Tag Iraq

Obama’s CIA pick brushes off history and questions

We are not surprised, but we are unimpressed by Obama’s nominee to run the Central Intelligence Agency. During his confirmation hearing Thursday, Leon Panetta appeared to make at least a couple inaccurate statements during his Thursday appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee. When asked by Hatch, Panetta seemed to confirm an assertion by Senator Hatch [...]

Is Muqtada al-Sadr anti-American? NPR thinks so.

A friend, independent journalist Brian Conley, posted to Twitter about a use of the term “anti-American” by JJ Sutherland on NPR that I also questioned. Brian noted his disappointment that the term was used when “anti-occupation” would be more accurate, and obviously true. Since then I have picked-up on more seemingly lax and inaccurate uses [...]

News of 120 veteran suicides a week, veterans share war experiences

My friend Sam Husseini shared this news with me, from a CBS News report: So CBS News did an investigation – asking all 50 states for their suicide data, based on death records, for veterans and non-veterans, dating back to 1995. Forty-five states sent what turned out to be a mountain of information. And what [...]