Tbogg has a new hot link called the Nether-Count which takes you to Antiwar.coms Casualties in Iraq page.
The hot link is named after US Senate aspirant George Nethercutt of Washington who recently said, well, you can go read it at Tbogg’s place.
Read all of this Newday opinion piece:
What is the same in the Guantanamo cases, and those of Hamdi and Padilla, is the president’s insistence that he alone has the authority to decide who should be locked up and when, if ever, they will be released.
It’s not supposed to work that way in the land of the free.
No, it should not work that way in the land of the free.
Via Talkleft.
Do you visualize the 133,000 troops in Iraq as mostly combat soldiers? Think again. According to this piece from today’s New York Times the number is much lower:
Such is the arithmetic of an ultra-modern army. The support echelon is so large that out of the 133,000 American men and women in Iraq, no more than 56,000 are combat-trained troops available for security duties…..And even the finest soldiers must sleep and eat. Thus the number of troops on patrol at any one time is no more than 28,000 � to oversee frontiers terrorists are trying to cross, to patrol rural terrain including vast oil fields, to control inter-city roads, and to protect American and coalition facilities.
No wonder the troops are having problems.
Gregory Harris quotes guidance from the senior bush on the wisdom of invading Iraq, chasing down saddam, etc.
Of course, w, deep thinker that he is, adheres to the teenage rebels mantra if daddy said it than it must be wrong.
Last April Josh Marshall wrote about a time, then 6 months in the future, when things would be going well for the bushies. That future is now and we have all heard or read w’s words about how well things are going.
Marshall’s article does not provide an exact match to today’s circumstances but it certainly does provide a clear alternate take on what the administration might mean by going well.
Go give it a read or re-read as the case may be.
Via Bilmon’s comment thread.