Juan Cole compiles the numbers for us:
By now, summer of 2008, excess deaths from violence in Iraq since March of 2003 must be at least a million. This conclusion can be reached more than one way. There is not much controversy about it in the scientific community. Some 310,000 of those were [...]
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan:
If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq.
The collapse of the administration’s rationales for [...]
Special Comment from Keith Olbermann:
Special Comment from Keith Olbermann Video
My favorite quotes:
On Iraqi WMD
You [Bush] should build a great statue of yourself turning a deaf ear to the warnings of realists, while you are shown embracing the three-card monte dealers like Richard Perle and Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
That would be a far more fitting [...]
Check out the original John “100 Years in Iraq” McCain post (with video) on this subject.
Back in early January, Republican presidential nominee John McCain made it clear he would like to have troops in Iraq for 100 years. He later backed down from that crazy position and expressed a more realistic desire to keep our [...]
I’m talking about this guy:
You know, this guy:
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush his handling his job as president.
“No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in fact, this is the first time that any [...]
Although there has been a decline in the media coverage of Iraq, the recent attacks by Al-Maliki on the militias in Basra and today’s Congressional testimony by General Petraeus on the “surge” has brought the occupation of Iraq back into the spotlight.
It’s likely that we’re going to be bombarded with news about the esteemed [...]
In the words of the photographer John Moore:
Mary told me about her slain fiance Jimmy Regan. Clearly, she had not only loved him but truly admired him. When he graduated from Duke, he decided to enlist in the Army to serve his country. He chose not to be an officer, though he could have been, [...]
That title is not a typo. I’m not talking about the missile defense program, aka “Star Wars”, I am talking about Star Trek.
More specifically, this guy, Worf:
See any resemblance?
The nerd/Star Trek fan in me had to smile when I read dday’s post comparing John McCain’s ideological bent to that of a Klingon. Then when I [...]
John Kerry was right.
In 2004, Kerry said “We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives but they’re a nuisance.” He said he we had to contain it, so “it’s not threatening the fabric of your life.”
Bush’s response was predictably insulting, simpleminded and inaccurate. [...]
I wrote on Tuesday about the U.S. government’s plan to blow up a dying satellite. According to CNN, that test was successful. Part of me is happy to see all that money we spent on missile defense hasn’t been a total waste. On the other hand, we can now look forward to angry reactions [...]