My friend Sellam Ismail is going to visit this weekend, and I might sell him a computer. I also might have a coin-op video game for him. In an email exchange to make plans, he asked:
Do you need anything from me?
I replied:
World peace, or failing that, maybe some whirled peas?
And his response was:
I [...]

A friend pointed out Natan Sharansky’s article “Leave Iraq and Brace for a Bigger Bloodbath” in the Washington Post. I don’t disagree with any of Mr. Sharansky’s facts or general reasoning, but yet clearly favor a different course of action for the US.
No one can know for sure whether President Bush’s “surge” of U.S. [...]

The Disgrace of Memorial Day, by Mark C. Chu-Carroll [h/t DoF]

That’s what President Bush said about his veto of the appropriations bill. He’s wrong, though. The failure has already occurred, and deploying more troops to Iraq will only cause more American casualties, and probably more Iraqi casualties as well.
Support our troops! Bring them home!