Category: War

  • Racism Alert

    Ron just called from Toronto – he’s watching the hearings about the prisoner abuse and keyed me into the subtle condescending racism towards Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba – the high-ranking Filipino who wrote the damning report that got leaked. Notice how they treat Taguba like he’s lucky to be an American and they gush […]

  • Iraqi Blogger: 'Just Go.”

    From a blogger in Baghdad: Today’s lesson: don’t rape, don’t torture, don’t kill and get out while you can- while it still looks like you have a choice… Chaos? Civil war? Bloodshed? We?ll take our chances- just take your Puppets, your tanks, your smart weapons, your dumb politicians, your lies, your empty promises, your rapists, […]

  • More Iraq Prison Photos Released

    From Washington Post.

  • U.S. to Draft Women?

    Your body. Not your choice. In line with today’s needs, the Selective Service System’s structure, programs and activities should be re-engineered toward maintaining a national inventory of American men and, for the first time, women, ages 18 through 34, with an added focus on identifying individuals with critical skills.

  • Pat Tillman's Blunt Eulogy

    Just when we thought we had a pure and simple hero, a millionaire athlete who gave up wealth and fame to become the ideal patriot, to make the ultimate sacrifice, his friends and family complicated everything: Pat isn’t with God. He’s fucking dead. He wasn’t religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he’s fuckin […]

  • War of Words

    More than 50 retired US diplomats have written to US President George Bush to complain about America?s policy towards the Middle East claiming that President Bush?s approach was losing the US ?credibility, prestige and friends?. More than 50 former diplomats signed a letter to Tony Blair criticising his policies in the Middle East: “We… have […]

  • Soldiers in Iraq Torture Prisoners

    The abuses included sodomizing of prisoners, pouring cold water and chemicals on naked bodies, threatening detainees with rape and dog attacks, hitting them with chairs and broomsticks and locking them in isolation without food, water or a toilet for three days. The clincher: they knew about the abuse months ago. And CBS sat on it […]