You can’t select who ends up sitting on a board with you, but you sure as hell can select who works on your campaign. So perhaps John McCain needs to explain this to the American people: William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence […]
And here it is: The number of Iraqis killed in February rose by 33 percent over January, reversing a six-month trend of reduced violence, in a setback to the US military plan to curb the bloodshed ravaging the country. The combined figures obtained by AFP from the interior, defence and health ministries showed that the […]
I guess John McCain should just concede to the Democrats now: About 8,000 of the 30,000 “surge” troops sent to Iraq in 2007 will not go home as planned this summer, the Pentagon said Monday. Support troops — including helicopter crews, supply units, military police and headquarters staff — will still be needed when the […]
From the pages of “winning hearts and minds”: U.S. helicopters attacked allied Iraqi militiamen south of the capital on Saturday, killing at least nine civilians and wounding three, apparently because of a miscommunication during fighting with suspected Islamist gunmen. An Iraqi police spokesman put the death toll at 13. Casualties included two women and a […]
How many stories have we heard about airstrikes in Iraq going bad? How many times have there been different accounts between what Iraq says and our military says? Here is the latest: American troops backed by aircraft attacked a Shiite town north of Baghdad at dawn on Friday, killing at least 25 Iraqis the military […]
TPM Brings us this gem: “A ‘surge’ or ‘targeted increase in U.S. troop strength’ or whatever the politicians want to call dispatching more combat troops to Iraq isn’t the answer. Adding more trainers and helping the Iraqis to help themselves, is. Sending more U.S. combat troops is simply sending more targets.” That is a quote […]
Funny that when Biden says something like this, he gets chastised by the wingnuts. It will of course be different when you got a 2008 GOP Presidential hopeful saying it: Republican presidential hopeful Sam Brownback said Thursday that Iraq must achieve a “political equilibrium” even if means partitioning the country along ethnic lines. “I’m saying, […]
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 […]