In today’s radio address: To get the votes they needed to pass the bill, the Democrats who control the House also included billions of dollars in domestic and pork barrel spending for local congressional districts. This spending includes things like $74 million for peanut storage, $25 million for spinach growers, and a host of other […]
The only problem? These are chemical weapons being manufactured by the insurgents. So we go to war because Saddam “has WMD”. We find no WMD. Saddam is now dead and now we find that the insurgents are making WMD. Does that mean we will have to invade again? I am waiting to see how the […]
At least we admit it now: U.S. military officers offered their condolences on Monday to an Iraqi family south of Baghdad in a rare admission of error after killing two innocent Iraqis in an airstrike last Tuesday. A U.S. military statement released on January 31 said two “insurgents” out of a four-man team were killed […]
It sure as hell looks like it: U.S. forces in Iraq raided Iran’s consulate in the northern city of Arbil and detained five staff members, a state-run Iranian news service said. The U.S. soldiers disarmed guards and broke open the consulate’s gate before seizing documents and computers during the operation, which took place today at […]
In the last few weeks we have heard the right-wing talking heads going on about how the Insurgents, Iran and North Korea are trying to influence the elections. This morning, we have the following as the big story: North Korea agreed on Tuesday to return to six-party talks on dismantling its atomic weapons just weeks […]
This is very sick: A blogger is vowing to reveal the identity of one of the boys Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) communicated with, RAW STORY has learned. William Kerr of Passionate America has pledged to divulge the information at 4 pm Central Time today, October 4. He also plans on discussing the boy’s identity on […]
WTF? The Marine officer who commanded the battalion involved in the Haditha killings last November did not consider the deaths of 24 Iraqis, many of them women and children, unusual and did not initiate an inquiry, according to a sworn statement he gave to military investigators in March. “I thought it was very sad, very […]
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 […]
So I guess the Iraqis are now on the side of the Democrats when it comes to the problems in Iraq: THE Iraqi Government will announce a sweeping peace plan as early as Sunday in a last-ditch effort to end the Sunni insurgency that has taken the country to the brink of civil war. The […]
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 […]