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From “Riverbend”:http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_riverbendblog_archive.html:
Let me clear it up for any moron with lingering doubts: It’s worse. It’s over. You lost. You lost the day your tanks rolled into Baghdad to the cheers of your imported, American-trained monkeys. You lost every single family whose home your soldiers violated. You lost every sane, red-blooded Iraqi when the Abu Ghraib [...]

A nice followup from the CSM on “Jill Carroll”:http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/carroll/index.html. I have nothing but respect and admiration for reporters who willingly go into harm’s way (and by all accounts, Iraq will probably go down as one of the most dangerous wars for reporters in a generation) and try to bring home unfettered, unfiltered information to [...]

Anyone who believes we successfully _won_ the war in Afghanistan needs a “serious reality check”:http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-11-16-afghan-insurgents-inside_x.htm:
The adversary faced this year by the Desert Eagles and other American units fighting in Afghanistan has defied military predictions that the Taliban and al-Qaeda were fading.
“It’s absolutely true that the insurgency has become more effective and the insurgency has [...]

This is the sound of an AK-47 being fired at you.

Seymour Hersh, the reporter who broke the story on Abu Ghraib Prison and the massacre at My Lai during the Vietnam War, spoke at Berkeley recently and recounted a shocking, but not unexpected story relayed to him by an officer stationed there:

HERSH: I got a call last week from a soldier — it’s different now, [...]