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In the wake of testimony by General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker to both the Senate and the House regarding the state and future strategy of the Iraq War, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi posted an Iraq War cost breakdown on her blog (yes, she has a blog):
The Cost of Iraq War Broken Down
Second: [...]
In “Are you kidding me news,” yes, the U.S. State Department will renew its contract with embattled mercenaries, er, security contractors, Blackwater.
Blackwater said its employees were returning fire after coming under attack from armed insurgents, but an Iraqi investigation called the killings “premeditated murder.”
Starr said the U.S. government, in particular U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan [...]
On the anniversary of the war, Greg Mitchell over at Editor & Publisher has a fantastic list of questions the press should have asked in the lead up to the War in Iraq.
– Why is the U.S. threatening an optional war if 59% of Americans do not support a U.S. invasion without the approval of [...]
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, as you have no doubt heard on every news station so far today. The NY Times has some good stuff up, as does WaPo and even my own paper The Orlando Sentinel.
No doubt today you will see countless time lines, hundreds of pictures and hear [...]
From Valleywag
The Digg story “U.S. Soldier throws puppy off cliff” had, at last count, 5,527 votes. Digg commenters, never a demure crowd, aren’t holding back their rage. One comment, itself voted for 540 times, reads “Wow. I hope he got shot in the face later that day.” This video exposes something about the dehumanization of [...]
An article in The New York Times today reported on a report that was buried by the Army because it was too critical of the war. Shocked? Yeah, me too.
Here’s the gist. The Army had the RAND Corporation, a federally-funded (meaning your tax dollars somewhere along the line) global policy think tank that analyzes and [...]
A disturbing article from the NY Times yesterday reported on the conviction of Sgt. Evan Vela, an Army sniper that killed an unarmed Iraqi and planted an AK-47 on him.
A top Army sniper testified Friday in a military court that he had ordered a subordinate to kill an unarmed Iraqi man who wandered into their [...]
The NY Times has an excellent (though lengthy) feature on Iraq War veteran-related violence in America. Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles is yet another piece of evidence that the damage of this war doesn’t end in Iraq and that not enough is being done by our military to prevent this type of thing [...]
The Project for Excellence in Journalism has an excellent (pun intended) study on how the media has been covering the Iraq War.
Through the first 10 months of the year, the portrait of Iraq that Americans have received from the news media has in considerable measure been a grim one. Roughly half of the reporting has [...]
I find it really amazing how every time either Bush vetoes or Republicans block funding for the war, the Democrats get labeled as “not supporting the troops.” So, trying to give them $50 billion that was requested is “not supporting” them? Simply because the bill had stipulations on troops coming home, Republicans voted against it.
Senate [...]
…and the results are startling.
PART 1
PART 2
The raw numbers:
Results for 2004
Overall Rates Veterans: 17.5 to 21.8 per 100,000 Non-Veterans: 9.4 per 100,000
Male Rates Veterans: 30.6 to 38.3 per 100,000 Non-Veterans: 18.3 per 100,000
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Via Crooks & Liars:
…gut wrenching story of Lance Corporal James Blake Miller– better known as the Marlboro Marine–who is now jobless, divorced and near suicidal since being discharged from the military after being diagnosed with PTSD. With little aid from his government, Miller received help from an unlikely source — Luis Sinco, the LA Times [...]
No End in Sight - Now don’t get me wrong on this, No End in Sight is a damn fine Iraq War documentary. However, it is more of the same if you’ve seen any of the other dozen-and-half other documentaries out there. Also if you’ve read Fiasco, State of Denial or The Greatest Story Ever [...]
The bloops and the bleeps:
Iraq Weapons Are a Focus of Criminal Investigation
Taliban Hostage Deal Reported
Airline Passenger Tries to Open Plane Door
Hulk Hogan’s Son Released From Hospital
Afghanistan ‘set for record opium harvest’
TorrentSpy Closes to US Users - Shit!
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Ready…aim…fire!Showing once again that President Bush has a marginal grasp of both history and metaphors.
The best part:
April 13th, 2004Interviewer: How do you feel about the Vietnam analogy?
Bush: I feel the analogy is false…and it sends the wrong message to our troops.
Do Bush and Cheney forget that the things they say are actually recorded [...]
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