meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Not With A Bang…
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...
Played For Patsies
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...
The Good Stuff
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...
Mea Sorta Culpa
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...
Valley Girl, Like, Totally Flees Iraq
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...
In Search of Weddings Past
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...
No Child Left Behind
A man and his 12-year-old daughter spent the last four years living in a remote hillside in Portland’s Forest Park … Under a tarp-covered, wood-framed shelter, [police] found sleeping bags, a partially burnt log,...
Oh the Irony of Unfortunate Timing
The Bush administration wants the U.N. Security Council to renew on Friday a controversial resolution exempting American peacekeepers from prosecution by the new International Criminal Court … The draft resolution, introduced by the United...