Nir Rosen on his time in Iraq: The Occupation of Iraqi Hearts and Minds "I believe that any journalist who spent even a brief period embedded with American soldiers must have witnessed crimes being committed against innocent Iraqis, so I have always been baffled by how few were reported and how skeptically the Western media treated Arabic reports of such crimes. These crimes were not committed because Americans are bad or malicious; they were intrinsic to the occupation, and even if the Girl...

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The police state wanted them all to be undercover snitches. When they refused, Hell rained down on them. Will Grigg's x-ray eyes here.

By Ken Silverstein Harpers "I've learned from two sources that some senior figures at the CIA, along with a number of Iraq analysts, have been pushing to produce a new NIE. They've been stonewalled, however, by John Negroponte, the administration's Director of National Intelligence, who knows that any honest take on the situation would produce an NIE even more pessimistic than the 2004 version. That could create problems on the Hill and, if it is leaked as the last one was, with the public as...

Say it ain't so. Lawyers for 4 Accused Soldiers Say They Acted on Orders "On the morning of May 9, a group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division arrived in a remote desert area of western Iraq for a dangerous mission: taking out an insurgent training camp. What happened then has become the subject of intense dispute. Military prosecutors last month accused four soldiers in the unit of releasing three Iraqi men they captured that day, only to kill them. The soldiers have been charged...

John Stewart does a little comparison/contrast. Via Crooks

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Iraq's Bloody July by Robert Dreyfuss

Before the U.S. House of Representatives, July 20, 2006: I rise in opposition to this resolution, which I sincerely believe will do more harm than good. I do agree with the resolution's condemnation of violence. But I am convinced that when we get involved in foreign conflicts and send strong messages, such as this resolution will, it ends up expanding the war rather than diminishing the conflict, and that ultimately comes back to haunt us. Mr. Speaker, I follow a policy in foreign affairs...

"Two hundred years ago, when the United States was a modest commercial republic, the president could take a walk down Pennsylvania Avenue

Bovard in the Boston Globe: "After the US Supreme Court's recent decision limiting military tribunals, Congress is scrambling to pass a law regarding trials for detainees at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Republicans are threatening to paint Democrats as soft on terrorism if they refuse to rubber stamp the Bush administration's existing practices, whereby special rules make it far easier to convict "enemy combatants" in tribunals than in federal courts." But, before sanctifying the tribunals,...

Following is a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies

Remember, Scheuer was the head analyst at the bin Laden unit from 1996-2000 "As Lebanon burns, bin Laden's words will reinforce and harden Muslim perceptions

Matt Barganier has some perspective on that for you. "Those Israeli children are no more evil than the Palestinian tots the warbloggers splash across their pages, and anyone who saw in my post support for their own reverse-Malkinism can f*ck off. What those photos