If you aren't reading James Wolcott's blog, you're missing elegant bullseyes like this.Elections are about the future. Or so we're constantly told. But the future has barely made a guest appearance during this election campaign. And not the recent past of no WMDs, Abu...
I understand the sentiment and the political message behind demonstrations like this, but every time I see a news account about Americans mourning the "grim milestone" of over a thousand dead in the Iraq War-of-Choice, I can't help but resent the fact that no...
Oh, this is just wonderful. Via Abu Aardvark, we read: Two intense military insurgencies in Iraq, with the Sunnis and Shia, not enough for you? Do you agree that everyone wants to fight in Fallujah, but only real men want to go to Kirkuk? Do you think that if a spot...
Speaking of Al Qaeda, Al Jazeera is playing a new Ayman Al-Zawahri video, in which he taunts the US:Al-Qaida number two Ayman al-Zawahri has forecast a US "defeat" in Iraq and Afghanistan, in a videotape aired on Aljazeera television. "The American defeat in Iraq and...
Lawrence of Cyberia writes: In case you're not sure what you're looking at in the first photograph, the white ribbon around the residential center of Qalqilya is Israel's Wall. The brown areas to the north and south of the town, and outside the wall, are where...
Tikrit - A senior commander in the Iraqi national guard on Sunday insisted his officers had not captured Saddam Hussein's deputy Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri. "Our forces did not take part in any operation and did not capture Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri and we do not have any...
C. Lounsbury on the US military's discovery that people don't hate you as bad when they are accorded some respect and allowed to retain their dignity. Unfortunately, as one Iraqi points out, it's "too little, too late." When the US military will realize that bombs in...
U.S. Military Deaths in the Conquest of Iraq The URLs on the chart and the events indicated by dots on the line are hyperlinked - just click them.
A must see video: George W. Bush: Words Speak Louder than Actions First up under featured videos. See the battle between Dubya's words and facts and reality.
Former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi (L) talks with a member of Iraq's interim parliament on the sidelines of the first meeting of Iraq's interim parliament in Baghdad, Sept. 1, 2004. Chalabi escaped from an assassination attempt, which left two of his...
