Archive for the 'War' Category
Billions in Oil Missing in Iraq
May 13th, 2007If the “newspaper of record” in the U.S. can parrot the GAO theory that the insurgents might have stolen it *chuckle: that’s a good one, har har*, can I make absurd and ridiculous statements too? Piles of corpses, billions of dollars worth of dodgy deals, mercenaries by the thousands and 100,000 to 300,000 barrels of […]
Is This What the Army Thinks of Us?
May 9th, 2007Via: cjrdaily: It looks like it’s official: the United States Army thinks that American reporters are a threat to national security. Thanks to some great sleuthing by Wired’s “Danger Room” blogger Noah Shachtman, the Army’s new operational security guidelines (OPSEC) hit the Web in a big way yesterday, and the implications they have for reporters […]
‘Devastating’ Moyers Probe of Press and Iraq
April 21st, 2007File this one in the You’ve-Known-It-Since-2002 folder… Via: E & P: NEW YORK (Commentary) The most powerful indictment of the news media for falling down in its duties in the run-up to the war in Iraq will appear next Wednesday, a 90-minute PBS broadcast called “Buying the War,” which marks the return of “Bill Moyers […]
Draft
April 19th, 2007Mission accomplished. Via: Marine Corps Times: The Senate Armed Services Committee heard testimony Tuesday that increasing the size of the Army and Marine Corps may not resolve severe and growing personnel problems. There was even talk of returning to the draft to fill the ranks. “It is better to take a smaller force than to […]
Rate of U.S. Losses in Iraq Is Highest Yet
April 17th, 2007Mission accomplished. Via: Miami Herald: Over the past six months, American troops have died in Iraq at the highest rate since the war began, an indication that the conflict is becoming increasingly dangerous for U.S. forces even after more than four years of fighting. From October 2006 through last month, 532 American soldiers were killed, […]
America’s Plan for Baghdad: Carve City Into Sealed Areas
April 12th, 2007Via: Independent: Faced with an ever-more ruthless insurgency in Baghdad – despite President George Bush’s “surge” in troops – US forces in the city are now planning a massive and highly controversial counter-insurgency operation that will seal off vast areas of the city, enclosing whole neighbourhoods with barricades and allowing only Iraqis with newly issued […]
Three Generals Spurn the Position of War ‘Czar’
April 12th, 2007Via: Washington Post: The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies, but it has had trouble finding anyone able and willing to take the job, according to people close to the situation. […]
Pentagon Plans Troop Extension for Iraq
April 11th, 2007Via: AP / San Francisco Chronicle: The Pentagon will lengthen tours of duty for all active-duty Army units in Iraq to 15 months from the current 12 months as the military struggles to supply enough troops for the conflict, two defense officials said Wednesday. Defense Secretary Robert Gates planned to announce the decision Wednesday afternoon, […]
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
April 10th, 2007In case anyone is still keeping track… Via: Yahoo / AP: In a rueful reflection on what might have been, an Iraqi government insider details in 500 pages the U.S. occupation’s “shocking” mismanagement of his country — a performance so bad, he writes, that by 2007 Iraqis had “turned their backs on their would-be liberators.” […]
John McCain Sees Progress in Baghdad; 21 Dead in Bombing the Next Day Where He Stood
April 4th, 2007Via: The Australian: A NEWBORN baby was one of at least 14 children and adults killed today when a suicide bomber detonated a truck laden with explosives close to a primary school in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. The latest massacre of Iraqi children came as 21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and […]
