Category: Iraq

According to the State Department report, the Mujahedeen-e Khalq assisted Saddam in “suppressing opposition within Iraq, and performed internal security for the Iraqi regime.”

In Ungrateful Californians, the author the Iraqi Letter to America blog posits a hypothetical fairy tale in which it isn’t the medfly but Californians themselves, in their flowered shirts, who are targeted for “help.”

According to this Newsweek option, The Salvador Option, “we” are considering arming and training death squads to help quell the insurgency in Iraq and to improve our image in the Muslim world. Well, maybe not that latter part. Yes, I know this has been the talk of the left blogsophere for over a week. Many…

Grand Forks Herald | 12/06/2004 | COLUMNIST LLOYD OMDAHL : Honoring a Guardsman’s request (via Eschaton)

Quoting from J. Bradford DeLong (Most Valuable Outfielder): In the Agora wins the most valuable outfielder award with this catch: In the Agora: Ummm… Reverend Jerry Falwell, guest hosting on yesterday’s Crossfire, said that the Iraq war “goes pretty well if you watch it on FOX.” You can watch the video clip here. We report,…

The following consists of some tactical suggestions for engaging with the population in Iraq from an active duty soldier currently stationed in Iraq who prefers to remain anonymous: One thing I would do is start taking an honest accounting of collateral damage. Moral considerations aside, refusing to count civilian casualties is blinding us to a…