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Halliburton Follies
Are you kidding me? Halliburton charged $27.5 million to get $82,100 worth of cooking and heating fuel into Iraq? Are you fucking kidding me?!?
Support The Troops
From The Left Coaster: Did his duty – then lost his job Michael Warren, a native of Port Jefferson, L.I., is suing International Business Machines Corp. for firing him because since 9/11 he’s been called up too often by the Army Reserves. And IBM has HOW MANY Pentagon contracts?
What I Heard About Iraq
Please read in its entirety. It is by Eliot Weinberger, copied from here. What I Heard about Iraq In 1992, a year after the first Gulf War, I heard Dick Cheney, then secretary of defense, say that the US had been wise not to invade Baghdad and get ‘bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern … Read More
Freedom on the March
Via Oliver Willis, who reminds us that the Bush Legacy marches on. War notoriously robs parents of their sons, but it also steals husbands and fathers, and increasingly wives and mothers. The Pentagon doesn’t keep these statistics, but using figures compiled by the Scripps-Howard News Service and other sources, NEWSWEEK has calculated that as of last week 1,043 American children … Read More
Vermont Resolution
Resolution of [the Town of ] Concerning the Vermont National Guard and the War in Iraq Whereas, in October 2002 the United States Congress adopted a Joint Resolution to Authorize the use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq, relying on statements that were untrue, when in fact the United States: * was … Read More
Like Father, Like Son
The New York Times tell us that the apple doesn’t far from the tree. I knew that. I guess the odd thing is that the tree is criticizing the apple: U.S. Cites Array of Rights Abuses by the Iraqi Government in 2004 By BRIAN KNOWLTONInternational Herald Tribune Published: March 1, 2005 ASHINGTON, Feb. 28 – The State Department on Monday … Read More
The Hidden Cost
A side of the Iraqi War that you rarely read about: Jesus Bocanegra was an Army infantry scout for units that pursued Saddam Hussein in his hometown of Tikrit. After he returned home to McAllen, Texas, it took him six months to find a job. He was diagnosed with PTSD and is waiting for the VA to process his disability … Read More
Iraq Report Card
P.S. One mile lines for gasoline? In an oil-rich country? Ouch.
Hypocrisy of the Right – Part I
If the Clinton Adminstration had done something like this . . . U.S. diplomats and intelligence officers are conducting secret talks with Iraq’s Sunni insurgents on ways to end fighting there, Time magazine reported yesterday, citing Pentagon and other sources. … the right wingers would run the word "appeaser" into the ground. But it is Bush, so they don’t. Hypocrisy … Read More
We Told You So (Again)
And yet again: The insurgency in Iraq continues to baffle the U.S. military and intelligence communities, and the U.S. occupation has become a potent recruiting tool for al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, top U.S. national security officials told Congress yesterday. "Islamic extremists are exploiting the Iraqi conflict to recruit new anti-U.S. jihadists," CIA Director Porter J. Goss told the … Read More
NOW They Tell Me!
Last week, a dozen of the top American law journals announced their commitment to reducing the length of law review articles. (Source) P.S. Speaking of academics, here’s a pretty good honors thesis.
More Iraqi Civilian Abuses
From MSNBC: There are new allegations that heavily armed private security contractors in Iraq are brutalizing Iraqi civilians. In an exclusive interview, four former security contractors told NBC News that they watched as innocent Iraqi civilians were fired upon, and one crushed by a truck. The contractors worked for an American company paid by U.S. taxpayers. The Army is looking … Read More
Vote or Starve
Some Iraqis are alleging that they were told . . . well . . . let’s listen to their words: ”Two of the food dealers I know told me personally that our food rations would be withheld if we did not vote,” said Saeed Jodhet, a 21-year-old engineering student who voted in the Hay al-Jihad district of Baghdad. I’m not … Read More
Vietnam Redux?
Does this sound familiar to anyone? U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote: Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror by Peter Grose, Special to the New York Times (9/4/1967: p. 2) WASHINGTON, Sept. 3– United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam’s presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting. … Read More