I got an e-mail today from a friend of mine who's an Air Force officer currently serving in the Middle East. He claims to be far in the rear echelon, though, as you can read, he's close enough that he doesn't have to depend on the American media for his news. Here's my reporting story: […]
The New York Times today corrected a mistake it made nearly a month ago -- one that painted American troops in a (surprise) bad light. [A]n article on May 21 about fighting in Iraq quoted two comments incorrectly from a news conference by Maj. Gen. James Mattis, the Marine commander in the desert area near […]
Link after link to media reports of today's 9/11 commission staff reports contain stunning inaccuracies -- claiming that Iraq and Al Qaeda were not involved with each other. (Saddam: "Al Qaeda? Never heard of him.) From the Los Angeles Times: No Signs of Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties Found 9/11 report appears to dismiss a key rationale […]
The 9/11 commission's declaration that they have found "no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States" is being turned into a stick to beat the president with the "Bush lied" canard. The panel investigating the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks found "no credible evidence that Iraq and al […]
Saddam's widowed daughters (widowed due to Saddam killing their husbands) are interviewed in an Arab women's weekly magazine. Setting a new mark Guiness Book of World Records for "gall," the privileged daughters of a mass-murdering tyrant had this to say: "I'm not afraid of death, but of scandal," she told the magazine. When asked to […]
U.N. inspectors are reporting that Saddam Hussien smuggled out a lot of banned weapons in months before the liberation of Iraq. The United Nations has determined that Saddam Hussein shipped weapons of mass destruction components as well as medium-range ballistic missiles before, during and after the U.S.-led war against Iraq in 2003. The UN Monitoring, […]
The media has gotten a ton of criticism (much of it deserved) for injecting the prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison into everything from theater reviews to food columns. The Union-Tribune's Gina Lubrano steps up and acknowledges that, at least in one case, the reference was inappropriate. After seeing the story, White, who was […]
The Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal continues to consume journalists everywhere -- even at the San Diego Union-Tribune. Today's A1 has an article by Finlay Lewis of the Copley News Service (the U-T is the Copley Press' flagship paper) on President Bush's trip to Europe for the D-Day comemmoration. The second paragraph: Long a target […]
I'm currently reading the late, great Michael Kelly's "Martyrs' Day," an account of the first Gulf War. The book is very different in style and substance from Rick Atkinson's "In the Company of Soldiers" (which is also an excellent book), but more of a traditional historical account of Gulf War II. Kelly's work is more […]