The bomb that changed Iraq forever.
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To leave or not to leave?
Dr. Steven Kull, Director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes, gave testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight on July 30: How is it that on one hand Iraqis think the presence of US troops makes the security situation worse and they should leave…
Tell us what you really think
David Kilcullen is an Australian who has spent the last years working with the Bush administration in its fights against “terror.” Rupert Murdoch’s Australian newspaper wrote this about him in late 2006: Meet David Kilcullen, a 40-year-old former Australian infantry commander who likes nothing more than getting dirt on his boots as he switches between…
Who really controls Iraq
My following review is about the book by The Independent’s Patrick Cockburn, Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq: Kristofer Shawn Goldsmith was a former army sergeant in the US army. He enlisted in late 2003 at age eighteen and believed then, “under the influence of the media and its terrorism paranoia”, that Saddam Hussein…
Friends and foes are now welcome
Foreign “interference” in Iraq? Good luck finding it: A new airport, funded in important part by Iran has opened at the Shiite holy city of Najaf. It will likely bring millions of pilgrims from Iran, Pakistan, India and elsewhere to the shrine of Imam Ali, the son-in-law and cousin of the Prophet Muhammad. American authorities…
The friends who help
Jeremy Scahill, The Guardian, July 23: It seems that executives from Blackwater Worldwide, the Bush administration’s favourite hired guns in Iraq and Afghanistan, are threatening to pack up their M4 assault rifles, CS gas and Little Bird helicopters and go back to the great dismal swamp of North Carolina whence they came. Or at least…
Getting Saddam’s riches
I received this hilarious spam email this morning: Hello My name is Sagt Jeff Frawley, I am an American soldier in peace keeping force in Iraq, I am serving in the military of the 1st Armored Division in Iraq, as you know insurgents everyday and car bombs are attacking us. We managed to move funds…
Why do they hate us, Tommy?
New York Times foreign affairs “expert” Thomas Friedman really can’t understand why his beloved US of A is so disliked around the world these days. Let’s see, maybe this comment has something to do with it: We should have done better in Iraq. Yep, that Iraq war has been rather disastrous. Oh well, Friedman must…
After the bombing
The brutal face of Iraq through the eyes of an embedded, American photojournalist. (Such honesty is often not welcomed by the Bush administration.)