A very grim assessment from the prime minister of Haiti: Hundreds of thousands of people have died in Haiti’s earthquake, the prime minister told CNN Wednesday. Haitian authorities said the powerful quake destroyed most of the capital city of Port-au-Prince. A top envoy called it a “major catastrophe.” Haiti’s first lady, Elisabeth Debrosse Delatour, reported […]
Michelle Bachmann is back in the news, this time lying about the stimulus. She is making the false claim that ACORN will get $5 billion from the stimulus while under indictment. Again – a flat out lie. So I was just thinking about this. If this was even true, then why hasn’t Bachmann voiced outrage […]
Truly disturbing statistics out by the Army today: Pentagon officials say there were fewer Army suicides last year than they had feared. But it was still the highest number in almost two decades. Two defense officials said Thursday that 108 troops committed suicide in 2007, the most since 1990. The officials spoke on condition of […]
I can’t think of a better way to describe this: Amid indications that more people may have died or been harmed after being given a brand of the blood thinner heparin, federal drug regulators said Thursday that they had found “potential deficiencies” at a Chinese plant that supplied much of the active ingredient for the […]
Well let’s check in on our monthly track of the surge and see how it is working out. First here is the updated comparison of Iraqi deaths. The Iraqi deaths are still well over the number they were last year and rose in May. But how about the U.S. soldier deaths? That picture is even […]
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 […]
This is a very sad “milestone” to reach: Now the death toll is 9/11 times two. U.S. military deaths from Iraq and Afghanistan now match those of the most devastating terrorist attack in America’s history, the trigger for what came next. Add casualties from chasing terrorists elsewhere in the world, and the total has passed […]
The following article in the AP entitled “Bush Marks Anniversary, Never Says ‘War’ ” really had me going. It seems to try and fight back at his claims that the media “exaggerates” what is happening in Iraq he will try and sugar coat it: President Bush marked the anniversary of the Iraq war Sunday by […]
Two British men are thought to have burned to death in a car after police opened fire in Basra, it has been reported. Security officials claimed the victims were UK citizens. A third person in the car, also believed to be a British, was wounded and rushed away by police, said Iraqi police Captain Mushtaq […]