Andymatic

Category: War in Iraq

  • WaPo on Shitty Pre-War Reporting: Oops, Our Bad

    An examination of the paper’s coverage, and interviews with more than a dozen of the editors and reporters involved, shows that The Post published a number of pieces challenging the White House, but rarely on the front page. There was an attitude among editors: Look, we’re going to war, why do we even worry about […]

  • Young Boys Sodomized in Abu Ghraib

    Seymour Hersh says the US government has videotapes of boys being sodomized at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The worst is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking. [There was a] massive amount of criminal wrongdoing that was covered up at the highest command out there, and higher.

  • Army Admits Staging Toppling Saddam's Schedule

    Remember all the stink about if the Army had staged the toppling of Saddam’s statue and forever and a day they swore it was a totally spontaneous act. Think again. An internal Army study of the war in Iraq has confirmed that the infamous toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square in […]

  • U.S. Diplomats Urge Bush's Removal

    An unusually strident public critique signed by 26 former military and foreign-service officials – says Bush’s policies have proved ineffective and left the United States isolated internationally, according to the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post on Sunday. The signatories include officials appointed by presidents of both parties, who have served on every continent, […]

  • Rumsfeld's Secret Prisoner

    Rumsfeld ordered that one Iraqi prisoner be held “off the books” � hidden entirely from the International Red Cross and anyone else � in possible violation of international law. […] Rumsfeld passed the order on to Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, to keep the prisoner locked up, but off […]

  • Saddam/Al-Queda Meme Struggles Onward

    A senior Iraqi intelligence officer reportedly made three visits to Sudan, finally meeting Bin Laden in 1994. Bin Laden is said to have requested space to establish training camps, as well as assistance in procuring weapons, but Iraq apparently never responded. There have been reports that contacts between Iraq and Al Qaeda also occurred after […]

  • Torture Is Not Torture

    If the President is not bound by the aggreements and laws of the national he is governing then what is the fucking point of having a Geneva Convention? This latest bullshit that Bushes lawyers investigated how to scoot around torture laws and regulations – this is not a few dumb shit kicks in Abu Ghraib […]

  • Michael Moore had Abu Gharib Footage – Didn't Release It

    Apparently, Michael Moore had footage of tortures in Abu Gharib but decided not to release in the upcoming Fahrenheit 911. Though it seems to me that if he had put the footage in there he’d be accused of a publiticy stunt. So either way Moore looks less than forthcoming. He does need a wrangler – […]

  • Road to Abu Ghraib

    Human Rights Watch has put together a profile of the entire Abu Ghraib debacle. Definitely on my reading list.