Monthly Archive: March 2003

we start counting the hours from the moment one of the news channels report that the B52s have left their airfield. It takes them around 6 hours to get to Iraq. On the first...

British forces left behind to staff the checkpoints, control the roads and occupy the cities here in southern Iraq say the military campaign for them has taken on the feel of a Belfast-style guerrilla...

I liked Dvorak’s take on how lame and tame is the coverage by the “embedded” journos… Anchor: Jim, what’s going on there? Jim: We’re moving north. It’s windy and sand is blowing. Anchor: So...

An interesting article here examining how VP Dick Cheney’s company, Halliburton, is skimming off hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts for “logistical support” during the Iraq campaign. It’s an open-ended contract, which means...

So the Turks are refusing to bow to US pressure to withdraw from northern Iraq. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is rushing US special forces into the Kurdish-held areas of northern Iraq to act as a...

So it was little noticed at the time, but Rand Beers, the Bush Gang’s top official at the NSC in charge of the War On Terror quit abruptly, timing his exit to coincide with...

NTK had this. Amazon’s “Customers who shopped for this item also shopped for” link for the Panasonic TH-50PHW3B 50″ Plasma Display displays an interesting collection of affinity items: The Leadership Genius of George W....

Reading between the lines, the fighting in Basra is mainly between random, unpredictable pockets of “militiamen” and the US Army… while the remaining regular Iraqi army units keep their heads down. I think by...

So read with that some poor US troops took a wrong turn and were ambushed and some captured and displayed on Iraqi TV. Apparently Bagman Rumsfeld thinks this is deplorable: US defence secretary Donald...

I read with no great surprise that after initiating the invasion of Iraq by promising a quick-in, quick-out scenario, Bush is now telling people it will take “longer than anticipated“. Uh-huh. I guess some...