Month January 2006

One sick puppy

Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer was just convicted of negligent homicide in the death of Iraqi Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush, who was savagely beaten for two days before being suffocated by Welshofer. Here’s some of Welshofer’s testimony. It’s a…

The Forgotten Wounded of Iraq

A Dig led by Ron Kovic Thirty-eight years ago, on Jan. 20, 1968, I was shot and paralyzed from my mid-chest down during my second tour of duty in Vietnam. It is a date that I can never forget, a…

Morales becomes Bolivia’s president

Leftist coca grower leader Evo Morales was sworn in on Sunday as the first indigenous president of Bolivia with high expectations of a better life for the poor majority in one of Latin America’s most volatile countries. “The 500 years…

Army officer guilty in torture death

A military jury late Saturday convicted an Army interrogator of negligent homicide in the death of an Iraqi general who had been stuffed face-first into a sleeping bag. Prior to that, he’d been brutally beaten for two days. Every American…