In keeping with the current neocon/republican argument that the Iraqi prisoner torture problem isn't as bad as the fact that incontrovertible evidence of it in the form of gruesome video and digital images has been made public, Rumsfeld has banned.....not torture, but...
Neocons react to the Chalabi raid. That last link, by Rich Lowry, looks to be the beginning of an alternative neocon narrative in which Chalabi was a bad guy all along. Let's see how many war supporters hitch their wagons to it and how many persist in apotheosizing...
From the Dow Jones Newswire: NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- A military lawyer for a soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib abuse case testified that a captain at the Baghdad prison said the highest-ranking U.S. military officer in Iraq was present during some " interrogations...
The Sunday Times and the Scotsman are both reporting on a memo highly critical of American "heavy handed tactics" in Iraq and accusing the US of responsibility for the uprisings currently engulfing Iraq:THE FIRST cracks in Britain’s coalition with the United States...
The Independent claims to have proof that the US military bombed a wedding and not a "smuggler safe house on a rat line:" Fresh allegations of American abuse of prisoners continue to appall the world. But now 'The Independent on Sunday' has uncovered proof of US...
Christopher Albritton is Back to Iraq and describes his return trip in "Greetings from Baghdad," along with comments about the raids on Ahmed Chalabi's house and INC offices, as well as the wedding deaths in "Chalabi to CPA." And Riverbend, the Iraqi girl blogger,...
Nikolai at Lenin's Tomb points out another American Cultural Ignorance faux pas committed in renaming their infamous Iraqi torture center: At the behest of the IGC, Abu Graibh prison has been renamed , Camp Redemption. I shit you not. Hmmm. Where can they have got...
No matter what horrors come of the neoconservative dream, they will blame us. They're already busy.
His truth is marching on.
Steve LaTulippe over at LewRockwell.com does an "autopsy" of the Mess in Potamia. Even though the specifics all relate to the Iraq war, the conclusion is applicable to all Imperial adventures: It was a geopolitical felony, committed with malice aforethought,...
