The Left have been celebrating the 10th anniversary with a litany of what went wrong. Me, I’m more positive and haven’t really changed my opinion since I posted on the subject nearly ten years ago A democracy in the middle of the shit-hole that is the Middle East would give birth to hope and all
US withdraws from Iraq
Six years ago, talking about Iraq, I wrote; a democracy in the middle of the shit-hole that is the Middle East would give birth to hope and all the Mullahs and Kings and Princes would be feeling uneasy Since the Arab Spring bloomed I’ve been waiting for someone to put it all together and give
Kovko’s last chapter
AFTER eight weeks of hearings, at a cost of more than $1 million, that have exposed the most painful and private secrets of Private Jake Kovco’s life, the inquest into his death yesterday vindicated the 2006 military inquiry verdict that he died while”skylarking”. The military inquest sorted out all the problems associated with Kovco’s repatriation
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Woman angered by silence on the Iraq War
From getup.org; As this election looks more and more a case of “Don’t mention the war“, two brave young Australian women, both victims of the war on terror, have united to put peace back on the political agenda. Whereas I have sympathy for both of them, they are fighting an uphill battle as news from
Majors now running Defence Policy
Well it’s all settled then. We have the Shadow minister for defence saying defence policy should be dictated by a Major. I guess smaller incursions than Iraq, say Fiji, could be stage managed by the Sergeant’s Mess on that basis. Peter Tinley has been reported in Saturday’s press as saying Iraq is a moral blunder
Change course, Bush urged from all sides
US President George W.Bush left Washington yesterday bound for the Asian economic summit in Vietnam with advice from left, right and centre ringing in his ears to change course, not only in Iraq but on foreign policy in general. Good Idea. Start with securing the borders of Iraq and then attacking the terrorists lines of
Scientists and magic numbers
Tim Lambert is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales and a standout example of why we don’t let academics with math majors run real life situations. He has invested a considerable amount of time defending the latest Lancet Democrat Party campaign advert that points to 650,000 deaths in Iraq. Using such
Air raid kills al-Qaeda’s Zarqawi
It would appear the butcher of Baghdad has been killed by the US. The Jordanian-born militant, who is believed to have personally beheaded several Western hostages including Ken Bigley, a Liverpool engineer, was the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq after swearing allegiance to Osama bin Laden in 2004. He had a $25 million bounty on
A letter from Iraq
From the Wall Street Journal, AKA The Opinion Journal Letter From Iraq Here’s an email we received from a U.S. military officer who asks us to withhold his name: I am currently stationed here in Iraq and have been here for the past 11 months; I am an adviser to the Iraqis and meet them
A picture speaks a thousand lies
Coonass in Texas has caught the London Times out in a blatant case of anti -anything US. I was shocked that there were photos of victims killed by marines,bound and blindfolded, these guys must be guilty I thought and there must be more photographic evidence. With a heavy heart I searched google images for ‘haditha’,
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