I have refrained from writing about the stunning conclusions in the Lancet study which claims 100,000 excess deaths since the US/UK invasion of Iraq. Although extensively peer reviewed and done with accepted methodology for war conditions (I'd link to Spencer...
Shosei Koda found beheaded
A headless body believed to be that of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda has been found in Baghdad today. The body was found just off Haifa street wrapped in an American flag.
“Iraqi forces” massacre civilians
I have no idea what this is all about, but this is the first time I've ever heard of "Iraqi forces" responding to a US convoy bombing. Witnesses told Associated Press Television News that an American convoy was attacked early Saturday near the town of Haswa, about 25...
First Osama, Then Collateral Damage
My column reappears just in time for Halloween. Read it and quit bugging us about Pat Buchanan's endorsement, will ya?
Osama bin Forgotten?
Whatever happened to Osama bin Laden, anyway?
They Hate Us Because We Are Free
Bin Laden responds: Bin Laden said he wanted to explain why he ordered the suicide airline hijackings that hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon so Americans would know how to avoid "another disaster." "To the U.S. people, my talk is to you about the best way to...
More “Wild Charges” about Al Qa Qaa
Click to enlarge pictures, video at the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS link Just as the images from inside the Abu Ghraib prison forced the Bush administration to deal with the previously stonewalled allegations of torture in US detention facilities it seems the same thing may...
True Believers and the Looting of Iraq
What is it with the warhawks' sudden recognition of the hypocrisy of the now discarded justification for the invasion of Iraq being to "disarm Saddam?" For an example, Andrew Sullivan, disillusioned Bushie war cheerleader writes:The reason the story of missing...
Theoretical – the ideal candidate
I saw Ron "Spread Liberty at Gunpoint" Bailey take this quiz over at Reason's Hit & Run blog. The quiz said Bailey should vote for Badnarik and my ideal candidate is Theoretical, which seems about right. There's no "Nuke Mecca" question or any form of government...
Throw all the bums out
Two writers, one from the hell that is Baghdad under Bush and the other from the nascent Police State that is the US under Republican Emperor Dubya the Divine make the case for throwing the current bums out of power in Washington. Lew Rockwell:Many bad things would...


