To follow up on my last post, United for Peace and Justice is sponsoring Three Days of Actions for Peace & Justice in D.C. featuring marches, rallies, anti-war concerts, and hopefully massive non-violent protests on the Mall in DC. I’ll be there. Let me know if you need a place to crash for the weekend [...]
Every day I find it increasingly difficult to write about the war. I was never a supporter of the war, always recognizing the lies that this entire venture was built on, and while I certainly don’t qualify as a member of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists I often am concerned that I need to do more [...]
Thank you Matt for a post that I very much needed to read.
The President says he must ‘go one with life’ which means further ignoring Cindy Sheehan and her band of peaceful protesters: Bush’s Saturday schedule included an evening Little League Baseball playoff game, a lunch meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a nap, some fishing and some reading. “I think the people want the president [...]
Last night‘s Daily Show featured the always interesting John Hockenberry, long time NPR correspondent and Dateline reporter who now writes for Wired magazine. He’s written an enlightening and disturbing article for this month’s Wired entitled The Blogs of War: The snapshots of Iraqi prisoners being abused at Abu Ghraib were taken by soldiers and shared [...]
I often pause for a moment to consider my hatred of our president, one George W. Bush. I remember the vitriol that spewed from conservatives and Republicans during the travails of the Clinton Administration. People called Clinton a killer and to those of us on the left it sounded purely absurd. Are we just mirroring [...]
Rick Santorum, United States Senator from Pennsylvania and resident fanatical right-wing nut-job just doesn’t get it. In fact, the Republican Party just doesn’t get it. They have absolutely lost their footing on reality and they have no plans at all when it comes to the war in Iraq or the a global struggle against violent [...]
Today, the Pentagon announced that it’ll be sending more troops to Iraq to deal with the probability of increased violence due to the escalating insurgency. It seems that, “because the insurgents have tended to intensify their attacks when key political milestones [are] approached,” that it’s perfectly reasonable to send more troops over to, well, die. [...]
Via Tattered Coat and ALa I found this remarkable post by CBTFW, a soldier who fought, and blogged, in Iraq. Though the post has been removed from the site due to complaints by the Army, CBTFW explains in stark detail the difference between CNN’s representation of a firefight in Mosul, and his own experience: Shortly [...]
I draw your attention this morning to two articles, without comment. James Sterngold, San Francisco Chronicle The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have already cost taxpayers $314 billion, and the Congressional Budget Office projects additional expenses of perhaps $450 billion over the next 10 years. That could make the combined campaigns, especially the war in [...]
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