war news and better news
First, the war news:
These are the coffins Bush doesn't want you to see, obtained by the Memory Hole's Freedom of Information Act request.
Soliders in Iraq are openly wondering why they're there:
The pivotal moment came, [Staff Sergeant David Safstrom] says, this past February when soldiers killed a man setting a roadside bomb. When they searched the bomber's body, they found identification showing him to be a sergeant in the Iraqi Army.
"I thought, 'What are we doing here? Why are we still here?' " said Safstrom, a member of Delta Company of the 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division. "We're helping guys that are trying to kill us. We help them in the day. They turn around at night and try to kill us."
Iraqi farmers have started growing opium. When I first saw this, I thought, this is news?, because I was thinking Afghanistan. Nope, Iraq. We turn countries into narco-terrorist states, yay?
And Blackwater is still evil and still causing chaos, this time by firing on Iraqi Interior Ministry forces.
And now, some better news:
Via FDL: Meet Malalai Joya of the Afghan parliament, a young woman who's stood firm in the face of death threats and assassination attempts to demand that the warlords in that body stand trial for their crimes. You can watch a PBS report on her, or get the audio, at that link. Like a lot of people, I think there are some Congressional Democrats who need to hear about her, lest they're kidding themselves that their pre-capitulation talking tough constituted courage.
UMass Amherst went ahead with its plans to give the repulsive Bush crony Andrew Card an honorary degree, but the booing that ensued from the graduates didn't even give him a chance to speak.
The placards say, "Honor Grads, Dis-Card." Yay to the punnery, and the fact that the second he was introduced, a dozen people behind him on the stage held them up. (Another dozen or so were a little slower.)
These are the coffins Bush doesn't want you to see, obtained by the Memory Hole's Freedom of Information Act request.
Soliders in Iraq are openly wondering why they're there:
The pivotal moment came, [Staff Sergeant David Safstrom] says, this past February when soldiers killed a man setting a roadside bomb. When they searched the bomber's body, they found identification showing him to be a sergeant in the Iraqi Army.
"I thought, 'What are we doing here? Why are we still here?' " said Safstrom, a member of Delta Company of the 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division. "We're helping guys that are trying to kill us. We help them in the day. They turn around at night and try to kill us."
Iraqi farmers have started growing opium. When I first saw this, I thought, this is news?, because I was thinking Afghanistan. Nope, Iraq. We turn countries into narco-terrorist states, yay?
And Blackwater is still evil and still causing chaos, this time by firing on Iraqi Interior Ministry forces.
And now, some better news:
Via FDL: Meet Malalai Joya of the Afghan parliament, a young woman who's stood firm in the face of death threats and assassination attempts to demand that the warlords in that body stand trial for their crimes. You can watch a PBS report on her, or get the audio, at that link. Like a lot of people, I think there are some Congressional Democrats who need to hear about her, lest they're kidding themselves that their pre-capitulation talking tough constituted courage.
UMass Amherst went ahead with its plans to give the repulsive Bush crony Andrew Card an honorary degree, but the booing that ensued from the graduates didn't even give him a chance to speak.
Click to viewThe placards say, "Honor Grads, Dis-Card." Yay to the punnery, and the fact that the second he was introduced, a dozen people behind him on the stage held them up. (Another dozen or so were a little slower.)