Jo Wilding travels into Fallujah: Trucks, oil tankers, tanks are burning on the highway east to Falluja. A stream of boys and men goes to and from a lorry that’s not burnt, stripping it bare. We turn onto the back roads through Abu Ghraib, Nuha and Ahrar singing in...
To lose count is to lose one’s humanity
Lawrence of Cyberia offers this quote, by Yossi Sarid MK, Former Israeli Minister of Education, in We cannot let death have dominion, as Quote of the Week: We are still trying to count, and to remember them as individuals, but with so many dead, it’s hard to keep...
Won’t You Stay, Just a Little Bit Longer?
William F. Buckley sez we can't leave Iraq just yet because:1) The old concern that Shiites and Sunnis would fire up sectarian hostility to dismember the state is taking a back seat to the concern that they are forgetting their differences in order to fight jointly --...
War President
A painful visual mosaic of our "War President," courtesy of Joe at American Leftist who explains: Given this image's inflammatory nature, I posted it with a great deal of trepidation. I had a hard time deciding if it was the right thing to do and I am still not sure....
Occupation Hijinks
Funny stuff from that notorious antimilitary rag the Marine Corps Times:An Islamic civil liberties group has called for a Pentagon investigation into an apparent gag photograph of a Marine in Iraq taken during the last year. In the photo, a smiling Lance Cpl. Ted J....
LGF or LGF Quiz
Littlegreenfootballs posters or late German Fascists? I was inspired to build this quiz when I noticed that comments on Littlegreenfootballs.com (a popular warblog) tended to be indistinguishable in tone and content from the writings of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler,...
76 GIs Die in Iraq Since April 1, 26 Over Weekend
This morning's announcement by the Pentagon brought the total killed in the last twelve days to 76 US soldiers, including 26 killed in the last three days. CNN posted this story this morning, but moved this important part of the story down to the bottom, giving new...
Kimmit the Fallujah Frog
Raed Jarrar posted a bizarre Kimmitt (the Iraqis have started to call him Kimmitt the Frog)quote. The shadows of the unpleasant events of Falluja will affect the image of the American Army in Iraq… it will only increasing the anger of Iraqis, and help more extremist...
Rahul Mahajan in Fallujah
Go here for an eyewitness account of what it is like in Fallujah today. Rahul Mahajan is blogging it. There are no permalinks, so look for the entry "April 11, 2:00 pm EST.Fallujah, Iraq."
Iraqi Untermenschen
Juan Cole and Billmon both highlight an article appearing in the Telegraph today. Senior British commanders have condemned American military tactics in Iraq as heavy-handed and disproportionate. One senior officer said that America's aggressive methods were causing...
