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Category Archives: Iraq

On to Iran

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Stephen Kinzer, former New York Times reporter, and now columnist for the Guardian, makes the case that, mired as he is in Iraq, the Boy-King and his handlers are making ready to attack Iran: When President Bush took his place in front of television cameras last Thursday to deliver his latest assessment of conditions in […]

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This should be interesting

Monday, September 17, 2007

The Iraqi “government” has cancelled Blackwater’s license to employ “contractors” in Iraq. Seems like Mercenaries R’ Us has engaged in exactly the type of behavior one would expect from an organization that employs thugs that are expressly exempted from the reach of all law, both civil and military: The Iraqi government said Monday that it […]

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The general speaks

Friday, September 14, 2007

There appears to be real reporting going on at the McClatchy newspapers. The reporters there don’t seem to be awed by all those medals on the chest of the great general. He is, they report, going to go back to Iraq and try to get the Iraqis to do our bidding by threatening a troop […]

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Getting out

Thursday, September 13, 2007

A few thoughts jotted down while I don’t watch Bush’s speech. There’s been some talk, as I mentioned recently, to the effect that whoever gets elected in 2008 will soon own the war that Bush will bequeaths to him or her. At this point, as anyone case see, his entire strategy is to repeat his […]

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The Day drinks the Petreaus Kool-Aid

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

In an effort to prove that they are very serious people, the Day has opined that despite its belief that we should end our military involvement in Iraq, we should not in fact end our military involvement in Iraq. We should, as the editorial is titled GIVE NEW IRAQ STRATEGY TIME. This editorial deserves to […]

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Misdirections, a Republican specialty

Monday, September 10, 2007

I’ve been reading the blogs, etc., about the Petreaus testimony, and it appears to me that once again the Republicans have succeeded at something at which they excel: misdirection. Many years ago now, the Sainted Ronald was caught red-handed selling weapons to the Iranians. That was a bad thing to do, perhaps warranting impeachment, but […]

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What report?

Friday, September 7, 2007

Apparently the question of the authorship of the Petreaus report has been settled. Originally, Petreaus was going to write it; then the White House was going to write it. Now, apparently, it will simply not be written: In the latest twist to the ongoing saga over the Petraeus White House report, a senior military official […]

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Americans already don’t believe Petreaus

Thursday, September 6, 2007

In a recent post I hazarded the following guess about the American reaction to the Petreaus report: My sense is that the truth has sunk in to the American people, and they’re not going to be convinced by anyone’s flimflam, no matter how many stars on his shoulder. Looks like I was mostly right. According […]

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Democrats Brilliant Strategy: First surrender, then negotiate

Thursday, September 6, 2007

I don’t pretend to be the world’s greatest lawyer, but I have learned a thing or two about negotiating in the years since I was sworn to the bar. One thing I learned, in fact, one thing I always sort of knew, is that you don’t do this: With a mixed picture emerging about progress […]

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You reap what you sow

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Must reading from Juan Cole. A short history of the roots of the “War on Terror”. No excerpt could to it justice. Read the whole thing.

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