In addition to Ed Kihane's Plea for the Abducted Iraqi and Italian Bridges to Baghdad aid workers, Voices in the Wilderness has posted a Bridges to Baghdad collection which includes a link to freeourfriends.blogspot which has a petition to sign and a statement of...
Interventionist Mentality
The attention paid to President Bush's recent interview on the Today Show focused on his comments that the war on terror could not be won. In that same interview he made another revealing comment: President Bush: I guess because I made some hard decisions. And we've...
The Qalqilya Arab pen.
Lawrence of Cyberia writes: In case you're not sure what you're looking at in the first photograph, the white ribbon around the residential center of Qalqilya is Israel's Wall. The brown areas to the north and south of the town, and outside the wall, are where...
Moore Makes NYT Look Better
The Forward of August 27 has an interesting pairing of op-ed pieces. In the first, the Jewish weekly expresses its dismay re the Bush administration's approval of a new Israel settlement construction project. The approval comes at a time when Israel's attorney general...
Four US Marines Killed on 9/3/04
As the death total in Iraq inches towards 1000, the Department of Defense press corps has started to work on weekends. DoD press releases have almost always been sent out on weekdays, presumably when the government is at "work." This weekend however, the DoD released...
Al-Duri capture story bogus
Tikrit - A senior commander in the Iraqi national guard on Sunday insisted his officers had not captured Saddam Hussein's deputy Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri. "Our forces did not take part in any operation and did not capture Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri and we do not have any...
Saturday Blog Tour
C. Lounsbury on the US military's discovery that people don't hate you as bad when they are accorded some respect and allowed to retain their dignity. Unfortunately, as one Iraqi points out, it's "too little, too late." When the US military will realize that bombs in...
U.S. Military Deaths in the Conquest of Iraq
U.S. Military Deaths in the Conquest of Iraq The URLs on the chart and the events indicated by dots on the line are hyperlinked - just click them.
Words Speak Louder than Actions
A must see video: George W. Bush: Words Speak Louder than Actions First up under featured videos. See the battle between Dubya's words and facts and reality.
If I Buy It, Do I Get to Use It?
Glenn Reynolds demonstrates his grasp of economics (3rd graf) and his concern for American taxpayers.


