The Angry Arab links to this NYTimes story on the hysterical and mendacious Annie Jacobsen. For a breakdown post on the story with links to credulous warbloggers as well as the original Jacobsen panic-fest, go here. From the NYTimes' Joe Sharkey:Did, as a passenger...
Everybody having fun, now? FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) -- An Army investigator testified Tuesday that Pfc. Lynndie England and other members of her unit told him that photos of naked Iraqi prisoners piled in pyramids and other humiliating poses were taken "just for fun." As...
Booby-trapped car bombs exploded outside an Armenian church and a Catholic church in Baghdad's Karada neighborhood minutes apart from one another. One American soldier was killed and two others wounded in a roadside bomb explosion near Samarra. A car bomb targeting a...
Best blog comment from an anti-war lefty on the deplorable Kerry is at Lenin's Tomb. "Kerry is the neocon dream. Pro-war, pro-Israel, pro-Plan Colombia. And also, not to miss the finer points, loaded." Lenin points out that not only is Kerry a hawk on Iraq, but he may...
Paul McGeough turns in a tour de force of an article, tying together some previously confusing information about events in Al Anbar province, like the sudden escalation of violence in Ramadi last week and the kidnapping of the governor of Al Anbar province's sons....
I'm trying to imagine who might donate to the Lynndie England Defense Fund. Rush "Blowing Off Steam" Limbaugh? FReepers? Republican neocons? The site, still being developed, also will try to help improve England's image which, until now, has been controlled by the...
The top news story out of Iraq today reports a massive suicide car bomb in Baqouba. Early reports neglected to mention that the target of the bombing was an Iraqi police station, in front of which lines of Iraqis applying for jobs as policemen had formed, but that...
American, do you realize, That the taxes that you pay Feed the forces that traumatize My every living day? The bulldozers and the tanks, The gases and the guns, The bombs that fall outside my door, All due to American funds. Read the whole thing here: Subzero...
Here's a good illustration for Charley Reese's column, featured on AntiWar.com today: United States aircraft dropped leaflets on the rebellious Iraqi city of Fallujah on Tuesday, warning residents they will lose $102-million (about R637-million) in rebuilding funds if...
A Jordanian company has vowed to pull out of Iraq in response to the demands of kidnappers who hold two of it's employees. A Saudi Arabian company did likewise a few weeks ago. I can't help but wonder if these companies aren't feeling a sense of relief to have a...
