Won’t You Stay, Just a Little Bit Longer?

William F. Buckley sez we can't leave Iraq just yet because:1) The old concern that Shiites and Sunnis would fire up sectarian hostility to dismember the state is taking a back seat to the concern that they are forgetting their differences in order to fight jointly --...

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War President

A painful visual mosaic of our "War President," courtesy of Joe at American Leftist who explains: Given this image's inflammatory nature, I posted it with a great deal of trepidation. I had a hard time deciding if it was the right thing to do and I am still not sure....

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Occupation Hijinks

Funny stuff from that notorious antimilitary rag the Marine Corps Times:An Islamic civil liberties group has called for a Pentagon investigation into an apparent gag photograph of a Marine in Iraq taken during the last year. In the photo, a smiling Lance Cpl. Ted J....

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LGF or LGF Quiz

Littlegreenfootballs posters or late German Fascists? I was inspired to build this quiz when I noticed that comments on Littlegreenfootballs.com (a popular warblog) tended to be indistinguishable in tone and content from the writings of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler,...

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76 GIs Die in Iraq Since April 1, 26 Over Weekend

This morning's announcement by the Pentagon brought the total killed in the last twelve days to 76 US soldiers, including 26 killed in the last three days. CNN posted this story this morning, but moved this important part of the story down to the bottom, giving new...

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Kimmit the Fallujah Frog

Raed Jarrar posted a bizarre Kimmitt (the Iraqis have started to call him Kimmitt the Frog)quote. The shadows of the unpleasant events of Falluja will affect the image of the American Army in Iraq… it will only increasing the anger of Iraqis, and help more extremist...

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Rahul Mahajan in Fallujah

Go here for an eyewitness account of what it is like in Fallujah today. Rahul Mahajan is blogging it. There are no permalinks, so look for the entry "April 11, 2:00 pm EST.Fallujah, Iraq."

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Iraqi Untermenschen

Juan Cole and Billmon both highlight an article appearing in the Telegraph today. Senior British commanders have condemned American military tactics in Iraq as heavy-handed and disproportionate. One senior officer said that America's aggressive methods were causing...

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Imagine Accountability

RICE [from Transcript of Rice's 9/11 commission statement]: The threat reporting to which we could respond was in June and July about threats abroad. What we tried to do for -- just because people said you cannot rule out an attack on the United States, was to have...

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Chalabi and Fallujah

The Washington Post has a piece up today about a battalion of Iraqis that have refused to fight for the Americans at Fallujah. They are saying, "We did not sign up to fight Iraqis." There have been some efforts in the blogosphere to follow this story, mostly by...

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