IRAQ THE MODEL: Mohamed at Iraq the Model is travelling through the countryside if Iraq, meeting the villagers that never get a chance to talk to the Western Media. Long post, but worth it. I wish the Iraqi Bloggers would receive more attention from the mainstream media. It is 180 degrees different from the doom [...]
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Hockey Update…almost forgot. I think I had mentioned that due to a schedule change, we ended up with back to back games last night. As I usually have a hard enough time with ONE game, I was certain that I would breathe my last with about 10 minutes left in game 2. I made appropriate [...]
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CNN.com – Car bomb?kills Iraqi Governing Council leader – 17-MAY-2004 Looks like the terrorist had a good weekend, knocking off the President of the Governing Council. I spent the weekend at my parent’s house and had some interesting conversation with my father. His position as of last week was Abu Ghraib was the end for [...]
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IRAQ THE MODEL: A very long post from Ali at Iraq the Model. Just when I was getting depressed, I read through this and found a little hope. “My young cousin is a religious Sunni who goes to the mosque and listens to the cleric there every Friday and believes whatever he says, as he’s [...]
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Newsday.com – AP World News: This is rather amusing… “Fallujah native Abdul-Qader Abdul-Rahman al-Ani, his left elbow wrapped in bandages, his right forearm bound in a cast, recounted how he was beaten by soldiers who picked him up last month. The soldiers tied him and two others arrested with him to a tree and sodomized [...]
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IRAQ THE MODEL Iraq The Model is a blog written by three brothers, born, raised and living in Baghdad. It’s part of my essential reading to get a glimpse of what the Arab population is talking about. Here is a lengthy post about a conversation one of the Bloggers had with a relative who worked [...]
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CNN.com – Al-Sadr rails against Bush, Iraqi prisoner abuse – 7: -MAY-2004 Why is this clown still alive? “The cleric also said: ‘What the Americans have done is worse than what Saddam did because the Americans claimed that they were coming here to bring democracy and freedom and Saddam never pretended that.’”
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Iraqis Say Council-Approved National Flag Won’t Fly (washingtonpost.com) Why does the Arab world persistently behave like a small, spoiled child? They live in delusion – such as ‘our culture is superior’, ‘our military will destroy you’, ‘we will crush Israel’ and so on. They throw rocks at the people trying to help them, riot over [...]
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George Will: If you start to free Iraq — free Iraq George Will stringing together profound thoughts. “Nevertheless, the first task of the occupation remains the first task of government — to establish a monopoly on violence.” “Now Americans must steel themselves for administering the violence necessary to disarm or defeat Iraq’s urban militias, which [...]
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My Way – News Good old Hans. “It’s positive that Saddam and his bloody regime is gone, but when one weighs the costs, it’s clearly the negative aspects that dominate,” Blix told daily Jyllands-Posten in an interview So the Iraqi’s are better off with Saddam. Funny how the European mind works. Better to be oppressed [...]
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CNN.com – Iraq to sign interim constitution Friday – Mar. 5, 2004: AFter the constant media tally of the dead in Iraq, this piece seems to be getting little attention. The Iraqis are about to sign their draft Constitution. The historic significance of this document is being ignored, but since it doesn’t damage Bush, I [...]
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OpinionJournal – The Western Front Finally! Some good news out of Iraq collected. “The death of an American soldier is front page news, while the death of his attacker is buried deep inside the paper, if reported at all. But there’s another reason why the response to attacks are rarely reported. The military judiciously applies [...]
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OpinionJournal – Featured Article It seems some politicians of both parties wants to change the Iraqi rebuilding expenditures into a loan. As the story points out, with a crushing $130 billion in loans owed to France, Germany and Russia (the three countries that opposed the war….blood for oil anyone?), piling on even more debt is [...]
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OpinionJournal – Featured Article I missed this one yesterday and Mike pointed it out. I’ve been running into a lot of reports from soldiers coming home, or independent journalists, or even democratic Congressmen echoing the Secretary. The situation in Iraq is going quite well, despite the wailing and moaning of the media. I’m really starting [...]
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The Failure to Find Iraqi Weapons Again, the left seems to be advocating the old concept that we must absorb the first punch. Why is it that the left is willing to sacrifice Americans to the fire just to make them feel better about engaging in the horrors of war? Are the lives of our [...]
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I was reading the speech that Bush gave today in front of the UN, when I came across the transcript of Kofi Annan’s comments. I excerpted this passage. It is quite interesting to hear him chastise the UN for thier handling of Iraq. While he gives us a swipe as well, overall, this is more [...]
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FOXNews.com – Top Stories – U.S. Forces Kill Eight Iraqi CopsAs we enter the third year of World War IV, more evidence that the fighting is not over. While this incident is a tragedy for the Iraqis, friendly fire happens all of the time in war, and we should not view this as a sign [...]
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OpinionJournal – Featured Article The first scientific poll of the Iraqi population. This is really a fascinating read. As the article suggests, we are subjected to a constant anecdotal barrage of how Iraq is turning into a — say it with me – ‘quagmire’ from whence we shall not escape. There are many positive aspects [...]
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Behold:Bush Seeks $87 Billion and U.N. Aid for War Effort This is a tremendously good example of bias in the major media. The NYT, in case you didn’t know, is the “Newspaper of Record.” It is supposedly the only paper worth reading. It is also incredibly Leftist, and frequently distorts the truth and publishes editorials [...]
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