Month: September 2007

Updated at 5:40 p.m. EDT, Sept. 19, 2007At least 30 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 22 more Iraqis were wounded during numerous attacks throughout the country. Three GIs were reported killed in separate incidents.Today, an MND-B soldier was killed during combat west of Baghdad. In Salah ad Din province, a Task Force Lightning … Continue reading “Wednesday: 3 GIs, 30 Iraqis Killed; 22 Iraqis Wounded”

Nearly two weeks have passed since Israeli warplanes conducted a mysterious raid against an as yet unidentified target in northeast Syria. Details of the incident have been slow to come, as officials from both countries have remained tightlipped. In the absence of a clear picture of what happened in the early hours of Sept. 6, … Continue reading “Neocons Tie N. Korea to Israeli Strike on Syria”

Be careful what you wish for – that might be the catch phrase for American relations with Iran since the CIA helped overthrow the elected government of that country in 1953 and installed the young shah in power. Much of our present world – and many of our present problems in the Middle East and … Continue reading “The Iranian Conundrum”

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan contends that although it may not have been the Bush administration’s motive, “the Iraq war is largely about oil.” According to Greenspan, such an admission is simply “to acknowledge what everyone knows.” To say the Iraq war was about oil is not to say the United States invaded Iraq … Continue reading “Greenspan’s Unsure Grasp of Economics”

Justin is traveling and his column will return on Monday. Whatever you do, don’t ask John Kerry a question: you may live to regret it, as did a student at the University of Florida, who was blasted with a Taser gun by the campus “police” – while the Young Democrats sat there applauding. What strikes … Continue reading “The Mirage of ‘Victory’”

Naïve Americans who think they live in a free society should watch the videos filmed by students at a John Kerry speech Sept. 17, Constitution Day, at the University of Florida in Gainesville. At the conclusion of Kerry’s speech, Andrew Meyer, a 21-year-old journalism student, was selected by Sen. Kerry to ask a question. Meyer … Continue reading “Kerry Complicit in
Bush’s Crimes”

Remember 10 months ago, when the Democrats, following success in the midterm elections, briefly held out the promise that they had teeth, and Donald Rumsfeld, the former strongman who had become a laughingstock, resigned his post as defense secretary? There were, at that time, high hopes that his successor, former CIA director Robert Gates, would … Continue reading “Myopic Pentagon Keeps
Filling Gitmo”

Updated at 11:30 p.m. EDT, Sept. 18, 2007At least 69 Iraqis were killed and 83 more injured during numerous bombings and armed attacks throughout the country. The oil infrastructure was also targeted. Five GIs were reported killed and three were wounded in separate incidents. Three Task Force Lightning soldiers were killed and three more were … Continue reading “Tuesday: 5 GIs, 69 Iraqis Killed; 83 Iraqis Wounded”

The Iraqi government announced Monday that it had revoked the license of one of the most prominent private U.S. security firms operating in Iraq, a decision that is expected to cause friction with U.S. occupying forces, which have increasingly come to rely on private contractors to meet their logistical and security needs. The decision to … Continue reading “Blackwater Banned After Deadly Firefight”

In his prepared statement to the U.S. House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees last week, Gen. David Petraeus claimed that Iran is using the Quds Force to turn Shi’ite militias into a "Hezbollah-like force" to "fight a proxy war against the Iraqi state and coalition forces in Iraq." But Petraeus then shattered that carefully … Continue reading “Petraeus Helps Destroy Bush’s ‘Proxy War’ Claim”