Bush says U.S troops will stay in Iraq until the Iraqis can defend against "external aggression and internal subversion." Apparently that means the Iraqis will have to drive the Americans out themselves. Iraqi Shi'ite youths throw stones at a U.S. military convoy in...
The other day the NRO ran this piece about the Junior RNC Neocons that they have staffing the CPA headquarters in the Green Zone. As Washington Monthly describes them:When we last checked in with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, "Who's Who" noted that...
ArkhAngel rebuts "an email from SPC Joe Roche, who's currently serving with the 16th Engineer Battalion, part of the 1st Armored Division. Yes, that's the division whose tour was extended by three months. They're located in the Baghdad area, and they've seen some of...
Al Hurra, the Pentagon funded US propaganda channel targeted at Arabs will broadcast photos and video of Saddam-era atrocities! These should make all Americans feel better about their torture chambers, and the Arabs should realize once and for all that they have no...
Apparently, Sistani's "red line" is right around his house. U.S. tanks thrust into Iraq holy city U.S. forces have intensified their war against Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, sending tanks into Najaf's vast cemetery to blast guerrilla positions on sacred ground in the...
Here's Tucker Carlson, a conservative TV pundit who recently began questioning the whole Empire thing: "I was thinking this morning: ‘Diversity is the strength of our country.’ Oh yeah? How’s that? Why don’t you explain that to me? I don’t see that. I mean, is...
UPI reports: U.S. and coalition forces will leave Iraq if asked to do so by an interim Iraqi government, a State Department official told the House Thursday.while a coalition sponsored poll reports:Four out of five Iraqis report holding a negative view of the U.S....
I'm trying to work up an appropriate expression of...um. Gloating. Schadenfreude. Sympathy? For this news: Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper [has] suspended the weekly column of Barbara Amiel-Black after its parent, Hollinger International, filed a lawsuit accusing...
Guantanamo prisoner: "After a while, we stopped asking for human rights - we wanted animal rights."Senator: “Almost everybody was naked all the time.” I remember when these accounts first came out I thought they might be exaggerated. Tarek Dergoul, 26, from London,...
We're all appalled by what happened to Nick Berg. But while some of us look at this crime and think my God, what have we gotten ourselves into?, others use it to stir up more hatred and violence. The belligerati have issued a giant sigh--or shriek--of relief as this...
