Jezebel: Iraq War

Will Jamie Leigh Jones Lose Her KBR Rape Case?

Irin Carmon — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:49:09 EDT

Any day now, jurors will issue a verdict in Jamie Leigh Jones' civil suit against mega-contractor KBR and a firefighter she says raped her, and Mother Jones is saying she's probably going to lose. More »

Daily Show's John Oliver To Marry Iraq War Veteran

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:51:00 EDT

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Comedian John Oliver is engaged to Kate Norley, an Army medic who served in Iraq. "It's the most emasculating thing I could possibly do to go out with someone who has actually done something valuable with their life," says Oliver. More »

Men May Be Paid To Marry Women Over 35 In Iraq

Irin Carmon — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:29:00 EDT

One women's advocate supports the idea to help Iraq's single women marry but says, "Women are not merchandise for sale, there must be guarantees of good intentions on the part of the men if we allow this to go ahead." More »

Stamp Of Approval

Anna Holmes — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:10:00 EDT

[London, March 18. Image via Getty]

The Banner Yet Waves

Anna Holmes — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:10:00 EST

[London, November 24. Image via Getty]

KBR Arbitration Awards Another Assault Victim

LatoyaPeterson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:00 EST

Former military construction contractor Tracy Barker was raped in Iraq in 2005 while on the job. Barker went through arbitration and won a settlement, but her former employer, Kellogg Brown & Root, is still trying to screw her over. More »

School Daze

Anna Holmes — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:10:00 EST

[Radwaniya, Iraq; November 16. Image via Getty]

Precious Cargo

Anna Holmes — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:10:00 EDT

[Fort Carson, Colorado; August 18. Image via Getty]

Soldiers Of Fortune

Anna Holmes — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:10:00 EDT

[Baghdad, August 18. Image via Getty]

Inter-National Relations

Anna Holmes — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:10:00 EDT

[Moreno Valley, California; August 11. Image via Getty]

Flags/Fathers

Anna Holmes — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:10:00 EDT

[Wilmington, North Carolina; July 9. Image via Getty]

Deep/Heart/Texas

Anna Holmes — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:20:00 EDT

Dear Today show producers: Thank you. This definitely makes up for the numerous Dave Matthews Band performances this morning. More »

Beverly Hills Stop

Anna Holmes — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:10:00 EDT

[Beverly Hills, May 27. Image via Getty]

Angelina Jolie: International Woman Of History

Anna Holmes — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:50:00 EDT

[New York, April 23. Image via INF]

Japanese Penis Festival Celebrates Fertility • "Chia Obama" Deemed Inappropriate

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:40:00 EDT

• Yesterday, thousands gathered to celebrate the Steel Phallus festival in Kawasaki, Japan. The fertility festival traditionally falls on the first Sunday in April, and centers around a penis-venerating shrine. Sounds fun! • More »

Lynndie England: Life After Abu Ghraib

Hortense Smith — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:30:00 EST

In what is perhaps one of the strangest interviews of all time, the Guardian's Emma Brockes heads to Fort Ashby, West Virginia, to interview Lynndie England, the woman accused of abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib. More »

Iraqi Dog Is On Route To US • Nebraska To Rewrite Safe-Haven Law

Maria — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:30:00 EDT

• Ratchet, the adopted Iraqi pup of US soldier Gwen Beberg, was picked up yesterday by Baghdad Pups and is expected to arrive in Beberg's hometown later this week. • A 29-year-old man in Michigan was arrested on Thursday for using a car wash vacuum for his "sexual pleasure." • British authorities announced today that Chinese-made "I Love You" flavored body sprays sold in sex shops in England have been found to be tainted with melamine.• Here is video footage of a pride of white African lions (including cute lion kitties) that have been released into a wild reserve in South Africa. • More »

Another Iraq Vet Arrested For SO's Death • Maternity Leave Makes Euros Afraid Of Women

Maria — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:30:00 EDT

Where is the mental health outreach for our veterans? John Wylie Needham, an Iraq war veteran who described himself as "falling apart at the seams" upon returning from combat, has been arrested for beating his girlfriend to death in Orange County, California. • New reports about side effects and allergic reactions in young women who have received shots of Gardasil have experts wondering if these and other side effects have been researched thoroughly enough. • The MoMA has named longtime curator Ann Temkin as the chief curator for painting and sculpture, one of the biggest and most prestigious jobs in the museum and modern art world. • More »

Trade Union Speaks Out Against "Sexist" Heels • Iraq War Limits Iraqi Women's Freedoms

Maria — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:30:00 EDT

The Trades Union Congress in England is urging employers to stop making high-heels compulsory for female employees on grounds that it is sexist and can lead to health problems. • Comedian Kristen Schaal reveals that not only is she well-read in British dramatists, she used to practice stand-up in front of cows as a child. • In England a man has been banned from visiting his girlfriend's home after neighbors complained about their noisy sex and the girlfriend's general "nightmare neighbor" behavior. • Another plucky-grandma-fighting-a-thief story? Oh, yes. • More »

John McCain Knew The Future In The Past Because He's Always Lived There

Megan Carpentier — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:00:00 EDT

John McCain's got quite the storied past, which is probably why he lives there most of the time! But yesterday he had more of a Back To The Future moment in which he justified his past positions based on current events that he knew then were going to happen but not because they would be an obvious result of the action he was about to take. This morning, Spencer Ackerman and I parse McCain's amazing powers of prediction, the reappearance of the Left's biggest attack dog and what dirty tricks he might have up his sleeve, David Broder's inability to see through more of McCain's bullshit and the end (ha!) of racial politics and Jew-baiting. All of it, of course, after the jump. More »

Assassination, Impeachment and Prison Sentences

Megan Carpentier — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:30:00 EDT

Raymond Hunter Geisel (no relation to the awesomest Geisel ever) was arrested in Florida today for threatening to assassinate Barack Obama. One nutjob down, too many to go. [Politico]
A President is going to get impeached! No, not ours. Pakistan's own Uncle Pervy. [HuffPo]
Salim Hamdan, convicted earlier this week of driving for Osama bin Laden, was sentenced today to 66 months in prison. He's already been at Gitmo for 61 months, which means he should be released in 5 but this is the Bush Administration until January 20th. [Washington Post]

Many, many sad things can be said about...

Megan Carpentier — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:45:00 EDT

Many, many sad things can be said about the costs of the Iraq War to both the people of Iraq and those of us in America. One of those things was said by Andrea Bruce at the Washington Post today in her article about the group home for the deserted grandmothers of Baghdad: "Before the war, when the home was opened, there were only four women living here. Now there are 47." In another time, these women would've been cared for by their families; these days, blind widow Doris Yunan lived on the bench of a church for a year before she found the group home where she now lives and is cared for by volunteers. Her stepsons abandoned her to escape the war. As the occupying force there, the Ghandi quote "A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members," is probably apt here, but mostly I think I'm going to skip the politically snarky ending and call my grandmother. [Washington Post] More »

Soap Operas! Prozac! Dr. Phil! The War That Is All About Girl Shit

Moe — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:00:58 EST

"But you can't fly this! It has guns!" That's an Iraqi man to Marine and Super Cobra pilot Katie Horner in Sunday's Washington Post Magazine. "I feel like Dr. Phil with guns," says Dan Kearney, a 26-year-old captain in charge of a particularly hellish mission in the Koregal Valley of Afghanistan to Sunday's New York Times Magazine. Women are still barred from hand-to-hand combat in the military, according to the Post, but that doesn't really matter since no one has the balls to do that anyway, according to the Times, which sent writer Elizabeth Rubin to Afghanistan to find out just why that war persists in killing sooooooo many people. Aside from the usual problem you hear about regarding the insurgents — they make friends with some tribe we inadvertently alienated when we were rooting out the evildoers — it's because we bomb them from the sky where we can't tell who's who and they use women and children as human shields. More »

Military Moms Forced To Choose Between Serving Their Country & Saving Their Kids

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:30:00 EDT

Being a mother is complicated — but it's a complete mess when you throw armed forces and ex-husbands into the mix. ABC News has a story today about military moms who face battles both in war — and in the custody of their children. Molly Moriarty, who is in the Navy, went to Kuwait in December 2005. Within three weeks, her ex-husband had filed for custody and received a court order to take her 9 and 11-year-old sons. Apparently, there are over a hundred thousand single parents in the active and reserve military. Before a deployment, personnel are required to work out temporary parenting arrangements with an ex-spouse or family member. But often, that person ends up goes to court trying to change the agreement — or get full custody — and the military parent isn't around to fight the order. Military moms and dads are left feeling as if their deployments count against them in court. "You should not have to be in downtown Baghdad worrying about your children," says Moriarty. More »

Which Wide-Eyed Simpson Looks Brighter?

amparry — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:30:00 EDT

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A new study suggests that birth order does matter and that older sibs typically have a higher IQ than younger ones. This study was done on men, however. Hopefully when a similar study is done on women, the Simpson sisters won't be included and skew the results. [CNN]

Emotionally Retarded Hubbies Are Nothing New

amparry — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:00:00 EDT

A new study indicates that 90% of pregnant women feel stressed during pregnancy, usually over a number of "taboo" topics that they don't feel like they can discuss publicly. Among them? Nearly two-thirds worry that their partners don't appreciate how tired they are and write off any emotional outbursts as "hormonal" — ladies, having a douchebag for a baby daddy is not a taboo topic. Perhaps Britney will take your calls! [Guardian Unlimited]

Soldiers, Not Just Celebrities, Get Sanitized Too

Jennifer — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:30:36 EDT

Our friends over at the Huffington Post caught word of our little contest and made mention of it to their readers, who had the following to say:

Now if there was just a way to photoshop the Iraq war, or New Orleans, or healthcare...

And then:

There is... it's called Fox News.

Our own readers' thoughts on the Photoshopping debacle — rife with further provocation of a very different nature — later today! More »

Britney As Whitney? God Help Us.

Jennifer — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:45:56 EDT

Britney Spears to star in remake of The Bodyguard! Oh wait, phew. Joke! [Best Week Ever]

Nessie's Got Nine Lives

Anna Holmes — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:19:33 EDT

The Loch Ness monster: Still alive and on high-def! [CNN]