Rape, War and America
Robin Morgan on what would have been the 15th birthday of Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi AlterNet: War on Iraq: Rape, Murder, and the American GI Sometimes, a few nice American …
Chaos is the agenda
This is NOT an incompetent administration — they are producing exactly the results they want. d r i f t g l a s s: Plan Asinine Because the Four …
Who grieves for dead Iraqis?
Who grieves for dead Iraqis? Is blood on the hands of those Americans who support the war? Again, one must leave them to heaven. But in the objective order it …
Things that go “baa-baa”
FIASCO: The American Military Adventure in Iraq Stafford, Va.: Where does the crux of the blame for the FIASCO lie? There were a lot of efforts to incorporate lessons learned …
Good questions
From Cenk Uygur at Huffpo: How Many Civilians Do You Have to Kill Before You Become a Terrorist? The United States and Israel love to throw around the word “terrorist.” …
Corner turning
Unclaimed Territory – by Glenn Greenwald: Even neoconservatives now accepting defeat in Iraq So that’s what our mission in Iraq has been reduced to — ceding most of Iraq to …
President God
You know it’s a bad sign when a news report — the the Washington Post, no less — starts like this: As Congress opened hearings yesterday on the treatment of …
Joe blinks
I don’t usually post about Democratic Party machinations, but this is a giddy day in Netrootsland. Booman’s take: Lieberman Jumps Ship Joe Lieberman jumped ship today. He pledged to run …
SCOTUS: Gitmo bad, no can do
Or, you know, more legalistically: SCOTUSblog: Hamdan Summary — And HUGE News […] the Court held that Congress had, by statute, required that the commissions comply with the laws of …