Sep
23
I hear “betray us” whenever they say General Petraeus’ name too, but yeah, it was a bit cheap to play on the name. Making a stink about the childishness of of that would be fair, but the comments I’m hearing are really over the top. And with all of the concentration on the word play, [...]
Sep
11
What Crocker and Petraeus Didn’t Say - CommonDreams.org
The Iraq Study Group Implementation Act of 2007
Pentagon Slides Shows 50,000 US troops still in Iraq in 2011
Mission Accomplished? Nope
CNN Poll: September Iraq Report Irrelevant To Views of War
An overwhelming majority of Iraqis believe that security has deteriorated across the country, despite the US military surge, according to [...]
Mar
14
Where are we, America?
March 20th will be the four-year anniversary of the Iraq invasion and subsequent occupation. We’ve succeeded in making a bad situation worse for the people of Iraq. We’ve killed and been killed. We’ve drained our financial resources for the foreseeable future, and handed out contracts to such ilk as Halliburton. The oil [...]