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What would YOU think?

Every newspaper in the rest of the world will be saying this Tuesday:

In the midst of the terrible crisis, this is what US President Bush did: First, he went to a secure location and viewed videos that by all accounts included US soldiers sodomizing Iraqi prisoners (90% were innocent of anything said the Red […]

Hoon Testifies before Parliament

The scene outside.

Read Taguba Report

Here it is, just read it. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. If nothing else, read the conclusions. This is the Army’s own copy.

AP Follows up on ICRC report

The Wall Street Journal has printed the entire Red Cross repor today.here is an AP summary. Combine that information with this:

The Red Cross disclosed to The Observer that its president, Jakob Kellenberger, had personally warned three of George W. Bush’s most senior officials – National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State Colin Powell […]

The column that crashed Zogby’s site

Released: May 09, 2004

The Election Is Kerry’s To Lose By John Zogby

I have made a career of taking bungee jumps in my election calls. Sometimes I haven’t had a helmet and I have gotten a little scratched. But here is my jump for 2004: John Kerry will win the election.

Have you recovered […]

Iraq Soldiers Forbidden From Reading Taguba Report

This article was first in a comment by one of our astute readers, and needs more attention. the e-mail itself.

Senior officers referencing Vietnam, ready to fire Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Myers

Any other country and these would be signs of a military coup…

“Army Col. Paul Hughes, who last year was the first director of strategic planning for the U.S. occupation authority in Baghdad, …noted that a pattern of winning battles while losing a war characterized the U.S. failure in Vietnam.”

“Some officers say the place […]

Worse than Afghanistan

“The Red Cross disclosed to The Observer that its president, Jakob Kellenberger, had personally warned three of George W. Bush’s most senior officials – National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz – of widespread abuse tantamount to torture.

Whitehall sources expressed concern last night that the […]

RANT-O-RAMA IS MOVING

This very small personal web site was begun as an experiment to see if I could learn technically how to configure this type of web page. However, it needs to be moved to another location, which I’m going to do as soon as possible. You’ll be able to find the new location by looking here, […]

Seymour Hersh: CHAIN OF COMMAND

At the New Yorker.

The soldiers in this horrible photo are not from the same military unit as the 6 accused in court martial proceedings now. There can be no doubt anymore that this was ordered by someone higher than Sergeants, Corporals and specialists. By order of Gen. Sanchez, the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade took […]