- Politico: Wes Clark plays field as ’08 hopes fade – look, he’s just not running. and i’m still taking all bets.
- Eric Alterman: Who Really Supports the Troops? – unbelievable that columns like this still need to be written.
- WLWT.com: Former Marine Claims Illness From Mystery Vaccine – Reads like something out of the X-files. The government is giving soldiers deploying to Iraq either experimental vaccines or vaccines known to be of dubious quality. You get a shot, but your medical records show nothing. If you’re lucky, you don’t die.
- MSNBC: ACLU sues Boeing arm over CIA renditions – When corporations aid and abet kidnapping and torture…
- War Room: Moral relativism – This seems to be from DeLay rather than God: the earlier you commit your adultery, the better you are as a person. You also earn the moral right to stone adulterers who follow.
- The Daily Dish: Verscharfte Vernehmung – Yes, German. That’s because this post talks about how the Bush Administration’s enhanced interrogation techniques were borrowed straight from Hitler’s play book. In 1948 they were deemed to be war crimes, but of course we’ve come a long way since then.
- Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Reconnecting with the world – Op-ed by Price Floyd, director of media affairs at the State Dept till a few weeks ago. Sample quote: his job was “to reach people in the U.S. and abroad and to convince them that we should not be judged by our actions, only our words”
- Raw Story: Cheney promises US soldiers will be well-equipped for battle – When was the last time Cheney made a promise in a speech and kept it?