One Utah

Paul,
I’ll tell you a bit about myself qua LDS person. I was born and raised in the church, served a mission to Germany, got married in the temple, paid my tithing, did all of the right things. Then one night as I was reading the Book of Mormon in preparation for teaching a Sunday school [...]

Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri, Saddam’s successor, now claims the title, “leader of Resistance and Liberation, general secretary of the Socialist Baath Party.”
Al-Douri’s latest statement reiterates what the Iraqi resistance is fighting for: national self-determination. Despite a one-time alliance of convenience, he now regards the al-Qaeda agenda as a disastrous diversion. Bear in [...]

The more than 200 insurgents who made a predawn attack on an outpost near the Pakistan border outnumbered defenders three to one, according to the New York Times. Sunday’s assault occurred just three days after 45 US soldiers, likely from the 173rd Airborne Brigade, and 25 Afghan troops established a new combat outpost in [...]

Here’s another one of those stories that ought to be big news here in America, but can only be found by going to the foreign press. From the Sunday Times: Nouri al-Maliki ready to oust US from Iraq green zone.
Ali Dabbagh, the Green Zone government spokesman, says:
“We think that by the end of 2008 [...]

Via Glenn Greenwald, here’s a glimpse of the Joys of Washington Bipartisanship as President Bush rejoiced in yet another humiliation of the Democrats this afternoon in the Rose Garden.
This one is special, signing the bill keeps Bush from being prosecuted on multiple felony counts for at least 30 violations of the Foreign Intelligence [...]

The United Nations mandate for the Multinational Force, which currently provides a shred of legality to cover the U.S. occupation of Iraq, expires on December 31, 2008 at the request of Iraq’s Green Zone Government. Then what? Then we withdraw, right?
In the quotes below, emphasis added just to highlight the deep respect our [...]

And there is nothing we can do about it, at least in the short run. A sad time for America.

Glenn Greenwald:
The votes in the Senate on various amendments to the FISA “compromise” bill and to the underlying bill itself were originally scheduled for today, but have been postponed until tomorrow (Wednesday, July 9) to [...]

Greg Mitchell reminds us that it appeared in The New York Times five years ago today. One of the most irresponsible remarks ever by a U.S. President:
“Anybody who wants to harm American troops will be found and brought to justice,” Bush said. “There are some that feel like if they attack us that we [...]

Do you remember the feeling of coming home with a bad report card? The Bush administration has failed Iraq policy again and again, and if any more proof is needed we got it this week.
1. A new 700-page study from the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command’s Contemporary Operations Study Team at Fort Leavenworth, [...]

The Los Angeles Times recently had an insightful article about what $200-a-barrel oil and $7 a gallon gasoline would do to America.

With every penny hike in the price of gas costing American consumers about $1 billion a year, sharply higher pump prices would lead to “significant bankruptcies and store closings,” said Scott Hoyt, director of [...]

I’m not in the habit of quoting at length from other blogs, but I haven’t got the ability to say this any better. The following is straight from CTuttle on the excellent site Main and Central.
“I’d like to indulge in a little exercise, let’s take a gander at several news reports on the same [...]

Thursday, channel 501 showed the 1984 film The Killing Fields. For those who haven’t seen it, it’s based on the experiences of NY Times reporter Sydney Schanberg and Cambodian reporter Dith Pran in Cambodia in the 1970s; Pran was captured by the Khmer Rouge and spent years living and laboring in their camps before [...]