Bridges Baghdad; Vigils tonite

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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