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I’m having a hard time understanding this:
In two separate segments yesterday, Fox News attacked CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric for reporting from the ground in Iraq, calling it “a desperate move” and asking if it was a “ratings ploy or legitimate journalism.”
On Your World With Neil Cavuto, guest host Dagen McDowell featured Janice [...]

I’m sad to see IraqSlogger going subscription-only. I found it to be a pretty great aggregator of Iraq news. It’s clearly a high-end site for contractors, diplomats and the like, so I guess it’s no surprise that it’s shutting the free door. Clearly I won’t be spending $60/month on a subscription.
So, before [...]

Never let ‘em see you sweat:
US soldiers are working around the clock in twelve-hour shifts to rebuild the strategically important bridge in Taji that was hit by a suicide bomber in an oil tanker truck on Tuesday. Officials expect that at the current rate, the bridge could be back in operational condition in a [...]

An article on Basra in IraqSlogger includes this image, which, on this particular Saturday morning, I find very disturbing.
It’s a picture of an “insurgent,” or maybe a militia member. He’s dressed in grey slacks, loafers and a buttoned-down white shirt. All the trappings of a middle-class Iraqi. And then on top of [...]

Even though the Iraq War is over, there’s an interesting op-ed in today’s Times* that will surprise you and which should do absolutely nothing to stanch Bruno’s still-surging Petrae-crush (and the Professor’s, for that matter).
*Kenneth Pollack’s a funny case, too, having had written one of the most coherent, persuasive arguments in favor of invading Iraq, [...]

According to this NYT piece post-”surge” withdrawl plan is coming into focus in the White House, replete with off-putting metaphors:
Administration officials say that if Mr. Bush talked now about pulling back forces at the end of this year or next spring, he would only provide new ammunition for those Democrats and a growing number of [...]

Remember that story we all read a while back about how the Sunni tribal chiefs were so sick of al Qaeda they were siding with the U.S. to fight terrorists? Remember how awesome that sounded at the time?
Well, it looks like al Qaeda got the memo, too:
More than 40 people died today in a [...]

First, there were the Adventures of the Seawolf, the attack submarine that gallantly defended Grand Central Station and Downtown Terre Haute from terrorists.
Now, scared shitless that Congress is going to come to its senses and realize that the Air Force budget need to go on a huge diet, the bureaucrats at the USAF have ginned [...]

Bing and Owen West’s Slate piece on refocusing our role in Iraq is interesting enough: they want to go back to being “advisors” for the Iraqi army, which I think is something we tried in the great surge of 2004, or maybe the great forward together plan of 2005. Or was that “Forward Together [...]

Remember that September deadline that Gen. Petraeus imposed for himself and his surge?
Not so much, it turns out. That’s too bad, I was hoping we could have this whole “Iraq War” thing wrapped up by Christmas.