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Propaganda Moment Spoiled

In one of the most pathetic Potemkin shows ever, the U.S. allowed some 200 Falluja residents to return to the city today. However, the media noticed gunfire and air attacks by the U.S. on the edge of the city. A vague announcement was made about “Marines die in Al Anbar province,” without explanation of how […]

The Trickle Becomes a Flood

Washington Post, top front page story.

The new documents include several incidents of threatened executions of teenage and adult Iraqi detainees. In one instance, a soldier in a unit that lacked any training in interrogation — but was nonetheless assigned to process and question detainees — acknowledged forcing two men to their knees, placing bullets […]

Majority of Americans say Iraq war “not worth fighting”

It’s all down from here for GWB in the next four years.

Attack in Mosul Kills at Least 22

At a U.S.-Iraqi base; officials tightlipped about nationality of victims

Update: They were Americans. Of course they were. Eyewitness account from an embedded reporter

Bush Ordered Torture in Iraq

Read carefully: ACLU Press Release Monday

And in June 2004, at the height of the Abu Ghraib controversy, FBI agents in an “urgent report” said that there was a TORTURE COVER-UP being perpetrated by the (“REDACTED”)

“The following information provides initial details from an individual REDACTED who observed serious physical abuses of civilian detainees […]

KERIK GAVE TIPOFF ON MAFIA INVESTIGATION

REPEAT: KERIK TIPPED OFF THE MAFIA

“We’ve Turned the Corner”

The Law Lords Speak

On the U.S.-style practice of detaining prisoners without trial indefinitely:

This is a nation which has been tested in adversity, which has survived physical destruction and catastrophic loss of life. I do not underestimate the ability of fanatical groups of terrorists to kill and destroy, but they do not threaten the life of the nation. […]

Fired for Not Faking WMD Reports

Says Fired CIA Agent’s lawsuit

Thousands here, thousands there

But who’s counting?