Hidden under an obscure photo on Yahoo! News, one finds this interesting fact: An anonymous note slipped under a superior's door by a part-time soldier from Pennsylvania triggered the Iraq prison abuse scandal now engulfing the US military and administration.Any...
The folks down in Lynndie England's hometown are doing their best to defend her actions at the Abu Ghraib Prison. England is the woman shown in the CBS and Washington Post photos with the cigarette, giving the "thumbs-up" as she points to the genitals of a hooded...
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,...
Riverbend, the Iraqi girl blogger, pretty much seems to sum up the feelings of most Iraqis at the moment about the occupation in this last paragraph of her blog entry posted for May 7th. ...I sometimes get emails asking me to propose solutions or make suggestions....
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...
Brit Hume may be smart, but I haven't heard a reasonable word out of his mouth since 9/11. And James Lileks is an "immensely talented writer"? James "F*ck you, Salam" Lileks? That giant sucking sound Ross Perot heard
From Stars & Stripes:Task force delivers its report on sexual assault in combat zone ARLINGTON, Va. — The 10-member task force probing the issue of sexual assault in the combat zone has delivered its anticipated report to Pentagon leadership a few days ahead of...
Crouching in the showers?Guardsman Probed for Iraq Naked Soldier Photos SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The head of a U.S. military police unit at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison is under investigation following charges he secretly photographed naked female American soldiers,...
A friend sends along this cartoon from Bob Ariail of The State (Columbia, SC).
