Category: Iraqi War

My sister picked up some Iraqi Dinar.

Oliver Kamm, with a lengthy post on the war – I liked alot of the comments after, very interesting reading.

Another sad day in Iraq, I think this is the biggest single attack since hostilities began.

Naomi Klein with an interesting story on the company awarded the contract to restore local councils in Iraq, the Research Triangle Institute. Seems like they are making some big mistakes. Hm.

Bush has done an interview with NBC in America – the BBC has the story.

I was pretty shocked by Colin Powell’s presentation at the UN last February. I blogged about it, but I cant seem to find the link. But I did put a quote in from his biography, where he talks about how to work PR in politics. The IHT have this story on what Powell said last…

Robert Baer had some interesting things to say on Newsnight tonight. He was Deputy Chief of Operations with the CIA Group in Iraq. Paxman: What went wrong with the intelligence gathering? Robert Baer: Well from my perspective, I was an Operations Officer, worked my whole career in the field, for many years in Iraq. We…

Here’s a thought, it might have always been known that there were no WMD. It has been known since the early 90’s that Iraq is an intelligence black hole. It was not known whether or not there were WMD in Iraq, but on balance, what were the chances that there was? I’m troubled by a…

Something I meant to blog on recently, it is a long but interesting debate.

David Kay: “Turns out, we were all wrong”. I never really believed that there were WMD. On balance I ended up agreeing with the Iraqis when they said they didn’t have any – and they were right.