Petraeus: Bush Administration Violated Geneva Conventions – Harper’s. i find it funny that the Fox reporter at the end saying that “values” are something that are malleable. i’m sure it would take the Daily Show 5 minutes to find a clip of the guy saying something like “Bush can’t compromise on values”. via ram.

YouTube – Stephen Harper copies Australian Prime Minister John Howard. this is just odd. he completely used the same speech back in 2003 about why we should go to Iraq. via amr.

globeandmail.com: Guantanamo detainees have rights, court rules. it’s good to know that the two sides were so violently opposed.

Daily Show interview with Aram Roston. who recently published a book about Ahmed Chalabi entitled The Man Who Pushed America To War

YouTube – Rep Ron Paul: Gen Petraeus Iraq Surge Hearing. skip to 2:34 to hear the good part.

22-year old with history of domestic abuse reportedly was awarded $300m Pentagon contract to supply Afghan troops | guardian.co.uk “Efraim Diversoli, 22, supplied stock that was 40 years old and rotting packing material.” damn, what were you doing when you were 22?

The Surge is Not Sustainable: Augustus Richard Norton explains why. it’s amazing how many year we can waste in iraq. via ram.

CJR: Recovering Reality: Errol Morris on Abu Ghraib. fantastic interview about his new movie, the failure of journalism, and how pictures can lie. “Usually visuals are designed to stop us from thinking, not to encourage us to think.”

Standard Operating Procedure – Trailer. Errol Morris documentary about Abu Ghraib.

Barack Obama’s 2002 Speech on Iraq. some quality stuff. too bad there’s not a video. via boris.


Teaser trailer for the HBO miniseries Generation Kill. looks like Band Of Brothers for Iraq. Produced by the guys behind The Wire.


The first 4 minutes to the movie The Kingdom. Some nice graphic design and you gotta love the Frontline guy’s voiceover. via ram.

Bob Simon tells the story of the Iraqi defector known as “Curve Ball,” whose fabricated story of mobile biological weapons drove the U.S. argument for invading Iraq.. Bob Simon details the single source behind Colin Powell’s “slam dunk” UN presentation. I don’t think I’ll ever believe anything that an “intelligence” agency says again.

Cost of the war in Iraq compared to research and development of solar technology. a stunning infographic.

BBC NEWS | US anti-gay church to pay $10.9m. these are the idiots who protest dead soldiers funerals.

More from Seymour Hersch on the Whitehouse and Iran. honestly, this guy must have more sources than every other reporter combined.

Bill Maher: New Rule: Stop Saying Iraq is Another Vietnam, it’s Another Enron “And here’s another one from the War in Iraq’s this-is going-to-make-you-vomit file”

The War as We Saw It – New York Times. Two of the 7 NCOs who wrote this op-ed died in Iraq on Monday. A third survived a gun shot to the head.

A Way Out of Debt by Way of Iraq – New York Times. about debt in the armed services plus one guy who voluntarily took assignment in iraq to get out of debt.

Email Exchange between a Producer of the OReilly Factor and Mark Cuban. That email explains a lot as it’s written totally in sound bites. Maybe the people at Fox News can only think in sound bites.