The photos are alleged to show the bodies of U.S. service men in Iraq. It's difficult to confirm that these are the soldiers that were captured some 3 weeks ago.

However, the HAQ News Agency, an Arab language site (with a broken English version), reports in what it calls an "exclusive" that two of the soldiers have been found decapitated.

The English translation is pretty rough:

Finding the bodies of two American soldiers with gotten head cut in al-Mahmoudia   more »

Keywords: beheaded, decapitation, us, soldiers, iraq

>I have seen my share of crazy people, and I know the difference between a charming eccentric and a first-class wall job.

And Dick Cheney, who has been riding the scree into a personal hell at an alarmingly dizzy rate for the past six years, has finally reached the point where he is simply certifiable.

Not off-center. Not in denial. Not partisan. Not . . . not . . . not even delusional.

The man is a 24-karat nutcase who should be locked in his undisclosed location and allowed to rub his hands as he plans to take over the world.   more »

The intellectual justification for 'war without end' was Professor Samuel Huntington's thesis that there is a "Clash of Civilizations" going on and that clash and conflict are inevitable.

At the heart of his thesis resides a strong "American Empire First" concern.

He wants to see the protection of the current global power arrangements no matter who gets hurt and regardless of the fact that over 2-billion people on this planet attempt to live on less than a dollar a day and despite the fact that his clash-thesis serves to justify a “war without end” in the name of fighting “terrorism.”

For Huntington, like the military planners in the Pentagon and the economic elite on Wall Street, in the IMF, World Bank, WTO, and the U.S. Treasury Department – these 2-billion people are nothing more than "collateral damage."   more »

They are rolling in dough while most Americans struggle to stay even, and the wealth gap separating the typical voter from the next president will be dramatic.

Median family incomes in America actually declined for five consecutive years before rising slightly in 2005.

The median reached $46,326 that year, which means that half of all American families earned less than that.

Can these super-rich politicians begin to comprehend survival at that end of the spectrum?   more »

Iraq has dominated the Bush agenda for four years now, yet he still sees the conflict through a prism rife with cliché.

The topper, which he has recited several times before, is that if we fail in Iraq, the terrorists will follow us home. He uttered a few variations of the line this morning:

"If we were to fail, they'd come and get us. … If we let up, we'll be attacked. … It's better to fight them there than here."

Bush's Mother of All Cliches must be that one about "bringing democracy..."   more »