A US Marine emails blogger Andrew Sullivan about the use of torture in Iraq – he claims he never saw Americans do it but Iraqi troops was a different story altogether – and his feelings towards the occupied nation: To tell you the absolute truth, I had many moments in Iraq when I could see…
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A Bush disciple speaks
Take the conservative test from blogger Michelle Malkin. (Yes, killing some enemy Ayrabs is a sign of real conservatism.)
How not to die on the job
The Committee to Protect Journalists reveals the parlous state of world affairs: At least 82 journalists fled their native countries under threat or harassment in the last 12 months, with more than half coming from conflict-ridden Iraq and Somalia, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in a new survey. The rate of journalists going…
Victory still a few days away
The face of Iraq, a country devastated by war: A half-million Iraqis fled their embattled country in 2007, the third consecutive year more Iraqis were displaced than any other nationality, a survey of the world’s refugees reported Thursday. As before, most went to neighboring Syria, and some fanned out into other neighboring countries, the survey…
Let the fun times roll
The Decider speaks: On Sept. 11, 2001, we as a nation faced a difficult decision, an important decision, a decision between what was fun and what was wrong. We could have backed down and allowed the terrorists to win. But instead, we stood up to the challenge before us, and we said, ‘Bring it on—bring…
No End in Sight film
Last night at the Sydney Film Festival I watched the Oscar-nominated documentary, No End in Sight. It tells the devastating story of Iraq’s descent into chaos, as told by the some of the key insiders from the Pentagon, State Department, mainstream media and Bush administration. Although at times it appears to be suggesting that the…
Our brave boys and girls
Noam Chomsky, on Iran’s Press TV last week, talks about Iraq and the role of foreign forces in the country: It is interesting, the way everything is blamed on Iran. And that’s a rather striking reflection of how deep-seated the imperial mentality is in the West, so for example when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice…
Bombing them will do
A new report from Amnesty International highlights the disaster of the Iraq war: Iraq remains one of the most dangerous places in the world. Its refugee crisis is worsening. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), since the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, an estimated 4.7 million have been displaced…
The future is like the present
John McCain and George W. Bush. Two men with the same “vision” (endless, privatised war):