Category: Iraqi War

After much thought I have decided to post a number of photos from the war. I am not attempting to glamourise or disrespect, I feel it is important to inform. If you are interested in seeing the effects war can have then click on the link. Warning – these pictures are extremely gruesome, if you do not…

Great to see this – it appears that the US forces fired on what they believed to be binoculars. I can appreciate the anger of the Spanish journalists. But I must also see Bernie’s point – it is a war.

Robert Fisk’s report from Baghdad and what appears to be the eve of that cities ‘liberation’.

George Monbiot argues that the United States is behaving like a hypocrite. He says of the US using tear gas inside Iraq: The deployment of chemicals in Baghdad could be the event which finally destroys the treaties designed to contain them, and this, in turn, would be another step towards the demolition of international law…

Martin Amis writes some thought-provoking stuff today. This is a truly brilliant piece. He is making some claims I have not read anywhere before, here is his claim: We accept that there are legitimate casus belli: acts or situations “provoking or justifying war”. The present debate feels off-centre, and faintly unreal, because the US and the…

This week William Safire does an imaginery interview with Mullah Mustafa Barzani, as if he were still alive today. The poor Kurds – ignored by the international community and the largest nation without a state in the world.

This story from the Guardian makes for an interesting read. From my years of experience on flight simulators I can tell what most armoured vehicles, jets, helicopters look like. I can name almost all the tank/APCs/fighters/missiles just by looking, and I have never been a pilot. LOL. But this A10 pilot apparently could not tell what a…

John Simpson, a journalist I greatly admire, on why he was wrong.

CNN is reporting that three US journalists are apparently missing in Iraq. They may have been told to leave the country – but their current whereabouts have not yet been established. Matt McAllester, Moises Saman, and Molly Bingham have not been heard from for 2 days. McAllester and Saman were among a small group of…

Andrew Buncombe writes some interesting stuff in the Independent today. He notes how quickly teams were sent in to qwell the oil fires from sabotaged Iraqi wells. Importantly of the firefighter he notes: Furthermore, Washington had clearly been planning for this months ago. Mr Flak, dressed in red overalls and a white hard-hat, said his…