Author: mike

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...

Iraqi markets seem to attract US missiles like tornadoes drawn to trailer parks. Or is the increasing frequency of the occasional targetting of civilian gatherings deliberate? With the symbolic targets destroyed early on and...

I note that the US/UK invasion seems to be accomplishing what Saddam Hussein in all his decades of bloody rule could not: uniting Shia and Sunni Iraqis against a common enemy. Gafel Hamdani has...

In the increasingly messy fights around Nasiriya, Marine units, which earlier were ambushed while responding to what appeared to be a large-scale surrender, had by the end of the week destroyed more than 200...