Oh Well: A Commentary

I found this VetVoice story through Crooks and Liars, and it is just incredible. From VetVoice: In testimony before the Senate Armed Serv...

I shouldn't be surprised at this story. From MSNBC News: WASHINGTON - Think you're being gouged by Big Oil? U.S. troops in Iraq ar...

I found this story through TPM Muckraker, which linked to the original New York Times story. It is just incredible. From The New York Ti...

Read the headline again. Now read the Associated Foreign Press story below: WASHINGTON (AFP) — The Pentagon on Wednesday said an eruption o...

You know, with the war in Iraq, the extended tours, the shifting of logistics operations to big war profiteers like Halliburton, and the com...

Graph showing Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans with mental ailments are seeing disability payments vary according to where they live. From...

Judy over at Judes BlogLoggin sent me this story. From The International Herald Tribune: After six years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, ...

Graph showing parents and other advisors who are less inclined to endorse enlistments to young people. From McClatchy News. I found this st...

This is on MSNBC News: WASHINGTON - House Democrats pushed through a $50 billion bill for the Iraq war Wednesday night that would require Pr...

I found this through Americablog here. Late last night, I wrote a couple of posts on General David Petraeus' hint that the Iraq war c...

If you thought Petraeus' hinting of the U.S. war in Iraq to be lasting for 10 years or more, this story is going to make you search for...

How much more incompetent can this administration be? From The Washington Post: The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault ...

This is just incredible. The Pentagon and the Bush administration can not seem to win the debate on the war in Iraq. All their happy talk ...

This is off The Washington Post: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced yesterday that Marine Gen. Peter Pace will step down as chairma...

This is censorship by the American military. I found this New York Times story through Americablog. Here is the NY Times story: Many of ...

This is off The Washington Post: The Pentagon announced yesterday that 35,000 soldiers in 10 Army combat brigades will begin deploying to Ir...

Looks like the Bush administration is well on their way towards completely destroying the Army. From The Washington Post: Defense Secretary...

Excuse me, but isn't the president suppose to be the "Commander-in-Chief?" And if so, then why does President Bush need a ...

This is from The New York Times: A new, long-term hunger strike has broken out at the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, wit...

There are days when even I'll have to admit that political CYA really stinks. And that is what we have here with this MSNBC story --a m...