Blogged From at 07. Apr 2007 23:26 under Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object
For weeks now, it's been an article of faith over on the extreme right that five Iranians captured in US raids in the Kurdish town of Irbil in January numbered at least two very high ranking members of the revolutionary guard among their number. The raids were part of Bush's stated intention to "seek out and destroy the networks" of Iranians his administration say are aiding Iraqi insurgent groups.The problem is, they snatched the wrong people."It (the house) was not a secret Iranian office. It is impossible for us to accept that an Iranian office in Irbil was doing things against coalition forces or against us. That office was doing its work in a normal way and had they been doing anything hostile we would have known that," Barzani said."They (the Americans[...]
http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2007/04/goading-iran-into-war.html
Blogged From at 07. Apr 2007 21:44 under Object, Object
The Associated Press is reporting that the Iraqi government is preparing to offer segments of the Ba'athist officer class pensions. This could actually be some good news although I have severe doubts about the scalability of the positive effect. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered pension payments for senior officers of Saddam Hussein's military and offered a return to service for lower-ranking soldiers.....The al-Maliki statement said that any former officer above the rank of major would be given a pension equal to that of officers now retiring. Former officers above major who wanted to rejoin the army were encouraged to check with the military command to learn if they were acceptable in the Iraqi army that is being rebuilt by American forces.Those who[...]
http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2007/04/potential-good-news-on-sunni-arab.html
Blogged From Jerry at 07. Apr 2007 19:07 under Politics, Iraq, Anti-Americanism, Crime, Corruption
Peace House has its share of battles Group in Crawford lost its charter, could face legal action http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-peacehouse_07tex.ART.State.Edition1.445170e.html# CRAWFORD, Texas – With charges of money mismanagement, threats of court action and members leaving, a group that has sponsored war protests in President Bush’s adopted hometown has been anything but peaceful. The Crawford Peace House recently lost its corporate state [...]
http://commonsensewonder.com/?p=1972
Blogged From at 07. Apr 2007 17:51 under Object, Object, Object
It's about time they started treating the war dead with some respect for their sacrifice. After years of sending them home in the freight compartments of commercial airliners like so much excess baggage, a father's quest for dignity for his fallen son has forced the White House to change its policy and treat the lost soldiers with some honor.In an about-face by the U.S. government four years into the war in Iraq, America's fallen troops are being brought back to their families aboard charter jets instead of ordinary commercial flights, and the caskets are being met by honor guards in white gloves instead of baggage handlers with forklifts.I can't think of anything more devastating to a family than to have to bring their own hearse to a loading dock at the ne[...]
http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2007/04/respect-for-war-dead.html
Blogged From Scared Monkeys at 07. Apr 2007 15:13 under Iraq
You knew this would happen, Cindy Sheehan thinks that she is the architect of the Democratic victory in the 2006 elections. Now she is demanding that the Democratic Party end the war in Iraq immediately, or face the consequences. “They got there and they betrayed the grass roots that put them back there,” she said. “We [...]
http://www.scaredmonkeys.com/2007/04/07/they-eat-their-own-sheehan-now-blasting-democrats/
Blogged From at 07. Apr 2007 14:58 under Object, Object, Object
Gulf Times, via Juan Cole:Lieutenant-Colonel Scott Bleichwehl said troops, facing scattered resistance, discovered a factory that produced “explosively formed penetrators� (EFPs), a particularly deadly type of explosive that can destroy a main battle tank and several weapons caches.What? The same EFPs that had to come from Iran, because they couldn't possibly be manufactured in Iraq? I don't mind so much anymore about the falsehoods; I just wish that they would respect my intelligence enough to tell plausible lies.
http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2007/04/efps.html
Blogged From Richard at 07. Apr 2007 13:17 under General, World Affairs, US Politics, IRAQ, Election 2008
Speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi is just wrapping up her world tour. Her performance in Damascus could earn her a major award, however politics being what it is, she won’t get what she really deserves. The award would be an arrest and up to three years of Jail time for violating Federal Law. The US cannot [...]
http://arquenet.com/wp1/archives/330
Blogged From suz at 07. Apr 2007 07:14 under Iraq, War, Iran, Middle East, USA
I can’t be the only one who thought ‘Sarajevo’ when I first heard of the capture of British sailors by Iran. It had ‘casus belli’ written all over it. But that’s not how things have turned out … so far. It’s hard to work out the truth about the capture and subsequent release of the sailors. [...]
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/04/07/provocation/
Blogged From at 07. Apr 2007 03:57 under Object, Object, Object, Object, Object
Fighting for your country at the request of your President and Commander in Chief is an honor for all of our armed services members. Wearing the uniform of the United States of America and its military means serving our nation in battles in lands far away from home and is what they volunteered for. As a soldier or sailor you wear that uniform with dignity and ultimate respect knowing that you and that uniform are representing the American people, your family back home, your neighbors, and your state.Some of these patriots of America don’t survive the battles or circumstances that our citizen run government places them in. They followed the orders given to them and in giving the ultimate sacrifice, being killed in action; our nation should treat their bodie[...]
http://papastraighttalk.blogspot.com/2007/04/fallen-soldiers-bodies-as-airline.html
Blogged From Pamela Leavey at 07. Apr 2007 02:55 under John Kerry, John Kerry In The News, In The News, Senate, Democratic Party/Democrats, Republicans, Iraq, Environment, Education, Democratic Daily Blog, Politics, Elections, Books, TV, Political News Shows, Election '08, Foreign Policy, Global Warming, Joh
As I wrote here yesterday, I was the guest of the Kerry’s on Wednesday, for the taping of their interview on the Tavis Smiley Show which aired last night on KCET in Los Angeles. I took notes while the show was taping, but had been asked not to blog about the show until it aired. [...]
http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=5592