Alien Jesus Collective

I’m curious to see how this piece about Rumsfeld in the New Yorker plays out. As Brad DeLong points out, Rumsfeld is already trying to shift the responsibility to Gen. Tommy Franks. Rumsfeld made his position clear at his Friday press briefing: “The war plan is Tom Franks’ war plan.” That’s not what we heard last week.

Meanwhile, there are reports of Marines being fed by Iraqi refugees. This could be spun as a greatful population thanking their liberators, but in an atmosphere of suicide bombing and enemy soldiers dressed as civilians, our troops must have been fairly hungry to take food from strangers.

Given the prevailing attitude towards coverage of war protesters, I was suprised to see that Yahoo News is offering a “Full Coverage” category for the Anti-War movement.

Finally, Marines have found the bodies of four American soldiers in a shallow grave near Nasiriyah.