Tag: iraq

That’s who Robert Gates is blaming for the problems in Afghanistan. Funny, which country decided to abandon Afghanistan to go fight a war of choice in Iraq?

It looks like it might be more smoke and mirrors from the administration: The Bush administration, in its last so-called Iraq “benchmark” report, used questionable financial data to assert that the Baghdad government was making progress in managing its budget, a new study says. The study released Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office focused specifically […]

Good to see one Republican demanind accountability: The Government Accountability Office should “initiate a full and thorough investigation” of allegations that the firefighting systems at the new U.S. Embassy complex under construction in Baghdad have potential safety problems, a senior lawmaker said yesterday. Rep. Frank R. Wolf (Va.), ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee panel […]

That is when they are saying our troops can come home from Iraq now. Just more proof that the surge has actually failed.

It looks like Kristol was wrong on his second New York Times piece: Kristol in his column, which hailed the success of the “surge” in Iraq, concluded with this trump card: Now the Iraqi government has agreed on de-Baathification, a key gain that proves his point and pretty much destroys the Democrats’ stand. But now […]

Via Kevin Drum RECONCILIATION WATCH….Ever since we embraced the Anbar Awakening a year ago, the Army has been busily forming Sunni police forces called Concerned Local Citizens. The Shiite government of Nouri al-Maliki hasn’t had much choice but to go along, but at the same time they’ve resisted taking over the CLCs from the Americans […]

To go after the kurds. The outcome of this should be interesting and emphasis a key hurdle we have in Iraq.

It’s funny how last week al Qaeda was talking about setting booby traps then a few days later we have six U.S. troops killed in a house that was booby trapped in Iraq. Not sure what to make out of that timing.

Think Progress has posted video of Tony Snow on Real Time blowing off the failures we had in Iraq. MAHER: In fact, the smarter people in his administration said to do just that. “We need more boots on the ground. We need more security.” But because he’s stubborn and stupid, he said, “No, let’s do […]

Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terror That according to our President. Bush made these remarks at a speech in the Middle East. The funny part is that every time this administration tries to tie Iran to terrorist activities, it backfires. The big navy ship incident this week turned out to be as […]