A flattened, depopulated, bombed-out prison.

I heard the NPR version of the "Fallujah is the most secure city in Iraq" story and had pull off the road because of the mixture of laughter and tears that the story was producing in me. It was the worst mixture of spin, pathos, lying by omission, and unintended funny I've heard in a long while. Sure it's the most secure city - it's a fucking bombed-out hole in the ground, and bombed-out holes in the ground don't care if you walk around it, walk through it, or pull down you pants and dump into it.

Garcia-Navarro should be supremely embarrassed to have filed that story. It's the new poster child for NPR's turn into media complacentcy and mediocrity.

It's all wunnerful, if you ignore the shite.

Here is the true story: The United States invaded a small country that had been under UN sanctions for 10 years and two years later we are still fighting and dying. Our United States under Bush and Rummy couldn't even win a war against a small country. This is, in terms of conflict, a loss for the US and Bush. That is the truth.

Think Peter Arnett and Ashleigh Banfield. Truth be damned.

I think the reporters who suppressed the truth were probably Democratic reporters. We need to hold their feet to a fire somewhere so they never do it again. And we should give them a spine at the same time whether they want one or not.

Riverbend has a two year anniversary post.

We try to put it out of our heads, but it comes back anyway. We sit around sometimes, when there's no electricity, or when we're gathered for lunch or dinner and someone will say, "Remember two years ago when..." Remember when they bombed Mansur, a residential area... When they started burning the cars in the streets with Apache... When they hit the airport with that bomb that lit up half of the city... When the American tanks started rolling into Baghdad...?

Remember when the fear was still fresh- and the terror was relatively new- and it was possible to be shocked and awed in Iraq?

Well, you can't sustain a war when people know the truth. Vietnam is a good example of that hypothesis. As it is, people have been lulled into a world where they need not be viligant because the media tells them all is right with the War.

Mainstream American media is nothing but a two-bit pack of whores now. Watch Free Speech TV or listen to Air America Radio, or maybe NPR.

How I long for the "blow job" in the WH scandal.

How I long for the "blow job" in the WH scandal.

Gannon's getting hungry. He'll turn soon.

Well, he better satisfy that hunger before he turns up dead.

That is the reason that I read foreign news. Wait when our soldiers are getting sick. The exposure to DU bombs will be with all of for a long time

Mushrooming depleted uranium (DU) scandal blamed

The True Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Just curious...have any of you ever been in the service? Have any of you seen war first hand? Do you think that it is possible that some good has come out of this war? Unfortunantly we don't live in the world of milk and honey, and sometimes things that we don't want to happen...happen. This war could possibly be one of those things. Just say what you really mean...we want every soldier over there dead that way we can finally prove how dumb GWB and his oil cronies are.