John Mark Karr, Katrina, new hurricanes, Tom Cruise, and now Warren Jeffs. Wow with all that going on in the world, it is no wonder why little stories like this get buried: Police found more than two dozen bodies across the capital Tuesday and the government said 73 people had died in fighting in the […]
We dare not call what is happening in Iraq a civil war, even though this news does support that claim: July appears to have been the deadliest month of the war for Iraqi civilians, according to figures from the Health Ministry and the Baghdad morgue, reinforcing criticism that the Baghdad security plan started in June […]
27 – The number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq since the start of the conflict between Israel and Lebanon 560 – The number of Iraqi civilians killed in Iraq since the start of the conflict between Israel and Lebanon Perhaps Israel provides another great opportunity for Bush – to keep the media attention off […]
The Pentagon is moving ahead with scheduled troop deployments to Iraq next month as the U.S. military struggles to gain control of the escalating violence in Baghdad, according to a senior defense official
This will certainly not help things in Iraq: Five U.S. Army soldiers are being investigated for allegedly raping a young woman, then killing her and three members of her family in Iraq, a U.S. military official told The Associated Press on Friday. The soldiers also allegedly burned the body of the woman they are accused […]
Now that the war-mongering lunatics of the right-wing are preparing their latest in viscous attacks, murthalied.com, we find out that Murtha has been telling the truth all along: The U.S. military charged a soldier with voluntary manslaughter on Sunday for shooting an unarmed Iraqi man in February, the latest of several such cases to come […]
Well Bush’s surprise visit to Baghdad yesterday has resulted in Iraqi’s taking to the street. I am sure they are doing that to thank the President for freeing them: Some 2,000 followers of a radical Shiite cleric staged a noisy demonstration Wednesday in Baghdad to protest the surprise visit to Iraq by President Bush. Protesters […]
As much as the administration likes to talk about the “free and democratic” Iraq, you see stories like this and really know how bogus that claim is: Iraq’s prime minister imposed a daytime driving ban in Baghdad and in the province where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed by American bombs, fearing insurgents will seek to […]
On the one year anniversary of Dick Cheney saying the insurgency was in their “last throes”, we find this out: The Sunni Arab heart of the Iraqi insurgency seems likely to hold its strength the rest of the year, and some of its leaders are now collaborating with al-Qaida terrorists, the Pentagon said Tuesday. In […]
While Bush is still beating his war drums for Iran, we still got a growing problem in Iraq and it is getting worse: Thirty-two bodies of Iraqi police and security forces recruits were discovered in two areas of Baghdad on Monday, Interior Ministry sources said. All 32 were from the town of Ramadi in the […]