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Scrap Metal, Not Soldiers
Anna Quindlen Newsweek July 31, 2005
A candidate for a future journalism award for someone who "gets it" -- Anna Quindlen. "Never mind the yellow-ribbon magnets; patriotism is an empty, dumb show if it doesn't include adequate health care, a living wage and decent shelter for people who laid down their lives. The old movie ['The Best Years of Our Lives'] tells the story: it's a difficult segue from battlefield to home front. In 60 years we must have figured out some ways to make it easier."
Former President Carter: Guantanamo Detentions Disgraceful
Associated Press New York Times July 31, 2005
Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. President who won the Nobel Peace Prize (2002), remains a critic of the Iraq war. He has strong words about Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Soldiers May Lose Hundreds in Pay Starting Monday (8/1/05)
Marine Corps News Military.com July 31, 2005
Another striking and shocking example of how poorly the current administration "supports our troops" during a war: "Untold numbers of servicemembers residing off base will see their next paycheck shrink by as much as $250 -- and many of them may not even know the blow is coming."
Benchmarks: Hard to find good news in Iraq
Martin Sieff World Peace Herald July 31, 2005
It was another very bad week indeed in Iraq-
Operation: Enduring Presence
Sam Graham-Felsen Alternet July 31, 2005
When I called former Democratic Sen. Gary Hart at his office in Colorado, I explained that I was working on a story about permanent bases in Iraq. "Right," Hart replied, "unlike the New York Times and the Washington Post." "The fact that no one's discussing this is a great mystery to me," Hart told me. If the topic of permanent bases in Iraq seems unfamiliar, it's because, as Hart noted, there's been barely a whisper about them in the mainstream media. While the deteriorating situation in Iraq is making headlines daily, it's been two months since any reports on the presence or construction of bases have emerged from major press outlets. Yet, the issue of permanent bases is one that cuts to the heart of not only how long we intend to stay in Iraq, but why we got there in the first place.
Don't count on early Withdrawal from Iraq
Mike Whitney Information Clearing House July 31, 2005
"The bottom line is this, failure in Iraq is now considered an 'existential threat' to America's continued dominance in the world. We should not anticipate that that is something that American elites will easily relinquish." (excerpt) We can expect to hear a lot about civil war in the next few weeks; and federalism, too. Don't believe a word of it.
A Costly Education for America
Chris Moore Antiwar.com July 31, 2005
In a desperate 11th-hour bid to save face and salvage credibility amid the violent collapse of their predictions of a "cakewalk" victory over Iraq, neoconservative opinionmakers appear to be preparing to spin America's likely troop drawdown as just another stage in the fulfillment of their larger plans for the region.
Is America's War Winding Up?
Patrick J. Buchanan Antiwar.com July 31, 2005
Is America preparing to pull out of Iraq without victory? Are we ready to leave that war-ravaged land without any assurance a free, democratic, pro-Western Iraq will survive? Is President Bush willing to settle for less than we all thought? So it would seem. For it is difficult to draw any other conclusion from the just-completed Rumsfeld mission.
GOP Says It Will 'Bury' Name-Calling Candidate
Dan Balz Washington Post July 31, 2005
According to the Washington Post, "Paul Hackett doesn't fit conventional political profiles. He is a Marine Reservist and an Iraq war veteran who opposed the war before the U.S. invasion and remains a harsh critic of President Bush's policy there. ... [In response to criticism of the Administration], the National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Carl Forti said 'We decided to bury him.'"
Secret Memo — Send to Be Tortured
Michael Isikoff Newsweek July 31, 2005
"An FBI agent warned superiors in a memo three years ago that U.S. officials who discussed plans to ship terror suspects to foreign nations that practice torture could be prosecuted for conspiring to violate U.S. law, according to a copy of the memo obtained by NEWSWEEK" magazine.
The Roots of Prisoner Abuse
New York Times Editorial Board New York Times July 31, 2005
The New York Times editorial board calls for accountability for the "prisoner abuse" at the hands of U.S. service members following orders from the White House. However, the New York Times still fails to call these actions either criminal, torture, rape, or murder, thus sugar-coating the facts. As the Times wrote, "General Rives said that if the White House permitted abusive interrogations at Guantánamo Bay, it would not be able to restrict them to that single prison. He argued that soldiers elsewhere would conclude that their commanders were condoning illegal behavior. And that is precisely what happened at Abu Ghraib after the general who organized the abuse of prisoners at Guantánamo went to Iraq to toughen up the interrogation of prisoners there."
U.S. Study Pinpoints Near-Misses by Allies in Fathoming the Unfolding Holocaust
SAM ROBERTS New York Times July 31, 2005
Millions Died: "Now, a United States government analysis suggests that while the evidence was incomplete, gruesome details from coded Nazi messages that Britain intercepted beginning in 1941 could have confirmed and exposed the scope of German genocide well before 1945, when Allied troops liberated the death camps and became witnesses to the horror."
Critics blast veterans' mental health care
Ryan Holeywell United Press International July 30, 2005
More evidence the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs have no plan to care for wounded warriors: "Several Members of Congress blasted the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Pentagon this week, saying the agencies not doing enough to aid soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder."
The rise of a jihadi suicide culture
Dan Murphy Christian Science Monitor July 30, 2005
Sharm el-Sheikh. London. Casablanca. The men who carried out the terrorist bombings in each of these cities came from dramatically different backgrounds. In London, the attackers were lower middle-class Britons. In Casablanca in 2003, they were all from one of the city's poor neighborhoods. And in Sharm el-Sheikh Saturday - although the investigation into the deadliest terror attack in Egyptian history is just getting under way - local officials say there are indications the attackers have links to an attack here last October carried out by a cell of working-class Egyptians. While some counterterrorism experts say evidence may eventually link all of these attacks to the core of Al Qaeda's leadership suspected of hiding along the Pakistan-Afghan border, the diverse backgrounds of the presumed attackers underscore a shift: The culture of Islamist suicide bombers is becoming more commonplace, as is the defining of civilians as "enemies."
Jihad without borders
Syed Saleem Shahzad Asia Times July 30, 2005
A line connects the resistance strategy of Iraq's Ba'athists and Afghanistan's Taliban militias as they both draw on the same blueprint in their struggle against US-led forces in their respective countries. Significantly, their roadmap, conceived in the mountains between Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal area and Afghanistan and in the southern parts of Baghdad, involves taking their battles to the home countries of the invading forces. The bomb attacks in London on July 7 can be viewed as the first manifestation of this approach.
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