Archive for the 'Iraq' Category

Democracy in Iraq


Posted by Bruno on February 1st, 2009

How do we know things are getting better in Iraq? Because our Iraqi brothers and sisters are reaching US-levels of nonchalance about voting! But while election monitors hailed a smooth vote, Iraqi officials reported that turnout was 51 percent – lower than expected, particularly in Baghdad, where only 40 percent of registered voters went to [...]

Reconstruction Funds


Posted by Bruno on July 30th, 2008

The Iraqis have a lot of money. $120B to spend rebuilding their country, due to the record price of oil. Still, they’re pumping less oil than they were in the Saddam era. It looks like the neocon plan of having Iraq finance its own reconstruction are finally coming true. Were they counting on $140/barrel oil [...]

Friedman and Oil Prices


Posted by Bruno on June 22nd, 2008

Man, Tom Friedman sure is annoying today, getting all sanctimonious about how Bush needs to either get with the alternative-energy program or else STFU. But why is Friedman so angry? Bush already had a strategy to lower oil prices: invade Iraq. And he did so with the blessings of… Tom Friedman. Back in ’02, Friedman [...]

Six Months


Posted by Bruno on April 10th, 2008

This is not the kind of blog where I typically go posting MoveOn.org videos, but this one is just too well done not to link to: When folks like me say it’s time to pull up stakes and leave Iraq, this is why. “Victory” has been just around the corner for the last 5 years, [...]

Understatement of the Day


Posted by Bruno on March 22nd, 2008

Matt Yglesias, on the fact of American Army and Marine Corps officers trying to rebuild Iraq: Suppose we replaced the mayor of your town with a twentysomething foreigner who didn’t speak English but did have a ton of firepower at his disposal and no real checks on his power. You’d probably feel that was a [...]

5 Years On


Posted by Bruno on March 20th, 2008

I meant to post something about the 5-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, but I got distracted by work. Anyway, I was going to post that ridiculous video of Bush searching under his desk for WMDs from the 2004 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but I could only find the really disturbing remixed [...]

Pause


Posted by Bruno on March 6th, 2008

First, we had the “surge.” Now we have “the pause“: That pause in drawdowns would begin in July, after five combat brigades ordered to Iraq last year are fully withdrawn. At that point, about 140,000 American troops are projected to be in Iraq, down from a high of more than 160,000 late last year, but [...]

All Aboard


Posted by Bruno on February 23rd, 2008

Iraqis fall in love with the Lionel-Industrial Complex: The service between Baghdad and Basra resumed with little fanfare in December after a hiatus of 18 months. Few dared use it at first, but word has spread of a safe and cheap journey, and railway officials are scrambling for funds for more carriages. “There’s been a [...]

Getting Wiggly With It . . .


Posted by Contrarian on February 20th, 2008

Obama has said in his policy statements that he’s going to bring troops home from Iraq without permanent bases there, but unless I’m wrong, there seems to be a great deal of wiggle room in his position: Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades [...]

Fred Kaplan on BHTV


Posted by Bruno on February 19th, 2008

If you’re a Fred Kaplan fan (and who isn’t, really?) his diavlog with Bob Wright this week is pretty fantastic. I liked this section in particular where he really lays out the machinations behind the Bush Administration’s foreign policy. Rumsfeld and Cheney weren’t neocons, he notes, but they used those ideas when it was convenient [...]


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