Regarding the Haditha massacre, we have been told by the Pentagon that 99.9 percent of soldiers perform their jobs magnificently. Let's hope not. What is their job? It is to kill people and break things. The job of U.S. soldiers is to bring death and destruction to...
Is the death of al-Zarqawi good news for the US military? Or is it good news for al-Qaeda? Reports from April indicate that Zarqawi had been "demoted" within al-Qaeda. Huthayfah Azzam, son of Abdullah Azzam, the mentor of both Osama bin Laden and Mr. Zarqawi, said...
That's David Weigel's count, anyway: It's fantastic news that U.S. forces have killed a terrorist who murdered hundreds or thousands of Americans and Iraqis in cold blood. It's definitely not wise for pundits to take that news and bash Iraq War skeptics over the head...
Radley Balko has done some excellent work covering the militarization of law enforcement in the War on Drugs. In his most recent post on the subject, he includes a letter written by a man whose niece was shot and killed by a gung-ho cop "during a drug raid that went...
Brad Spangler and Thomas Knapp have started freedomSLUT ("Sites, Links, URLs, and Tags"). Check it out.
Speaking of the essentially Soviet Bill Kristol, check out this great clip (courtesy of Crooks and Liars) of him pretending that Iran is anywhere near the capability of producing nuclear weapons, and then calling for the president's elevation to "Supreme Leader." Call...
Sunday music link: "The Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley." Here's the MP3, and here's a transcript of the stirring lyrics. Take heart, warbloggers: this record sold over a million copies in four days.
Jonathan Schwarz has some important thoughts on Glenn Reynolds' warning to antiwar Americans, particularly his stunning update, here. And let's be perfectly clear about this: Ingemi and Reynolds are warning us to shut the f*ck up about war crimes or face the armed...
After a whiny Hugh Hewitt quotation about Haditha coverage in the Emm Ess Emm – which, by the way, lost two members in Iraq on Monday, as the warbloggers slathered on suntan lotion – Glenn Reynolds shares a rather disturbing letter from a reader. Read the whole...
It's always amusing to watch the authoritarian Right respond to evidence of U.S. military atrocities. The same people who scream "Guilty!" and erect the gallows every time a sensational crime makes it into the Fox News rotation suddenly get all Phil Donahue on us when...
