Justin Raimondo's column today inspired me to do this illustration of one of his points:The pictorial representations of the "Cedar Revolution" that have so far appeared in the Western media have mostly been close-up shots of the comelier females waving flags and...
Must read post on the Sgrena shooting: More Anti-Military Slurs from the MSM And, a question about the US account of the shooting. From a US military statement, quoted in Jeanne D'Arc's post on the shooting:About 9:00 pm, a patrol in western Baghdad observed the...
Q: How is a Hate Crime by Muslims in New Jersey Like WMD in Iraq? A: Neither of them exist, but right-wing nutbags believe every erroneous report that they do. Mithras, via Atrios Reading Mithras' post brought to mind this example from the now-infamous GOPUSA website,...
Giuliana Sgrena speaks: Sgrena, the 56-year-old correspondent of the communist daily Il Manifesto, told Italian investigators the US troops' intense fire had been in no way justified by the speed of her car, ANSA news agency said. "Our vehicle was running at normal...
Oops! The US military almost killed the freed hostage: An Italian journalist was injured when a U.S. armoured vehicle mistakenly fired on her car after her release from captivity in Iraq, news reports said Friday. One Italian secret service agent was killed in the...
From Democracy Now:The resolutions, every single one, and it got up to 56, more than 52, every single resolution begins with a plea to support and respect the troops. We need these people here. They're first responders, they're family, they're friends, they're workers...
Yet another crazed Jumblatt quoter pops up and is efficiently dispatched by lenin. One of the Harry's Place commenters appeals for mercy for the Jumblatteers, "Oh, leave HP alone! Can't you see they're hanging to reality by their finger-nails? :)"
Ali, the "Free Iraqi" has written an interesting post about how the New Iraqi Democracy is working out. Apparently his comment was inspired by 4,000 Sadrist militiamen marching in the streets of Basra in a show of power today.I say no to any reconciliation with...
It is reported that a US marine, who was captured on film killing a wounded Iraqi at point blank range during November's assault on Fallujah, will not be formally charged due to lack of evidence. Here's a video of the shooting. Here's an eyewitness account by the...
How absurd is it for a foreign country to send troops to another foreign country and then import other foreign troops in to guard them? And when one foreign country decides to pull its troops out of the invaded country the remaining foreign country's troops have to...
