Last night, Bill O'Reilly called Sadr "the new Saddam," which, given what we now know about Saddam's threat to America, should make us wonder why we need to topple Sadr. But who's the real new Saddam? This Washington Times headline speaks volumes: "Clashes Raise...
From Riverbend, the Iraqi blogger in Baghdad: Our foreign minister Hoshyar Zibari was being interviewed by some British journalist yesterday, making excuses for Tony Blair and commending him on the war. At one point someone asked him about the current situation in...
Photomosaic of Americans who have died in Iraq since the war president entered office. By Joe of American Leftist
I keep running across statements in the media that I hope are disinfo or something because we're in deep trouble if the Bush regime really believes this.Al-Sadr is believed to have about 600 hardcore followers and as many as 3,000 militia members at his command. Many...
Retired Canadian general and veteran UN peacekeeper Lewis McKenzie isn't the first to say that, and may not be the last. In an op-ed in Canada's National Post today, McKenzie deals with the very same issues as last week's Balkan Express: a seemingly (and likely)...
Arthur Silber weighs in on the controversy around blogger Kos, who has booted Richard Clarke from the top of the blogosphere's sh*tlist. If you've never had the pleasure of reading such twenty-four hour two minute hates as Little Green Footballs, Silber's selection of...
And again makes it pay twice. Gosh, what happened in Fallujah was bad! Americans are divided on the war. The antiwar people are dumb--how can they be against both the war and the preceding sanctions?! There's no telling what the future will bring. Yay America! It's...
Though the numbers are still somewhat inconclusive, a total of nineteen soldiers have been killed in Iraq in less than 24 hours. First, CentCom reported that three soldiers died from combat on April 5th:Three Task Force 1st Armored Division soldiers were killed during...
But I find Eric's revelation about martyred "civilian" Michael Teague hilarious. And reading the article about his 2000 trial, I'm struck by the incredible convergence of sleaze in one place and time: Aryan Nation goons like Teague, hate-chasing narc Morris Dees, and...
Just watched The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002) last night. I have not read the similarly titled book by Christopher Hitchens, whose smug visage appears a zillion times throughout the film to detail Kissinger's alleged war crimes in Cambodia, Chile, and East Timor,...
