Tuesday, January 17, 2006
THIS BLOG IS NOW OFFICIALLY REVIVED - BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
In 2005 the Coalition forces were camped in the ruins of Babylon. Bulldozers had dug trenches through the site and cleared sites for helicopter landing pads and parking lots. Thousands of sandbags were filled with dirt and archaelogical fragments. A 2,600-year-old brick pavement was crushed by...
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Thursday, August 4, 2005
Marching on to Peace - NOT!!
The Pentagon was said to be exploring what it called the 'Salvador option', modelled on the death squads in El Salvador in the 1980s, when John Negroponte was ambassador to Honduras and when Elliot Abrams, now White House advisor on the Middle East, called the massacre at El Mozote 'nothing but...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2005
A Long and Lonely Road
Donald Rumsfeld said, "I don't believe it's our job to reconstruct that country. The Iraqi people are going to have to reconstruct that country over a period of time. In any event, the infrastructure of that country was not terribly damaged by the war at all." [There's a man with his finger on the...
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Thursday, April 28, 2005
Rumsfeld Caught With His Trousers Down
Lieutenant-General James Conway said, "It was a surprise to me then, and it remains a surprise to me now, that we have not uncovered weapons. It's not from lack of trying." A reporter asked Donald Rumsfeld, "If they did not have WMDs, why did they pose and immediate threat to this country?" Rumsfeld...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Fallujah is Finished, and the Backtracking and Double-Speak Begins
Three quarters of Fallujah was shelled to rubble. General John Sattler said that the destruction of Fallujah has "broken the back of the insurgency". An American soldier said, "It's kind of bad we destroyed everything, but at least we gave them a chance for a new start." Only five roads into...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Fallujah - An Insight Into Western Military "Thinking"
Colonel Gary Brandl said, "The enemy has got a face. He's called Satan. He's in Fallujah and we're going to destroy him." A marine commander told his men, "You will be held accountable for the facts not as they are in hindsight but as they appeared to you at the time. If, in your mind, you fire to...
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Saturday, April 9, 2005
People are 'Fungible'??
On the occasion of Iyad Allawi's visit to the US, the president said, "What's important for the American people to hear is reality. And the reality is right here in the form of the prime minister." Asked about ethnic tensions, Allawi said, "There are no problems between Shia and Sunnis and Kurds and...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Stop Press! Death Makes War "Depressing"!
A CNN reporter near the tomb of Ali in Najaf said, "Everything outside of the mosque seems to be totalled." Khudeir Salman, who sold ice from a donkey cart in Najaf, said he was giving up after US marine snipers had killed his friend, another ice seller: "I found him this morning. The sniper shot...
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Sunday, March 27, 2005
As the British Invoke the Nazis, a US Major Talks of Genocide
President Bush said, "You can embolden an enemy by sending a mixed message. You can dispirit the Iraqi people by sending mixed messages. That's why i will continue to lead with clarity and in a resolute way." Bush said, "Today, because the world acted with courage and moral clarity, Iraqi athletes...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
You Think the "News" Tells You What's Happening? Think Again...
This was the military summary for an ordinary day, 22 July 2004, a day that produced no headlines: "Two roadside bombs exploded next to a van and a Mercedes in separate areas of Baghdad, killing four civilians. "A gunman in a Toyota opened fire on a police checkpoint and escaped. "Police wounded...
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