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Chris Hedges, former Middle East Bureau Chief of the New York Times, has written a courageously truthful essay on Asia Times Online. Not all of the information is new, but it goes into uncomfortable detail that helps explain the current epidemic of PTSD among Iraq veterans.
Our soldiers and marines are waging a [...]

If I made up an example like this to illustrate how the Bush Lovers use equivocation to apologize (escape blame) for supporting Bush…no one would believe me. Enter our newbie, Bob S.
We need to get a common dictionary, because I dont agree that I was an apologist for the Bush administration.
In all [...]

It’s not just Dick Cheney. President Bush can also sound amazingly like a movie super-villain. From the Washington Post:
Getting lost in the media furor over McClellan’s memoir is the new autobiography of retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the onetime commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, who is scathing in his assessment that [...]

While I am pleased former White House press secretary Scott McClellan has published enough “juicy” to sell a shit-load of books. But I’m not buying his justification.
On the recent C-Span appearance, explained why he did it by describing the strong public service values instilled in him by his family. Later, he said retrospectively, [...]

Yesterday, nine members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) testified about the dehumanization of the Iraqi people, the abuse of detainees, the changing rules of engagement and the killing of innocent civilians before members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Unless you watched C-SPAN 3, you probably didn’t hear about it (my Comcast cable [...]

It gets worse.

The Bush administration’s plan for rigged 9/11 terrorist show trials to coincide with the 2008 presidential election has run into legal difficulties.
Charges have been dropped against the “20th hijacker,” Mohamed al-Qahtani. He allegedly came to the United States to take part in the September 11, 2001 attacks, but he was denied entry to the [...]

Last week, I saw this post  Leading America Into the Wildnerness, at Kos:
Whether it’s finance or science, health care or education, America isn’t leading the way — it’s not even pointing the direction.  Instead, we’re on the sidelines, trying to squeeze the grip of our still considerable military leadership ever tighter, only to have more [...]

Fixed fortifications are monuments to man’s stupidity.
– General George S. Patton, Jr.

U.S. Army soldiers from 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division guard construction of a concrete wall running through the Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Baghdad, on Sunday, May 4, 2008.
Why is the U.S. Army building [...]

Think back to when President Bush and the neocons wanted to justify the invasion of Iraq. We heard the same words over and over. The Iraqis were “terrorized, tortured, and brutalized” by Saddam Hussein. Saddam “used weapons against his own people.” After it was clear that Iraq did not possess any [...]

This moment in the political history of the United States is profound and unique for many reasons. A bankrupt and immoral administration is paving the way for a new administration to be led by (a) a warrior intending to carry out his predecessor’s agenda, more competently, but especially then with more disastrous consequences for the [...]

The propagandistic name of Operation Iraqi Freedom must seem like a cruel joke to people trying to live in Iraq amid the chaos of the occupation and resistance. From Reuters:

Um Aziz is an elderly woman whose three daughters and a son were killed when the roof of her house collapsed because of the force [...]