Via Ap-Yahoo
3 US soldiers killed in Baghdad
42 minutes ago
BAGHDAD - Three American soldiers were killed in separate attacks Monday in Baghdad, the U.S. military said. That pushed the two-day American death toll to at least 10 nationwide.
Via Firedoglake
Yoo Torture Memo: I’ll Take Addington At Cheney’s Behest For $1,000, Alex…
By: Christy Hardin Smith
As I'm reading through the Yoo memorandum, I have to keep pausing to clear my head or get up and walk for a while. It's going to be a long day with a pot of tea, and I've already got a pounding headache from my first skim through.Via SadlyNO!!
In other words, torture is only torture when the torturer feels guilty about doing it afterward.
Which assures that the only people who will ever be prosecuted for torture are the whistle-blowers.
Joseph Heller had no idea how crazy this shit could get. Jesus H.
Via - OOIBC
"Unbelievable" Abuse Reigns in Iraqi Jails
While Bush and his media toadies tout Anbar province as a "success" story for the "surge" and his predatory Iraq occupation in general, the conditions in the city jail speak a far different reality: of an inept, corrupt satrapy of a government, whose imperial masters flatter and support. Leave the jails with starving prisoners, says the "democratic" coalition. "Let them solve their own problems," announce the haughty leaders of the "free" world. In the degenerated world of modern America, freedom means, of course, freedom to starve.
Helped prove once again that the main stream media is just an entertainment outlet.
with information available in the past week about HBR in Iraq not paying taxes, military appropriations of helmets for soldiers with DEFECTS INTACT, and 11 dead soldiers in 3 days for a war based on lies ,the Government sponsored news is about what a governors prostitute looks like.
No War here , no death and battle here, look over there ... pretty... shiny ohh ohhh
UPDATE 8 Deaths Monday
5 U.S. Soldiers Reported Killed in Iraq
Published: March 10, 2008
Filed at 10:33 a.m. ET
BAGHDAD, March 10 (Reuters) - Five U.S. soldiers were killed and three others wounded in a bomb blast in central Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said, in the worst single attack on U.S. forces in Baghdad in months.
This is rich, just when it looks like Bush co will get there cake and eat yours too।
Someone slips.....
So will the nations of the world call this administration to task.
I hope so for the sake of the Bush Legacy
Now this I consider torture
Helmets for Troops substandard, so Bush admin orders more
Via TPM's Muckraker site
We Don't Discuss Interrogation Techniques until We Want to
Oh Please drown me and slap me in the head - I will surely tell you the truth. Sphere: Related Content"In fact, while the memos said head-slapping, simulated drowning, and frigid temperatures could be legally justified, they never condoned outright torture, which the CIA believes can produce bogus information."
Those, Kessler explains, are more accurately described as "coercive interrogation techniques [that] involve extreme discomfort as opposed to torture."
is 2 or 3 or 4 dead troops a day = not OK
So as the deaths of Us troops mount and the BUSH government hides any images of the death and destruction... the public seems quite ok with 1+ deaths a day.
The news media is ok with 1 plus deaths a day too, for there is no call to action or cry of misdeeds on any TV nor newspaper.
The point is - No deaths a day would be OK
but Bush says only the next President could do that, George Bush can only kill troops with his plans/strategy not save them.
Heck of a job , heck of a legacy your majesty .
Update - Damn!!! Death is OK for even the Non-Partisan types
Even those opposed to the surge, he said, “ought to at least let us try it.”“The worst that could happen,” he continued, is that this policy could become another partisan flashpoint in Washington- Jolten Joe Liarman
