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...simulated TV-news reports, YouTube blogs, video posts and a daily video record of the war, kept by a soldier whose buddies see their sergeant blown up by an IED and go a little crazy. In a long scene that shocks and sickens, they break into an Iraqi home, rape a girl and slaughter her family. An antiwar splatter movie, Redacted ain't subtle. What De Palma is going for, and achieves, is a mix of edgy ennui and hysteria that could be close to the daily lot of soldiers in Iraq...
...There was one notable flameout: in 2003 Kerik went to Baghdad and Amman to help train Iraqi police but walked out on the job after only a few months. However, the Giuliani halo was still strong enough in late 2004 for George W. Bush to nominate Kerik as the replacement for departing Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. It had begun as Giuliani's idea, of course, and the White House glommed onto it quickly. At first, the pick seemed to confirm nothing so much as Giuliani's rising star in his party's heavens. But within a few days, problems...
...fact that 2007 was the U.S.’s deadliest year in Iraq yet—is that the situation there, despite the commitment of U.S. personnel and money, is not getting better. In 2004, Spain realized that staying in Iraq was neither going to help Iraqis nor help stop global terrorism. It’s time that the U.S. realized the same. I believe in the exit strategy suggested by New York Times opinion writer Thomas Friedman—that is, a set withdrawal date accompanied by a last-ditch, United Nations-led effort to get the Iraqi...
...conventions safeguarding the rights of civilians in conflict, the U.S. military made assistance to the wounded virtually impossible. Aside from sealing off a major hospital, American snipers targeted ambulances, maintaining that they carried insurgents. Of course, shootings of ambulances transporting only civilians and doctors were reported regularly. When the Iraqi Minister of Health conveyed his outrage over the policy to Paul Bremer, the then-head of the coalition efforts did not deny, but actually defended, the strategy. As the journalist Dahr Jamail has argued, this constitutes an endorsement of “the very definition of collective punishment...
...used to illuminate terrain, but not against individuals), they were forced to modify their position a year later when a military magazine revealed that troops had used it to “flush out” insurgents. And, of course, the estimated death tolls were extraordinary: According to Iraqi NGOs and medical workers, up to 6,000 Iraqis perished, again mostly civilians...