Pick the version you like best:1) U.S. troops manning a checkpoint Monday discovered four Egyptian technicians who had been kidnapped the day before in Baghdad, an Egyptian diplomat said. The four were freed and some arrests were made, he added. 2) Four Egyptian...
The conservative jihad against the press
FAKE. But, whodunit? I see the conservative warblogs are on yet another anti-media jihad, so it looks like the US soldier hostage hoax needs to be revisited. To recap, the story of the US soldier hostage was broken by the AP under Robert Reid's byline from Baghdad....
Sistani: Islam sole source of legislation
Hot on the heels of Rumsfeld's statement today:"The Shia in Iraq are Iraqis they are not Iranians, and the idea that they are going to end up with a government like Iran with a handful of mullahs controlling the country, I think is unlikely," Defence Secretary Donald...
Jonah Goldberg: Hypocrite, Chickenhawk
Chickenhawk:"In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, "Why aren't we killing people yet?" And I never had a good answer for him. Because one of the most important and vital things the United States...
Beheadings bad for retention rates
A group of five armed men shot the 12 soldiers in the head after stopping the vehicle carrying them on a road leading to Kirkuk. Some interesting facts on the New Iraqi security forces: *Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz told senators that Iraqi Army units...
Moqtada al Sadr: fingers ink-free!
How predictable is this?Look, no purple! "I stood aside for the elections and did not stand against them as I did not want to show disobedience toward the Marjaiyah (senior clerics). "I did not join these elections so that I wouldn't be one of the West's pawns. "The...
PurpleFinger Haze wearing thin
The warbloggers realize that their purple-finger romantic haze hasn't quite obscured the truth of their Iraqi Fantasy Elections, so they roll lame-o joker Arthur "Good News!!" Chrenkoff out to refute the argument of those who refuse to buy the democratic bait and...
More Sunni boycott threats
Sunnis will boycott drafting of constitution: The Muslim Scholars Association, the most influential Sunni religious group in Iraq, refused Wednesday to participate in drafting the country's permanent constitution, a prior task for the National Assembly (NA) elected...
Derailing the elections…
There's nothing amusing about this news itself: Rebels kill 12 Iraqi soldiers Iraq oil pipeline suffers new sabotage Three killed in Iraq insurgent attacks But what is interesting is that the reporters seem at a loss, after months of leading every story about violence...
Purple Finger Neocon Rag
From MG at Norwegianity: Stick your purple finger up in the air, wave it around like you just don’t care, Chalabi’s back in, that’s in the bag, That’s how you do the neocon ragCatchy, isn't it? And, so very timely, too.
