Bush claims to have given up golf to show his solidarity with the troops, then goes golfing. And Keith Olbermann lets him have it.
This one is worth watching to the very end…

And big humiliation in ‘Standard Operating Procedure’
Errol Morris’s new documentary about the low-ranking “bad apples” who were charged with various forms of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib isn’t exactly revelatory. You’ve already read the facts, and the photographs that shocked the entire world (the hooded figure standing on a box, the dusty piles of naked [...]

According to the government’s top psychiatric researchers, post-war suicides of soldiers home from Afghanistan and Iraq may exceed combined combat death tolls. Bloomberg reports:
Community mental health centers, hobbled by financial limits, haven’t provided enough scientifically sound care, especially in rural areas, said Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. [...]

The LA Times reports today that dockworkers from the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach (along with thousands of others from the West Coast’s 29 ports) took the day off to protest the Iraq War, a move that effectively shut down all port operations for the day. In related news, Bill O’Reilly says we [...]

Yesterday the LA Times ran a harrowing Op-Ed by Rep. Jane Harman on the rape epidemic in the military. Says Harman:
In 2006, 2,947 sexual assaults were reported — 73% more than in 2004. The DOD’s newest report, released this month, indicates that 2,688 reports were made in 2007, but a recent shift from calendar-year reporting [...]

If there is a spike in IEDs this week, well, you know who to blame.  Nationals fans!

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A great man is gone: Cambodian-born photographer and reporter Dith Pran, whose personal story of escaping the enslavement and genocide of 1970s Cambodia under dictator Pol Pot became the film “The Killing Fields,” died Sunday of pancreatic cancer.
Dith, 65, is credited with coining the terrible term “killing fields,” according to The Associated Press, whose obituary [...]

WAR SUPPORTERS, OPPONENTS CLASH IN COMMENTS SECTION
The war is won. Terrorists watch American TV. We’re in it for oil. Supporting the troops  means questioning your government. Terrorists gain strength every time you compain about Iraq. This, and much, much more (52 comments, most of them quite thoughtful) in the comments section to our post of [...]

…the war goes on and on and on…
Sometime last week we hit the 5th anniversary of our Glorious Experiment in Iraq. It wasn’t mentioned here, but not because we forgot. We were simply too bitter, too weary, to make any sort of fuss.
On Easter Sunday, we reached a new milestone: 4,000 US [...]

We don’t reprint press releases—kind of makes us redundant—but this one from Bob Koehler of the Cypress Church Patriots Ministry is worth reading, both for the name of the group in the kitchen of a church fundraiser (Knights of the Holy Grill), and for the message a Marine officer delivered at that fundraiser Friday: “We [...]