Posts tagged “us military”

It's time to leave the countryNov 3, 2003

Bush may bring back the draft to staff an Iraq occupation that experts say could require up to 480,000 troops. Meanwhile, the government's insistence that the Constitution doesn't apply at Guantanamo has backfired, making it impossible to prosecute an accused spy for treason.

Slate today accurately points out why Donald Rumsfeld shouldn't leture anybody about the Geneva...Mar 25, 2003

Slate reminds us why Rumsfeld has no business lecturing anyone on the Geneva Conventions. Did they really think we'd forgotten about Camp X-Ray?

Hoo boy, is the US military dumb. You know .mil domain, used for sites like Pentagon.mil? Well,...Jan 26, 2003

Anyone could register .mil domains, including pentagon.mil, with no password required, thanks to two completely open pages on the military's own servers. The Register broke it but stayed coy about details. Slashdot didn't. Neither will I. Go nuts before they fix it.