"White House saw chain of reports on bin Laden – 'The system was blinking red,' CIA chief told panel" [by Dana Priest, Washington Post]:In January 2001, two surveillance photographs from the Kuala Lumpur meeting were shown to an informant who was helping both the CIA...
I just heard the old Kenny Rogers cornball "Coward of the County" on the radio, and the message sounded so familiar: peaceful fella mindin' his own bidness, painfully meek, suffering outrage after outrage until finally an unspeakable assault spurs him onto...
How to boost troop morale, Rumsfeld style: "Because we're in the midst of a major troop rotation, we have a planned increase in the number of U.S. troops," Rumsfeld said at a hastily arranged Pentagon press conference. The first casualties of what Rumsfeld called...
Lest we be accused of ignoring the good news coming out of Iraq, lets all celebrate this latest triumph of the incompetents running Operation Poorly Planned Occupation. Radioactive Scrap From Iraq Shows Up in EuropeIraq's nuclear facilities remain unguarded, and...
Iraqi 'beaten to death' by US troops An Iraqi has died of his wounds after US troops beat him with truncheons because he refused to remove a picture of wanted Shiite Muslim leader Moqtada Sadr from his car, police said today. The motorist was stopped late yesterday by...
So the prez doubled the amount of mustard gas actually found at that Libyan turkey farm. Really, so what? What if it had been a million tons of mustard gas? I'm gonna keep telling you this till you beg me to stop: 1. Chemical weapons are archaic, largely ineffective...
From an Army wife, Extension is Absurd: My husband has been in the Army for 17 years, and I’ve been proud of that because we’ve done a lot of good things in many ways. We never regretted any place that Army life has taken us because we knew our job and our place in...
We're continuously hearing about the low reserves and high price of crude oil. We continuously hear about the high cost of war. Next time you slide up to the pump and stiffle a gasp at the price of a gallon of gas while peeling megabucks out of your wallet to fill up,...
There's an enormous outpouring of shock and outrage on the net today over the Bush-Sharon meeting yesterday, in which it was decided that Sharon was entitled to whatever land in the West Bank he wanted in exchange for whatever other Palestinian land the Israelis are...
Check out this post by Glenn Reynolds. Note the initial update. He put it up immediately after I sent him the following e-mail:Glenn, Did you even read the comments beneath the link you posted? The Marine Corps has not yet settled the matter, but several...
