They're a litigious bunch: Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen, and now Conrad Black:Conrad Black said Friday he will file a $871 million libel suit in Canada against the Hollinger International Inc. special committee that issued a report contending he and other former top...
Julian Sanchez of Reason.com compares reality with Bush's own words: Bush (approximately): "He says we didn't have allies? What does he say to Tony Blair? What does he say to Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland?" President Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland: "They deceived...
Just in case today's spotlight piqued your interest, here's the e-mail circulated by Wall Street Journal Baghdad correspondent Farnaz Fassihi. Not-so-shockingly, the warbloggers, who lap up every syllable of WSJ op-eds, have thus far left this one alone.
Between Juan Cole's entry from yesterday and what Abbas Kadhim writes, it appears conclusive that Najaf has been destroyed.
Antiwar.com contributor Al Lorentz, whose troubles I discussed here, gets a write-up in Salon. I'm looking forward to the enormous support Sgt. Lorentz is sure to receive from the "Support Our Troops" crowd.
The DoD reports: Sgt. Skipper Soram, 23, of Kolonia Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, died Sept. 22 in Baghdad, Iraq, when a vehicle-based improvised explosive device detonated near his security post. Soram was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery...
From Bob Novak's column of today:A few hours after George W. Bush dismissed a pessimistic CIA report on Iraq as ''just guessing,'' the analyst who identified himself as its author told a private dinner last week of secret, unheeded warnings years ago about going to...
Al Lorentz, a Texas reservist serving with the U.S. Army in Iraq, has gotten into hot water for writing this courageous appraisal of the Iraq disaster. Specifically, the military may charge him with "willfully causing or attempting to cause insubordination,...
Alot of bloggers are decrying this Rumsfeldian comment:"Let's say you tried to have an election and you could have it in three-quarters or four-fifths of the country in some places you couldn't because the violence was too great," Rumsfeld said. "So be it. Nothing's...
An excerpt from Riverbend's latest:After Bush finished his piece about the glamorous changes in Iraq, Allawi got his turn. I can't seem to decide what is worse- when Bush speaks in the name of Iraqi people, or when Allawi does. Yesterday's speech was particularly...
