This is a good post by Steve Gilliard referencing Juan Cole on the subject of the Spanish refusal to accept the suicide mission to bring al Sadr in "dead or alive," which was what the Bushie Americans asked them to do. Steve points out that the US military is acting...
Several blogging soldiers have pointed out how egregiously bad was Donald Rumsfeld's inability to cite the chain of command leading from the "six morons" to the top. A non-military person would be likely to miss this: Arkhangel: I saw Don Rumsfeld's testimony today,...
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...
The Pentagon attempts another cover-up, this time by forbidding military personnel to read FOX News, the government's favorite media whore! Why? Because FOX was carrying the Taguba report on the Iraqi prison abuses at its website. Here is Vivienne Walt's expose for...
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...
In this commentary, Jonathan Tasini notes strong antiwar sentiment appearing in an unlikely place: I experienced a Walter Cronkite moment last week that signaled to me that something is in the air about what people feel about the Iraq war. No, it didn't come from Ted...
