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 […]
This reminds me of Bush sending his staff to their ethics training last year, following the indictment of Scooter: A top US commander in Iraq has ordered combat troops to be trained to abide by moral and ethical standards on the battlefield. The move is an apparent reference to allegations Marines killed civilians last year. […]
The Republicans are pulling a strictly political stunt tonight in order to try and insult the Democrats. At approximately 7:00 tonight, they will be holding a vote on a plan to pull troops out of Iraq. The full resolution, which can be viewed at Raw Story, is very simple compared to that offered by Rep. […]
The Pentagon has admitted the use of white phosphorus as a weapon against insurgents in Falluja. This adds more credibility to the documentary ran on Italian television last week about the use of such weapons. The use of white phosphorus is not necessarily a violation of any treaties, however the legal wording and the use […]
I got thinking today about something I heard a couple weeks back. Members of the Conservative media were heading to Iraq for what they called “The Truth Tourâ€ÂÂ. Their goal was simple “to get the news straight from our troops serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom, including the positive developments and successes they are achievingâ€ÂÂ. The […]
It had some of the atmospheric sense of the hearings that Rep. Conyers held on the Downing Street Memo. The only difference this time is that it was not being held in a basement room of the Capital. It was being held in an actual chamber of Congress. The hearing was however, only attended by […]