Saturday, July 22, 2006
"We are extremely worried...."
Doesn't this pretty much say it all? Stop the madness. (image spotted via Poplicks)
The Times on how the "U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis." (related: video of Vice President Cheney bashing The New York Times again during a campaign rally.)
Nearly 20 percent of the Lebanese population is displaced by the fighting.
In Mideast Strife, Bush Sees a Step To Peace - un-fccking-believable.
As I've said a couple times before, every once in a while crazy-ass Pat Buchanan actually makes sense.
Blogging the war from northern Israel.
Blogging From the Belly of Beirut. (related: Blogging photos from bombed Lebanon)
The Iraqi Prime Minister Denounces Israel’s Actions (!).
Deja-Katrina? US rescue bogs down in Lebanon (unless you're an Ivy League student - this is why it pays to go to Harvard!).
And from Oliver Willis' "Iraq: The Awesomeness Continues":
The number of civilian deaths is way up. No one knows the real total, either for recent killings or the overall death rate. It seems likely, however, that past estimates of total deaths of 30,000 to 40,000 are now at least 10,000-20,000 too low because they rely far too heavily on Iraqi morgue and Ministry of Health data, and media reports. These figures do not cover outlying areas where reporting is far less accurate or comprehensive, disappearances and kidnappings where the body is never recovered, and hidden body dumps in the desert.
Click here to read more.
Senior official says Iraq 'as a political project is finished' (and that's not as in meaning completed).
Afghanistan is “close to anarchy.”
And Turkey Signals It's Prepared to
The Middle East: being made safe for freedom and democracy by your friends at The Carlyle Group and the Project for the New American Century.
