Bush’s demand that Russia “reverse course” on Georgia and not try to overthrow an elected government is full of special pleading. Bush has no standing to ask anyone not to go around invading countries, of course. Russian PM Vladimir Putin has already thrown Iraq in Bush’s face, saying ‘”Of course, Saddam Hussein ought to have […]
Walbridge: Suskind on America’s Declining Moral Authority
John Walbridge writes in a guest op-ed for IC: Most of the discussion of Ron Suskind’s new book, “The Way of the World,” has focused on a single anecdote. Citing CIA sources, he claims that the White House ordered the production of a rather clumsy forgery of a letter from the head of the Iraqi […]
Mountain of Evidence Marshaled against Musharraf; US Refuses to Back Elected Civilian government
Dawn says that the parliament in Pakistan has prepared a mountain of documentation in its push to impeach President Pervez Musharraf. Senate leader Raza Rabbani said that if all the documents they have on Musharraf’s misconduct were dumped in the Ravi river (which runs through Lahore), it would cause it to flood. The opposition to […]
Wave of Attacks Kills over a Dozen; US Soldier Killed, 2 Wounded at Tarmiyah; Zebari insists on Withdrawal Timeline
A new wave of bombings and attacks in Iraq, especially one at Tarmiya targetting Awakening Council members that may have left nearly a dozen people dead and scores wounded (one US soldier was killed and 2 were wounded) Georgia is pulling its 2000 troops out of Iraq. They had been interdicting arms shipments from Iran […]
Outbreak of Armed Conflict in Kirkuk Feared
Outbreak of armed conflict in Kirkuk feared. Fighting between Russia, Georgia risks wider war. Iraq will try to ensure that its army is “self-sufficient” by summer of 2009, when the Iraqi government wants US troops out of its cities and stationed on bases. The CIA official who told Ron Suskind that the White House had […]
Ali-Karamali: Of Documentaries and Dehumanization
Sumbul Ali-Karamali writes in a guest op-ed for IC: A lazy way to dismiss conflicts as hopeless is to characterize (usually erroneously) the disputing parties as having been “at each other’s throats for centuries.” It happened in Bosnia when the Christian Serbs started expunging Bosnian Muslims from the area; it happened in Rwanda when the […]
Al-Iraqiyah: Arab-Kurdish Polemics over the Oil City of Kirkuk
BBC Monitoring carries a translation of a discussion of the Kirkuk crisis on al-Iraqiyah televisions between a Kurdish and an Arab member of parliament.: August 8, 2008 Friday Iraqi MPs discuss problem of Kirkuk on Al-Iraqiyah TV discussion programme LENGTH: 1704 words [“Al-Iraqiyah and the Event” political talk show moderated by Abd-al-Karim Hamadi, interviews Iraqi […]
2000 Georgian Troops Leaving; Huge Blast at Tal Afar Kills 21; Arab-Kurdish Tensions in Kirkuk; Mahdi Army to Disarm if US Leaves
A huge bomb blast in the northern Turkmen city of Tal Afar killed 21 and wounded 70 on Friday. Tal Afar has been taken over by Shiite Turkmen, after having been dominated in the Saddam period by Sunnis, so there are a lot of Sunnis who want revenge. It also has Turkmen-Kurdish tensions, which are […]
Kwame Trumps Georgian War
These are the top three stories at google.news at 3:00 pm on Friday, generated by reader interest. Wouldn’t, like, war in the Caucasus be more important than the other two? Or the attempt to impeach Musharraf? Or the news from Iraq? —- BBC News Opening ceremonies wow crowdDenver Post – 30 minutes agoBy John Henderson Fireworks […]
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