LGF or LGF Quiz

Littlegreenfootballs posters or late German Fascists? I was inspired to build this quiz when I noticed that comments on Littlegreenfootballs.com (a popular warblog) tended to be indistinguishable in tone and content from the writings of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler,...

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76 GIs Die in Iraq Since April 1, 26 Over Weekend

This morning's announcement by the Pentagon brought the total killed in the last twelve days to 76 US soldiers, including 26 killed in the last three days. CNN posted this story this morning, but moved this important part of the story down to the bottom, giving new...

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Kimmit the Fallujah Frog

Raed Jarrar posted a bizarre Kimmitt (the Iraqis have started to call him Kimmitt the Frog)quote. The shadows of the unpleasant events of Falluja will affect the image of the American Army in Iraq… it will only increasing the anger of Iraqis, and help more extremist...

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Rahul Mahajan in Fallujah

Go here for an eyewitness account of what it is like in Fallujah today. Rahul Mahajan is blogging it. There are no permalinks, so look for the entry "April 11, 2:00 pm EST.Fallujah, Iraq."

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Iraqi Untermenschen

Juan Cole and Billmon both highlight an article appearing in the Telegraph today. Senior British commanders have condemned American military tactics in Iraq as heavy-handed and disproportionate. One senior officer said that America's aggressive methods were causing...

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Imagine Accountability

RICE [from Transcript of Rice's 9/11 commission statement]: The threat reporting to which we could respond was in June and July about threats abroad. What we tried to do for -- just because people said you cannot rule out an attack on the United States, was to have...

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Chalabi and Fallujah

The Washington Post has a piece up today about a battalion of Iraqis that have refused to fight for the Americans at Fallujah. They are saying, "We did not sign up to fight Iraqis." There have been some efforts in the blogosphere to follow this story, mostly by...

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General: No More Troops to Send to Iraq

The new issue of Time magazine (April 19) features an article "What Should Bush Do?" featuring three people giving advice on Iraq. General Barry McCaffrey says "There are no more U.S. troops to send to Iraq. That's why we need 80,000 or more troops added to the U.S....

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Failure in Iraq

"We haven't imposed any terms at the moment, we're just trying to get a cease-fire in place and we have asked the insurgents to stop attacking the Marines." "They didn't do that yesterday, we had a number of attacks yesterday, so we proposed a different time for one...

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Washington and 9/11

Two thought provoking posts from Eli at Left I on the News: Was Bush on vacation all of August 2001 because of the terrorist threat? The same threat that had Ashcroft travelling in leased aircraft rather than commercial flights? Libertarian Harry Browne reminds us...

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