Shiite Militias Control Prisons, Official Says
Excerpt WP article (Italics): Iraq's prison system is overrun with Shiite Muslim militiamen who have freed fellow militia members convicted of major crimes and executed Sunni Arab inmates, the...
View ArticleWarnings on WMD 'Fabricator' Were Ignored, Ex-CIA Aide Says
More news about that magic disappearing, reappearing claim about those mobile biological weapons.CIA people who knew the truth took out a lie, and the Bush administration put it back in. In late...
View ArticleSectarian Strife in Iraq Imperils Entire Region, Analysts Warn
Excerpt Washington Post article (same title as above): While American commanders have suggested that civil war is possible in Iraq, many leaders, experts and ordinary people in Baghdad and around the...
View ArticleWhat Iraqis Want:
Interesting article in the New York Times The ‘Stay or Leave’ Debate in the U.S. Finds a Mirror in Baghdad
View ArticleU.S. Finds Iraq Insurgency Has Funds to Sustain Itself (So Now the Bush...
The insurgency in Iraq is now self-sustaining financially, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, corrupt charities and other crimes that the Iraqi...
View ArticleLA Times Columnist: Bring back Saddam Hussein
LA Times columnist puts down some good reasonings why Saddam Hussein being put back in charge of Iraq just might work better than any other options the US has.
View ArticleBush Administration Still Ignoring Syria and Iran. Zelikow's Out.
Excerpts NT Times article "Bush Asking Arab Friends for Iraq Help" (Indented portions are excerpted. Non indented parts are my comments): As President Bush and his top diplomats try to halt the...
View ArticleBush Repeaters Emerging: #1 The Sunnis are the Problem
I decided to look around and search out the Bush repeaters on his "al Qaeda is the big problem in Iraq" spiel the other day. I know they will emerge. I found this guy with an "Think Tank" article at...
View ArticleUS Troops Killing Sunnis for Maliki Again!
So in the week since al Maliki promised to hit Sunni and Shiite militia equally in Baghdad, all we are hearing about is US troops killing Sunnis for good old "Al". The Washington Post article shows...
View ArticleDr. Martin Luther King And the Iraq War.
What would he have said, felt about the current conflict which has so many similarities. Funny, how the conflicts rather resemble each other except in length and, but then give the Bush administration...
View ArticleDan Froomkin Maintaining His Skepticism Over "Evidence" of Iran Involvement...
I was severely disappointed in the changes I saw in the LA Times aritcle on the sly slip of dubious evidence in Baghdad aimed at the weekend news market. The skeptical first writer's piece suddenly...
View ArticleBack to Rape Rooms. Attack on Sunni Woman by Shia Police Showcases Maliki's...
Maliki's quick dismissal of rape charges by a Sunni woman who says she was raped by 3 Shiite policemen and his firing of an important Sunni official who pressed the claim is raising sectarian tempers...
View ArticleIraq President Sick. Flown to Jordan
According to the BBC Talibani was taken ill from overwork after helping to get approval in the Kurd region for passage of a draft to support the oil bill that will give a huge majority of oil profits...
View ArticleCould the Mahdi Army Become a Neighborhood Watch?
The answer depends. At a press conference last week, Petraeus said maybe while Condi's adviser says nyet! Time surmises that Petraeus needs to give some weight to a view held by Iraqi leaders at least...
View ArticleMilitants in Diyala Burning Houses to Force Support. Region Endangered by...
Out there in a region from which the Bush administration's new war plans took troops to work on protecting their buddies in the Maliki administration by surging Baghdad, there are problems. The latest...
View ArticleIs The "Boomerang" Telling Troops Which Houses to Take Out With Airstrikes?
Our military has lately been calling in airstrikes to kill possibly anyone in a location from where they believe they have taken fire. In a recent episode Iraqi authorities say US. troops killed 15...
View ArticlePeaceful Iraq? "More a Cease-fire Than a Peace" Could End "Soon".
The relative calm that has engulfed Iraq could end soon and is dependent on the high numbers of troops in the country due to the surge, former Sunni insurgents willing to fight against "jihadists, and...
View ArticleMcCain Has Another Senior Moment, Confuses Al Qaeda in Iraq's Relationships...
Is he further along the dementia slide than our little "W"?It could explain his anger problems, too.I'm more convinced than ever that I don't want this guy answering the 3 am phone. Excerpt Tribune's...
View ArticleThis'll Go Over Big. Shiites Are Breaking Up the Sunni Militias That Have...
And remember this has been going on since Spring without our knowledge. Yet they pretend that we are getting accurate knowledge about how Iraq is more peaceful now.I figure the blowback is already...
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