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...

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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...

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Wesley Clark and “Free Kosovo”

In a commentary for Wall Street Journal yesterday (February 1, 2005; Page A12), pretentiously titled “Set Kosovo Free,” none other than the real Butcher of Belgrade, ex-General Wesley Clark, stumped for the latest outrage by his employer, the International Crisis...

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Futurama

Before I have my hands crushed by the keyboard KGB, allow me to congratulate the Iraqi Communist Party and its fellow travelers in the West. Christopher Hitchens, one of those Marxist dinosaurs who really should be sent to Cuba while there's still time to observe him...

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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.

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Speculating on the RAF Herc crash

Bruce R who runs, as Henley says, "...your go-to site for questions about SAM strike authenticity," on Sunday's RAF Herc crash:I can see only two realistic possibilities for why this plane crashed: mechanical failure unrelated to terrorists (something big, too, like a...

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On “the skeptics’ dilemma”

Tom Knapp quotes Tim Cavanaugh:The real surprise is how even the war skeptics seem to have no counternarrative to put up against the story of a Miracle In Mosul. We don't need a counternarrative. We've been right all along. We just get caught flat-footed everytime the...

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US Soldier hostage in Iraq? HOAX

An Islamic Web site shows a picture of what appears to be an American soldier in desert fatigues, with his hands tied and a gun pointed at his head. A statement on the site threatens to behead the soldier in 72 hours unless Americans release Iraqi prisoners. The...

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