I hate to tell you this, Micah, but the current right-wing schtick is becoming impossible to parody. It's like Michael Bérubé wrote:INSULT-UPON-INJURY, New York (AP)-- Conservative commentators have induced a "satire crisis" for liberal and progressive bloggers in...
The AP reports on a new International Red Cross report released today: The report by the International Committee of the Red Cross supports allegations that abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers was broad and “not individual acts” - contrary to President George...
Knight Ridder reports:Sadoun Dulame read the results of his latest poll again and again. He added up percentages, highlighted sections and scribbled notes in the margins. No matter how he crunched the numbers, however, he found himself in the uncomfortable position...
Iraqi captors tougher: ex-hostage From correspondents in Macon, Mississippi May 10, 2004 THOMAS Hamill, who has returned to the US after escaping his abductors in Iraq, said his captors treated him more harshly after they saw pictures of US soldiers abusing Iraqi...
Seymour Hersh's new article in the New Yorker, Chain of Command, has been posted. An excerpt: One of the new photographs shows a young soldier, wearing a dark jacket over his uniform and smiling into the camera, in the corridor of the jail. In the background are two...
"If I could not be effective, I'd resign in a minute. I would not resign simply because people try to make a political issue of it."...Donald RumsfeldIn a war that could go on for decades, you cannot simply detain people indefinitely on the sole authority of the...
A very good essay if you can stand to read it. Plan on being angry if you do. Excerpt: “Stop with the hindsight”, says one writer. “Be patient,” says another. Oh, no, let’s not stop with the hindsight. Not when so many remain so profoundly, dangerously,...
What happened to Sistani's "red line?"4/16/2004 - Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani the leading Shi'ite Muslim cleric in Iraq , has told the United States not to enter the holy city of Najaf in pursuit of Moqtada al-Sadr.Reports today place the American troops inside Najaf and...
Stuart Hughes asks a good question: President Bush has told al-Arabiya that the US will "fully investigate" the alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by military personnel and "justice will be served." What, like the "full investigations" and subsequent handing down of...
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - The Iraqi former general entrusted with pacifying volatile Falluja said on Thursday U.S. Marines must withdraw quickly from around the troubled town and go home so stability can be restored. "I want the American soldier to return to his camp....
