The people of Sodom, the Bible tells us, were very wicked indeed. They had a nasty habit of putting every passing stranger into one particular bed. If the stranger was too tall, his legs were shortened. If he was too short, his body was stretched to the required length. In a way, each of us …
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"If we thought [the wars in] Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan were wrong when Bush was president, then they’re still wrong." So began Cindy Sheehan in a speech at the Peace Resource Center in Seaside, Calif. (near Monterey). I had never seen Ms. Sheehan speak, and I found her performance impressive. I’ve always respected her for …
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Updated at 6:09 p.m. EDT, Sept. 6, 2009
At least six Iraqis were killed and 21 more were wounded across the country. Officials also reported that numerous arrests had dismantled 18 militia networks but failed to stop the Aug. 19 bombings in Baghdad.
Only four Iraqis were killed and seven more were wounded in very light violence. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, a former U.S. soldier, however, was sentenced to five life-sentences over the murder of an Iraqi family, including a teenager he also raped.
Joe Galloway says the excuses are gone
The hyperventilating by Israel’s leaders over a story published in a Swedish newspaper last month suggesting that the Israeli army assisted in organ theft from Palestinians has distracted attention from the disturbing allegations made by Palestinian families that were the basis of the article’s central claim. The families’ fears that relatives, killed by the …
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Michael Mullen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) remained tight-lipped about the contents of a confidential report on the future of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan in a wide-ranging Pentagon briefing on Thursday. The report, authored by U.S. Afghanistan commander General Stanley McChrystal, is expected to lay the …
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JELAZON, West Bank — Fourteen-year-old Muhammad Nayif’s mother broke down as she spoke to IPS. Nayif died after being shot three times in the chest by Israeli soldiers Monday night. Palestinian medical personnel who tried to reach the critically injured boy near the Jelazon refugee camp north of Ramallah were threatened at gunpoint by Israeli …
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Jeff Huber skewers neocon nutbaggery
The White House reprimanded the Israeli government Friday over reports that Israel plans to build hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements, the latest in a series of showdowns between Washington and Jerusalem over settlement construction. The new construction plans represent a direct challenge to the Barack Obama administration’s Middle East peace plans, …
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