all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
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...
Pundits love to say that Generals always fight every new war as if it were the last, but the current US invasion strategy harkens back to the Wermacht’s Blitzkrieg strategy more than any other...
I mentioned I thought it was likely that the US would begin eliminating many in-country anti-Saddam forces of any significance, but I didn’t expect it to happen so soon. A local Kurdish group called...
So Turkey is invading northern Iraq, conveniently close to their arch-enemies, the Kurds, who meanwhile are in a defensive posture facing off against both the Iraqis and the Turks. The Turks have been warned...