This shows how bad things really are: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan war against Taliban guerrillas can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Islamic militia and its supporters into the Afghan government. The Tennessee Republican said he learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were […]
This was the big ruling everyone was waiting on and Bush suffered a big blow on it: The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Bush administration did not have the legal authority to go forward with military tribunals for detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba. The 5-3 ruling means officials […]
First we come to this story from Reuters: The U.S. military said on Thursday Iraq was moving away from the risk of civil war and insurgent and sectarian bloodshed would fall dramatically when a new government of national unity is formed. Attacks on civilians had jumped 90 percent across Iraq since a Shi’ite shrine was […]
Bush last week in Ohio said: So today I’d like to share a concrete example of progress in Iraq that most Americans do not see every day in their newspapers or on their television screens. I’m going to tell you the story of a northern Iraqi city called Tal Afar, which was once a key […]
The following is an article that appeared today inAl Jazeera magazine which was original written by the Guardian. It seems to give a very accurate portrayal of what is going on in Iraq and the reasoning for our being there. Not “liberationâ€ÂÂ- An occupation The U.S. needs to put an immediate end to this […]
We get told constantly by the administration that we will leave Iraq once they have enough troops trained to take over their own security. But what if the troops are to scared to even leave their base? This is exactly what is happening in the war-torn country. From ABC news Australia: Iraqi soldiers fear leaving […]
The news event we all been waiting for has come and went. We were getting pumped up for this great speech by our President; some skeptical we would be given a plan, others skeptical of a better vision. What we ended up with is a half hour of our lives down the toilet and a […]