Iraq

Code Pink

Spreading Democracy... or something

Regardless of whether or not the Bush administration will succeed in its plan to introduce democracy into Iraq through an armed invasion and years of chaotic violence, it now appears that the administration has succeeded in bringing to Iraq something the country has had very little of since the Brit ... More >>

"... downhill all the way"

With the first anniversary of the nightmarish devastation of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and New Orleans by Hurricance Katerina (with the assistance of the Bush administration) looming, and the major news media already gearing up for their fifth anniversary of 9/11 extravaganzas, the UK newspaper The ... More >>

Adapting in Iraq

The last time I checked, the latest Bush administration slogan for its Iraq adventure is "Adapting to Win". This replaced "Stay the Course", which had fallen out of favor with the White House presumably since it might remind people just what "course" events are taking in Iraq. So, is Adapting to W ... More >>

Staying the Course

At his press conference this morning, President Bush promised yet again that when it comes to Iraq, we'll continue to push on even though we're waist deep in the Big Muddy. Elsewhere in this morning's news we find some milestones of the course on which we are staying. From the Washington Post: A te ... More >>

One Ring to Fool Them All

On the Orange Punch blog yesterday, Alan Bock wrote a terrifying post under the headline "What if it's true?" It seems he read some blog about a bumper-sticker that read, FRODO HAS FAILED – BUSH HAS THE RING Some intense research revealed that it is in fact true. There is such a bumper-sticker ... More >>

Good News from Iraq (Fake news edition)

Somehow it's fitting that the only good news to come out of Iraq recently is the fake news. The New York Times reports on a satirical news show that debuted on the Iraqi sattelite station Al Sharqiya at the beginning of Ramadan. This being Iraq, the show's title is somewhat darker than "The Daily ... More >>

Baghdad Ink

A little reading as we wait for the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group to unveil a new and improved Iraq policy. The Associated Press reports: Baghdad's morgues are full. With no space to store bodies, some victims of the sectarian slaughter are not being kept for relatives to claim, but photographed ... More >>

Hearts and Minds and Robo Calls

While it can't be called a sign of progress, it is a sign that at least one familiar aspect of American life is taking hold in Iraq. According to Paul Kiel at TPMmucker.com, Not long after Republicans harrassed tens of thousands of Americans with automated phone messages in November's election, new ... More >>

Numbers, Numbers (and a semi-Nun)

First for some numbers that aren't as big as you might think, or others might want you to think. If California were a separate country, it would have the world's sixth-largest economy, one hears time and time again. The governor even repeated the We're Number 6 bleat in his State of the State spee ... More >>

History, Heresy, Heresay

How are we supposed to learn from history if we can't even agree what that history taught us? Seal Beach's Doug Korthof pointed us to an LA Times story you can find at this link ... http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-na-haig12mar12,1,2499867.story ... where Gen. Al Haig sees ... More >>

Sister (Up) in Arms

Seal Beach activist Doug Korthof (see him in the upcoming documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?) sent this along about Iraq's girl blogger "Riverbend": "She offers a ground-level female perspective on Iraq and your Tax dollars at work. Against incredible odds, this literate and intense young Ira ... More >>

Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Register Slams Sheriff

A broken clock is right more often than Rohrabacher: Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher recently uttered that President George W. Bush deserves another six months to turn things around in Iraq. But the Huntington Beach/Long Beach representative has a shameful history on the subject. More t ... More >>

November Surprise?

A broken clock is right more often than Rohrabacher: Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher recently uttered that President George W. Bush deserves another six months to turn things around in Iraq. But the Huntington Beach/Long Beach representative has a shameful history on the subject. More t ... More >>

Moidering Dem Bums

A broken clock is right more often than Rohrabacher: Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher recently uttered that President George W. Bush deserves another six months to turn things around in Iraq. But the Huntington Beach/Long Beach representative has a shameful history on the subject. More t ... More >>

Dollars and No Sense

A broken clock is right more often than Rohrabacher: Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher recently uttered that President George W. Bush deserves another six months to turn things around in Iraq. But the Huntington Beach/Long Beach representative has a shameful history on the subject. More t ... More >>

God Bless the USA!

A broken clock is right more often than Rohrabacher: Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher recently uttered that President George W. Bush deserves another six months to turn things around in Iraq. But the Huntington Beach/Long Beach representative has a shameful history on the subject. More t ... More >>

Burning Bush

The presidents conservative critics

Iraq War Movie 'Stop-Loss' Does Its Best Not to Mention the War

The presidents conservative critics

Wednesday - 11/28

No End In Sight at Marie Callenders, Army of Darkness at Regency South Coast Village

Walk Through the Valley

Don’t let Paul Haggis’s heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

Bushies Order Takeout

Don’t let Paul Haggis’s heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

Operation Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of history

Death squads didnt work in Vietnam, but the CIA is betting theyll be great in Iraq

Style Offensive

Poetic construction makes Iraq in Fragments not just another Iraq war doc

Money for Nothing

Iraq for Sale loads more anti-war cannon fodder

Baghdad Diaries

One womans two-year adventure in Iraqs Green Zone

Hey, You!

Happy Anniversary!

The Kevlar Anniversary

If the Iraq War is so noble, why are Georges kids still on their barstools?

Baghdad Boozin'

Or: Vodka and Vicodin in Iraq

Repetition in Politics, News, Big Business and Human Suffering

Terminator Genes

Burning Bush

His Conservative Critics

Burning Bush

The presidents conservative critics: Special Republican National Convention Edition

Diary of a Mad County

The presidents conservative critics: Special Republican National Convention Edition

Coming Up Roses

Learning to love Loretta Sanchez . . . mmm, maybe not

Diary Of A Mad County

Learning to love Loretta Sanchez . . . mmm, maybe not

Burning Bush

The presidents conservative critics

Exit Strategy

The peace movement failed to stop Bushs war, so now what?

Oiling the Colonial Gears

The peace movement failed to stop Bushs war, so now what?

Facts and Shivers

The peace movement failed to stop Bushs war, so now what?

Homeland Insecurity

The peace movement failed to stop Bushs war, so now what?

Our Man In Baghdad

The peace movement failed to stop Bushs war, so now what?

The Last Resort

Iraq is rocked, but our desert rocks

Daddy Warbucks

Iraq is rocked, but our desert rocks

Slick Talk

Iraq is rocked, but our desert rocks

Seizures in the Middle East

Iraq is rocked, but our desert rocks

Silent Shout

Women in Black

Camp Pendleton Welcomes Its First Arabic Food Stand

There's not a lot of warm fuzzy stories when you talk about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; and even fewer ones about food. But here's one with both from the Wall Street Journal. It tells of how in nearby Camp Pendleton, they just set up a shawarma stand in the base due to popular demand. ... More >>

Steve Lopez Connects Viewers to War's Effect on One Camp Pendleton Family

Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez tonight gives a video profile of a Camp Pendleton family soon to be separated by an overseas military deployment.

[BREAKING:] Obama: All U.S. Troops Will Be Out of Iraq by End of Year

​Congressman Dana Rohrabacher told the Laguna Niguel City Council last night that U.S. troops do not belong in Iraq. The Huntington Beach Republican must be ready to give Barack Obama a bear hug because the president just announced all U.S. military in Iraq will be home for the holidays.In announc ... More >>

Sign of the Great Recession, Part 98: Prices Rising at Military Mess Halls, Academies

Flickr user army.arch​God bless our troops, but goddamnit, they're having it tough right now. Between a military that's shrinking, a lack of proper care for vets who need it, the thankless job of serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a bunch of dirty hippies like me questioning why they had to go t ... More >>