[Blog and Tan] An American soldier, later charged in one of the civilian-murder incidents, speaking to a reporter before the incident he is alleged to be involved in: "I came over here because I wanted to kill people...Over here, killing people is like squashing an ant. I mean, you kill somebody and it's like 'All right, let's go get some pizza.'"Before I go any further, let me make clear that in no way do I consider this guy to be typical of our forces.
["On Topic" With Doug Krile] Let's run the numbers on Iraq. An NBC News producer says you CAN find some progress. Iraq by the numbers Most of the numbers from Iraq tally how bad it is here: from death tolls to the numbers of wounded, insurgent attacks, roadside bombs, and refugees. But Coalition Force commanders will tell you that even amid the sharply increased carnage Tags: Iraq, NBC News...
[Blog and Tan] An American soldier, later charged in one of the civilian-murder incidents, speaking to a reporter before the incident he is alleged to be involved in: "I came over here because I wanted to kill people...Over here, killing people is like squashing an ant. I mean, you kill somebody and it's like 'All right, let's go get some pizza.'"Before I go any further, let me make clear that in no way do I consider this guy to be typical of our forces.
["On Topic" With Doug Krile] Let's run the numbers on Iraq. An NBC News producer says you CAN find some progress. Iraq by the numbers Most of the numbers from Iraq tally how bad it is here: from death tolls to the numbers of wounded, insurgent attacks, roadside bombs, and refugees. But Coalition Force commanders will tell you that even amid the sharply increased carnage Tags: Iraq, NBC News...
Bush hands out “Don’t Mess with Texas” T-shirts to new Iraqi security forces
[The Washington Beltsider] Bush hands out “Don’t Mess with Texas” T-shirts to new Iraqi security forces Posted in Iraq, satire, parody, political satire, National Security, US News at 12:15 am by thewashingtonbeltsider by Tom Toburn With worsening conditions on the ground for Iraqi security forces, in the face of escalating violent attacks, President Bush has urged resolve, and issued T-shirts to Iraqi troops with the logo “Don’t Mess with Texas” emblazoned across the front. “A morale booster, to be sure,” Press Secretary Tony Snow said, “from the commander-in-chief, to these brave men and women, fighting for freedom, on the ground, and he is following their progress.
[GovernmentWatch] Car Bombing in Iraq Kills 43 July 18th, 2006 Car Bombing in Iraq Kills 43 BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber drove up to a crowd of Shiite day laborers, lured some into his minivan with a promise of jobs, then blew the vehicle up, officials said. At least 43 people were killed and 64 wounded in Tuesday’s attack in southern Iraq.
[The Indisputable Truth: Liberal articles updated daily.] 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, with associated foreign aid pushing that figure closer to $600 billion, the report said. Now, granted, this isn’t a certain figure, but we’re still looking at the potential for this war to surpass the half-a-trillion marker which is simply absurd.
What happens when you mix rogue regimes and terror
[ Zionist.com] The combination of rogue Islamic regimes and terrorist organizations is a recipe for instability and mass bloodshed, and was consequently one of the primary justifications behind America’s invasion of Iraq. Terrorist organizations are far more likely to, as the Saudis put it, engage in “irresponsible adventurism.” They only lack the resources available to a sovereign state.
[The Islamic Threat] It reviews all that the Bush administration has been doing right and what the liberal are doing to derail it. President Bush and the administration are backtracking.
[Transparent Grid] Military Names Rape Defendants On Monday the DOD released the names of the charged soldiers from the 502nd Regiment and detailed the charges stemming from the March rape of 14 year old and murder of the girl and her family in Mahmudiya, Iraq: - Steven Green, 21, pleaded not guilty on July 6 in a U.S. federal court in Kentucky, home of his former unit the 502nd Infantry Regiment, to four counts of murder and one of rape over the deaths of four people near Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, “on or about” March 12. Green was a private first class for under a year before being discharged for a “personality disorder”.
[The Indisputable Truth: Liberal articles updated daily.] Now I know that the common wisdom is that everyone detained in Iraq is a terrorist, but when a former Navy SEAL filmmaker is held for two months without being charged, I’d say he has the right to sue over it. Kar was taken into custody in May 2005 after he visited Iraq to make a documentary film about Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who wrote the world’s first human rights charter.
[Muckraked] - The SEC puts a muzzle on Gary Aguirre, the former investigator allegedly fired for probing John Mack, the politically connected CEO of Morgan...
Washington Post May Be Using Jihadi Website As Mahmudiyah Source
[Occidentality] According to the US State Department, Muhammad Abu Nasr, co-editor of the Free Arab Voice website is one of the main purveyors of deliberate disinformation about US actions in Iraq. Abu Nasr "translates material from Islam Memo into English and posts it as 'Iraqi Resistance Reports' on his website." That aspects of the story came from a source known for falsifying evidence would explain some of the discrepencies I noted earlier.
