murder by numbers

WAR
* " At least 26 prisoners have died in American custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002 in what Army and Navy investigators have concluded or suspect were acts of criminal homicide, according to military officials." LINK
i love it when they do this shit and everyone goes crazy - 'see they lied again - they actually murdered 26 people!' - how about the 3000 that they slaughtered in boxcars in Mazar-i-Sharif in afghanistan? please. LINK and here

* fauxnews math: "electricity in baghdad averages between 8 to 14 hours per day"

* the sgrena spinning continues. negroponte couldnt take the helicopter cos there was a storm. the 'mobile checkpoint' hit sgrena et al about 2hours after negroponte went by - and the nyt tries to smeduge the details "The detail had apparently remained in place after Mr. Negroponte's convoy passed". LINK

* id forgotten how bad negropontes replacement in iraq is. its kinda difficult keeping up with these people. LINK

* "Release of Terror Strike Report a Mistake: "What I want to resist is what I sometimes have observed over the years: a temptation to feed the desire for information by putting something out that we are not in a position to speak about definitively," Chertoff said." Our credibility must rest in a sense that when we say something is a fact, we've done everything humanly possible to, in fact, ensure that we are giving the accurate facts out." LINK
noooooooooo