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...Khan Bristol, England I feel the deepest sadness for American soldiers, who must serve under a Secretary of Defense whose blend of supreme arrogance, utter ignorance and blinding incompetence puts them at such terrible and unnecessary risk. Surely even the most cursory acquaintance with The Art of War, the martial primer by Sun Tzu, would have taught Rumsfeld that if you don't have the army you might want, then you don't go to war. How dare he put the Administration's vendetta ahead of the welfare of his troops. Kenneth J. Wiebe Chilliwack, Canada Sins...
...WOMACK, attorney for Charles Graner, in opening arguments to the U.S. military jury at the reservist's court-martial on charges of abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib...
Like a recurring nightmare, Abu Ghraib never quite goes away. The alleged ringleader of the horrors inflicted at the Baghdad prison, whose grin and thumbs-up over the body of a dead Iraqi prisoner became an image of national shame, showed up for his court-martial in Fort Hood, Texas, last week, with a clean shave and a solemn face. A day earlier, President George W. Bush's choice for Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, who played a large role in orchestrating, if not actually drafting, a change in the Administration's rules on torture, was asked to explain himself before...
...bystanders caught in random roundups. Add to that the facts that the Army's intelligence units were poorly trained and badly managed, and the military police units assigned to Abu Ghraib were filled with reservists who showed poor judgment--and some of whom are now the subject of courts-martial. (See above...
...story line and a mysterious character played by Ziyi Zhang. The elements add up to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but they can also describe Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers, the latest in a series of increasingly pale imitations of Ang Lee’s breakthrough martial-arts ballet. Though Crouching Tiger is in itself part of a long tradition of Hong Kong action cinema, it has inspired a new wave of iterations of the formula, none of which approach the prototype in terms of its poetically minimalist plot, beautiful photography and graceful fight scenes...