Yup – we replaced Saddam with George Bush. One brutal dictator for another: The US security firm Blackwater has resumed limited operations in the Iraqi capital Baghdad four days after a deadly shootout involving the company. The company provides security to all US state department employees in Iraq. It had been ordered by the Iraqi […]
That is an article in Today’s Washington Post, which describes sheets our troops are given to describe lawmakers visiting: The sheets of paper seemed to be everywhere the lawmakers went in the Green Zone, distributed to Iraqi officials, U.S. officials and uniformed military of no particular rank. So when Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) […]
The former head of US Central Command had some great things to tell Tim Russert this morning. Now if anyone will listen it will be a first: (Video and transcript available at Think Progress) Zinni, who headed the US Central Command from 1997 to 2000, was asked if anyone should lose their job over how […]
The co-anchor of ABC nightly news and his camera man has been seriously injured in Iraq: ABC news anchor Bob Woodruff and camera operator Doug Vogt were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. television network said. At the time of the blast, they were traveling with an Iraqi Army […]
Over the last 24 hours, Iraq has seemed to descend back into a state of chaos. Numerous car bombs have gone off killing at least 152 people and there have been reports of mortar fire within the well fortified green zone. Al Qaeda has laid claim to the latest attacks via their website. They are […]
A walk back in time. A time when a war with Iraq was a certainty and not a current event. That time is February of 2003. During that time our leaders on Capital Hill were trying to get answers to important questions regarding the upcoming war. They had Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld sitting before […]
Well this past week, we heard that Rumsfeld could be looking at pulling troops out starting as early as next spring, effectively setting a “timetable†which the President said would not be done. Rumsfeld also went to Iraq to push the Iraqi government to speed up their work on developing a democracy and securing their […]
With the assistance some of my friends over at Bill Maher’s forum gave me, I was able to find more information regarding the Truth Tour. This is big news. It should actually be an announcement made by the President some evening here. I think it should of been done already, but I guess he is […]