Do you think the photographer responsible for taking the lower photo in this post is an accomplice to murder? Roger Simon:But these allegations about the Associated Press are even worse. If true--and I don't, of course, know that they are--they mean that people...
Who knew that the Pentagon has experts in the use of enemas as torture? ....after a review, Mr. Rumsfeld issued a final policy in April 2003, approving 24 techniques, some of which needed his permission to be used. None of the approved techniques, however, covered...
Charts show U.S. military deaths and injuries as well as attacks on U.S. forces by month for 2004 and 2003; includes chart showing states with most troops killed so far this year. (AP Graphic) Link via yankeedoodle at Today in Iraq
InstaGlenn says the best way to help aid the victims of the tsunami disaster is to go to a devastated area and booze it up on the beach while watching the corpses float by. Ah, the smell of rotting flesh and the cries of starving locals! It'll be a vacation to...
Mark Gisleson at Norwegianity directed me to this James Wolcott post, What kind of a maniac puts eagles in a Christmas tree?, that I, devoted Wolcott reader though I am, somehow missed. Here are just three sentences of Wolcott on Matt Taibbi's Time Person of the Year...
It seems the looming confirmation hearings of Alberto "Torture is OK" Gonzales may be causing some behind the scenes turmoil, as evidenced by this article by NY Times international editor Andrew Rosenthal today, coupled with a New and Improved CYA Torture Memo from...
After reading my post yesterday quoting Lt. Col. Paul Hastings as saying, "The terrorists are growing more desperate in their attempts to derail the elections and they're trying to put it all on the line and give it all they can," the author of the blog Hairy Fish...
Something Eli said the other day has been bugging me when I read news articles about the Iraqi resistance, because I never really noticed it before.With MacWorld approaching, I'm reminded of the famous Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field. But Jobs has got nothing on...
Various ideas for dealing with Sunni abstinence from the elections slated to be held in Iraq have been floated recently from everyone from the USG to the current Iraqi authorities and Osama bin Laden. The problem seems to flow from the fact that the Iraqi vote,...
Via Matt Welch at Reason, on the recently discovered FBI torture memos: The FBI memos, which included more graphic descriptions of detainee abuse (including "strangulation, beatings, [and] placement of lit cigarettes into the detainees ear openings"), bore an uncanny...
