Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Bush Is On Draft #21 Of His Speech And They're Playing The Shell Game
Ever seen the shell game performed? Take a shell, cup, or whatever and place something under it. Move the shells around. Get someone to guess now where the "something" is. You know that one. Sure you do. And now Bush and the Bobbleheads are expecting you to pick a shell. Let me explain. There were...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Well, He Made It To Iraq And Back Again... No Hope For A Real Life "Lost"
Well, the commander-in-chief made a surreptitious trip to Iraq yesterday, took along a group of aides and expected to get his own feel for what's going on in Iraq at an army base in al Anbar Province in just six hours. Maybe he did learn something from Rumsfeld after all... Anyway, so the great big...
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
The GAO Don't Know What They're Talking About
The Government Accountability Office, about the only oversight agency in Washington that has any credibility, issued its progress report on Iraq. It found that Iraq had met only three of the 18 benchmarks set to be completed by September. The GAO report also found two other areas where benchmarks...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Al Sadr Standing Down?
In a surprise move today, Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr, the nominal leader of the Mehdi Army (probably the largest sectarian militia in Iraq), ordered his militia to stand down for six months. This comes on the heels of an announcement by Bush that the factions of the Iraqi parliament have come to...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Another Blackhawk Down...
Another Blackhawk helicopter went down in Iraq today, killing 14 American soldiers. At the same time, Hillary Clinton was echoing Carl Levin's remark yesterday that Iraqi Prime Minister al Maliki needs to be replaced. Bush, of course, backed his lagging nag in this losing race. Al Maliki said that...
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Sunday, August 19, 2007
Let's Talk Damage Control
Ever since the idea of benchmarking and deadlines became the topics of the day in Washington, there have been detractors, apologists, and spinners working non-stop to devalue the upcoming Iraq progress reports set for September. During that month there are to be a series of reports out of Iraq,...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Death Toll Rises In Northern Iraq
The four suicide bombs that went off in the two Yazidi villages in northern Iraq yesterday did far more damage than was originally reported. At least 250 people have been killed, making this the single worst day of violence in Iraq since the war began. To make matters worse, officials estimate that...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
The Surge Is Working -- Or Is It?
On the same day that officials announced that the "surge" was working in Iraq, four suicide bombers detonated themselves in small communities in Kurdish Iraq, killing at least 175 people. Although no groups have claimed responsibility for the attacks as yet, the Islamic State in Iraq, an al Qaeda...
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Saturday, August 11, 2007
Al Maliki And Ahmadinejad Hold Hands
Now, before anyone starts with the childish remarks, this is a common custom among men in other parts of the world (just not so popular in the United States). But CNN and other news organizations made much of the meeting in Tehran between Iraq's Prime Minister and the President of Iran (who dresses...
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Friday, August 3, 2007
July Records Lowest Death Toll Of 2007
With eighty confirmed deaths, July ended with the lowest death toll for American troops since November of 2006. But that didn't stop the Iraqi civilian death toll from skyrocketing to 1653 (it was 1227 in June). Of course, there's no way to really know how many rebels, insurgents, al Qaeda...
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