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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 [...]

From ABC News:
In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved the torture of prisoners held by the Central Intelligence Agency. The advisers were members of the National Security Council’s Principals Committee, which in 2002-2003 included Vice President Cheney, former National Security Advisor [...]

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Few media are reporting this landmark event. Here are a few you can trust.
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The March 20 U.K. Guardian features an Iraq war commentary by former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix that for its trenchant economy could serve as an object lesson for every contributor to this blog.
As Blix says–and he would know–there was NO rational justification for this war EXCEPT the elimination of a brutal [...]

The Stanford Prison Experiment strongly suggests that moral and immoral behavior are hugley influenced by environment. It’s not so much that we change our morals from setting to setting but that the setting in which we function has the power to put our morality into neutral.
The Stanford Prison Experiment, conducted by Philip Zimbardo, suggested that in [...]

There’s a presidential primary campaign, complete with dirty tricks (let’s run the video clips of that crazy black preacher one more time!) –and the news media have largely forgotten that American soldiers are still fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even CNN’s excellent Saturday report “This Week at War” with Tom Foreman has been renamed [...]

Today is the third day of the four-day Winter Soldier II hearings. As you can tell by reading the daily newspapers and watching CNN, MSNBC and other so-called news channels, there has been a near-total blackout in the major media. The Washington Post ran a story today, but it was buried in the [...]

The fifth annual reports of the Mental Health Advisory Team have been released. Redacted version of the 110-page report on Iraq (PDF).
The reports were the work of a team of mental health experts who surveyed more than 2,200 soldiers in Iraq and nearly 900 in Afghanistan. The team also gathered information from more than [...]