Daily Archive: June 3, 2004

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Badr v Sadr

Armitage acknowledged that in Najaf, “the Badr Corps, as far as I know independently, have conducted some what I’d call low-level operations against the [Sadr’s] Mahdi Army.” That means we have incurred some debt...

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New Uniforms, Same Old Mustaches

American officials appear to have resigned themselves to working with militias in Falluja, Baghdad and elsewhere even as American soldiers die fighting them in street battles in Karbala and Najaf … In Falluja, the...

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Bush the Mole – A Modest Proposal

We yearn for a grand unified theory of Bushism that would put the two halves of the agenda together. Now, at last, with the revelation that Ahmad Chalabi has been passing intelligence information to...

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Slam Dunk Redux

One of the funniest recent lines on The Daily Show was Jon Stewart intoning “What the fuck *does* George Tenet have to do to get fired?”. Apparently, it was a slam dunk in the...