This is a current poll being done by Army Times asking: "Do you think violence against U.S. forces will diminish after June 30, when Iraqis are scheduled to take control of their government again?" I am making an assumption (yes, I know, usually a bad thing to do)...
Stuart Hughes has the news about the Saudi shooting of his two colleagues in Riyadh. Stuart is presently in London in the BBC newsroom. Here's Frank Gardner's last report from Saudi Arabia before being gunned down on a Riyadh street. Simon Cumbers was killed and Frank...
Patrick Cockburn, in an article titled "The Baghdad Bombings - The Pattern of Attacks is Changing" mentions near the end that "On Saturday gunmen attacked civilian security in two four-wheel-drive vehicles and killed four--two Americans and two Poles--on the airport...
Chris at Explananda catches a blatant example of hypocrisy on the part of (surprise!) the Bush Administration. Apparently they're going to use the upcoming G-8 summit to issue a "sweeping declaration favoring democratic changes in the Middle East. Indeed, they said...
New Puppet Prime Minister Allawi has announced that nine Iraqi militias have agreed to disband and that the ones not agreeing are "outlawed." This agreement allegedly includes the Kurdish pershmerga of the KDP and the PUK, which seems odd. Consider the stand-off that...
Yes, it's been 1000 days since 9-11!! Still haven't captured Osama bin Laden as George W. Bush promised he would!! Or do we already have Osama on ice waiting for a November defrosting right before the election? I don't think there is any trick or lie that the neocons...
Remind Us: Why Did the U.S. Government Invade and Destabilize Iraq? Thanks to Strike the Root for the link
Tom Burka on loyalty and staying the course:Bush Says Umbrella Working "Just Fine" President Bush said that his present umbrella was "working perfectly" and rejected calls for a new one. "This umbrella is perhaps one of the finest umbrellas this country has ever had,"...
Critics of the antiwar movement are constantly singing praises about the good things that are happening in Iraq and berating the media for not reporting on the wonderful progress being made in painting schools, and patching up bridges and sewer systems blown apart by...
Alexander Cockburn asks, "Has Bush Gone Over the Edge?" I thought he went over the edge long ago, but this is really bad. Oh, and Tony Blair is also insane. UPDATE: Here's the Capitol Hill Blue article Cockburn references.
