Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show I'll be talking with Jimmy Massey and Tim Goodrich from Iraq Veterans Against the War. In the second hour, it'll be me and your calls. Update: Show's over. Archives here.
Blogging the Iraqi constitution vote
Well, the polls have closed in Iraq. As yet, I'm finding very little information on how it went. The usual suspects are mostly silent on the issue - unlike for the January election, the buzzmachines aren't buzzing for this one. Fluffing this sad post which points to...
Indict Ledeen
Roger L. Simon has a problem with my call for Fitzgerald to indict Michael "P-2" Ledeen as a conspirator in the forging of the Niger uranium documents. He complains in a post called, "Reactionaries on Parade (Left Wing Dvision [sic])": "Without any evidence other than...
22 US Troops Killed in Iraq in Last Week
Including one who died of wounds received in July Today the Department of Defense announced the death of a Marine supporting the war in Iraq. Kenneth E. Hunt Jr., 40, died of wounds recieved in July "when the vehicle he was riding in struck an anti-tank mine while...
No Polling Places in Many Sunni Cities
Helping to ensure passage of the Iraqi Constititution, the Iraqi government has failed to put any voting stations in the Sunni cities of Haditha, Hit, Rawa, Qaim, Ana, Baghdadi and the villages around them. "There aren't actually any voting centers or even voting...
Another Scripted PR Stunt
The Bush crew has done it again (remember the plastic turkey on Thanksgiving?): (via Think Progress)Earlier today, President Bush held an "impromptu" public teleconference with a group of U.S. soldiers based in Tikrit, Iraq. Pentagon communications aide Allison Barber...
So, who’s left on the right?
Boy, the liberventionists sure picked a great time to become conservatives. Howard Fineman at MSNBC says the "conservative coalition" has had it. Wouldn't that be great? The oddball grouping of fundamentalist crazies, the warfare mercantilists, fiscal conservatives...
Welcome Charles Pena!
Hey, Everybody! Check out Antiwar.com's new regular writer Charles Pena. He is just the kind of heavy hitter we like to have around here: a senior fellow with the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy, an adviser to the Straus Military Reform Project and an analyst...
Hey, Patrick Fitzgerald!
You're going to indict Michael Ledeen and his CIA buddies for forging those Niger uranium documents, right? As quoted in the Wikipedia entry for Yellowcake forgery:In an interview on July 26, 2005, Cannistraro's business partner and columnist for the "American...
WH Lie Factory under scrutiny
Your one stop shop for analysis of the denouement of Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury investigation is Jane Hamsher's blog firedoglake. ReddHedd has been a posting machine the last few days.The news is flying fast and furious this evening: Raw Story has an excerpt from...