New Iraqi Flag Flap

Here's the ugly flag the Iraqi Puppet Council today agreed should replace the current Iraqi flag. .. . . Somehow, I don't think the transplant will take. For one thing, it looks like the hated Israeli flag. "When I saw it in the newspaper, I felt very sad," said...

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Raed on WMD

Raed gets it right An explosion happened while US soldiers accompanied with WMD inspectors were trying to break into a chemical store. WMD inspectors?! freedom democracy freedom democracy WMD whooaaaaaaaaaaWMD. You gotta love their persistence.

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Today in the WSJ

Two points from today's War Street Journal opinion section. First, this editorial, "The Fallujah Stakes," urges precisely the type of overreaction I counsel against in today's column. Small wonder. But in the middle of their kill-'em-all routine, the editors insert a...

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LCpl. Boudreaux Non-Update

No news in the case of the Marine who allegedly humiliated some Iraqi kids, but the following story is part of why I'm already tired of the former.Marines get suspended sentences for assault Two Marines stationed at Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Station received suspended...

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Ilana Mercer Replies

In his April-25, Antiwar.com blog post, Mr. Epstein does his utmost to misrepresent my argument in "Blame Bush, Not the Jews, For Iraq." (Note that I say "Jews," not "Neoconservatives.") Readers should read the said column and The Jewish...

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Re Mercer

Ilana Mercer often defends Israel, which is fine, but she has also hammered neoconservatism and its proponents. Nothing contradictory about that, since we have pointed out time and again that "neoconservative" does not mean "Jewish." Why, then, does she now imply just...

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Re: Ilana Mercer

Marcus Epstein calls our attention to the latest Ilana Mercer word salad. In addition to the point Marcus makes about the way Mercer excuses all neocons and Jews for the war, it seems to me she should be taken to task for her own anti-semitic views. Mercer: President...

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Iraqi Intifada, Phase II?

Apparently, the Bush administration, in consultations with Abizaid and the military commanders in Iraq, has decided to do something about the stalemates at Najaf and Fallujah. The game plan that they've made public seems vague and it is unclear what they intend to...

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Support Sibel Edmonds Monday in DC

Sibel Edmonds, the FBI translator who is trying to tell the truth about pre-9/11 warnings that were supressed by the Feds, is appering in court in Washington, DC tomorrow (Monday). Edmonds is currently under a gag order and the FBI is moving to block her giving a...

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Follow-Up

Reader S. Melmoth sends the following thoughts on yesterday's "Let's Call Fallujah Their Yorktown and Be Done with It."South Korea also has the misfortune of having their national founding being grounded in humiliation and subservience as their liberation from Japan...

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