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[Redstate - Conservative News and Community] A Tough Decision For FL-22 GOP Primary Voters: Make no mistake, the addition of Allen West to Florida's GOP delegation to the US House of Representatives would be just about as torturous an experience as Jindal's victory in "racist" (when the state votes GOP, of course) Louisiana was for the Left, and he would be faced with a regular barrage of "Oreo", "Traitor" and "Uncle Tom" catcalls from the likes of Obama's pastor and their acolytes .which is even more reason why we should pick him over a not-unworthy Mark Flagg.
[Just Foreign Policy News] Just Foreign Policy News, March 13, 2008: 2) The Defense Department, in a review started in January after the CIA acknowledged destroying videotapes of harsh interrogations, has identified nearly 50 tapes of interrogations of Jose Padilla and Ali al-Marri at a Navy brig in South Carolina, the New York Times reports. Al-Marri has never been charged but is being held indefinitely as an “enemy combatant.” [The Washington Post reports that al-Marri’s lawyers have filed court papers alleging that he was forced to endure stress positions, sensory deprivation, and threats of violence or death.
[Novakeo.com] Video: Winter Soldier Hearings: “The problem that we face in Iraq is that policymakers in leadership have set a precedent of lawlessness where we don’t abide by the rule of law, we don’t respect international treaties, argued former U.S. Army Sergeant Logan Laituri, who served a tour in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 before being discharged as a conscientious objector. “So when that atmosphere exists it lends itself to criminal activity.”
[Hooked on books] Jeremy Scahill, ”˜Blackwater’: Kucinich: There isn’t - there isn’t one. Now, if someone connected with a private contracting company was involved in the murder of a civilian, would the Department be ready to recommend their prosecution?
[New Republican Party Blog] McCain Says Iraq War For “All Intents and Purposes” Will Be Over Soon: […] Century of the Common Iowan wrote an interesting post today on McCain Says Iraq War For “All Intents and Purposes†Will Be Over SoonHere’s a quick excerpt McCain Says Iraq War For “All Intents and Purposes” Will Be Over Soon Arizona Senator John McCain said his Democratic rivals Obama and Clinton have distorted his recent January comment that U.S. forces may need to remain in Iraq for up to 100 years. “My friends, the war will be over soon ”¦ for all intents and purposes, although the insurgency will go on for years and years and years,” the Arizona senator said.
[Sword At-The-Ready] Obama’s Choice of a Hate White America Mentor: Obama arrived at Harvard Law School later that year, where he fortified himself with recordings of Mr. Wright’s sermons, he was delivering stirring speeches as a student leader in the classic oratorical style of the black church.
[SHAKEN BUT NOT STIRRED!!!] DUBYA GUMP IS THE FREAKING "ANTI ~ CHRIST"!!!: Since he never experienced such killing in Southeast Asia, when he was "AWOL" from his Texas Air National Guard unit, Bush just does not seem to understand the horror of a parent watching one's children having their heads and limbs blown off in a sudden blast of shrapnel or children witnessing their parents burning to death with their own body fat nurturing the flames.
[Media Matters for America] Wash. Times falsely claimed Obama "urg[ed] the Bush administration ...: But while Obama has frequently asserted that money spent on the war in Iraq could have been better utilized elsewhere, the Times provided no evidence that Obama supports diverting non-Iraq-related military funds to other programs.
[Danielhscho's Weblog] Pentagon: Iraq’s improvements threatened by corruption: The passage of a budget, a law relaxing restrictions on former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party and legislation authorizing provincial elections represent a significant initial step toward political reconciliation, the Defense Department’s latest quarterly report on the nearly five-year-old war concluded. A yearlong effort to pacify Baghdad and its surrounding provinces, coupled with a turn by Sunni Arab tribes against Islamic militants loyal to al Qaeda and a cease-fire among Shiite Muslim militias, has reduced the number of killings, bombings and sectarian murders to mid-2005 levels, the Pentagon found.
[Media Matters for America - Altercation by Eric Alterman] I'll go back to black ...: Unfortunately, when it comes to the American position in Iraq, short of an act of God, the sixth anniversary of George Bush's war of choice is going to dawn much like the fifth one. In the rest of the piece, Engelhardt explains just why .
[Global News Blog] Iraq - US soldier among eight killed in Iraq (Hastings Gazette): Former Iraqi Deputy Health Minister Hakim al-Zamili, left, is hugged by a friend in Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq after he was released from detention, Wednesday, March 5, 2008. The U.S. military freed two former Health Ministry officials on Wednesday after an Iraqi court dropped charges of kidnapping, murder, and corruption stemming from Shiite death squad activity.
[Patricia Thurston's Radio Weblog] Published on Thursday, March 6, 2008 by The Boston Globe Top Iraq ...: The largest of the Cayman Islands shell companies - called Service Employers International Inc., which is now listed as having more than 20,000 workers in Iraq, according to KBR - was created two years before Cheney became Halliburton[base ']s chief executive. But a second Cayman Islands company called Overseas Administrative Services, which now is listed as the employer of 1,020 mostly managerial workers in Iraq, was established two months after Cheney[base ']s appointment.
[dogreader] Half of Iraq Deaths Preventable: Casualties could have been reduced by half among Marines in Iraq if specially armored vehicles had been deployed more quickly in some cases, a report to the Pentagon says.”
[Cambridge Forecast Group Blog] STRATEGIC STUDIES NEWSLETTER: COL Alex Crowther will discuss “The Impact of Iraq on U.S.-Latin American Relations” at George Washington University, on March 4, 2008, 10:00AM-11:30AM, Suite 451, Duques Hall, 2201 G Street, NW, Washington, DC.
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