I guess that "purge" of the Iraqi Army wasn't as efficient as Mickey Kaus suggested...A company of Iraqi soldiers abandoned their positions on Tuesday night in Sadr City, defying American soldiers who implored them to hold the line against Shiite militias.The retreat left a crucial...
Iraq war
Congressional Budget Office, The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans: Summary Update for Fiscal Year 2005In its cost-risk projections, CBO assumes that activities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere could cost.
This is interesting:NATO commanders in Afghanistan have decided to end local police training, fearing that cops in remote areas -– most of whom once fought for tribal warlords –- might.
Baghdad fell five years ago today. If I understand the conservative blogs correctly, people like me were supposed to have been humiliated and distressed by the news; at the time, I was honestly relieved and mildly surprised that the city hadn't descended into a cauldron...
Got in a bit late, just in time to see Crocker discussing how great it was for the US economy that Iraq is buying a couple US aircraft... too bad.
This looks to me like a clean victory for Sadr. In the words of the immortal Jim Malone, if you open the door on these people, you have to be.
Defense News:The U.S. plans to urge Britain to launch a "surge" in Basra to combat increasing violence in the southern Iraqi region, the Sunday Mirror newspaper reported.Britain, which has around 4,100 troops in Iraq, transferred control to Iraqi forces in December last year but could...
I mentioned in this comment thread that Dress Blues wasn't one of my favorite songs from Jason Isbell's Sirens of the Ditch. I should probably add that one of the.
Did Ahmed Chalabi lie in order to press the United States to go into Iraq? This is a silly question; of course he lied, and of course he stole, and.
This paragraph is bad enough to be worth spending some time on:I did not believe the American-led coalition could prudently leave Iraq the day Baghdad fell. Coalition troops were essential to support a new Iraqi government.Translation: The people we turned Iraq over to would invite...
This is nothing new, but it's worth revisiting now and again. For the monthly cost of the war in Iraq, conservatively estimated for our purposes at $8 billion, the Pentagon.
But that doesn't mean the issue of the war should slip to the backburner of voters' consciences and therefore become less important to the presidential campaigns, as has apparently happened.I.