More good news in Iraq, as the de-Ba’athification continues in earnest: American forces have captured Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, Saddam Hussein’s presidential secretary and No. 4 on the U.S. most-wanted list of Iraqi leaders, the U.S. military said Wednesday. U.S. forces captured Mahmud on Monday in Iraq, a statement from U.S. Central Command said. It …
War
The Worst Part of Iraq
This was the worst part of Iraq/Kuwait when I was there: In the back of a Bradley fighting vehicle, the still air soars to 130 degrees and sweat stains the soldiers’ desert camouflage uniforms as they patrol central Iraq, hunting for insurgents. When the ramp door drops, the soldiers scramble into the blinding sun and …
Bill Keller Gets IT
Bill Keller, in a few paragraphs, ends the ‘Bush lied” debate once and for all (if it were only that simple- there will be months of partisan bickering ahead of us): The threat was a dictator with a proven, insatiable desire for dreadful weapons that would eventually have made him, or perhaps one of his …
Good News/Bad News
The good first: Still, Iraq is in most respects further along the road to recovery than we could have expected before the war. All major public hospitals in Baghdad are again operating. Sixty percent of Iraq’s schools are open. Nationwide distribution of food supplies has resumed. Despite some damage to the oil wells, petroleum production …
Fallen Heroes
The Washington Post has a collection of pictures of all the photos of our soldiers lost in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Very depressing.
Good News In Iraq
Via Tacitus, we see there is some good news coming out of Iraq: In a city so sacred that its soil is used to make the stones on which Shiites bow their heads in prayer, the American occupation of Karbala — 1,110 U.S. troops in a city of 500,000 — has emerged as a rare …
WMD
Via the soon to be Harvard graduate, Matthew Yglesias, I see that the main WMD hunt in Iraq is over: The group directing all known U.S. search efforts for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is winding down operations without finding proof that President Saddam Hussein kept clandestine stocks of outlawed arms, according to participants. …