LA Times reports: The company said the decision was made after supply trucks protected by U.S. soldiers were attacked Friday by Iraqi insurgents just outside Baghdad, resulting in the death of one employee from Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root. Seven...
Glenn Reynolds contemplates nuclear annihilation with a chuckle. There is no longer any excuse for any decent person, much less libertarian, to associate with this vile SOB. I realize that the appellations "decent" and "libertarian" don't in any way describe most of...
Sikorsky Down - Where's the crew? The US military has confirmed that an H-53 Sikorsky helicopter has been shot down in the guerilla-held area between Baghdad and Fallujah. They very pointedly say that there is no indication that the crew was killed or injured. What...
Jo Wilding travels into Fallujah: Trucks, oil tankers, tanks are burning on the highway east to Falluja. A stream of boys and men goes to and from a lorry that’s not burnt, stripping it bare. We turn onto the back roads through Abu Ghraib, Nuha and Ahrar singing in...
Lawrence of Cyberia offers this quote, by Yossi Sarid MK, Former Israeli Minister of Education, in We cannot let death have dominion, as Quote of the Week: We are still trying to count, and to remember them as individuals, but with so many dead, it’s hard to keep...
William F. Buckley sez we can't leave Iraq just yet because:1) The old concern that Shiites and Sunnis would fire up sectarian hostility to dismember the state is taking a back seat to the concern that they are forgetting their differences in order to fight jointly --...
A painful visual mosaic of our "War President," courtesy of Joe at American Leftist who explains: Given this image's inflammatory nature, I posted it with a great deal of trepidation. I had a hard time deciding if it was the right thing to do and I am still not sure....
Funny stuff from that notorious antimilitary rag the Marine Corps Times:An Islamic civil liberties group has called for a Pentagon investigation into an apparent gag photograph of a Marine in Iraq taken during the last year. In the photo, a smiling Lance Cpl. Ted J....
Littlegreenfootballs posters or late German Fascists? I was inspired to build this quiz when I noticed that comments on Littlegreenfootballs.com (a popular warblog) tended to be indistinguishable in tone and content from the writings of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler,...
This morning's announcement by the Pentagon brought the total killed in the last twelve days to 76 US soldiers, including 26 killed in the last three days. CNN posted this story this morning, but moved this important part of the story down to the bottom, giving new...
