Obvious headline of the week: Top Marine: No Plan For Post-Saddam Iraq, from an interview with Commandant of the United States Marine Corps General Mike Hagee. (Video here.)
Deconstructing the Bush Presidency one Newsweek cover at a time. It’s like looking at your old yearbook: What the hell were we thinking? The pep rallies, the rivalries that meant nothing, the cliques, the jocks, the nerds and the burnouts, except with billions and billions of dollars and peoples lives at stake.
Laughing for Jesus.
From Reuters: a civil rights group is “seeking war crimes charges against outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for the alleged abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons.” So, what does Bryan Whitman the spokesman for the Pentagon say?
It’s interesting to me that nobody kind of looks at it from the other side, in contrasting the way in which the enemy handles individuals and respect for people…
Shorter Pentagon shill: The barbarian terrorists use barbarian tactics against us, so why is it bad when we use barbarian tactics against them? The end result of this attitude in action is for all the world to see. As so many of us predicted it would. Alas.
