Posts tagged with 'Iraq'

  • WMD's Went to Jordan? Huck's Hand at Foreign Policy

    POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, JANUARY 25 2008 08:15 AM | PERMALINK

    Mike Huckabee thinks that Saddam's missing WMDs probably went to Jordan, even though Jordan, whose largely pro-western policy is a breath of fresh air in that neighborhood and whose cooperation in the last middle east peace process shouldn't be forgotten.  But with Huck's evangelical, zionist philosophy, the Washington Declaration must not be enough:

    Talk about foreign policy issues.  But he's even confused about the general sentiment of the public.  

     

    We all knew they...

  • A Soldier Left Behind: A Disturbing Death and Failure of Justice

    POSTED BY KRISTIN LINDER, JANUARY 04 2008 12:22 PM | PERMALINK



    The Washington Post today featured the horrifying story of Pfc. Hannah Gunterman McKinney, a 20 year-old mother stationed in Taji. McKinney is now dead, as the result of Sergeant Damon D. Shell.

    One night Shell decided to drive a Humvee around to the towers where some of the women soldiers were stationed on duty. After offering drinks to the ladies in the first two towers, and being turned down, Shell headed over to the tower with McKinney. Married and with one child, McKinney was underage but...

  • Stone wants detainees released for fear of creating extremists

    POSTED BY KRISTIN LINDER, DECEMBER 20 2007 04:51 PM | PERMALINK

    Is it time to release thousands of people in Iraqi detention centers? That is the question the commander of the American detention facilities in Iraq is wondering. General Stone does not want their release because they are miraculously 'healed' or proven innocent from whatever it is they were detained for, but instead because Stone fears their detainment is breeding a micro-insurgency.

    There are nearly 30,000 detainees between the two main detention centers at Camp Bucca and Camp Cropper in Iraq....

  • Rice Rejected! Turkey attacks Iraq as she arrives to make peace

    POSTED BY KRISTIN LINDER, DECEMBER 19 2007 09:39 AM | PERMALINK

    As Veracifier reported: Condoleezza Rice went to Iraq yesterday on a diplomatic visit to calm the Iraqis outrage over the 'US approved' Turkish attacks Sunday. Well, Kurdish President Massoud Barzani refused to see Condi because 500 Turkish soldiers were occupying villages in Northern Iraq as she arrived.

    Juan Cole offers another great analysis, concluding:

    So in my view Turkey is trying to drive a wedge between the US and Barzani, and Turkish chief of staff Yasar Buyukanit deliberately embarrassed...

  • US provided Turkey with intelligence to attack the PKK

    POSTED BY KRISTIN LINDER, DECEMBER 18 2007 08:26 PM | PERMALINK

    Condoleeza Rice was in Iraq today on an unannounced diplomatic visit. The obvious assumption was the need for a mediator between Turkey and Iraq over the recent Turkish attacks on the PKK. However, it has been confirmed her visit probably contained more apologies than mediation:

    The United States is providing Turkey with real-time intelligence that has helped the Turkish military target a series of attacks this month against Kurdish separatists holed up in northern Iraq, including a large airstrike on...

  • Henry Hyde, Leader of Clinton Impeachment, Dies at 83

    POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, NOVEMBER 29 2007 05:10 PM | PERMALINK

     

    The man behind the Clinton impeachment and 16 years of blocking federal funding for abortions died this morning at 83.  Hyde, a Chicago Republican on the Hill since '75, suffered cardiac arrest after being admitted to the hospital for renal heart failure on November 25.  W honored him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom earlier this month, calling him a "defender of life in all its forms."  According to the Family Research Council, his cheerleader if there ever were one, remembers him as...

  • TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: The Sweet Smell of Success?

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, NOVEMBER 26 2007 10:47 AM | PERMALINK

    Sunday Show Roundup: The Sweet Smell of Success?

    Onward and upward in Iraq? So says John McCain. And Lindsey Graham says the "surge" is probably the most successful counterinsurgency program in the history of the world. But what about political reconciliation? And when do we leave exactly? Catch up on the latest spin in today's Sunday Show Roundup episode of TPMtv.

    Today's Must Read: What Happened to the Benchmarks?

  • He Also Did A Little Writing

    POSTED BY THOM FILE, NOVEMBER 15 2007 02:33 PM | PERMALINK



    When Norman Mailer passed away last weekend, it made sense that the ensuing conversation would be about almost everything but his writing. An editorial published in the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday – however complimentary – praised Mailer for not only owning his masculinity, but for constantly wearing it in the form of a very public persona. Meanwhile, a day earlier, The Guardian took the author to task for exactly these same reasons.

    In between such markers rests a host of...

  • TPMtv: Watch the Cookie Crumble

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, NOVEMBER 15 2007 01:07 PM | PERMALINK

    Watch the Cookie Crumble

    As in the courtroom, there aren't many real Perry Mason moments in congressional investigations. But Henry Waxman had one yesterday when he was trying to get to the bottom of why the State Department's chief private contractor watchdog (the Inspector General) was running interference for Blackwater and Dyncorp rather than the taxpayers. We bring you the key moments in today's episode of TPMtv.

  • More Wash from the White House

    POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, NOVEMBER 15 2007 07:52 AM | PERMALINK

    Dana Perino on Iraq, Musharraf, opposition parties, blackwater, and the freedom of the press.  Conclusion: Our rules are morals!  Only they don't apply to us.

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