“There’s not one commander I talked to in theater or preparing to go to theatre [who] has any idea what he’s going to do with his waste other than take it to […]
Bill Mauldin: Icon of irony
Bill Mauldin: A Life up Front by Todd DePastino, W.W. Norton, 2008 Bill Mauldin’s work may have had as big an impact on Baby Boomers, especially boys, as it did on the […]
Lawsuit alleges mandatory Christianity in US military
By Sunfell Pentagon Sued Over Mandatory Christianity reads the Truth Out headline. A military watchdog organization filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and […]
ACLU obtains more info on Iraq prison abuse “cover-up”
The American Civil Liberties Union has issued a press release in which it says it has obtained new details of a possible cover-up of prisoner abuse in Iraq. Documents “suggest that senior […]
Arms and the jihad, I sing…
80,000. That’s how many Glock 19’s and other pistols the GAO figures have gone missing among the 190,000 weapons that are “lost” in the Iraq War zone. Newsweek offers a thoughtful examination […]
Oh, and did you know there’s a war on…?
From the “let’s talk about anything but the War on Terrorâ„¢ debacle” dept.: American and Canadian officials are downplaying a “graduation video” of Al Qaeda fighters and suicide bombers completing their training […]
Taguba on torture: another frozen scandal
By Robert Silvey Major General Antonio Taguba, who directed the first investigation of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, has now retired from the US Army and spoken at length with Seymour Hersh […]
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