Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on May 9th, 2008
And of course this will probably be used as yet another compelling reason why we have to attack Iran:
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Hezbollah gunmen seized control of several Beirut neighborhoods from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday as sectarian clashes reminiscent of Lebanon’s bloody 15-year civil war raged in the capital.
At least […]
Posted in Corporate Statism, Politics As Usual, War Stories on May 5th, 2008
Sure sounds like we’re planning to stay a while, huh?
BAGHDAD - Forget the rocket attacks, concrete blast walls and lack of a sewer system. Now try to imagine luxury hotels, a shopping center and even condos in the heart of Baghdad.
That’s all part of a five-year development “dream list” — or what some dub […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on May 1st, 2008
Death toll in Iraq jumps to highest in a year. Just imagine how many people we can kill in 100 years if John McCain gets elected!
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on Apr 27th, 2008
Unbelievable. So what did we get for our money? Billions and billions of dollars spent on this war, big political contributors fattening their bank accounts and this is how we ask returning soldiers to live?
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on Apr 17th, 2008
And what will we do about this?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 300,000 U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, but about half receive no care, an independent study said on Thursday.
The study by the RAND Corp. also estimated that another 320,000 troops have sustained a possible traumatic brain […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, War Stories on Apr 15th, 2008
What a great job we’re doing!
The Dallas VA Medical Center has effectively closed its psychiatric wing after a fourth mentally ill patient this year committed suicide.
On April 4, a man fastened a bed sheet to the bottom corner of a door frame, draped a noose over the top, and hanged himself. Before that, a veteran […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Crimes, War Stories on Apr 15th, 2008
Meanwhile, back in Iraq:
(CBS/AP) More than 50 people were killed in Iraq Tuesday after a pair of car bombs rattled two cities outside Baghdad, police said.
At least 38 people have been killed and dozens wounded when a car bomb exploded in Baqouba, Iraqi police said.
A second car bomb exploded near a restaurant in Ramadi, killing […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Stories on Apr 9th, 2008
Via Cookie Jill at Skippy’s:
A confidential draft agreement covering the future of US forces in Iraq, passed to the Guardian, shows that provision is being made for an open-ended military presence in the country.
The draft strategic framework agreement between the US and Iraqi governments, dated March 7 and marked “secret” and “sensitive”, is intended to […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Progress, The Regime, War Stories on Apr 9th, 2008
Going swimmingly, don’t you think?
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq on Wednesday marked the fifth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein’s iron-fisted regime with the nation still wracked by violence and the capital under curfew.
Baghdad’s streets were empty of cars and trucks after the authorities declared a 5:00 am to midnight (0200 GMT to 2100 GMT) […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on Apr 9th, 2008
One thing you have to hand to the Bushies - they sure are creative:
“There sure as hell is a draft going on,” the passenger sitting next to me said begrudgingly as the flight attendant handed him a ginger ale on our way in to Los Angeles last week. “I signed up to be in the […]
Posted in War Stories on Apr 8th, 2008
Giblets on the war:
So for the last five years all the liberals and the hippies and the nattering nabobs of normalcy have been coming up to Giblets and going “Was the war a mistake Giblets?” and “Are we losing the war Giblets?” and “Oh look at all the dead people Giblets, maybe we should stop […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, War Stories on Apr 4th, 2008
Was Samantha Power right about Obama’s promises to withdraw? Sure sounds like it:
WASHINGTON — A key adviser to Senator Obama’s campaign is recommending in a confidential paper that America keep between 60,000 and 80,000 troops in Iraq as of late 2010, a plan at odds with the public pledge of the Illinois senator to withdraw […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes, War Stories on Apr 2nd, 2008
Yep:
Women serving in the U.S. military are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq.
The scope of the problem was brought into acute focus for me during a visit to the West Los Angeles VA Healthcare Center, where I met with female veterans and their doctors. […]
Posted in War Stories on Mar 31st, 2008
So, so sad:
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — A week after Eric W. Hall disappeared into the woods of Southwest Florida, his mother stood in a parking lot overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. She had asked for volunteers. Would they come?
Becky Hall’s son had experienced a flashback, fleeing a relative’s home after sensing that Iraqi insurgents had […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on Mar 31st, 2008
Tristero on the latest from Iraq:
Think about that. Four thousand plus American lives have been sacrificed, countless Iraqis have also died, at a financial cost in the multiple trillions and the upshot is not democracy but the spread of radical Shiite Islamism. There aren’t words in the English language ominous enough to describe how profound […]
Posted in War Stories on Mar 31st, 2008
Via Tom Watson:
Mr. Watson - I’ve read your work on SSG. Hollinsworth and greatly appreciate it. Hollinsworth was a personal friend of mine that I served my first tour in Iraq with and lived with him in Germany. Its sad to see these politicians bicker over human lives. Our service members have lost hope in […]
Posted in War Stories on Mar 30th, 2008
Who he was.
Posted in The Shadow Knows, War Stories on Mar 29th, 2008
Even when you die in the service of this rotten war, they have to pretend you’re straight?
Posted in Media, The Regime, War Stories on Mar 28th, 2008
I stopped listening to NPR shortly after the war started for these reasons:
In sharp contrast, what happened during the All Things Considered discussion on March 24 was a conversation of shared sensibilities. The retired U.S. Army general discussed the war effort in terms notably similar to those of the ostensibly independent journalist — who, along […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Progress, The Regime, War Stories on Mar 28th, 2008
The slog continues:
BAGHDAD — American-trained Iraqi security forces failed for a third straight day to oust Shiite militias from the southern city of Basra on Thursday, even as President Bush hailed the operation as a sign of the growing strength of Iraq’s federal government.
Posted in Politics As Usual, War Stories on Mar 23rd, 2008
I can’t believe that any sane person would vote for John McCain. A hundred more years of this?
(AP) Rockets and mortars pounded Baghdad’s U.S.-protected Green Zone Sunday and a suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army post in the northern city of Mosul in a surge of attacks that killed at least 57 people nationwide.
The […]
Posted in Humor, War Stories on Mar 23rd, 2008
Army Holds Annual ‘Bring Your Daughter To War’ Day
Posted in War Stories on Mar 21st, 2008
Any day now.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on Mar 20th, 2008
But not anymore. It’s a shame, watching them twist themselves in knots trying to defend the military-industrial-media complex yet again:
THE FIFTH anniversary of the invasion of Iraq prompted a flurry of speeches from President Bush and the Democratic candidates who hope to inherit the White House next year. Sadly, what they had in common was […]
Posted in The Regime, War Crimes, War Stories on Mar 15th, 2008
“I remember we were taught how to put shackles on other people.”
“I remember one woman was walking by carrying a huge bag walking toward. I used a (grenade launcher). When the dust settled, we realized the bag contained groceries. She was bringing groceries to us and we blew her to pieces for it.”
Go listen.
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