Monthly Archive: May 2004

One time I was having a conversation with some in-laws (a brother and a sister) who were in their late 90s and still totally alert. They were old enough to tell me of their...

Obviously someone in the US Army in Iraq has an MBA, as I predicted earlier they are trying to entice al-Sadr into becoming a “stakeholder”… In their effort to achieve as smooth a handover...

After witnessing the Pentagon’s retreat from both Fallujah and Najaf without achieving the “success” of pacification and/or elimination of the local resistance, it seems that aside from killing several thousand (mostly) civilian Iraqis and...

So as well as blindly following the “Crusader” scripts written for them by Bin Laden, Bush and the neoconned also apparently played right into the hands of Iran through Chalabi… “It’s pretty clear that...

Delivering blankets and food to refugees at Dwamanda in the south, Lieutenant Reid Finn had no hesitation in telling journalists: “It’s simple. The more they help us find the bad guys, the more good...

The New York Times was one of the major cheerleaders for an invasion of Iraq – frequently citing the most unbelievably bogus stories about Iraqi WMDs or Al Qaida links as fact. Many of...

Last December I wrote about how one especially publicity hungry young Republican cheerleader, Simone Ledeen, was busy plotting ways to spit on Hilary Clinton while she was in Iraq. Now I read the sad...

I noted this last July: AMERICAN forces may have breached human rights and then removed evidence after the so-called wedding party airstrike that killed more than 50 Afghan civilians this month, according to a...

Not for our eyes were the notes that showed White House staffers taking two-hour meetings with Christian fundamentalists, [with] a group whose representative in Israel believed herself to have been attacked by witchcraft unleashed...