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...
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."
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...
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...
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...
The new issue of Time magazine (April 19) features an article "What Should Bush Do?" featuring three people giving advice on Iraq. General Barry McCaffrey says "There are no more U.S. troops to send to Iraq. That's why we need 80,000 or more troops added to the U.S....
"We haven't imposed any terms at the moment, we're just trying to get a cease-fire in place and we have asked the insurgents to stop attacking the Marines." "They didn't do that yesterday, we had a number of attacks yesterday, so we proposed a different time for one...
Two thought provoking posts from Eli at Left I on the News: Was Bush on vacation all of August 2001 because of the terrorist threat? The same threat that had Ashcroft travelling in leased aircraft rather than commercial flights? Libertarian Harry Browne reminds us...
A sampling of responses to the present situation in Iraq from Arab newspapers ... read here
Before driving to Ramadi on Wednesday, we spent the night at the home of a Shia family in Sadr City. 'There is no difference between Falluja and Sadr City,' said Nassir Salman, a barber who was working late. 'They are fighting and we are fighting. Inshallah , there...
