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...

Photomosaic of Americans who have died in Iraq since the war president entered office. By Joe of American Leftist

I keep running across statements in the media that I hope are disinfo or something because we're in deep trouble if the Bush regime really believes this.Al-Sadr is believed to have about 600 hardcore followers and as many as 3,000 militia members at his command. Many...

Eli at Left Eye points out this Washington Post article which describes Blackwater commandos engaging in firefights with Iraqis alongside American soldiers. An attack by hundreds of Iraqi militia members on the U.S. government's headquarters in Najaf on Sunday was...

After denying all day today that more American troops (the only kind they can get) were needed in Iraq to deal with the incipient civil war Bremer managed to fire up, it comes to light that the US military has resorted to the old tried and true method of increasing...

More from Raed: So, Bush and Bremer said that all the clashes and attacks are being planed by terrorists, and that’s why the American army is killing and arresting “bad Iraqis” in those “bad cities”… those were just minority, but the CPA is going to give freedom and...

Iraqi blogger zayed is normally fairly pro-American, pro-Occupation. Here's his report from Baghdad today on Healing Iraq: A coup d'etat is taking place in Iraq a the moment. Al-Shu'la, Al-Hurria, Thawra (Sadr city), and Kadhimiya (all Shi'ite neighbourhoods in...