. Snapping the file shut, he pronounces his verdict: "This...

This report of a botched raid is so bizarre that I had to read it repeatedly while trying to piece together the information it contains.  So, let's see.  We read that, operating on the theory that "foreign fighters" are "flowing into...

Al Qaeda Kingpin Captured! Iraq Parliament Approves Cabinet, Government Formed! There must be something. Wait!!