Juan Cole has a nice post set to Bob Dylans’ tune. How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? In response to the call for a withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by a retired marine colonel, decorated Vietnam War veteran and Democratic Congressman, John Murtha, White House Spokesman …
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Crawling back to my 23rd post… 5th sentence
Almost exactly one year ago, I blogged about a revolt by Ukrainian media. Yesterday, Declan tagged me at Crawl Across the Ocean with the task of finding the 5th sentence in my 23rd post.. and writing about it. Well here’s the sentence, and it’s an interesting one at least (thank god). “I’ve never heard of …
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Side by side chemical comparison
A Pentagon spokesman, Lt Col Barry Venable, confirmed to the BBC the US had used white phosphorus “as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants” – though not against civilians, he said. Lets compare, shall we? (click the image for a larger version) I’m sorry I couldn’t get any more recent photos… but “unfortunately” the last …