Monthly Archive: March 2003

“Did you see all that?” he asked, his eyes filled with tears. “Did you see that little baby girl? I carried her body and buried it as best I could but I had no...

I came across this charming account demonstrating further ways to ingratiate your invading soldiers with the locals: As the U.S. Army’s Seventh Combat Support Group, a unit of the Third Infantry Division, moved northward...

According to “The Day After: The Army in a Post-Conflict Iraq,” a December 2002 paper produced by the War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership, army studies have concluded that even with United Nations support,...

So there’s no way the Bush Gang are going to let the strategically important Umm Qasr port be run by smelly Iraqis. Whatever about the dribbles of food aid coming through it, it’s essential...

I noted that all of Iraq has effectively been designated as a free-fire zone. This is sure to enhance the life of its residents and make the US/UK invaders even more popular. Way to...

It’s nice to know that “bluestocking” is a phrase that can still be deployed.

I mentioned last week that Bagman Rumsfeld was being set up as fall guy for the Iraqi debacle and so I am not at all surprised today to read Big Hitter Hersh’s hatchet job,...

So the world is suddenly agog when a British soldier gets killed by depleted uranium friendly fire. It bears repeating: there’s nothing remotely friendly about dirty bullets made of poisonous uranium. The US complains...

So all along the Pentagon’s wet dream has been for a “Shiite Rebellion” against the Iraqi government, “just like after the first Gulf War”. And so the Birtish troops play a waiting game outside...

So one of the dolphin mine-sweeper draftees has wisely decided that discretion is the better part of valour and gone AWOL… Takoma, the Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphin, had been in Iraq for 48 hours when...