Author: mike

Words I never thought I’d ever get a chance to write: Vampire Gigolo Rapist Shot Dead. Maybe they used silver bullets?

David sent me this. Wolfowitz is on a tear recently. Either his meds have been upped, or are not working, or he’s gone weirdly self-destructive or cunningly obtuse. Anyway, now he admits that attacking...

So this is a map of unexploded ordinance in Iraq. It clearly shows that the Pentagon used tens of thousands of cluster bombs over dense urban areas, despite their denials during combat (countered by...

So like many people I was puzzled by the news a few weeks ago that the Pentagon had been careful to bypass the armed, mi litant Mujah edeen e Khalq mili tia faction in...

And they said it couldn’t be done! Earlier here.

I noticed this from a November 1999 BBC Interview with then-Governor Bush: REPORTER: Would Saddam Hussein outlive a second President Bush? GOVERNOR BUSH: [Laughs] Very good question. Uh, I think the interesting thing —...

So the Pentagon has finally located some incontrovertible evidence of WMDs… in Maryland. Apparently the Iraqis aren’t the only ones who can’t explain where their WMDs went, or produce records to locate them… The...

No weapons. The decision to highlight weapons of mass destruction as the main justification for going to war in Iraq was taken for “bureaucratic reasons”, according to the US deputy defence secretary … Picking...

They’ve been in charge for a while by now… The Financial Times suggests that “more extreme Republicans” actually want a fiscal train wreck: “Proposing to slash federal spending, particularly on social programs, is a...

This is an eye-opening account of what Afghanistan is like today. The nominal US-installed ruler, Karzai, is a prisoner within Kabul, kept alive by massive US military protection, and doesn’t dare leave the capital....