Archives for the 'Iraq' Category
Long Walk
Published on 10 Apr 2008 at 8:14 am.
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One more anniversary nod to the late, great Michael Kelly from my friend Sig at the San Antonio Express-News. Sig describes a long walk and some talk along Gulf Road. Familiar ground along the bay in Kuwait City, my old running route from the apartment at Bibi House. Then,
Hopes Quashed
Published on 10 Apr 2008 at 12:12 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media.
This is really terrible. It looks like the murdering Americans have made a real mess of things in Baghdad. Again. AP:
Memo to McCain
Published on 9 Apr 2008 at 7:54 am.
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Filed under Iraq, Iran, al qaeda.
And the snarking classes. Hamas Iraq accuses al-Qaeda in Iraq of ties to Iran, and gets specific. “The U.S. is our main enemy but a more dangerous enemy is Iran.” MEMRI:
Now You Sadr, Now You Don’t
Published on 9 Apr 2008 at 7:12 am.
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Filed under Iraq, Iran.
Last week, al-Sadr promised a million Shiite march for today’s anniversary of the statue being pulled down. Today, that’s been cancelled, because Sadr is concerned about the shedding of Iraqi blood. He always is, when there’s any chance it might be his own. Two days ago, al-Sadr was offering to stand down, if al-Sistani and other […]
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“Failure of Leadership”
Published on 8 Apr 2008 at 7:29 am.
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Filed under Iraq, pols.
Is what McCain is calling his Dem rivals’ campaign-motivated withdrawal demands. Also, “height of irresponsibility.” This is going to be a great campaign. via Herald. Meanwhile, guess which flag-pin eschewer is now wearing his AmeriKKKan flag on his sleeve. Big day ahead on the Hill for the candidates, Gen. David Petraeus, the United States military, the Iraqi […]
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Wife-Beatage Journalism 101
Published on 7 Apr 2008 at 8:47 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media.
A fascinating exercise in elementary “When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife” journalism at a top-shelf deep-think venue is made all the more ironic because it involves 60 Minutes’ Kroft misrepresenting what Douglas Feith is saying about the administration’s line on the Iraq invasion. It could be used as a textbook case of Bush lied, people died logic:
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Israel = Hamas
Published on 7 Apr 2008 at 6:33 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media, vietnam, Israel, Palestinians.
That’s the official NYT Radio position. Powerline.
Meanwhile, in other NYT distortions, Basra = Tet. Malkin.
It’s The Mullahs, Stupid
Published on 6 Apr 2008 at 11:49 am.
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Filed under Iraq, Iran, pols.
Petraeus is expected to tell Congress our partner-for-peace, Iran, took part in the fight in Basra. Times of London:
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Mission Creep
Published on 5 Apr 2008 at 8:31 am.
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Filed under Iraq, pols.
NY Sun with another Obama advisor off the reservation on Iraq, advocating 60,000 to 80,000 troops at least two years on.
Here Is Your War
Published on 4 Apr 2008 at 1:04 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, media, military.
Title borrowed from the collected columns of another great dead war correspondent. As long as we’re on war correspondent tributes. Kelly was a literary big-picture guy. Bloom was a gritty this-is-what-it’s-like TV guy. But nowadays GIs can tell their own stories in real time every bit as well as Ernie Pyle, as the great Gordon Alanko […]
Michael Kelly
Published on 4 Apr 2008 at 11:28 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media.
Newsbusters on Krauthammer, looking for Obama’s Michael Kelly. Hillary already got hers. He was killed five years and a couple of days ago. Wehner at NRO remembers that. I remember Kelly, when I met him and David Bloom on March 11, 2003, the last time I saw him on March 31, 2003, and April 6, 2003, after […]
Perspective on Whinage
Published on 3 Apr 2008 at 8:25 am.
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Filed under Iraq, military.
Grumpy old officers re whiny young ones:
Pro-Liberation
Published on 2 Apr 2008 at 8:54 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, Iran.
Pro-acts of resistance vs. the occupiers, aka the Great Satan. That’s us. It’s Moqtada al-Sadr a couple of days ago, via MEMRI. Saddam was bad but America is worse. Baathists are still abroad in the land. The goal of the Mahdi Army is to liberate Iraq, whatever it takes. Also, a more Islamic society, the Mahdi will be […]
Not Normal
Published on 2 Apr 2008 at 6:59 am.
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Filed under Iraq, Saddam.
John Hawkins with a tale of life under the psychopath who was removed by the 2003 invasion.
George Packer at World Affiars Journal, Iraq the Place vs. Iraq the Abstraction, an insightful ramble over the ground we’ve covered.
Bad VooDoo’s War
Published on 31 Mar 2008 at 8:56 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, media.
On Frontline April 1, 9 p.m. Note ad at right.* I got a review tape, but didn’t have much time for watching TV this week, and was a little Frontlined out after 4.5 hours of utter crap last week anyway. Here’s a review by Blackfive, who liked it and suggests you watch. He knows some of […]
Medal of Honor
Published on 31 Mar 2008 at 8:29 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, military, courage.
Announced for Petty Officer 2nd Class Mike Mansoor, who threw himself on a grenade in Ramadi two years ago to save his SEAL team members.
Coming Home
Published on 31 Mar 2008 at 8:26 am.
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Filed under Iraq, military.
Sgt. Matthew Maupin’s remains found. Cincinnati Enquirer:
“Part of the Problem”
Published on 31 Mar 2008 at 6:59 am.
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Filed under Iraq, Iran.
Persians, magnanimous, agree to call off their Shiite militias. I guess this means we don’t have to use “alleged” or “U.S. accuses Iran of involvement” or any other qualifiers anymore. Apparently the mullahs are calling the shots. Iraqi lawmakers went to Qom over the weekend to ask an Iranian general to kindly stand down his murderous […]
Sadr Wants To Stop
Published on 30 Mar 2008 at 9:08 pm.
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Maybe he wants his army to live to fight another day. Maybe he’d like to see those who won’t listen to him killed, too. MSNBC.
Ed at Hot Air sees an al-Sadr surrender.
Gateway claims an al-Maliki victory, complete with al-Maliki rallies.
Roggio has the Mahdi Army taking a beating in the last 36 hours.
I don’t know. For someone who […]
A Thought
Published on 30 Mar 2008 at 7:59 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, history, genocide.
On Dith Pran’s death. Help prevent the next genocide. No abandonment of Iraq.
Inside al-Baseballiyah
Published on 29 Mar 2008 at 11:35 pm.
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Iraq the Model re Sadr, al Maliki, al-Sistani etal.
Times has Madi Army holding firm.
NYT has Mahdi Army controlling wide swathes and the subject reopened in the campaigns.
Ledeen re the Iranephant in the corner.
The Lesson of Najaf
Published on 28 Mar 2008 at 8:50 am.
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Times of London reports Iraqi cops switched sides. Why?
Moore Vineyards
Published on 27 Mar 2008 at 10:31 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, military, law & order, free speech.
Produces a fine whine:
Sadr Tidings
Published on 27 Mar 2008 at 10:05 am.
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Filed under Iraq.
The good news is, Iraqi forces are heavily engaged with the Mahdi Army with U.S. troops in a supporting role, all over the place. The weird part is, al-Maliki has supposedly taken a lead role in directing operations against his erstwhile bedfellow al-Sadr. The key question, in all matters requiring an element of trust in either al-Maliki or […]
Baathist Stooges
Published on 26 Mar 2008 at 10:31 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, pols, Saddam.
Dems carried Saddam’s water in October ‘02. He paid for the bucket.
Great minds think alike. Surber: Saddam’s Three Stooges. Incisive Instapundit asks the critical question: Which one’s Moe?
Blackwater Fever
Published on 26 Mar 2008 at 9:41 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, moronocy, medicine.
It’s new, it’s so bad they named it after the hated American mercenaries, because it kills the innocent just like they do. Slamming Blackwater is always fun and really adds some zing to this story suggesting that an Iraqi malaria epidemic is being kept secret. Too bad these moron reporters not only don’t know their […]
Nico Lied, People Re-Died
Published on 26 Mar 2008 at 12:31 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, blogs.
Grinning Huffington Post national editor uses the dead to paint a picture.
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Who Would Want to Waste It?
Published on 25 Mar 2008 at 9:19 am.
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Bush vows, as long as he’s president, to ensure an outcome to “merit the sacrifice.”
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Surge of Opportunity
Published on 25 Mar 2008 at 7:56 am.
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Sadr makes a move, shutting down neighborhoods and making demands. McClatchy thinks this means the surge is about to unravel:
Grim Milestone
Published on 24 Mar 2008 at 11:19 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media, military.
Grim milestone headline, grim milestone lede, grim milestone 2nd graph in this AP article at MSNBC. It can’t get much grimmer. AP posits hopefully:
Bush’s War
Published on 24 Mar 2008 at 8:07 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media.
Frontline’s four-and-a-half-hour epic, airing tonight and tomorrow night on PBS, isn’t actually about Bush. It’s not really about his war, either. “Cabinet Infighting” would have been a better title.
Short review: Cheney-Rumsfeld Junta lied, people died. Surge? What surge? Longer review here.
Disclosure: Frontline paid me money for that ad to right. I endeavored not to be influenced by that […]
Kinder, Gentler Superpower
Published on 22 Mar 2008 at 9:46 am.
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Filed under Iraq, GWOT, academia, America.
Envisioned by Shawn Brimley, the Bacevich Fellow at the Center for a New American Security,* who says in this essay at Small Wars Journal we need to be willing to use force, yet not in ways that piss people off. There is of course a fundamental disconnect there, and Brimley’s opening Bush-bash fails to notice that a big […]
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A Great and Terrible Wringing of Hands
Published on 21 Mar 2008 at 8:15 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, Islam, moronocy.
As Fisk contemplates the past five years and wonders why surrenderists won’t fight. At least I think that might be one of his complaints. He gets poetic and a tad esoteric in his lament. I didn’t exactly try very hard to follow his line of thinking. I’m more focused on drinking beer right now. The best line, as noted by Blair, […]
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Onward Christian,
Published on 20 Mar 2008 at 8:35 am.
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Filed under Iraq, al qaeda, Pope.
Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Wiccan, whatever soldiers vs. Islamic terrorism. I have to go with the Vatican on this. OBL is out of line suggesting the Pope is part of a New Crusade. A little more support from Ben XVI for the Global Crusade on Terrorism would be greatly appreciated.
Malkin: Mo Rage at Motoons
Iraq Vet Earns His Stripes
Published on 20 Mar 2008 at 8:24 am.
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Filed under Iraq, military.
Advanced cancer took this National Guardsman out of the war zone. Boston Herald.
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The Sound and the Fury
Published on 18 Mar 2008 at 7:25 am.
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Filed under Iraq, military.
Acute Politics has got your war noise.
Poll to Govern By
Published on 17 Mar 2008 at 11:35 am.
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For those who like governing by poll.* RCP: Iraqis see progress.
* And you know who you are.
St. Pat’s Parade
Published on 17 Mar 2008 at 9:41 am.
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Filed under Iraq, military, Boston.
LCpl Walter “Gator” O’Haire’s pals from Golf Co., 2/6 Marines, march through his hometown, South Boston, in yesterday’s St. Pat’s parade. O’Haire was killed in action in Anbar May 9, 2007, shot in the head while on patrol, six days short of his 21st birthday. Boston Herald on the parade here, on O’Haire’s mom hosting […]
War D’Oeuvres
Published on 16 Mar 2008 at 11:31 pm.
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You can tell just by looking which ones are going to taste bad. NYT oped page:
Mudville Spots a Trend
Published on 16 Mar 2008 at 8:07 pm.
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It’s not the same one assorted media outlets started touting after a bad week in Iraq.
Speaking of assorted media outlets, here’s one that can’t wait for a certain grim milestone:
“Ever Been A Pallbearer Before?”
Published on 16 Mar 2008 at 9:02 am.
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“No, what do I need to do?”
“Just carry him.”
AP’s Todd Pitman, who has done good work as a grunt-level newsman, on the death of a friend last year in Diyala.
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Five Years On
Published on 15 Mar 2008 at 8:02 pm.
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Your host at Weekly Standard, The War for Iraq and its Lessons.
Kristol, Gunsmoke, why is the Bush admin silent on the new Pentagon report?
Hayes, Saddam’s Dangerous Friends, what a Pentagon Review of 600,000 Iraqi documents tells us.
Feaver, Why We Went into Iraq, the question McCain must answer.
NYT’s John Burns, on the receiving end of those […]
About That Report
Published on 14 Mar 2008 at 7:07 am.
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Filed under Iraq, al qaeda, Saddam, Intel.
Other views re direct operational links and lack thereof:
Hot Air: Yeah, but what about the IIS contacts with Al Qaeda and the conclusion that Saddam was nurturing of global jihad as one of the few tools left in his “coercion” toolbox?
Weekly Standard: Yeah, but what about the “considerable overlap” and “de facto links.” You know, when […]
Fine AQI Whine
Published on 13 Mar 2008 at 11:14 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, al qaeda.
MEMRI weighs in with some excerpts from last month’s AQI whinefest:
Platoon Mom
Published on 13 Mar 2008 at 10:53 am.
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Filed under Iraq, military, Boston.
Gelzo at Boston Herald:
When you have brought five children into this world, adopted four more and nurtured some 50 foster kids, opening your heart to another 25 boys is no problem - especially when they formed the circle of brothers who were with Lance Cpl. Walter “Gator” O’Haire at the moment of his death in […]
No Direct Operational Links
Published on 13 Mar 2008 at 10:08 am.
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Filed under Iraq, Intel.
Between Saddam and al-Qaeda, according to a new Pentagon report. Despite hoopla, McClatchy notes debate unlikely to be affected. That’s because of Saddam’s indisputable support for terrorism, the fact that his regime had contacts with al-Qaeda, and because while some people consider that to be a highly dangerous scenario, others never will:
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Yeah, But
Published on 13 Mar 2008 at 8:08 am.
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Filed under Iraq, media, military.
Kuhn at Politico thinks last month’s Pew poll showing growing confidence in the Iraq war effort will remake the presidential debate. With Dems still pushing unconditional withdrawal, independents will swing McCainward. What Kuhn fails to note, however, is the return of the “Yeah, But” narrative in war reportage.
Bush, Still President
Published on 11 Mar 2008 at 8:35 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, Iran.
Iraq, still his war. And Iran, apparently, still on the target list. We’ll start with VOA:
Goodbye Kiss
Published on 9 Mar 2008 at 8:44 am.
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Filed under Iraq, pols.
Departing Power re Obama: He has no Iraq plan. Because he doesn’t know what he is talking about. Beeb via Gateway:
Ye of Little Feith
Published on 9 Mar 2008 at 7:13 am.
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Filed under Iraq, pols.
Former undersecretary of defense’s tell-all rips Powell, Armitage, Bremer new ones. There was undercutting, but not much objection in the runup to war. Washington Post.
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