Nancy Pelosi goes to Syria and gets branded a traitor and gets accused of “bad behavior” and possibly “criminal activities”. The media sure did eat up on this. Now fast forward to today and Condi Rice is heading over to Syria to meet with them: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet Syria’s foreign minister […]
Following up from last month, I decided to add April’s death tolls into the graphs so we can see how the “surge” is working. First off is the U.S. casualty totals With the exception of April 2004, this past April has been the deadliest of all others (including April 2003 when 74 soldiers died). Still […]
And how is this supposed to work in a “compromise”? President Bush will not support a war spending bill that punishes the Iraqi government for failing to meet benchmarks for progress, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday. Rice’s comments cast fresh doubt on a potential compromise between the Democratic-led Congress and the White House […]
The Bush supporting GOP machine is fracturing: In another sign of Republican unease with the president’s Iraq policies, a third GOP senator expressed support Thursday for pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq under certain conditions. Sen. Olympia J. Snowe announced she would sponsor a bill to require American commanders to plan a withdrawal within 120 […]
The decider speaks: President Bush said Wednesday he would “not be rushed” into a decision on a strategy change for Iraq, saying that in a round of consultations he heard both some interesting ideas and some “ideas that would lead to defeat.” “And I reject those ideas,” Bush said after meeting with top generals and […]
Interesting how this changes every other day: Sectarian violence in Iraq has become “self-sustaining,” increasing the challenge of stabilizing the country, the top U.S. intelligence official said on Friday. “Violence between the Sunnis and Shia has become self-sustaining and has spread out to a wider range of … groups and actors,” said John Negroponte, the […]
The New York Times: The insurgency in Iraq is now self-sustaining financially, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, connivance by corrupt Islamic charities and other crimes that the Iraqi government and its American patrons have been largely unable to prevent, a classified United States government report has concluded. […]
That is what he keeps saying. Now it is time to put up or shut-up: The American-led crackdown in Baghdad has not succeeded in reducing a “disheartening” level of violence across the capital and a new approach is needed, a military spokesman said today. Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, the senior spokesman for the […]
Iraq is getting worse by the day and they are starting to give up on these little “rosie” assessments we have become use to hearing. Here is the latest news from the Pentagon: The U.S. military will likely maintain the current force levels of more than 140,000 troops in Iraq through next spring, the top […]
One thing the Bush administration LOVESSSS is getting out some good propaganda, and they are working at spending our money to do just that: U.S. military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of U.S. and Middle Eastern media in an effort […]