Damn.
U.S. military says man held is not Iraq al Qaeda leader
It’s so hard to tell these bloody Islamofascists apart. Still I bet he’s a leader of something. A bit of enhanced interrogation will soon get the truth. Read more »
Damn.
U.S. military says man held is not Iraq al Qaeda leader
It’s so hard to tell these bloody Islamofascists apart. Still I bet he’s a leader of something. A bit of enhanced interrogation will soon get the truth. Read more »
After more than five years of incoherent actions in Iraq, the most incompetent president in living memory has decided to lock the door and tiptoe quietly away, leaving the incoming president to deal with the mess.
He has, however, graciously decided that members of the US military will henceforth only have to spend 12 months out of every 24 on the Eastern Front. I’m sure they’ll be over the moon.
The symbolism is instructive: Read more »
Two US soldiers have been killed and 17 injured in attacks on the Baghdad Green Zone. Read more »
David Kay was the guy President Bush put in charge of finding Saddam’s WMD once the dictator was removed from power. Kay headed the Iraq Survey Group but quit before it finished its work. Read more »
…. sitting on the wall
And if one al Qaeda boss
Should accidentally fall
There’ll be just as many al Qaeda bosses
Sitting on the wall.
(I make that 84,459 they’ve taken out now, but I might have missed a few. It’s become like the way the Germans announced they’d sunk the Ark Royal about 54 times in WW2 … or the number of times the Iemma Government has announced a new public transport plan.) Read more »
Another of the think tanks that infest the USA, the somewhat ironically named United States Institute for Peace, has released a report about the Iraq war occupation problem (Iraq risks becoming the US version of ‘the Irish question’ that bedevilled UK politics for a century or more). The report is notable for a couple of things.
First, it sets out the ‘five paramount interests’ that ‘U.S. policy in Iraq should aim to serve’: Read more »
You remember the justification for Teh Surge? Read more »
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