Andymatic

Category: War in Iraq

  • U.S. Troops Withold Carnage to Influence Election

    (via AmericaBLOG) When this election’s over, you’ll see us move very vigorously. Once you’re past the election, it changes the political ramifications. Update: Media Matters on how this story is being largely ignored.

  • U.S. Military as Oil-Protectors

    Iraq is hardly the only country where American troops are risking their lives on a daily basis to protect the flow of petroleum. In Colombia, Saudi Arabia, and the Republic of Georgia, U.S. personnel are also spending their days and nights protecting pipelines and refineries, or supervising the local forces assigned to this mission…. [T]he […]

  • Judith Miller Up Against the Wall

    Judith Miller faces up to 18 months in jail for refusing to cooperate with prosecutors investigating the leak. Miller, who gathered material for a story but never wrote one, was held in contempt Thursday by a federal judge in Washington. Don’t forget her key role in the build-up to the war.

  • Cheney and Rice Knowingly Misled Us About Iraq's Nuclear Capability

    I know we all have seen this but again, I post things to chronicle as well as for currency. Condoleezza Rice, the president’s national security adviser, asserted on CNN on Sept. 8, 2002. “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” But before Ms. Rice made those remarks, she was aware that […]

  • Depleted Uranium Blamed For Soldier's Newborn's Deformities

    Another way the War comes back home. Juan Gonzalez, who co-anchors Democracy Now, continues his expose on depleted uranium in the war and the ensuing cover-up. The Army transferred him to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington for further tests, but doctors there could not explain what was wrong. Shortly after his return, his […]

  • Political Cartoons from Thailand

    Slate has a collection of political cartoons from Thai cartoonist Stephane Peray.

  • Turning the Tables

    I know, I know – all but one of my first few posts on the new blog are political. I’ll get to the personal stuff soon – I’m sifting through all my newsfeeds! Juan Cole cooks up some statistics comparing damage and death in Iraq to proportional mayhem here in the United States. (via Lying […]

  • U.S. Soldier Reported Beat Up at Concert

    Look at how this article is framed. Headline: Decorated Soldier Reportedly Attacked At Concert What do you picture? I see a soldier with the actual Purple Heart being beaten up. He was wearing an Iraqi Freedom shirt. Sub-title: Barton Cannot Return To Iraq Due To Injuries So I thought – holy shit – he must […]

  • From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib

    Seymour Hersy, interviewed on Democracy Now: He goes to the base, goes and takes a look. He sees two men easily 80 years old, living in their own excrement bound in a jail, in a pen. There’s absolutely no differentiation among those who are people who wanted to do something, conspired against America or were […]

  • American Helicopters Launch Missile into Crowd on Live Television

    A reporter for Al-Arabiya, was broadcasting live from the scene of a carbombed Bradley Fighting Vehicle, which had attracted a crowd of locals. While making his report, a sudden noise came from behind Mazen. Two Apache helicopters flew in overhead, and one of them started attacking the crowd, with their guns. The crowd, which included […]