I ran across this picture from Fallujah last night. I'm going to make it a thumbnail image, so those who can't bear looking at a photo of a dog dining on an Iraqi, please just don't click on it. I think everyone should look at it, though, because this is the result of...
Remember this guy? Apparently his getaway didn't work out very well:'Abducted' Marine's desertion charge A US Marine who was reported abducted in Iraq and later turned up in his native Jordan was charged today with desertion. Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun was charged...
There have been a quite a few reports in the news the past day on the higher survival rate of US soldiers due to superior body armor and trauma care based on the report in the New England Journal of Medicine, Casualties of War — Military Care for the Wounded from Iraq...
AFP is reporting that Moqtada al-Sadr is not on the list assembled by Ayatollah al-Sistani's United Iraqi Alliance.The United Iraqi Alliance, backed by highly revered Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, includes the Dawa party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic...
Spencer Ackerman has the whole transcript of Rumsfeld's Kuwait Roasting, in addition to the armor issue the US media focussed on. A sample:Q: Yes, sir. I was wanting to know why I cannot enlist as a single parent in the regular Army, but I can enlist in the National...
Chris Albritton critiques one of George Paine's Warblogging posts which analyzes the authoritarian utopia planned for Fallujah A comparison to the Warsaw Ghetto is tempting, but is perhaps a bit too extreme. We can only hope and assume that the residents of Fallujah,...
Oh no. Perish the thought! He’s running with that Yushchenko poisoning "confirmed" story from the London Times – many hours after it’s been thoroughly debunked by the Associated Press, which reports:"The cause of the illness that has left Ukrainian...
Once again Ron Paul is totally on the mark re the lurid, uncivil possibilities posed by the potential imposition of a US ID card – and called to mind the battle already going on in Japan over Juki Net, launched in 2003, and causing a ruckus there (e.g, Japanese...
(see 10 for introduction) 6 next Tuesday John Nichols wrote about Tommy Thompson's return to Wisconsin from the Bush cabinet, it's not worth providing a link, that was his 103rd Capital Times column of the year and the 103rd time he's failed to mention "Israel" (or...
Via Mark Elf at jews sans frontieres: Perdition II - this time it's personal"ALAN RICKMAN is about to become the latest Hollywood star to light the blue touchpaper on the powderkeg that is Arab-Israeli politics." Or should that say "the latest ex. -Hollywood star"...
