Month: December 2008

Updated at 8:59 p.m. EST, Dec. 28, 2008Thousands of Iraqis demonstrated against an Israeli operation that has so far left almost 300 Palestinians dead. Although most of the protests were peaceful, a suicide bomber took advantage of one anti-Israel demonstration in Mosul to carry out his own deadly operation. Overall, at least 10 Iraqis were … Continue reading “Sunday: 2 GIs, 10 Iraqis Killed; 36 Iraqis Wounded”

Baghdad suffered a significant attack in the Shi’ite enclave of Khadamiya, but there were also notable attacks elsewhere. At least 31 Iraqis were killed and 76 more were wounded across the country. No Coalition deaths were reported. In Baghdad, 25 people were killed and as many as 54 were wounded during a car bombing that … Continue reading “Saturday: 31 Iraqis Killed, 76 Wounded”

It appears increasingly likely that the Obama-Biden-Hillary administration will also adopt a Bubba-Gore-Hillary article of faith, namely that the 21st Century would see the end of the nation-state. Acting on that belief, Bubba-Gore attempted to hand over to the United Nations, the presumptive world government, every semi-international problem, including women’s reproductive rights, For example, in … Continue reading “Back to ‘Globalism’”

KARACHI – Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), the Pakistani organization on which the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) imposed sanctions two weeks ago, on suspicion of being involved in terror activity, insists that it is a charity and that it will challenge the ban at the International Court of Justice. India requested that the Security Council proscribe JuD … Continue reading “Suspected Pakistan Terror Group Will Challenge UN Ban”

The plot, so unexpectedly, thickened in Iraq on a Sunday like no other. The two main actors – US President George W. Bush, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki – took to the stage to perform another well-rehearsed press conference. The scripts were ever so predictable: Bush to tout the "progress" achieved in Iraq, while … Continue reading “Unscripted: Green Zone Theater and the Shoe Drama”

Although media coverage has focused on US occupations and counterinsurgency/counterterrorist campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq – which had the perverse result of further inflaming Islamist radicalism – the Bush administration has been busy stirring that same hornet’s nest in other parts of the world, especially in Africa. Not only has the administration not been honest … Continue reading “Lame Duck Bush Administration Continues to Inflame Islamist Terrorism”

Author’s note: Just after this article was written, it became evident that Israel is likely to launch at least a limited attack on Gaza, which only heightens the sense of urgency for action that is advocated here. The baby is crying again. You wake up. Cold. There is no electricity in the house; it went … Continue reading “Gaza Voices, American Silence”

Updated at 5:45 p.m. EST, Dec. 26, 2008At least 26 Iraqis were killed and 18 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. No Coalition deaths were reported. Sixteen people were killed in Ramadi during a jailbreak at a local police station. Six policemen were wounded during the ensuing clashes. Over half the prisoners … Continue reading “Friday: 26 Iraqis Killed, 18 Wounded”

Ignoring the pleas of those calling for a more credible figure, Senate Democrats have instead chosen Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to lead the Senate Committee on Intelligence. Feinstein was among those who falsely claimed in 2002 – despite the lack of any apparent credible evidence – that Saddam Hussein had somehow reconstituted Iraq’s arsenal of chemical … Continue reading “Feinstein: Bad Choice for Intelligence”

On December 11, the Senate Armed Services Committee issued a compelling report into the torture and abuse of prisoners in US custody (PDF), based on a detailed analysis of how Chinese torture techniques, which are used in US military schools to train personnel to resist interrogation if captured, were reverse engineered and applied to prisoners … Continue reading “The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney”