Bush yesterday: President Bush, saying that “normalcy is returning back to Iraq,” argued Thursday that last year’s U.S. troop “surge” has improved Iraq’s security to the point where political and economic progress are blossoming as well. Yeah because Americans are so stupid and don’t see the news, like: Shiite anger mounts in Iraq amid clashes […]
The Green Zone has been hit yet again: Shiite militants are hammering the U.S.-protected Green Zone with rockets and mortars for the fourth day this week. Thick, black smoke is billowing from inside the heavily fortified home to the U.S. Embassy and Iraqi government. And Shiites are protesting in huge numbers: Tens of thousands of […]
Of course the cable news networks is still relatively silent on this (except Olberman last night): Iraq’s prime minister on Wednesday gave gunmen in the southern oil port of Basra a three-day deadline to surrender their weapons and renounce violence as clashes between Shiite militia fighters and Iraqi security forces erupted for a second day. […]
I been busy all day with computer problems, so I haven’t had time to check the blogs. Per usual, I do have MSNBC on, so I have been getting what I thought was news. Now that the problems are behind me and I am checking the blogs out, why is it I find out I […]
The Iraq War continues: Rockets or mortars hit the U.S.-protected Green Zone early Saturday, just a day after powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army militia to extend its cease-fire by another six months. Nearly 10 blasts could be heard in the sprawling area along the Tigris River that houses the U.S. and […]
Considering how much the right defends them, I guess this is also their method of supporting the troops: The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Iraqi civilians and United States military personnel. Suddenly, on that May day in 2005, the copter dropped CS gas, a […]
This is totally disguising and needs investigated now: A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident. Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, […]
It looks like Condi’s plan of forcing diplomats to Iraq is meeting some resistance. Uneasy U.S. diplomats yesterday challenged senior State Department officials in unusually blunt terms over a decision to order some of them to serve at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad or risk losing their jobs. At a town hall meeting in the […]