Tag: Antiwar movement

Jack Shafer says the New York Times is planning to “reassess its pre-Iraq War coverage, particularly its coverage of weapons of mass destruction.” The Times might actually apologize for printing the drool Judith “Kneepads” Miller swilled from the likes of Mylroie and Chalabi. Unfortunately, that won’t bring back the 10,000+ dead Iraqis or 800-odd dead Americans whose blood, at least in part, is on the hands of the war cheerleaders and useful idiots like the NY Times’ Miller.

According to this new poll, the Bush Administration has managed to piss off just about everyone.

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds the sharpest change is in anger. As the war began, 30 percent of Americans were angry about it; today, asked about the situation in Iraq, 57 percent are angry — almost twice as many. Anger is highest — 70 percent — among the roughly half of Americans who think that, given its costs versus its benefits, the war was not worth fighting.
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Some of the changes from March 2003 have occurred across groups. Men are 24 points more likely to be angry now; the change among women is about the same — up 29 points. Anger is up by 26 points among Democrats, and also by 21 points among Republicans (and by 29 points among independents). And it’s up by 20 points among war supporters, as well as by 21 points among war opponents.

Other changes do show more differences among groups. Hopefulness has dropped by 22 points among women, compared with 14 points among men; and by 24 points among Democrats, compared with 11 points among Republicans. Pride has fallen farther among men than among women, and farther among Democrats than among Republicans.

WTF is the U.S. Dept. of the Interior doing supervising Iraqi prisons? Who says we never learn from the Europeans?

Interesting idea posted by Libertarian Jackass:

HERE IS THE MOMENT Just as Nader calls for the impeachment of President George W. Bush for sending thousands to their deaths based on “false pretenses,” here’s one idea for stirring up trouble in the 2004 Presidential election:

Why the Time is Ripe for an LP/Nader Anti-War Fusion Candidacy

From Fox News:

Iraq Homicide Rate 10 Times New York City’s

BAGHDAD, Iraq — More than 5,500 Iraqis died violently in just Baghdad and three provinces in the first 12 months of the occupation, an Associated Press survey found. The toll from both criminal and political violence ran dramatically higher than violent deaths before the war, according to statistics from morgues.

There are no reliable figures for places like Fallujah and Najaf that have seen surges in fighting since early April.

Indeed, there is no precise count for Iraq as a whole on how many people have been killed, nor is there a breakdown of deaths caused by the different sorts of attacks. The U.S. military, the occupation authority and Iraqi government agencies say they don’t have the ability to track civilian deaths.

But the AP survey of morgues in Baghdad and the provinces of Karbala, Kirkuk and Tikrit found 5,558 violent deaths recorded from May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared an end to major combat operations, to April 30. Officials at morgues for three more of Iraq’s 18 provinces either didn’t have numbers or declined to release them.

The AP’s survey was not a comprehensive compilation of the nationwide death toll, but was a sampling intended to assess the levels of violence. Figures for violent deaths in the months before the war showed a far lower rate.

It goes on to recite the requisite blather about how things are still better than they were–y’know, getting blown up by an American or insurgent bomb is much better than getting shot by the Mukhabarat–but interesting nonetheless.

South Knox Bubba translates Bush-speak into English.