Here's an interesting twist in the Iraqi election mess:As the clock ticked down to polling day on January 30, sectarian tensions entered the campaign, as the premier's Iraqi National Accord party cried foul over the alleged use of religion by Shiite politicians. The...
Considering Graner’s Future
"Don't cheerleaders all over America make pyramids every day? It's not torture."- Defense lawyer Guy Womack Rumor has it that Fox News is considering hiring Spc Charles Graner as a commentator and pinch-hit host should he be acquitted of abusing prisoners at Abu...
Yuschenko murder investigation
Yuschenko: How's that attempted murder investigation going? Just asking. UPDATE: David Beito reminds me that Yuschenko is doing something creditworthy that should be mentioned. From Juan Cole:The Ukraine announced that it would withdraw its 1600 troops, the...
Glenn Reynolds, Laughingstock
From Atrios, this post from The Poorman goes nicely with Justin's post below:Depressing Answers To Questions That, In A Sane Universe, Would Never Need To Be AskedMore stuff from Eschaton: Time to Deploy the 101st Fighting KeyboardersWho's the only guy who can tell a...
Glenn Reynolds Defends Death Squads
Poor Glenn Reynolds, the Insta-expert over at Instapundit. The supposed bias of the MSM (mainstream media, for those not in the know) is sooooo anti-war – or anti-Bush: same thing – and they’re sloppy, too. Because, you see, that story about how the administration is...
US troops provide INsecurity
This boy is crying because his family was in this car which was riddled with US bullets in Ramadi. This: American troops opened fire after their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb at a checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing at least two policemen and three civilians,...
Abbas and the “Zionist enemy”
Must read post: Lawrence of Cyberia on Mahmoud Abbas, Zionist enemies, dead children, strawberry fields and flechette rounds.
‘The Salvador Option’
In case you forgot Negroponte is still ensconced in the American Embassy in Baghdad:‘The Salvador Option’ The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq
US “accidentally” kills 14 Iraqis
Must've been a "dumb bomb."A US air strike in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul has hit the wrong target, the US military said. The bomb demolished a house in Aaytha, killing 14 people, according to local officials. The US put the toll at five. The military said it...
Lost limbs and body armor
A telling graphic highlights the fact that a higher percentage of soldiers have lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan than in two World Wars and Korea. Stuart Hughes, the BBC reporter who lost a leg to a landmine in Iraq during the invasion, has the graphic and...
