Mission Unaccomplished
In the wake of a truce last month that averted an all-out assault by U.S. Marines, [Fallujah] has taken on the trappings of a mini-republic that lives largely according to its own rules …...
meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Just Following Orders
The lawyer for a New Jersey-born reservist charged in the Iraq prisoner abuse case hopes to interview current and former detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison to bolster his contention that senior military officers...
Starve The “Truth” Out Of Them!
The U.S. policy, details of which have not been previously disclosed, was approved in early September [2003] … Wendy Patten, a lawyer and U.S. advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, said two provisions in...
The Disappeared
The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, issued a classified order last November directing military guards to hide a prisoner, later dubbed “Triple X” by soldiers, from Red Cross inspectors and...
Gipper Myths
Courtesy of Atrios and Krugman and Wikipedia: The House and Senate did not both come under Republican rule during Reagan’s time. The Berlin Wall did not come down when Reagan was in office. Reagan...
Gipper Values
Six months ago, when Gore campaign adviser Tom Downey received a package containing the Bush campaign material prior to the first debate, he immediately turned it over to the FBI. In sharp contrast, 20...
Bush Avoids Question On Justifying Torture
This is the title of the Knight-Ridder dispatch from the G8 clusterfuck. I can’t really improve on it… Meanwhile, Orrin Hatch says revealing that the US tortures prisoners apparently endangers US troops. Obviously not...
Taking Care Of The Press
Last August, 2003, while a Reuters journalist called Mazen Dana was filming outside the US torture prison Abu Ghraib, a US tank fired on hin, killing him instantly. His last images are of the...
Sy Hersh – “Frightened”
Seymour Hersh spoke… at the University of Chicago … He said the people most horrified by the way the war was planned were the military commanders responsible for protecting their troops…. He talked about...
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