Category Anti-war

Do Iraqis have any say in this?

Two senators, one Republican, one Democrat, have proposed a plan to divide Iraq into three parts, no doubt still controlled by the United States. Except, the plan is a hallucination and can’t work. The US is not in control there…

Democrats capitulate again on Iraq

Democrats would make Iraq timetable in bill ‘advisory‘ The compromise language would keep the deadlines included in the original House bill but make them nonbinding, as the Senate version did, and would allow President Bush to waive troop-readiness standards. In…

Iraq casualties

Yesterday, the Bad Craziness post here on the Virginia Tech slaughter mentioned that 33 dead happens every day in Iraq. This sparked comments and calculations about the Iraq homicide rate, and how stratospheric it is. Turns out, it’s much higher…