Demonstrating its merciful Christian tendencies in matters both domestic and foreign, the U.S. oligarchy has granted peace at last to a terminally ill old man.

Bush supporter and Republican supporter William F. Buckley Jr. has admitted defeat for the USA in Iraq. As a fellow Bonesman, along with Bush, this represents a significant change in course. The elites are bailing out of the Iqaq quagmire while they still can.

"Apart from the ongoing harms to human rights, one of the most remarkable features of the U.S. detentions at Bagram and elsewhere is that four and a half years after Sept. 11, the administration continues to hold nearly 15,000 detainees worldwide without rights recognised under any domestic or international legal regime, and without a plan for how it might begin detaining people legally in what the administration now calls the 'long war' going forward."

- Deborah Pearlstein, director of the U.S. Law and Security Programme for Human Rights First.

U.S. Def Sec Donald Rumsfeld briefed the President this morning. He told Bush that 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq.