by William Norman Grigg September 12, 2006 In early August, about 300 Alaska-based soldiers of the 172nd Stryker Brigade, shortly after returning from Iraq, were ordered to return to Iraq immediately. Because of a bureaucratic bungle, the unit was not informed while in Iraq that its tour of duty had been extended. As a result, the soldiers and their families, relieved and grateful for their safe return, were torn apart once again without adequate time to prepare.Shortly thereafter the Bush...

Huh. Did I forget to blog about this? U.S. war prisons legal vacuum for 14,000 Paul Craig Roberts, when he isn't going off the deep end about 9/11, writes some pretty good stuff - such as in this case.

Well, no shit. RAWSTORY: British Army expert casts doubt on 'liquid explosives' threat, Al Qaeda network in UK Identified Lieutenant-Colonel (ret.) Nigel Wylde, a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer, has suggested that the police and government story about the "terror plot" revealed on 10th August was part of a "pattern of lies and deceit." British and American government officials have described the operation which resulting in the arrest of 24 mostly British Muslim suspects, as a...

They are worried that they could be prosecuted for torturing people.

From a summary of a new Time story: Full article here The first message was routine enough: a "Prepare to Deploy Order" sent through Naval communications channels to a submarine, an Aegis-class cruiser, two minesweepers and two minehunters. The orders didn't actually command the ships out of port; they just said be ready to move by October 1. A deployment of minesweepers to the east coast of Iran would seem to suggest that a much discussed, but until now largely theoretical, prospect has...

From a summary of a new Time story: Full article here The first message was routine enough: a "Prepare to Deploy Order" sent through Naval communications channels to a submarine, an Aegis-class cruiser, two minesweepers and two minehunters. The orders didn't actually command the ships out of port; they just said be ready to move by October 1. A deployment of minesweepers to the east coast of Iran would seem to suggest that a much discussed, but until now largely theoretical, prospect has...

There's a new documentary about Sibel Edmonds, the famously gagged whistle-blower, who found out too much about the criminals who occupy the highest levels of power in this country and others. It's called Kill the Messanger. Make sure to follow the links to Lukery and Mike Mejia. Lukery's http://sibeledmonds.blogspot.com/ is already full of tons of information as well as his wotisitgood4.blogspot.com Watch the trailer here.

Everyone join the celebration! Jim bovard has a few ideas for how to get this party started: 1) Wiretap your neighbor.

From the Battalion Chief Kenahan of the FDNY Safety Battalion debriefing of firefighter Banaciski: "They told us to get out of there because they were worried about 7 World Trade Center, which is right behind it, coming down. We were up on the upper floors of the Verizon building looking at it. You could just see the whole bottom corner of the building was gone. We could look right out over to where the Trade Centers were because we were that high up. Looking over the smaller buildings. "I...

As we say at Antiwar.com, the best way to spread the best parts of the American way - the rights of the individual, free markets, self-government and so forth - is by example. That when we export our way with force, we lose our own liberty and, by killing people overseas and setting a bad example for those who would like to emulate us, we make matters worse for the average foreigner. As John Quincy Adams put it in 1821: "[America] has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests...

For those of you who saw the Sept. 11 debate between Popular Mechanics and Dylan Avery and his researcher on Amy Goodman's show, here's a quick HOWTO on viewing the extremely popular 9/11 conspiracy doc Loose Change. FIrst, download the flick using this torrent. I have confirmed it contains two high quality movie files (one is called "extra footage"). If you don't know how to download a torrent, install Azureus. The torrent you downloaded will now open with it by default. Azureus will do all...

And I thought his speeches were pathetic... Here are a couple of parts of Bush's Friday press conference that warrant some review (There are more, but I no longer have the patience.): "QUESTION: Mr. President, former Secretary of State Colin Powell says the world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism. If a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former secretary of state feels this way, don't you think that Americans and the rest of the world are...

It seems to me that when the Bush administration makes loud accusations about a Middle Eastern state's "weapons of mass destruction" programs, the average Joe would question it. After all, they must have made up a hundred lies about Iraq: that the motivation for the invasion was to protect the people of America, that Iraq had "reconstituted nuclear weapons" (the evidence for which was forged documents and rocket tubes), that Saddam had a "long-standing relationship" with al Qaeda (providing...

By Paul Sperry Antiwar.com. "In its miniseries about the missteps that led to 9/11, ABC spared not only Bill Clinton but also George W. Bush. Our hawkish War President had almost nine months to respond to the USS Cole attack and did nothing, even as his security staff fired off memo after memo fingering Osama bin Laden and urging retaliation.Clinton claims, feebly, that he didn't have enough evidence to pin the October 2000 attack on bin Laden. But Bush certainly did. On March 2, 2001,...

Don't think so?