And again makes it pay twice. Gosh, what happened in Fallujah was bad! Americans are divided on the war. The antiwar people are dumb--how can they be against both the war and the preceding sanctions?! There's no telling what the future will bring. Yay America! It's...
Though the numbers are still somewhat inconclusive, a total of nineteen soldiers have been killed in Iraq in less than 24 hours. First, CentCom reported that three soldiers died from combat on April 5th:Three Task Force 1st Armored Division soldiers were killed during...
But I find Eric's revelation about martyred "civilian" Michael Teague hilarious. And reading the article about his 2000 trial, I'm struck by the incredible convergence of sleaze in one place and time: Aryan Nation goons like Teague, hate-chasing narc Morris Dees, and...
Just watched The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002) last night. I have not read the similarly titled book by Christopher Hitchens, whose smug visage appears a zillion times throughout the film to detail Kissinger's alleged war crimes in Cambodia, Chile, and East Timor,...
Eli at Left Eye points out this Washington Post article which describes Blackwater commandos engaging in firefights with Iraqis alongside American soldiers. An attack by hundreds of Iraqi militia members on the U.S. government's headquarters in Najaf on Sunday was...
After denying all day today that more American troops (the only kind they can get) were needed in Iraq to deal with the incipient civil war Bremer managed to fire up, it comes to light that the US military has resorted to the old tried and true method of increasing...
More from Raed: So, Bush and Bremer said that all the clashes and attacks are being planed by terrorists, and that’s why the American army is killing and arresting “bad Iraqis” in those “bad cities”… those were just minority, but the CPA is going to give freedom and...
Iraqi blogger zayed is normally fairly pro-American, pro-Occupation. Here's his report from Baghdad today on Healing Iraq: A coup d'etat is taking place in Iraq a the moment. Al-Shu'la, Al-Hurria, Thawra (Sadr city), and Kadhimiya (all Shi'ite neighbourhoods in...
Perry de Havilland has a solution to the Iraqi quagmire! What seems to be developing into an open revolt in Iraq by Shi'a Islamists could be a Godsend to the coalition and secular elements of Iraqi society in the long run... in openly taking up arms against the...
Here's a discussion of Muqtada al Sadr from Raed Jarrar who posts on his Iraqi blog Raed in the Middle. Muqtada, is younger than me. He is around 25 years old, spent all of his life in Iraq studying in religious schools, I think he is very introverted, defensive and...
