Posted in Iraq on April 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I read this quote on Michael J. Totten.
Sheikh Sattar Abu Risha, leader of the Iraq’s Anbar Salvation Council before he was murdered by a car bomb in front of his house in late 2007, summed up the Anbar Awakening movement in a few concise sentences to Johns Hopkins University Professor Fouad Ajami. “Our American friends [...]
Posted in Iraq on March 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Looks like one celebrity is calling for the US to stay in Iraq.
Finally, a famous person who really believes in human rights!
My visit left me even more deeply convinced that we not only have a moral obligation to help displaced Iraqi families, but also a serious, long-term, national security interest in ending this crisis.
Today’s [...]
Posted in Iraq on February 23, 2008 | No Comments »
I havn’t read it fully, but from the 2/3+ I have read, this looks to be one of the best essays on WMD in Iraq and why they have not been “found”. By “found” I mean “reported in the media as found”.
Until now, however, journalists have devoted scant attention to this evidence, in part because [...]
Posted in Iraq on February 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Michael J. Totten is a journalist who actually goes to the places where the trouble is. He’s been to Iraq several times, and his stuff is incredibly interesting to read for it’s ability to get the opinion of the man on the street.
His latest offering is a no-holds-barred look at a certain Fallujah jail. It’s [...]
Posted in Iraq on February 16, 2008 | No Comments »
…when we see this sort of thing.
No, not the blindfold guy. This commentary posted by the New York Times (fisked by JamieWearingFool).
Nice snide headline to boot: What Did You Do In The War Daddy?
Five years after the United States invaded Iraq, four years after the horrors of Abu Ghraib muddied this nation’s image in the [...]
Posted in Fisk the Left, Iraq on January 25, 2008 | No Comments »
The Bush-bashing continues over at NRT.
We all know now that the Bush Administration lied its way to war in 2003, repeating endlessly the twin allegations that “Saddam was in bed with Osama” and “Saddam had WMD”, neither of which had any basis in reality. Now, five years on, the Centre for Public Integrity has documented [...]
Posted in Fisk the Left, Iraq on January 11, 2008 | No Comments »
NRT never seems to stop churning out the nonsense…
So, a new study by the Iraqi Ministry of Health for the WHO says that the Iraq war has killed an estimated 151,000 Iraqis - only a quarter of the figure from the 2006 Lancet study. So, rather than killing ~2.5% of the prewar population of Iraq, [...]
Posted in Iraq on January 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Can we stop pretending this stupid pretence of a report has the slightest shred of credibility now?
Even better, start charging these guys with treason - they certainly deserve it. But of course, it’ll keep being quoted till the day a Democrat is in the White House.
Remember in 2006 when many leftwingers shouted with horror regarding a study [...]
Posted in Iraq, War on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Michael J. Totten has a story from Fallujah. It’s not pretty reading one bit - there’s some particularly gruesome descriptions of hand to hand combat.
It’s a grim reminder of what it’s really like on the front lines of war. To say the guy is lucky to be alive is vastly under stating what happened.
The fighting [...]
Posted in Iraq on November 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This’ll set off the conspiracy theorists.
LONDON - A British MP says a former United Nations weapons inspector David Kelly did not commit suicide as official accounts state, but may have been murdered.
Critics of a book published by Norman Baker, of the opposition Liberal Democrats, describe its accusations as absurd. Kelly was found dead in woods [...]
Posted in Iraq on November 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Bush has been held responsible for a lot of stuff during his time. Hurricanes, Maori terrorism, there’s quite a list.
Now, they don’t actually mention it here, but there’s a strong implication. Yep, Bush is now being indirectly blamed for a shark being found 200km from the sea.
Maybe he just wanted the locals to have a [...]
Posted in Iraq on October 27, 2007 | No Comments »
The root of the Plamegate “scandal” was in Bush’s claims regarding Iraq trying to buy Yellowcake from Niger. It goes to the heart of the Iraq war - was Iraq trying to develop a nuclear weapon.
Well, Plame’s husband claimed that he debunked the claims before they were made in the State of the Union address, [...]
Posted in Iraq on October 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Get this headline.
As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch
Yea, my heart is bleeding for those who are not longer kept fully occupied thorough the day, burying the results of mass-murder.
I mean, the media has hated the Iraq war from the get-go, always searching for any negative spin, but this is really pushing [...]
Posted in Iraq on October 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The surge is paying off.
Civilian deaths from violence across Iraq fell 50 per cent in September, in line with a drop in US military casualties attributed to a boost in troop numbers, Iraqi government data showed.
Information from the health, interior and defence ministries registered 884 civilians killed in September, the lowest monthly total [...]
Posted in Iraq on September 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This put the situation very well I thought, so I’m reproducing in full here.
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An incident occurred in a supermarket recently, when the following was witnessed: A Muslim woman dressed in a Burkha (A black gown & face mask) was standing with her shopping in a queue at the checkout.
When it was her turn to be [...]
Posted in Iraq, Quotes on September 26, 2007 | No Comments »
There are several things that have influenced my views over the years. One of the biggies is Alistair Cooke’s Letter From America.
You can read about that program here.
What really struck me about Mr Cooke was the fact that he consistently came up with information that you just didn’t hear anywhere else. He had a unique [...]
Posted in Iraq on September 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Bold emphasis mine:
“What’s the worst thing you’ve seen here?” I said.
He wasn’t sure what to say and had to think about his answer for a few moments.
“The worst thing I’ve seen, I think, is the aftermath of a VBIED,” he said.
A VBIED is a vehicle-born improvised explosive device. In other words, a car bomb.
“I’ve seen [...]
Posted in Iraq on September 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Michael J. Totten explains what’s going on on the ground in Anbar provence in Iraq.
It seems that the local “Freedom Fighters” were making themselves more unwelcome than the USA, so they were asked to leave.
RAMADI, IRAQ – In early 2007 Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar Province, was one of the most violent war-torn cities [...]
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