Casualties in Iraq over time
Here is a flash map which animates casualties in Iraq over time and space. It’s fascinating to watch, in a terrible way. Pay special attention to the past month and the insurgency’s “last throes”.
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The Yellow Elephant Campaign
Because ranting is safer than enlisting. Edit: With a hip-hip-hooray for Jesus’s General!
Continue reading →War crimes
And I don’t mean acts by the troops, though plenty of those are questionable as well. These crimes were by the ones at the top, the government officials who decided to begin this preemptive war in the first place, and even before the torture started. From today’s Guardian: Revealed: The Rush to War The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, warned less than two weeks before the invasion of Iraq that military action could be ruled illegal. The government was so concerned that it might be prosecuted it set up a team of lawyers to prepare for legal action in an international … Continue reading →
Baghdad Burning
It’s not unusual for riverbend to move me with her writing. She’s in the heart of Baghdad, and that’s been a pretty terrible place to be for the past couple of years. In this recent post, she describes changes she’s seeing around her, as those who want Iraq to be governed by Sharia law begin to consolidate their power. As a feminist who has always valued my own independence, I don’t know how she will live with it. She starts out talking about the election: I literally had chills going up and down my spine as I watched Abdul Aziz … Continue reading →
I do love this picture
I’m not convinced the vote will make things better, but for her sake, and all who joined her yesterday, I surely hope so. Picture
Continue reading →A bad combination
Oliver Willis had the best post of the day yesterday, when he showed us the very bad combination of these two stories: Bush Rejects Bad News There is rising concern amongst senior officials that President Bush does not grasp the increasingly grim reality of the security situation in Iraq because he refuses to listen to that type of information. Our sources say that attempts to brief Bush on various grim realities have been personally rebuffed by the President, who actually says that he does not want to hear
Continue reading →Rummy
The best reason I’ve heard for keeping Rumsfeld in office: “When they start the war crimes trials, they’ll know right where to find him.”
Continue reading →Military deaths in Iraq
From MyDD via Atrios. Everyone should see this.
Continue reading →Those who dare to count the dead
In today’s Guardian, Naomi Klein presents evidence for her claim that U.S. forces in Fallujah specifically targeted anyone who dared to report on civilian casualties, placing them under arrest and removing any ability to communicate. In particular, doctors, journalists, and clerics were targeted, according to Klein. To: David T Johnson, Acting ambassador, US Embassy, London Dear Mr Johnson, On November 26, your press counsellor sent a letter to the Guardian taking strong exception to a sentence in my column of the same day. The sentence read: “In Iraq, US forces and their Iraqi surrogates are no longer bothering to conceal … Continue reading →
I get so angry
…when so many are still dying in the disaster that is our war in Iraq, and yet I hear that, of all the cabinet members Bush is ditching, Rumsfeld gets to stay.
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