Three more GIs were killed in action, bringing the tally of U.S servicemembers who have died serving in Iraq passed 3,500 deaths.
The DOD reported that three more GIs were killed today, and four were killed yesterday.
These figures come from Pentagon announcements and were confirmed by the Website ICasualties, which now puts the total US dead in Iraq at 3503.
The Not So Secret Covert War Against Iran
Larisa Alexandrovna, investigative reporter for RawStory.com, discusses the not very secret covert war against Iran, the “have the military do it instead of the CIA” loophole in the oversight statutes, different levels of covert operators, the outsourcing of terrorism to the MEK and Jundullah, in Iran, Fatah al-Islam in Lebanon, why it seems it was Cheney’s crew who leaked the story of this “new” CIA finding to Brian Ross last week and more.
Larisa Alexandrovna is a journalist, essayist and poet. She is currently managing news editor for Raw Story, and contributes regularly to other publications in the alternative press. She also hangs out at her blog, At-Largely.
Her work is cited by mass media outlets such as Rolling Stone, New York Times, Mother Jones, and other notable publications. She is best known for her reporting on domestic intelligence issues and foreign military affairs.
Antiwar.com editorial director will appear on a panel to discuss the Presidential campaign of Rep. Ron Paul. Your Call is doing panels on each candidate running for President.
It will be broadcast Wednesday morning 10-11am (Pacific time), 1-2pm (Eastern time).
You can listen live on the Internet or in the San Francisco Bay Area on KALW radio (91.7 FM).
An archive of the show will be available here within a day.
There’s one candidate on-stage in New Hampshire who believes that the free market – the real, honest-to-God free market, sans subsidies and global military intervention – should determine the price of energy resources. Guess who.
UPDATE: That godd**n fool John King just claimed that ALL of the Republicans said the troops must stay in Iraq or else there will be a disaster. Guess which one didn’t.
UPDATE 2: Ridiculous pandering to The Troops™ – except, again, from Ron Paul (who actually served in the military). McCain invokes the popular sunk-costs fallacy, claiming that we must stay so that all those Americans will not have died in vain. But Benito goose-steps around the diamond after hinting that the media is stabbing The Troops™ in the back with all the negative coverage. The crowd goes wild.
UPDATE 3: Rev. Huckabee: We’re the sh*t because we don’t strap bombs to our fetuses the way the jihadists do. Or something.
UPDATE 4: When asked what’s the most pressing moral issue today, Ron Paul answers that it’s our country’s policy on preemptive war, especially the potential of a nuclear attack on Iran. Hell yes.
Now back to the pro-life baloney from the Strangeloves.
UPDATE 5: Mitt Ronald Reagan Romney makes a play for McCain and Giuliani’s militarists by pledging more troops, more “defense” spending, more more more. Giuliani and McCain fight to win them back by playing the nobody’s-calling-it-ISLAMIC-turrrr card.
And now, thank Jeebus, it’s done.
