Author: mike

New shootings by Marines in Mosul today. Apparently some ad-hoc Iraqi police tried to stop looters by firing shots but, probably spooked, the Marines fired on the police, or maybe the anti-US protestors outside...

Michael Wolff wrote another interesting article on what happens when conservative forces perceive you as a dissenter, when you dare to ask what’s behind the curtain… The Rush thing. First it was CNN that...

US troops in the factionally divided northern Iraqi city of Mosul fired into a crowd at a political rally, killing 10 and wounding around a hundred. Apparently, a pro-US Iraqi was making a speech...

As the war began, members of the House of Representatives gave speech after speech praising our soldiers, and passed a resolution declaring their support for the troops. Then they voted to slash veterans’ benefits...

So it’s not just me that’s noticed a trend in reader feedback. Here’s what Roger Ebert has to say about the varieties of his fan mail: There’s an interesting pattern going on. When I...

Some kind of bittersweet love-in going on here between US armed forces and surviving peace activists in Baghdad. At least a dozen soldiers have stopped to talk with us since we began the vigil...

So although much has been made of Bagman Rumsfeld’s cordial visit with Saddam during the 1980s, just as Iraq’s campaign of chemical warfare was hitting its stride, it’s always been somewhat of a mystery...

Ken MacLeod’s blog had this link to an older article from Iraq about the effects of earlier radiological warfare and sanctions against that country. “Before the Gulf War, we had only three or four...

So I’m not the only one to notice how the US/UK are performing the good cop/bad cop routine on Syria. The wrangling over Iraq’s neighbor Syria is starting to look like an international version...

Apparently, in order to successfully try Iraqi political prisoners for war crimes, the US must abandon the principle of non-aggression that it used to indict the Nazis at Nuremberg. Tricky. Is this “Kellogg-Briand” pact...