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Kerry Directly Calls for Rumsfeld Ouster

Raw Story appears to get some sort of exclusive communiqué from Kerry? Yesterday on Face the Nation he was asked about replacing Rumsfeld with Lieberman, and about rumors to that effect. Is Kerry privately aware that Rumsfeld is out, and just trying to take credit for pressuring the change? What is going on here?

Big “setback” in Iraqi Training Says Iraqi VP

To the Associated Press

“Homecoming”

Download the whole thing in one piece instead of streaming it. Right-click, or control-click on macs) here.

UPDATE: here’s an interview with screenwriter Sam Hamm.

US Covered Up Wrongful Kidnapping and Torture

This “rendition” resulted in torture of an innocent man, as part of a program whose very existence is denied by Stephen Hadley on the same day this newspaper article comes out. Once again, as with the story of US paid propaganda in Iraqi newspapers, the timing could not be worse for Bush.

The CIA inspector […]

10 Marines Killed in Falluja – A Wounded Marine Speaks Out

A Marine wounded in Iraq speak out on the Daily Kos blog.

I just wonder what Pres Bush is doing tonight. While 10+ families recieve bad news about their boys, what is he doing? It just pisses me off! I’m pissed at him, I’m pissed at the insurgents..I’m just pissed! I haven’t felt this anger […]

Krugman On Bush’s Powerpoint Show

Also known as his “Major address on Iraq”. This is a very good column.

Iraqi National Security Adviser: US to Pull Out 60,000

Financial Times– Quite interesting:

raq’s national security adviser is predicting that as many as 60,000 US-led coalition troops will be withdrawn by the end of next year, with most of the rest leaving by the end of 2007…..

“We’re so confident that 30,000 coalition troops will go home in the first part of 2006 and […]

Justice Dept. Knew Texas Redistricting Was Illegal

Washington Post–

Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo obtained by The Washington Post. But senior officials overruled them and approved the plan.

The memo, unanimously endorsed by six lawyers and two analysts in […]

10 Marines Dead in Falluja

I was going to post about the massive attacks in Ramadi yesterday (denied by the US military) but will put that up later. Turns out ten Marines were killed in Falluja today. Is this another example of how “pacified” Falluja is after two bloody attacks on it, or is instead another sign of how great […]

Prosecutors May Flip Abramoff

This would be an incredible breakthrough that could change the Congress for a generation, if this man tells where the bodies are buried.