There are still a few on the right (mainly in the administration) who would want to make you think that Iraq has calmed down and is going well again. Well this sure doesn’t have that same song and dance: Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week’s bombing of a Shiite shrine have […]
Well not shocking is the fact that the administration is downplaying what is happening in Iraq and denying they are on the brink of civil war: The US military rejected the idea that a civil war is brewing in Iraq, saying it had confirmed only seven major attacks on mosques across the country. Major General […]
The well informed Juan Cole takes a look at the events of the past couple days and the outcome does not look good. Tuesday was an apocalyptic day in Iraq. I am not normally exactly sanguine about the situation there. But the atmospherics are very, very bad, in a way that most Western observers will […]
So what can we expect tomorrow when the hearings into the wiretapping kick off. WellTime magazine has a little preview. According to the documents, Gonzales plans to assert in his opening statement that seeking approval for the wiretaps from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court could result in delays that “may make the difference […]
The London Times is reporting that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has now united rival gangs under his control in order to bring Iraq into a civil war. Zarqawi took credit yesterday for the string of bombings and attacks that left over 160 dead and focused mainly on the Shia. “The al-Qaeda organization in Mesopotamia is declaring […]
This week our President started his historic five week vacation at the ranch in Crawford, Texas. The term historic is used in a rhetorical sense considering this is the longest vacation any President has taken, and only 6 months into his second term, he is quickly on his way to break the record of total […]