In the spirit of credit where credit is due, I think laying a large chunk of the blame for the violence in Iraq on The Man Of Peacetm, Ariel Sharon, for his assassination of Sheik Yassin in Gaza is perfectly justified. My case: Faiza, writing in A Family in Baghdad,...
UPDATE:Marchers break through US roadblocks April 9, 2004 THOUSANDS of Sunni and Shiite Muslims forced their way through US military checkpoints Thursday to ferry food and medical supplies to the besieged Sunni bastion of Fallujah where US marines are trying to crush...
Robert Fisk: "The British took three years to turn both the Sunnis and the Shias into their enemies in 1920. The Americans are achieving it in just under a year."
Rumsfeld on Wednesday sought to downplay the Iraqi resistance. "The vast majority of the 25 million Iraqi people want freedom for their country," he said. "The overwhelming majority of Iraqis are against those who are looting, intimidating and stopping children from...
"In Iraq ... we are transforming a place of torture chambers and mass graves into a nation of laws and free institutions." George W. Bush Address to the Nation September 7, 2003 Marine engineers patrolling near Ramadi on Wednesday reported coming across a mass grave...
Interesting posts by Stirling Newberry analyzing the campaign in Iraq in military terms. We have an enemy Up until now the highest level of discipline that the Iraqi resistence showed was the ability to execute an ambush. Control was localized, and there was little...
A recurring feature in which we keep an eye on the hysteria-inducing madmen of tomorrow, especially our favorite Central Asian megalomaniac.Turkmen Leader Attacks Tooth Fashion ANXIOUS to banish all signs of backwardness from his remote desert nation Turkmenistan's...
Last night, Bill O'Reilly called Sadr "the new Saddam," which, given what we now know about Saddam's threat to America, should make us wonder why we need to topple Sadr. But who's the real new Saddam? This Washington Times headline speaks volumes: "Clashes Raise...
From Riverbend, the Iraqi blogger in Baghdad: Our foreign minister Hoshyar Zibari was being interviewed by some British journalist yesterday, making excuses for Tony Blair and commending him on the war. At one point someone asked him about the current situation in...
Photomosaic of Americans who have died in Iraq since the war president entered office. By Joe of American Leftist
