Great! Why don’t the Iraqi parliament take another month off then! Iraqi legislators suspended parliamentary sessions Thursday until the end of the month because of the Muslim religious season _ the end of much-delayed efforts to pass U.S.-backed legislation aimed at achieving national reconciliation this year. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, meanwhile, welcomed a report from […]
(on a personal note – I wasn’t able to blog yesterday because I decided to take the plunge and move to Vista. I will post about that experience on my tech blog later for those interested). Following yesterday’s news that the State Department decided to give Blackwater immunity, today we find out a new battle […]
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 […]
This comes as no surprise. A new poll shows a majority of Americans believe Petraeus won’t be give a factual view of Iraq: Most Americans think this week’s report from Army Gen. David H. Petraeus will exaggerate progress in Iraq, and few expect it to result in a major shift in President Bush’s policy. But […]
And this is not coming from the New York Times or the Washington Post. This story is coming from the Marine Corps Times: A key aide says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s relations with U.S. commander Gen. David Petraeus are so poor the Iraqi leader may ask Washington the withdraw the well-regarded U.S. military leader from […]
Lindsey Graham told Tim Russert this morning that we will leave Iraq when OUR generals say so, even though al-Maliki has said we could leave. In other words, we will not recognize the sovereignty of the Iraqi government. I don’t remember anything in the war authorization saying we would be an occupying force. Sounds like […]
Just being reported by the AP and on MSNBC. The big preliminary report due out in a few days will conclude that the Iraqi government has met none of it’s targets. Sounds like it is pull out time to me.
No matter how much Tony Snow and the rest of the White House try to spin it, the fact remains – the news coming out of Iraq is not good. GOP Senators are also seeing this and not buying the typical spin: Sen. George Voinovich said Tuesday the U.S. should begin pulling troops out of […]
Last night al-Maliki told Lara Logan on CBS news that he fears a coup in his country: Al-Maliki said that some of the officer corps have been creating problems and even violating the security of military operations. He stated, “I’m not afraid, but I have to watch the army, because those still loyal to the […]
The F-5 tornado that leveled a town in Kansas was horrible. Having lived through a couple major tornados, I can tell you how devastating they are first hand. One of my earliest childhood memories was when an F-5 tornado came through southern Ohio in 1974. Thankfully our house was untouched. The same couldn’t be said […]