I decided it was time to put the casualty rates of the surge into a graphical representation to see how the surge is actually working. Using numbers from the Iraq Coalition Casualties site, I was able to compile two different graphs. Take the same 3 month period over different years I came up with the […]

Everyone has been blasting Pelosi for going to Syria, but there has been no critisism of Republicans doing the same. Today, Rep Darrell Issa (R-CA) is in Syria meeting with Damascus. Now Boehner is giving the Republican excuse of why Democrats can’t go to Syria: Boehner declined to criticize [fellow Republican Rep. David Hobson] for […]

While all the news agencies is busy comparing the recent friendly fire deaths in Iraq to the death of Pat Tillman, Editor and Publisher has the scoop on something even more disturbing regarding the incident: One of the soldiers died just hours after arriving in Iraq — and was one of those troops rushed to […]

Josh found this article: The latest massacre of Iraqi children came as 21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and shot dead north of the capital. The victims came from the Baghdad market visited the previous day by John McCain, the US presidential candidate, who said that an American security plan in the capital was […]

Think Progress brings us this little gem: On Monday, Republican lawmakers visiting Iraq tried to argue that President Bush’s escalation in Iraq has made Baghdad — especially the Shorja market — safer. Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) told reporters that Shorja — where a suicide bomber killed 88 people in January — is now “like a […]

And again the conspiracy theorists on the right are proven wrong! Raw Story has all the details.

Following McCain’s photo-op in Iraq this weekend, which required more than 100 soldiers in armored humvees, attack helicopters and the full attention of the top commander in Iraq, I was wondering what would happen if all the Presidential candidates wanted a tour. Military rules clearly state that the military is not to be used for […]

While the main shrub was speaking today: HMM. I wonder if Cheney was out there planning on doing some hunting. Or perhaps he is trying to distance himself from Bush.

They call it a press conference, but we all know it is a lie conference, where Bush exhibits his contempt for the American people by flat out telling them lies. He must really think we are a bunch of stupid people. First off Think Progress brings us this very interesting fact:  During the reign of […]

The right wing blogosphere had to post retraction’s yesterday to the Matt Drudge claim that Michael Ware heckled during the McCain press conference on Sunday. Well all except one. That would be Malkin’s Hot Air blog, which is of course no shock. They started to set the record straight with this: Update: Raw Story’s got […]