I still remember the shock of that day...
- The more things change, the more they stay the same.
- Read Robert Fisk's 'Liberators as Murderers'.
I remember clearly the first suspicions I had that murder most foul might be taking place in our name in Iraq. I was in the Baghdad mortuary, counting corpses, when one of the city's senior medical officials, an old friend, told me of his fears. "Everyone brings bodies here," he said. "But when the Americans bring bodies in, we are instructed that under no circumstances are we ever to do post-mortems. We were given to understand that this had already been done. Sometimes we'd get a piece of paper like this one with a body." And here the man handed me a U.S. military document showing with the hand-drawn outline of a man's body and the words "trauma wounds."
- 'Furious Iraqis demands apology as US troops are cleared of [Ishaqi] massacre.
AMERICA'S alliance with the new Iraqi government was plunged into major crisis last night as the country's prime minister and its people reacted with fury to the US military clearing its forces of killing civilians during operations against insurgents.
These allegations and the US military's findings are also causing strain with Britain. It looks like the whole coalition may slowly be unraveling. Where will that leave the Iraqi people? As Charley Reese asks, 'What is the Mission'?
- Brace for even higher oil prices. Meanwhile, Condi's playing the semantics game:
The timetable for an Iranian decision must not be endless, Rice said on CNN's "Late Edition." She said Iran had a way to resolve the impasse but warned "the international community is committed to a second path should that first path not work."
'War' has now been relabeled as 'a second path'.
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