Reportedly 3 Kurds labeled as "KDP party members" have been beheaded and the video posted on the web. At the same time, it is reported that 25 "Iraqi National Guard members" have also been abducted. Considering that the "Iraqi National Guard" which fought alongside US...
zeyad, a pro-occupation blogger purportedly living in Basra has posted once again a bizarre thesis, which raises many questions - such as, to what news does this guy have access? Is he oblivious or deliberately posting misleading and outright wrong information? and,...
How the Flypaper Theory is working. If you don't understand it you're just unenlightened, like Jim Henley. Via Micah Holmquist, Mickey Z. on Osama bin Laden vs. Pat Tillman zeynep zeroes in on the essential question for the US military, which tried to justify firing...
Matt Yglesias says that if the US pulled out of Iraq, the following would ensue:Many people would die. Oil supplies disrupted. Regional powers get involved. Instability. Terrorism. Death. Chaos. Destruction.That's different from the last year and a half how, exactly?
I posted yesterday about the blogosphere buzz over Julian Sanchez tracking down the identity of the guy at the RNC Convention who kicked a woman while she was on the ground being restrained by three FBI agents. Here are the latest developments: Jerralyn Merritt of...
Here's what Bush's WMD hysteria is reduced to:U.S. weapons inspector to find Iraq had no WMD, only intentions Drafts of a report from the top U.S. inspector in Iraq conclude there were no weapons stockpiles, but say there are signs the fallen Iraqi President Saddam...
Can one person's vote make a difference for President? West Virginia GOP elector Richard Robb says he is ready to prove it can. As a Republican elector, Robb will get to vote as one of 538 members of the Electoral College in actually deciding who becomes President....
It looks like Julian Sanchez has got the goods on the guy at the RNC who kicked the female protester who was already on the ground. Turns out he's a hard-core Republican Bushista who interns at the National Taxpayers Union. Check out the links in Julian's post,...
UPDATE (9/17 6:30EST): One Marine killed on Friday. UPDATE (9/16 8pm EST): The number keeps rising. Recently, the Department of Defense and CentCom have made a habit out of not reporting US fatalities in Iraq until days if not weeks after they occur. This week was...
Riverbend: September 11… he sat there, reading the paper. As he reached out for the cup in front of him for a sip of tea, he could vaguely hear the sound of an airplane overhead. It was a bright, fresh day and there was much he had to do… but the world suddenly went...
