Quicklink: Obama ends Operation Iraqi Freedom
Obama declares that combat In Iraq is over
Tony Blair at the Chilcot Inquiry
There’s been some talk about Tony Blair’s testimony to the Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq War on the open thread, so it might be best to have a dedicated post to focus comments. A good starting point for discussion is [...]
US Army leaves Iraq's cities
The Iraqi people seem to have spoken – and pretty loudly. With the nominal end of US troops in Iraqi cities, “Victory Day” was declared a national holiday across the country, accompanied by considerable celebration. Iraq, of course, remains a [...]
Iraq provincial elections spin
A cursory inspection of the intertubes today suggests that the right-wing press across the “Anglosphere” is trumpeting the provincial election results in Iraq as variously “the end of the war”, “a model for the Middle East”, “a defeat for Shi’ite [...]
John Howard: media tart?
Remember how John Howard said after he lost his seat of Bennelong and the top job that he wouldn’t be providing a running commentary on politics? He’s over in LA at the moment on his rounds collecting meaningless awards from [...]
Careful there voters! You can’t return the Boogieman like an unwanted Christmas present, you know! But Unca John can keep your economy safe…why won’t you trust me?
Now our Prime Minister is treating voters like heedless children who simply haven’t thought carefully enough about what change might mean. Mr Howard says there is always a risk with changing Government. And he warns voters flirting with the idea [...]
It’s the oil, stupids
To sum up, then: it was about the oil and it’s still about the oil. Crossposted at LP in exile., as comments here are closed due to our outage issues.
Turkey threatening to invade American territory…
Well, not quite, but they reportedly have 100,000 troops, backed by all manner of heavy weaponry up to and including F-16′s sitting on the Turkish border with Iraq. The reason? An attack by the PKK, the Kurdish guerilla group, on [...]
Downing Street Memo II
A few weeks ago, on September 26, the Spanish daily newspaper El Pais published the transcript of a meeting between then Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar and US President George W Bush in Texas on February 22, 2003 — [...]
Where are the Iraqi Mandelas?
Well might George W. Bush ask himself that question. Let’s not forget that Nelson Mandela was a highly educated lawyer. Where have the Iraqi middle class gone? Those who the neo-cons banked on to form the social constituency for “instant [...]
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