War for Oil? I Wish it Had Been
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: The Iraq war is largely about oil.
-Alan Greenspan (from his memoirs, September 2007)
As the president surreptitiously departed off to Iraq and Afghanistan for his final victory tour earlier this week to bask in the two identifiable foreign policy “victories” in an otherwise [...]
Iraqi Journalist Throws Shoes at President Bush
This helps t make two points. First, this is what President Bush has become; He has been relegated to ducking shoes thrown by foreign journalists. Wow. Just wow.
Second, this is more proof of just how ungrateful many Iraqis are for their liberation. Yes, I know, this wasn’t an “everyday” citizen throwing the shoes at President [...]
Greedy Iraqis Have $79 Billion Budget Surplus
Have I not been telling you how greedy the Iraqis have turned out to be? Well here is some more evidence:
The Iraqi government could end the year with as much as a $79 billion budget surplus as ever-increasing oil revenues pile on top of leftover income the Iraqis still haven’t spent on their national rebuilding [...]
Ahmad Chalabi Behind Maliki’s Quasi-Endorsement of Obama’s Iraq Withdrawal Plan?
There is a fascinating article out right now from the The New York Sun about the possibility that Ahmad Chalabi might be the adviser behind Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki’s seeming agreement with Barack Hussein Obama’s troop withdrawal plan.
Here is an excerpt:
In throwing his support behind Senator Obama’s plan for a 16-month timetable for an American [...]
Iraqi Prime Minister Supports Barack Hussein Obama’s Withdrawal Timetable
Iraq’s demand of a quick withdrawal of foreign forces just keeps getting better.
From Fox News:
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told a German magazine that he supports Barack Obama’s plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking office.
“U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the [...]
Time to Rethink Iraq
Jed Babbin over at Human Events has a great editorial out on the need to rethink our purpose in Iraq. In so doing, he has echoed and expanding on a couple of points I’ve been making.
The entire piece is fantastic and I would recommend that you read it, but here are a few excerpts:
Negotiations with [...]
Iraq Hints at Time Table for U.S. Withdrawl
The audacity of Iraqis is on display yet again. Apparently Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is interested in developing a time table for the end of a “foreign presence.”
Report: U.S. “Preparing the Battlefield” in Iran
This assertion is being made by Seymour Hersh so consider the source, but this is one time that he hope he is dead on.
War Profiteering Case Study: KBR
For the time in a while there happens to be a good article in The New York Times this morning updating the KBR-Iraq contract abomination.
Chris Matthews Uses Tim Russert’s Death to Make Political Point About the War
Chris Matthews is absolutely detestable and proves this by taking the death of his colleague, Tim Russert, to trash the War in Iraq.
