Are American troops “white-ing out” Kurdish flags? Are the formely allied/friendly Kurdish forces now turning against the US? Just saw this on Kurdos’ blog (in the Iraqi blogs section) Apparently there has been some seriuos tension brewing between American and Kurdish forces in and around Kirkuk. If the Kurdish factions decide to revolt, as have …
Tag Archives: Iraq
Suicide Bomber responsible at Mosul
On the surface one might think that this is better than a direct rocket attack… but dig deeper and you realise that this was the worst possible cause of this tragedy. When I first heard the reports from the Pentagon (at all the usual places) that the attack on the base at Mosul was carried …
Cost of War
(JavaScript Error) inc_totals_at_rate(100); need we say more? ya ok. Yes, this is a superficial way of determining whether the Iraq war should have happened. But, in our society were money rules everything, it is quite possibility the most valid and quite certainly the one people can identify with most easily. $US151 billion is more money …