Via the indispensable Yankeedoodle at Iraq Today, we find this interesting article by Phil Carter in the NY Times. Phil argues that the Great Armor Crisis is due to the US military fighting a conflict in which there are no front lines with equipment designed for...

Marwan Barghouti has released a set of demands for withdrawing from the Palestinian election. See them here. A couple of them are conditions on Israel, so it looks like Marwan will be running in the election.

More than you ever wanted to know about Bernie Kerik, from Doug Ireland. Link via Jesse Walker at Hit and Run Kevin Drum gets snarky: But wait — that's not the funny part. Newsweek's Mark Hosenball reports today that Kerik actually had more serious problems: Kerik,...

zeynep at Under the Same Sun is in Venezuela looking for good news, but Jonathan Schwartz has the keys to the blog. As zeynep says, Johnathan "also writes about the scary stuff but he's funny." Read Jonathan on the giraffe in the kitchen.

I ran across this picture from Fallujah last night. I'm going to make it a thumbnail image, so those who can't bear looking at a photo of a dog dining on an Iraqi, please just don't click on it. I think everyone should look at it, though, because this is the result of...

Remember this guy? Apparently his getaway didn't work out very well:'Abducted' Marine's desertion charge A US Marine who was reported abducted in Iraq and later turned up in his native Jordan was charged today with desertion. Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun was charged...

There have been a quite a few reports in the news the past day on the higher survival rate of US soldiers due to superior body armor and trauma care based on the report in the New England Journal of Medicine, Casualties of War — Military Care for the Wounded from Iraq...

AFP is reporting that Moqtada al-Sadr is not on the list assembled by Ayatollah al-Sistani's United Iraqi Alliance.The United Iraqi Alliance, backed by highly revered Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, includes the Dawa party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic...

Spencer Ackerman has the whole transcript of Rumsfeld's Kuwait Roasting, in addition to the armor issue the US media focussed on. A sample:Q: Yes, sir. I was wanting to know why I cannot enlist as a single parent in the regular Army, but I can enlist in the National...

Chris Albritton critiques one of George Paine's Warblogging posts which analyzes the authoritarian utopia planned for Fallujah A comparison to the Warsaw Ghetto is tempting, but is perhaps a bit too extreme. We can only hope and assume that the residents of Fallujah,...