Suicide Rate in Army Continues To Go Up

I found this video at the Chicago Tribune while I was researching my post below about anti-U.S. street demonstrations in Iraq. We have read and heard about military suicides all too many times before, but it does not get less upsetting. I tried to embed the video but it doesn’t work, so just go to the...

Anti-U.S. Street Demonstrations in Baghdad

This is what Iraqis think about a permanent U.S. military presence in Iraq: Thousands of Iraqis filled the streets of Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood this afternoon to demonstrate against a long-term United States presence in Iraq, the first significant anti-American rally in the massive Shiite slum...

Quotable Quotes

Nicely parsed! The Bush administration has been watching political developments in Pakistan with apprehension, worried that the country’s newly elected leadership will not be as tolerant of occasional unilateral U.S. strikes against al-Qaeda as was the government of President Pervez Musharraf, a close...

Overly Law-Minded Judge at Gitmo Is Fired

The chief judge in charge of Guantanamo ‘war crimes trials’ has summarily fired one of the trial judges, Army Col. Peter Brownback III, after Brownback refused to set a trial date in the case of a Canadian detainee because the prosecution was refusing to provide the detainee’s defense...

In Bushworld, Betrayal Is Okay for Thee, Not for We

Jonathan Martin at Politico reports that Bob Dole flamed Scott McClellan in an email that makes a typical Michelle Malkin post look like a church newsletter: Bob Dole yesterday sent a scalding e-mail to Scott McClellan, excoriating the former White House spokesman as a “miserable creature” who...