Sunday: 2 GIs, 66 Iraqis Killed; 63 Wounded

Updated at 11:58 p.m. EDT, July 29, 2007Most of the country is celebrating the Iraqi soccer team’s championship win in the Asian Cup; however, security forces are bracing for what may be an excuse for extra violence. Several cities have car curfews in place. In...

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A Blurry Line Between Propaganda and News

A shocking thing happens midway through Norman Solomon's documentary film War Made Easy. While analysing the George W. Bush administration's lead-up to the Iraq invasion, Solomon plays a news clip of Eason Jordan, a CNN News chief executive who, in an interview with...

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Iraq: Finding the Diamonds?

Last week's briefings for the press by U.S. civilian and military officials in Baghdad were uniformly upbeat, cautious, and predictable. The first half of the message was straightforward: "Don't judge too early. Give the 'surge' a chance." One division...

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Allergic to the Truth

I know that being a lame duck can make presidents act strangely, and this president has never had anything more than a nodding relationship with reality itself, let alone a deep-seated concern for truth. But it seems to me that President Bush has become almost...

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Armageddon – Bring It On

Last week the Christians United For Israel organization held its annual show-of-force in our Nation’s Capital and Max Blumenthal recorded for posterity – if, God Willing, there is to be one – this most "politically extreme, outrageous" spectacle....

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Saturday: 89 Iraqis Killed, 53 Wounded

Updated at 6:35 p.m. EDT, July 28, 2007At least 89 Iraqis were killed and 53 were wounded in the latest round of attacks. No foreign military were reported killed, but a Turkish villager was killed when he refused to feed Kurdish rebels. In Baghdad, 20 unidentified...

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The Withdrawal Follies

Withdrawal is now so mainstream. Last week, debate about it led to a sleep-in protest in the Senate and, this week, it's hit the cover of TIME Magazine, of which there's no mainer-stream around. The TIME cover couldn't be more graphic. The word "IRAQ" is in giant...

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Militarism – America’s State Religion

This has got the War Party in an uproar: Michelle Malkin's head is spinning practically off its axis, like Linda Blair in The Exorcist, only faster, the boys over at Powerline are hotly demanding an "explanation," and, to top it off, Jonah Goldberg, of all...

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