Quickies

* Dahr Jamail and Jeff Pflueger expound on "Propaganda and Haditha."

* Apparently, the US military has been kind enough to bring the "Fallujah model" of warfare back to Ramadi.

* The Bushists are settling on stationing 50K US troops in Iraq for good, according to the Daily Telegraph.

* LA Times: "Questions Remain About Zarqawi's Final Minutes."

* "Despite claims that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has regained the diplomatic initiative from Iran with a conditional offer to join multilateral talks with Tehran," Gareth Porter asserts, "the real story behind the policy shift is that the administration has suffered a decisive defeat of its effort to get international sanctions for possible military action against Iran."

* US officials have been callous enough to describe the alleged suicides of 3 Gitmo detainees as a "PR move to draw attention" and "an act of asymmetric warfare." One can only wonder when the silence will be broken regarding the manifest injustice at the Cuban facility. Unfortunately, these suicides will probably have little effect.

* Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke explain "How to lose the 'war on terror'" in an ongoing series for the Asia Times Online.