One Utah

Sgt. Larry Cannon, 27, of Salt Lake City, a Bradley gunner with the Eighteenth Infantry Brigade, First Infantry Division, served a yearlong tour in several cities in Iraq, including Tikrit, Samarra and Mosul, beginning in February 2004. He estimates that he searched more than a hundred homes in Tikrit and found the raids fruitless and [...]

…takes one to know one. Where on Earth DID Bush find this pig faced, scum-sucking, shit stain? Oh yeah, in the same festering swamp of scum from whence he himself emerged.
Frederick Kagan, the architect of Bush’s Surge has never served in combat let alone fired a weapon (kinda like this guy). He is [...]

At the heart of the Democratic congress’ disappointing failure on war funding is the lie about supporting the troops.
I saw an ad or a news clip over the weekend about a girl who started a movement to send soldiers in Iraq “Thank You” notes.
The most common lines heard about soldiers is “They’re fighting for our [...]

I’m mostly a pacifist with the intent for peace, but every so often my warrior side comes out looking for a fight.  Particularly when I run into men of power who support policies that oppress others – and then I cut loose. Like the time I ran into Mormon apostle Russell M. Nelson.  We were [...]

Rocky laid out a bullet-proof prima-facie case for the impeachment of George W. Bush.
Hannity retreated into his hallmark pandering strategy refusing to address the facts in the case for impeachment of Bush. Not one word about Bush, the Constitution, illegal rendition, torture, wiretapping US citizens illegally, or the suspension of Habeas Corpus. Just personal attacks [...]

I have ceased to wonder who our National media are actually working for anymore folks. Newsweek has long appeared to me as a premier apologist for the Iraq War and Bush Administration policies. Someone bought me a subscription to the News magazine about 3 years ago. I could have just as well done without it. [...]

Rocky’s critics should shut up and listen to what Rocky is saying. Kidnapping and torture is a war crime. Rocky is not making this stuff up. Our United States Congress has passed very clear laws on this stuff designed to distinguish us from say Stalin and Hitler.
It is not in dispute that Bush has [...]

“An iconoclastic economist discusses how the White House cooked the books on its march to war.”
Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell
February 21 , 2007
Joseph Stiglitz has never shied away from using his platform as a Nobel Prize winner in Economics to point out policy follies in high places. In 2002, after he had left a post as the World [...]

I’ve read my share of books about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. There are a lot of good ones out there, but the best so far IMHO is Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks, the Washington Post’s senior Pentagon correspondent.

Ricks pulls no punches. In addition to the usual [...]

First, allow me to thank Richard for a superb assessment of one aspect of the situation on the ground under the “Surge Strategy.” I was on-line a week or so ago and came across an news report that honestly made me sick to stomach. Perhaps, the PTSD and suicides of returning Iraq Veterans ought to [...]

The Washington Post has obtained a copy of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) report on the Haditha incident. Like the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib, Haditha became part of the history of the Iraq occupation only after the news media learned of it. The killing of unarmed civilians at Haditha [...]