McCain campaigned hard against Russia following the Georgia conflict this summer, so its no shock this information comes out after the election: Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist […]
Perhaps if John McCain and Sarah Palin worried about what was actually happening in the world, instead of spreading their lies, they would see what is happening: U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan on Aug. 22 killed some 30 civilians, far more than the military has previously acknowledged, defense officials said Wednesday. So which candidate knows about […]
While the media is fixated on the Edwards affair, there is real news out there. Reports are indicating that some 1,500 people have been killed already in the fighting between Georgia and Russia. Georgia has also approved a “state of war” against Russia. Yesterday the word was that this has the potential of exploding into […]
When Obama said he would go after al Qaeda in Pakistan, the right wingers went ape shit. They couldn’t believe he would do such a thing to a sovereign nation. I mean we could have seen future articles like this: U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan fired across the border into Pakistan in a strike targeting Taliban […]
And here it is: The number of Iraqis killed in February rose by 33 percent over January, reversing a six-month trend of reduced violence, in a setback to the US military plan to curb the bloodshed ravaging the country. The combined figures obtained by AFP from the interior, defence and health ministries showed that the […]
From the pages of “winning hearts and minds”: U.S. helicopters attacked allied Iraqi militiamen south of the capital on Saturday, killing at least nine civilians and wounding three, apparently because of a miscommunication during fighting with suspected Islamist gunmen. An Iraqi police spokesman put the death toll at 13. Casualties included two women and a […]
Think Progress has posted video of Tony Snow on Real Time blowing off the failures we had in Iraq. MAHER: In fact, the smarter people in his administration said to do just that. “We need more boots on the ground. We need more security.†But because he’s stubborn and stupid, he said, “No, let’s do […]
How many stories have we heard about airstrikes in Iraq going bad? How many times have there been different accounts between what Iraq says and our military says? Here is the latest: American troops backed by aircraft attacked a Shiite town north of Baghdad at dawn on Friday, killing at least 25 Iraqis the military […]
All this talk of “condemning” Sudan is nothing but that, talk. The Bush administration don’t care what they are doing, so long as they can “help us”: Sudan has secretly worked with the CIA to spy on the insurgency in Iraq, an example of how the U.S. has continued to cooperate with the Sudanese regime […]
So this is how our military rewards the brave troops fighting in a war of lies – by silencing them? The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is […]