Just in case today's spotlight piqued your interest, here's the e-mail circulated by Wall Street Journal Baghdad correspondent Farnaz Fassihi. Not-so-shockingly, the warbloggers, who lap up every syllable of WSJ op-eds, have thus far left this one alone.
Between Juan Cole's entry from yesterday and what Abbas Kadhim writes, it appears conclusive that Najaf has been destroyed.
Antiwar.com contributor Al Lorentz, whose troubles I discussed here, gets a write-up in Salon. I'm looking forward to the enormous support Sgt. Lorentz is sure to receive from the "Support Our Troops" crowd.
The DoD reports: Sgt. Skipper Soram, 23, of Kolonia Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, died Sept. 22 in Baghdad, Iraq, when a vehicle-based improvised explosive device detonated near his security post. Soram was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery...
From Bob Novak's column of today:A few hours after George W. Bush dismissed a pessimistic CIA report on Iraq as ''just guessing,'' the analyst who identified himself as its author told a private dinner last week of secret, unheeded warnings years ago about going to...
Al Lorentz, a Texas reservist serving with the U.S. Army in Iraq, has gotten into hot water for writing this courageous appraisal of the Iraq disaster. Specifically, the military may charge him with "willfully causing or attempting to cause insubordination,...
Alot of bloggers are decrying this Rumsfeldian comment:"Let's say you tried to have an election and you could have it in three-quarters or four-fifths of the country in some places you couldn't because the violence was too great," Rumsfeld said. "So be it. Nothing's...
An excerpt from Riverbend's latest:After Bush finished his piece about the glamorous changes in Iraq, Allawi got his turn. I can't seem to decide what is worse- when Bush speaks in the name of Iraqi people, or when Allawi does. Yesterday's speech was particularly...
Sorry I haven't blogged anything in awhile, but this is something most of you will probably get a kick out of. How to Avoid Becoming an Anti-American
I normally try to excerpt the good stuff, but I'll just reprint this in full and let all you anti-Semites chew on it (bolding mine):Blame It on Neo Don't call me a "neocon" unless you are a friend. BY JULIA GORIN Last week Pat Buchanan appeared on Comedy Central's...
