Bacevich Son Dead in Iraq
Any of you who read this blog regularly know the esteem I hold Andrew J. Bacevich in. A West Point …
Category Archives: Iraq War
Mercenary Armies
For a truly distressing day you could do no worse than read Jeremy Scahill’s Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s …
Iraq: While McCain is Out Strolling
Senator John McCain’s hallucinatory statements on Tuesday and Wednesday that it was safe to stroll around Baghdad these days failed …
Numerology on Iraq Numbers
Remember the Lancet reported study by Johns Hopkins last fall? 655,000 Iraqis dead it said. Not 12,000 as the Iraqi …
Iraq: Wretched
There is no end to the carnage in Iraq. Juan Cole reports…. A string of car bombings in Sadr City …
War Support Flaming Out
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A poll conducted for CNN over the weekend suggests support among Americans for the war in Iraq …
Christian General
Yes it’s a good thing to hear: Great Britain’s top soldier says UK troops should be withdrawn from Iraq. It’s …
Good Friday Boots
Good Friday Boots Good Fridays showed themselves for many years, when I was a child, dressed for the occasion: gray …