NBC News:
WASHINGTON - Although nothing is final until President Bush puts his stamp on it, administration officials tell NBC News the president has all but decided on a temporary surge of additional American forces into Iraq in an effort to bring sectarian violence in Baghdad under control ( Read more... )

U.S. military deaths in Iraq reach 3,000:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- American deaths in the Iraq war reached the sobering milestone of 3,000 on Sunday even as the Bush administration sought to overhaul its strategy for an unpopular conflict that shows little sign of abating ( Read more... )

Heathrow Airport has started conducting trials of biometric security:

Travellers will be able to bypass long queues if they have their fingerprints biometrically scanned, while face and eye scans will be introduced soon.
Goody! If you're not a criminal, why do you care if the authorities have your fingerprints? I can't imagine anything going ( Read more... )

Army specialist Alyssa Peterson, the third female U.S. soldier to die in Iraq back in 2003, killed herself "after objecting to interrogation techniques used on prisoners."

Peterson was an Arabic-speaking interrogator assigned to the prison at our air base in troubled Tal-Afar in northwestern Iraq ( Read more... )

From Wonkette via the Free-fucking-Republic (I feel so dirty) - Troops respond to John Kerry's idiotic remark:


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I cannot wait to see Wes Clark along with MJ Fox tomorrow in Arlington. *bounces with excitement* Don't worry y'all, I'll be taking plenty of pictures. :)

Sigh.
Another Marine stationed in Iraq has sent us a screenshot of what happens when you need some hot news on Macaca and Foley:
forbidden, this page (http://www.wonkette.com) is categorized as (Personal Pages) ALL SITES YOU VISIT ARE LOGGED AND FILED.
Nice little threat at the end, too. ( Read more... )

Last week, the Head of the British Army said that Britain has to pull out of Iraq:

General Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the army, dropped a political bombshell last night by saying that Britain must withdraw from Iraq "soon" or risk serious consequences for Iraqi and British society ( Read more... )

This war is never going to end, is it?
WASHINGTON (AP) - For planning purposes, the Army is gearing up to keep current troop levels in Iraq for another four years, a new indication that conditions there are too unstable to foresee an end to the war ( Read more... )

Via VoteVets.org and DKos. Here is the direct link in case the embedded link doesn't work.

I knew our troops were going without sufficient body armor, but somehow seeing their flak jackets shot with AK-47s really sends the message home.