IN IRAQ: “…From mid-August to mid-November, the weekly average number of attacks increased 22 percent from the previous three months”

Forbes: Attacks on U.S. and Iraqi troops and Iraqi civilians jumped sharply in recent months to the highest level since Iraq regained its sovereignty in June 2004, the Pentagon told Congress on Monday in the latest indication of that country’s spiraling violence. In a report issued the same day Robert Gates took over as defense […]

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Atrios tells CNN: Stop it.

Atrios tells CNN: Stop it. I’d want more too. I never, ever speak for the troops. They have been used as pawns in the propaganda war and it disgusts me. I have no idea what they are going through and would never presume otherwise JOHN AMATO in Crooks and Liars powered by performancing firefox

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