Tag: "Iraq"
More Political Progress in Iraq.
There’s been no political progre…what?? BAGHDAD (AP) – The United Arab Emirates said Thursday it would name an ambassador to Baghdad in the coming days, making it the first Arab country to restore a full diplomatic mission to Iraq since Saddam Hussein’s ouster. The UAE, by the way, is where you find Dubai, recently pilloried [...]
“Oh crap, maybe I shouldn’t have said we stretched the facts. Oh crap, maybe I shouldn’t have said they ate up our sweet, sweet lies. Oh crap….”
Who is Paul Kanjorski? 1) A character from one of Frank Herbert’s Dune books. 2) The inventor of the modern helicopter. 3) A member of the House of Representatives who, on Christmas Day, will find himself a couple hundred Christmas cards short because his fellow Democrats crossed him off their lists. If you said 3), [...]
The White House Strikes Back
It only took five and a half years, but finally the President is seriously kicking back against the MSM’s craptastic reporting. Today, Ed Gillespie sallied forth on behalf of the White House and scolded NBC for editing an interview with the President in a particularly nasty and dishonest way. While he was there, he also [...]
Meet the “Most Powerful Man in Iraq”. He Isn’t Iraqi.
I”m at a bit of a loss to describe this article from the McClatchy News Service. On one hand, I’m given to discounting much of what comes from McClatchy as biased and distorted, because it generally is. On the other hand, it is one of the most solid articles on Iraq I’ve read by anyone [...]
Sadr: Did I Say “Open War”? I Meant “Kill the Americans!”. You Iraqis are Okay By Me.
When we last saw Moqtada al-Sadr, he was blustering from his super-secret undisclosed location about how he was going to bring “open war” to Iraq. That was a couple days ago. Today? Not so much. It looks like someone pointed out that it probably wasn’t a very good idea to talk smack to the Prime [...]
Sadr’s a Hundred Miles Away, Son. Ready to Strike!
You know, I’m not surprised that the average American gives conflicting signals about what they think about Iraq. I’d be pretty confused if all I had to read were the occasional MSM stories. Let’s take as an example some recent reporting on Moqtada al-Sadr. Yesterday, the AP published this story, which said that Moqtada al-Sadr [...]
That’s What You Said