Following up from last month, I decided to add April’s death tolls into the graphs so we can see how the “surge” is working. First off is the U.S. casualty totals With the exception of April 2004, this past April has been the deadliest of all others (including April 2003 when 74 soldiers died). Still […]
The administration can pull the “Mission Accomplished” banner back out and hang it again (4 years later). Looks like we got the big guy in Iraq: The interior ministry in Iraq says it has received intelligence that the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq has been killed. Abu Ayyub al-Masri, believed to be an Egyptian, has […]
This is a perfect example of how you create more terrorists: A U.S.-led raid Sunday on a suspected insurgent cell in the eastern province of Nangahar left as many as six Afghans dead, including a woman and a teenage girl, and sparked protests by hundreds of angry Afghans chanting, “Death to Bush!” U.S. officials said […]
The biggest problem in Iraq is the sectarian violence, so why are they removing leaders who are trying to stop it? A department of the Iraqi prime minister’s office is playing a leading role in the arrest and removal of senior Iraqi army and national police officers, some of whom had apparently worked too aggressively […]
April has been a deadly month for our troops and this latest tally pushes the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq past 100: Five U.S. troops were killed in separate attacks in the capital this weekend, including three in a single roadside bombing, the military said Monday, pushing the death toll past 100 in […]
And how is this supposed to work in a “compromise”? President Bush will not support a war spending bill that punishes the Iraqi government for failing to meet benchmarks for progress, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday. Rice’s comments cast fresh doubt on a potential compromise between the Democratic-led Congress and the White House […]
While New Orleans still sits in ruins, we now find out that George W. Bush rejected almost all international aide: As the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina were receding, presidential confidante Karen Hughes sent a cable from her State Department office to U.S. ambassadors worldwide. Titled “Echo-Chamber Message” — a public relations term for […]
I have raised this question before; why does Diebold choose Microsoft for their voting machines over Linux? Linux is much more secure, much more customizable, and, possibly the biggest reason, much cheaper (Linux is free). We find this week that this question still needs to be raised: Problems found in an audit of Diebold tabulation […]
We find out that the person in charge of the division investigating the Abramoff scandal had to resign because of his ties to Abramoff: A senior Justice Department official has resigned after coming under scrutiny in the Department’s expanding investigation of convicted super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to a Justice Department official with knowledge of the […]