Water, Water… Where?
Since my last post on the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, three more lives have been lost. One a Dane killed by "friendly fire," one of ours to hostile fire, and yet another American soldier to heat...
View ArticleI found a note I made on this a while back.
Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer, January 9, 2003 Q: But it wouldn’t be disappointing, would it, if there were no weapons there? MR. FLEISCHER: We know for a fact that there are weapons there. The note...
View ArticleA Bit of an Oldie
Here’s one I posted to several email lists about at the time, but didn’t put here because I was in a blogging lull :-). From the Washington Post, 27 July 2003 U.S. Adopts Aggressive Tactics on Iraqi...
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I finally have our Cafe Press story ready, with "Anyone But Bush Again ’04" merchandise. Half the proceeds will go towards booting the squatter out of the Oval Office, the other half to helping one...
View ArticleMore Wishful Thinking
From the NY Times: Bush Declares Violence in Iraq Tests U.S. Will, Aug. 26 He [Bush] made the case that failing to take the fight to terrorists wherever they are would expose the United States to...
View ArticleLies and the Lying Liars Who Admit It On National Television
I know, Tom Tomorrow, Daily Kos, (link dead) Atrios (and here), The Left Coaster (who seems to have originated this round), and last but not least Roland’s Justice Log have already covered it, but (in...
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The Iraq Coalition Casualty Count changed their categories, so I had to make a few changes to mine. The main change seems to be to count accidents caused by hostile fire as hostile, rather than just...
View ArticleThe body-politic may be willing…
…But how much flesh is another story. A reminder of which coalition member nations have sent troops into Iraq (link was to http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030926/D7TQ81V00.html): United States:...
View ArticleAnother milestone we can live without
As of the 27th, October has the highest hostile casualty count since "major combat operations" ended — 29 to July’s 28. It looks like July will continue to hold the overall post-Lincoln...
View ArticleEnough with the milestones
Or maybe they’d be better called "mill stones." November 2, 2003 — the second deadliest day of this fiasco for American troops. Sixteen dead per the Iraq Casualty Count, topping the 30 deaths on March...
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