Daily Show - Rob Riggle is actually in Iraq. really.

A Funkaoshi Production :: Bush’s Brand New Viet Nam. ram on bush’s latest dumbass comments.

60 Minutes - The Mother of all Heists. seems an iraqi-born pizza man from germany who showed up in iraqi after the invasion became a commander in the iraqi army and helped swindle $800M. I’m not joking.

60 Minutes - The Other Iraq. Bob Simon report about life in Kurdistan, the part of iraq that actually got liberated and seems to be prospering.

The Lifeline. a photo essay about treating soldiers in Iraq. photos are pretty graphic. one guy shown had hit 4 IEDs in one week. via ram.

Jon Stewart Grills Cheney Biographer Stephen Hayes. this guy looked like a fool.

Daily Show: 94 Cheney vs. 9/11 Cheney. Even Dick doesn’t know Dick.

David Rees: Cormac Ignatieff’s “The Road”. on Ignatieff’s insano essay in the new york times magazine. “I’m just making my way out of the debilitating Level-Five Mind Fog that came from reading the thing. Even my “Second Life avatar” has a headache!”

If FDR Were GWB. cute. via ram.

Guardian Unlimited | America is just starting to wake up to the awesome scale of its Iraq disaster. via ram.

Sean Smith in Iraq | Video | Guardian Unlimited. this is some intense stuff. some pretty graphic footage and several soldiers call out the president and congress as idiots. via ram.

YouTube - Generation Chickenhawk: With The College Republicans. seems they all read the same memo, support the war, and have some medical reason for not joining. via ram.

Bill Moyers Journal - Buying The War. a long piece aboutmainstream media’s utter failure in reporting the build up to the iraq war. some great comments by the knight-ridder reporters who got it right and bob simon of 60 minutes.

Zakaria: How to Restore America’s Place in the World. a long article by fareed zakaria about what America should do now. via ram.

‘Little girl Rambo’ Jessica Lynch decries US propaganda | Guardian Unlimited. honestly, how can you believe anything the whitehouse, dod, or doj says?

The Army is ordering injured troops to go to Iraq | Salon News. for the love of god.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Up to 200 killed in Baghdad bombs. this isn’t even on the front page of cnn.com. it was worst single attack in the last 2 years.

Crooks and Liars » The Daily Show: “Reverse Progress in Iraq,” Vetoes and War Czars. That was the best John Oliver bit I’ve seen on the Daily Show.

BBC NEWS | Explosion at Iraq parliament cafe. a suicide bomber killed at least 8 people in the parliament’s cafe. clearly, american’s aren’t getting the full picture of how good things are in iraq.

Media Matters - CNN reported on Pelosi’s “bad trip” to Syria. so bush criticized Pelosi for meeting with Syria but not the Republicans who did 2 days earlier. how did no one report this?