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Category - Iraq
Independent UK on the Iraq election
By way of further tempering the enthusiasm for the impact of yesterday's election, the Independent...
Will it have a bulge?
The worldwide "deserving-a-statue curve" has been permanently shot to hell: The man replacing the...
The Iraqi election: In the long run…
Before we get back to discussing the current status of torture, propaganda, suppression of civil...
Report: 9 Billion Unaccounted for in Iraq
According to a report released today by the Special Inspector General for the Reconstruction of...
Of cable news, neocons, and the election
By way of a follow-up to my previous thoughts (here and here) about the Iraqi election, the media...
The AP has a time machine?
It's now only 75 minutes into the Iraq election and the AP has written an item which sounds as if...
The deep breath before the plunge
(AP photo and verbatim caption) Iraqi youths stand next to five dead bodies in Ramadi, an insurgent...
Bring on the democracy!
Here's where we are at this point: -Rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy. Two Americans dead. Six...
Mind-numbing: Today in Iraq
This list of items directly from the AP is mind-numbing. E-mail this to the Bubble Boy here. If his...
Troops to remain in Iraq through 2006
In Bushworld, we can only assume this really means "at least 2010". The Army's current plan is to...
Human Rights Watch: More Iraq torture
Human Rights Watch has learned that the new Iraqi police forces are routinely torturing Iraqi...
Will the embassy have a Starbucks?
As part of an additional $80 billion requested for Iraq, Mr. Bush has requested $1.5 billion for...
The mission will NEVER be accomplished
We have been losing the Iraq War since we began it. And this is not just my opinion. This is a...
America's future rocks today?
JANUARY 18, 2005 -- Mr. and Mrs. Bush partying with pop star Hillary Duff during the "America's...
What would Churchill say?
The Brits have joined the disgraced. But at least their mainstream media, which is funded by tax...
Torturers 'punished' with new contracts
Two U.S. civilian contracting firms implicated in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal have been fired...
Holy crap! Bush not responsible for Iraq
According to MSNBC.com, a Washington Post interview with George Bush, revealed this little gem:...
Graner 'followed military, civilian orders'
The official Bush administration line is: Abu Ghraib was perpetrated by a few bad apples. That's...
Powell: “We’re losing.”
The Financial Times gives us this great bit of high-level conversation: Mr Bush recently asked Mr...