In case you forgot Negroponte is still ensconced in the American Embassy in Baghdad:‘The Salvador Option’ The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq

Must've been a "dumb bomb."A US air strike in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul has hit the wrong target, the US military said. The bomb demolished a house in Aaytha, killing 14 people, according to local officials. The US put the toll at five. The military said it...

A telling graphic highlights the fact that a higher percentage of soldiers have lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan than in two World Wars and Korea. Stuart Hughes, the BBC reporter who lost a leg to a landmine in Iraq during the invasion, has the graphic and...

Reading through the warblogs today, I came across this oft repeated sentiment in the Powerline blog:The first day of the Senate hearings seemed to confirm that the key Senators opposing Gonzales don't take the war on terrorism very seriously. Democratic Senators...

Jonah Goldberg, conversing with the Corner Kids:So many readers have made variations of this point, many, many from personal experience: After I was captured, my hands were tied behind my back and I was struck repeatedly in the face with an open hand. After enduring...

WIIIAI points out this hideous statement by David N. Tornberg, deputy assistant secretary of defense for clinical and program policy in the Washington Post article highlighted in Antiwar.com's headlines today:He and other military officials argue in the article that...

Via Arthur Silber and Yankeedoodle, we find this ominous report:BUSH REJECTS BAD NEWS The Nelson Report is a daily political tip sheet and analysis written for the past 20 years for the (US and Asian) corporate and government clients of Chris Nelson, a former Capitol...

We have goggles, but we'd rather have food! How ridiculous is this? The commander of an Army Reserve detachment is begging friends back home to send food for Iraqi police dogs. "The dogs are starving and urgently need dry dog food," Capt. Gabriella Cook, commander of...

The Army Reserve is finally stating what's been obvious for some time:"While ability to meet the current demands associated with OIF (Operational Iraqi Freedom) and OEF (Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan) is of great importance, the Army Reserve is...

Glenn Reynolds, while claiming to be personally opposed to (legal) torture (even before Alan Dershowitz was promoting it!) uses his bully pulpit to link every pro-torture argument in the known universe while offering almost no opposing argument. Reynolds even offers...