From The New York Times’s McCain Is Vocal on War, but Silent on Son’s Service: “Mr. McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee, has staked his candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq. What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son, who spent seven months [...]
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A Preview Of What’s Coming
April 4, 2008 – 10:23 am
From Alternet’s How the U.S. Just Got Schooled by a ‘Rag-Tag’ Neighborhood Army in Iraq: “Guerrilla wars are slow, crock-pot wars. To win this kind of war, the long war, takes patience. Trying to force a ‘defining moment’ by military action is not just ignorant and idiotic, but risks further demoralizing your side when that [...]
4,000? Try 34,000.
March 24, 2008 – 12:51 pm
From Alternet’s 4,000 Troop Deaths: A Number That Just Scratches the Surface: “Almost 30,000 American troops have been wounded in Iraq, according to official counts. But that’s just the official figure; the Pentagon doesn’t have adequate mechanisms in place to accurately track the number of wounded soldiers, and unofficial estimates range to 100,000. How many [...]
Iraq is a country no more.
March 18, 2008 – 10:29 am
From the Independent’s Iraq is a country no more: “Five years of occupation have destroyed Iraq as a country. Baghdad is today a collection of hostile Sunni and Shia ghettoes divided by high concrete walls. Different districts even have different national flags. Sunni areas use the old Iraqi flag with the three stars of the [...]
‘Signs of torture’ you can’t imagine
March 14, 2008 – 02:30 pm
From CNN’s ‘Signs of torture’ you can’t imagine: “‘They took my husband away in front of me. I found his body in the morgue a few days later. He had multiple bullet wounds and his eyes had been gouged out,’ one woman tells me, forcefully twisting a tissue in her hands as if it somehow [...]
Report? What Report?
March 13, 2008 – 01:43 pm
From Salon’s Report? What Report?: “With the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war quickly approaching, the Pentagon sponsored a new study on the relationship between Saddam Hussein and terror groups including al-Qaida. The report found no ‘direct connection’ between Saddam’s Iraq and al-Qaida. The report did say that Saddam was one of [...]
As Goes Vermont, So Goes the Nation?
March 7, 2008 – 01:16 pm
From Alternet’s As Goes Vermont, So Goes the Nation?: “A central reason that the war hits home in Vermont is that the war touches almost everyone there. Vermont has the highest per capita death rate among U.S. service members, more than twice the rate of most other states. People feel the loss, see the suffering, [...]
Shifting Targets
October 1, 2007 – 05:16 pm
From Seymour Hersh’s recent New Yorker article, Shifting Targets: The Administration’s Plan for Iran: “The former intelligence official added, ‘There is a desperate effort by Cheney et al. to bring military action to Iran as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the politicians are saying, ‘You can’t do it, because every Republican is going to be defeated, [...]
What Defines a Killing as Sectarian?
September 25, 2007 – 10:31 am
From the Washington Post’s Grim Accounting: What Defines a Killing as Sectarian? “On Sept. 1, the bullet-riddled bodies of four Iraqi men were found on a Baghdad street. Two days later, a single dead man, with one bullet in his head, was found on a different street. According to the U.S. military in Iraq, the [...]
The Iraq Position Locator - Slate Magazine
September 24, 2007 – 12:12 pm
Slate has put together an easy to read chart of where politicians, pundits, and other thought leaders originally stood and now stand on Iraq. It’s pretty helpful, so check out The Iraq Position Locator.
