According to the Associated Press, as of this morning 17 mostly-young US service people have been killed since Sunday. Five on Wednesday. The mortality rate has started to increase. While politicians fiddle, Iraq burns. BAGHDAD…
During the Senate hearing segment yesterday of the long-running horror-opus, ‘Decider George and The War,’ nothing new and nothing blue was blubbered into the ether. In fact, after digging at the entire proceedings, CNN’s Baghdad…
As Jackboot John McCain launched his weeklong ‘Biography Tour’ in an attempt to showcase his long, storied relationship with the US military and started what Reuters news service tagged as a “trip down memory lane,”…
As the dust settles gently over the Tigris and Euphrates, Decider George’s war in Iraq has moved into its final stages — the US military should at least now have plans (or plans in the…
One of the worst, sometimes tragic consequences of an action is the “boomerang,” or “backfire” effect: A miscalculation that recoils on its maker. Iraq is nothing but miscalculation after miscalculation with a lots of boomerang. Although Shiite…
In seems so incredulous that with hundreds of thousands dead and entire countries torn to bits, Decider George would apologize for the supposedly unlawful killing of a seller of cigarettes and antiques. President Bush called Egyptian…
An uneasy sense of watching in slo-mo some nasty, cruel shit hitting the fan. Iraq’s Prime Minister was staring into the abyss today after his operation to crush militia strongholds in Basra stalled, members of…
Despite wanting to wield a mighty sword, Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki’s central government assault this week on Shia militia in Basra has encountered much difficulty, making no significant gains against the army of Mugtada al-Sadr, and creating…
A spokesman for the Baghdad security plan, Tahsin al-Sheikhly, was kidnapped from his Baghdad home by armed men on Thursday, security officials told AFP. The officials said Sheikhly, who spoke on civic matters related to…
Just at dawn on Christianity’s most-holy day, rockets and mortor rounds slammed into Baghdad’s Green Zone. Time for the biggest blunder in history to begin its horrific draw down. The attack seemed to spark violent incidents all across Iraq, like a disjointed, ragged shock wave, although…