Category: Iraqi War

  • Blogs from Iraq

    Just some random links to blogs from Americans in Iraq. Go take a look. I have pointed to Armor Geddon before, but go back, great first hand accounts from an M1A1 Abrams tank commander. I Should Have Stayed Home…is by two contractors working in Iraq. Cigars in the Sand is an advisor on border security,…

  • Vintage Wolfowitz

    Kevin Drum points to some statements Paul Wolfowitz made in the lead up to the war in Iraq. Among them: Mr. Wolfowitz…opened a two-front war of words on Capitol Hill, calling the recent estimate by Gen. Eric K. Shinseki of the Army that several hundred thousand troops would be needed in postwar Iraq, “wildly off…

  • Fighting the Wrong War

    Fred Kagan in the Weekly Standard on why Rumsfeld must go: With more troops in Iraq during and immediately after the war, we would have been able to do the following things that we did not do: * Capture or kill thousands of Iraqi soldiers who were at that time still concentrated in combat units…

  • Friedman on Iraq

    [via Insta} Tom Friedman answers my questions about Iraqis getting plain tired of terrorism. It needs to be clear that these so-called insurgents are not fighting to liberate Iraq from America, but rather to reassert the tyranny of a Sunni-Baathist minority over the majority there. The insurgents are clearly desperate that they not be cast…

  • Iraq 2004 Looks Like Vietnam 1966

    I found this article last week and thought it was worth a mention: But a comparative analysis of U.S. casualty statistics from Iraq tells a different story. After factoring in medical, doctrinal, and technological improvements, infantry duty in Iraq circa 2004 comes out just as intense as infantry duty in Vietnam circa 1966 – and…

  • Many die in Baghdad police ambush

    This marks a new tactic by the insurge… terrorist murderers. Insurgents lured Iraqi policemen to a house in west Baghdad and set off a huge amount of explosives, killing at least 29 people, seven of them police. It’s estimated that 1 tonne of explosives were wired to the building. It does seem like alot of…

  • Mosul attack

    The US military is now saying that the attack in Mosul was a suicide one. This post by a US military chaplain in Mosul details the aftermath. A warning to readers, it does contain some graphic descriptions of injuries. With this kind of first hand account, I am beginning to wonder what the world would…

  • Military hardware wearing faster than expected

    That question by the US soldier directed to Don Rumsfeld spawned a flurry of interest by US media in the state of the campagin. MSNBC take this look at the current state of US military hardware. The number of tanks requiring major repairs is up 600 percent. Before the war, some 300 Humvees a year…

  • A Wounded Military

    Foreign Policy(sub. only) have a web only piece on “The Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2004”, coming in at number 10: Around 800,000 U.S. military troops have served in either Iraq or Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001. On top of being overstretched, the general health of the military may be deteriorating. More than 9,300…

  • Bomb blast strikes Iraq holy city

    Looks like the election campaign in Iraq has started in earnest – and to start it all off : At least seven people have been killed and 30 injured in a bomb explosion in Iraq’s holy city of Karbala. The blast at the gate to a major Shia shrine, the Imam Hussein mausoleum, was the…