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Category: Iraqi War

  • 'Lowering Our Sights'

    Robert Kagan, a man I read as regularly as I can, with an article in the Washington Post.(Reg. required) He is associated with another magazine I subscribe to, Foreign Policy. Faced with that reality, conservatives and even neoconservatives can be heard muttering these days that if the Iraqis won’t take responsibility for their own country,…

  • William Pfaff: An exit strategy based on Iraqi nationalism

    I think Pfaff is being just a bit optimistic in this one, things could turn out far worse than he seems to envisage. Civil war in Iraq anyone?

  • More pictures emerge – British troops urinating on Iraqi prisoner

    More trouble for the coalition tonight as pictures emerge showing British troops beating a prisoner with rifle butts and then urinating on him. This does not look like the best PR for the coalition, after the 60 minutes program showing US troops involved in plainly sick behaviour. If I was an Iraqi I would be…

  • The PowerPoint Guide to Nation Building

    Matthew Yglesias with an interesting presentation from the CPA. Also note that the vast majority of Iraqi police are untrained. Not as in they went through the training program and it’s no good. They just didn’t get trained. At all. Hm.

  • Fallujah

    An anonymous person left the following comment in relation to Dick and Jon’s analysis of casualties in Fallujah. Such a lengthy comment has been rewarded with being posted – it adds to the debate at least. Say you’re on the street in fallujah and a man of about 60 comes out with an AK-47 and…

  • Casualties in Fallujah

    Dick and John both come up with different analyses of the reported number of casualites in Fallujah. Both are worth a look. I too have been reading some wildly different accounts of casualty numbers, thanks to them both for a good roundup.

  • The return of people's war: Martin Jacques

    I find it hard to disagree with Martin Jacques in today’s Guardian. I just recently bought a book talking about these issues – Jacques pretty much covers it. I will have to take a look at Schell’s new book. It is now clear to everyone – apart from Donald Rumsfeld and his cronies – that,…

  • Why nation-building fails in mid-course

    More on nation building, I am blogging it now and reading it later.

  • Former UN weapons inspector has harsh words for Bush

    Hans Blix is not happy with George Bush.

  • Blix: I was a target too

    Hans Blix is now saying he was bugged too. No surprises there then.