I left for the beach on May 18 and returned on May 28. During that period of a little over a week, we lost 59 soldiers in Iraq, including at least 8 on Memorial Day: At least eight U.S. soldiers were killed in restive Diyala province north of Baghdad on Memorial Day, two of the […]
So these people can be sent to fight and die for Bush’s failed war, yet they aren’t allowed to voice their concerns? This is really disturbing: The pictures were just what the White House wanted: A teary-eyed President Bush presenting the Medal of Honor posthumously to a slain war hero in the East Room, then […]
A new study has estimated the Iraqi death toll at 655,000 since the start of the invasion. This study was conducted using a new method: Researchers used household interviews rather than body counts to estimate how many more Iraqis had died because of the war than used to die annually in peacetime. “We estimate that […]
And there is a major silver lining for Bush with all this. That is the fact that the news is not covering Iraq as much now, and things are going very bad over there. Today is October 3rd, and we have already lost 13 soldiers in Iraq this month. That is almost 5 soldiers per […]
There’s a war in Iraq? I thought the only thing going on was with the John Mark Karr character. Well it must be going well over there then since our great news doesn’t say anything about it. Violence in Iraq left nearly 50 people dead Monday in a suicide car bombing and clashes between Shiite […]
If you are interested in something not NSA hearing related,Raw Story has an exclusive up about gay soldiers in Iraq being ousted and discharged. We really need people in our military right now. Hell we will even take people in prison but if they are gay they need to stay away. We really are that […]
The brilliant Ted Rall brings up an option to deal with our President that I have thought of in the past. Follow the lead of California and start a national recall. One solution is to establish a California-style recall system on the national level. If a significant percentage of Americans loses confidence in the president […]
This in via Reuters: Five US soldiers charged with abuse: military Five U.S. soldiers in Iraq have been charged with abusing detainees whom it is claimed they had punched and kicked, the U.S. military said on Monday. “The allegations stemmed from an incident on September 7 in which three detainees were allegedly punched and kicked […]
In June of this year, a panel of congressional Democrats held a hearing into the overspending and contracts involving Halliburton. During this hearing, testimony was given by some prominent individuals who are close to the situation. Rory Mayberry, who was a supervisor for Halliburton’s subsidiary Kellogg Root and Brown gave video testimony about rancid food […]
Via Associated Press Army Planning for 4 More Years in Iraq By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer The Army is planning for the possibility of keeping the current number of soldiers in Iraq  well over 100,000  for four more years, the Army’s top general said Saturday. In an Associated Press interview, Gen. Peter […]