I decided it was time to put the casualty rates of the surge into a graphical representation to see how the surge is actually working. Using numbers from the Iraq Coalition Casualties site, I was able to compile two different graphs. Take the same 3 month period over different years I came up with the […]
I am sure everyone has heard the news that the Taliban bombed a U.S. base in Afghanistan, where Dick Cheney was staying. The Taliban then released a statement that they were targeting Cheney. With all this news, there is a key question that isn’t gaining that much attention. Take this line: “This shows how much […]
Bush always equates Iraq to the war on terror, even when experts disagree with him. What is sad is how he has done this so much that he seems to have mentally drawn a disconnect from the real war on terror, which is suffering now: More troops and sophisticated equipment are needed to bolster Afghanistan’s […]
The key issue of next week’s elections is Iraq and a hopeful start to oversight of the disaster Bush got us into. Now we find out that the administration gets rid of the only person who was conducting oversight in the war. Investigations led by a Republican lawyer named Stuart W. Bowen Jr. in Iraq […]
Hits Baghdad: Iraqi security forces will dig trenches around Baghdad and set up checkpoints along all roads leading into the city to reduce some of the violence plaguing the capital, the Interior Ministry said Friday. To help halt that bloodshed, more U.S. troops have been shifted to Baghdad from the insurgent stronghold of Anbar province, […]
With all the talk of Path to 9/11 and how “Clinton did nothing to secure us, despite numerous attacks”, then perhaps the following is an omen: Syrian security forces killed four attackers Tuesday outside the U.S. Embassy in Damascus after a car exploded near the walls of the American compound, the Syrian Information Ministry said. […]
Think Progress has done an outstanding job putting some numbers together comparing the statistics in Iraq three years ago today, when Bush gave his infamous “mission accomplished” speech, to the same figures today: May 1, 2003 Today U.S. Troops Wounded 542 17,469 U.S. Troops Killed 139 2,400 Size of U.S. Forces 150,000 132,000 […]
While Bush is still beating his war drums for Iran, we still got a growing problem in Iraq and it is getting worse: Thirty-two bodies of Iraqi police and security forces recruits were discovered in two areas of Baghdad on Monday, Interior Ministry sources said. All 32 were from the town of Ramadi in the […]
Its about time: LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will announce on Monday that it is withdrawing about 800 troops from Iraq, roughly 10 percent of its force, BBC television reported. Secretary of Defence John Reid is due to make a statement to parliament at 3:30 p.m. British time. His ministry declined to comment on the BBC […]
More comments are being made on this topic, I just wish someone would say what is actually happening, millitary sourses are saying there is a plan, No 10 is saying no there’s not…. make your mind up guys, one of you has to be right, time for you to bang your heads together and come […]