Air Heads: The Win-Win Wars of Bushist Fantasy
Airstrikes Rise In Afghanistan as Fighting Intensifies (Washington Post)
The airstrikes appear to have increased in recent days as the United States and its allies
Everybody Knows: Storms of Horror in a Tormented Land
The last few weeks have seen disastrous news breaking over the Bush administration, like Katrina come again. This time, though, it’s not hurricane winds and surging seas, but waves of innocent blood overtopping the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates to turn the White House crimson. Report after report of horrific atrocities — long held back by a levee of lies, fear, obfuscation and the natural confusion of war — has broken through, flooding the imperial capital with the reeking, corpse-filled backwash of the vast criminal folly committed by its grubby little Caesar.
Hubub in Hibhib: The Timely Death of al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab Saddam Osama al-Zarqawi, the extremely elusive if not entirely mythical terrorist mastermind responsible for every single insurgent action in I
raq except for the ones caused by the red-tailed devils in Iran or the stripey-tailed devils in Syria, has reportedly been killed in an airstrike in Hibhib, an area north of Baghdad, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki announced today.
Zarqawi,
Un-Conventional Thinking: The Pentagon Honors Torture Awareness Month
This month is Torture Awareness Month, as Jonathan Schwarz usefully reminds us here. (Schwarz, by the way, has been absolutely ablaze with sardonic fire lately. His takedown of Glenn Reynold’s idiotic justification for future civil war in America is an unsurpassed gem of the blogging art. Read it, and experience that unique state induced by a dose of Schwarzprose: hilarious high dudgeon.)
Naturally, the Pentagon has marked this worthy occasion by – what else? – eviscerating international
Goobers on Parade: Fake Christians and Sham Southerners
From the Dallas Morning News: GOP buttons on their shirts and faith on their sleeves. Excerpt:
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Return to Ishaqi: The Pentagon’s Shaky Self-Exoneration
*This piece has been extensively revised since its original posting, with the latest material added on June 4.*
It seems that the Pentagon, that veritable fount of veracity, has probed itself for the alleged execution-style slaying of civilians in the village of Abu Sifa in the region of Ishaqi, and found that the operation — which left 11 civilians dead, including five children under the age of five — was in fact an exemplary feat of arms, strictly by the book.
Everything happened pretty much the way
Annals of Liberation: A New Hitler Rising
Iraqi PM Accuses U.S. of ‘Daily’ Attacks Against Civilians (NYT). Excerpt:
"They crush them with their vehicles and kill them just on suspicion," he
Ishaqi (Isahaqi – Abu Sifa) – Death in the Desert – The Children of Abraham
See Flash Movie on Ishaqi (Abu Sifa) here. There is also an Image Gallery available here. *WARNING* Some images in the Flash presentation and image gallery may be uncomfortable and inappropriate viewing for faint of heart and young children. Latest BBC report on Ishaqi{playerflv}http://www.chris-floyd.com/isahaqi/ishaqi.flv|230|150|#000000|false{/playerflv} by Chris Floyd What happened in the village of Abu Sifa, in the rural Al Ishaqi district north of Baghdad, on the Ides of March? The murk of war – the natural blur of unbuckled event, and its artificial augmentation by professional massagers – shrouds the details of the actual operation. But here is what we
High Water Everywhere
A raft of excellent stories out there recently — all of them bad news for the health of America’s constitutional republic. Each is worthy of further explication, but with pressing deadlines elsewhere, we’ll have to be content with a quick round-up. But give them all a good read — if you’ve got the stomach for more punishment. These days, we all need a set of iron guts to digest the rancid feast served by the Bush Regime every hour on the hour.
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The Line of Atrocity: From the White House to Haditha
Many observers have compared the methodical murder of 24 innocent civilians by U.S. Marines in the Iraqi town of Haditha – now confirmed by Pentagon and Congressional sources – to the infamous My Lai massacre in Vietnam, when American troops slaughtered hundreds of civilians in a bloody rampage. But this is a false equation, one that gravely distorts the overall reality of the Coalition effort in Iraq.
For it is not the small-scale Haditha atrocity that should be compared to My Lai: it is the entire Iraq