Riverbend, the Iraqi blogger, has some commentary today on the demonstrations, as well as the announcment by Paul Bremer of a new Ministry of Defense and a new Iraqi intelligence organization in: Riots, Star Gazing and Cricket Choirs...
A month ago, Qawliya's collection of perhaps 150 homes in southern Iraq contained a small red-light district, an isolated warren known for prostitution and gunrunning and as a haven from the law. Today, it is destroyed, the few sounds of life made by barking dogs and...
Neocons and WarBots across the net have apparently decided that the four Blackwater, USA mercenaries killed in Fallujah should be elevated to saint status due to...well, it isn't clear why. However, failing to show reverence to the new saints of the Iraqi war is to...
Most of us are aware that during World War II, tens of thousands of children were evacuated from British cities in Operation Pied Piper and sent to the relative safety of the countryside at the onset of the war in 1939. What I hadn't encountered in history class was...
Well, let's see. Sharon has bulldozed some more houses in Rafah, shot some stone throwing little boys, assaulted the Al Aqsa mosque with riot police, who even shot sound bombs into the mosque, had a shootout at a Palestinian mental hospital, and threatened to kill...
Before the House Armed Services Committee: Congressional investigators warned about the ballooning cost and missed deadlines plaguing the Army’s efforts to rid itself of 31,000 tons of chemical weapons. The Army has made little progress in the last six months and...
From the new Warmongerz blog, a war FAQ:Q: How can destroying things and killing people be good for the economy? A: To see this, you have to look at the big picture. Sure, Johnny might not come home, but he's just one person, and you can't compare him to society,...
The White House website has a page called "Renewal in Iraq" where it posts good news stories under the heading "Liberation Update." News accounts are painting vivid pictures of the joy and relief of free Iraqis, who are living without fear of Saddam's brutality and...
One of the appeals currently being made by the warbots is an attempt to drum up sympathy for the Americans killed in Fallujah by casting them as humanitarian workers delivering food to the Iraqis. As AntiWar's Justin Raimondo points out when critiquing Peggy Noonan's...
A couple of weeks ago, four American missionaries were killed in Mosul. Then, on March 28, a Briton and a Canadian mercenary were killed in Mosul. After 4 mercenaries were killed in Fallujah, Kimmitt goes all ballistic and vows revenge and says he's going to "pacify"...
