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He declares victory and will bring the troops home by 2011.
Archive for the ‘The occupation of Iraq’ Category
December 14th, 2008
Category: The occupation of Iraq
The guy who threw the boots at Bush works for a network that supports the Sunni insurgency, so he doesn’t exactly speak for the Iraqi people. On the other hand, this suggests a hole in the security web around the President.
July 20th, 2008
Category: The occupation of Iraq, The wayward press
Who wrote that press release?
What are the supposed “mistranslations”?
And why aren’t reporters asking these questions?
July 19th, 2008
Category: The occupation of Iraq
No quite. But when the Iraqi PM says in print that Obama’s timetable is more realistic than McCain’s, that’s news.
July 12th, 2008
Category: Campaign 2008, The occupation of Iraq
When Obama is asked whether what he sees in Iraq changed his mind about what to do there, he should remind the questioners that an open-ended commitment in Iraq has costs here at home and around the world, and that a President is supposed to have a wider field of view than a theater commander.
June 11th, 2008
Category: Campaign 2008, The occupation of Iraq
McCain puts his foot in it again on Iraq. But even what he meant to say was wrong.
March 25th, 2008
Category: The occupation of Iraq
Fallujah is being ruled today as Fallujah was ruled under Saddam Hussein.
March 16th, 2008
Category: The occupation of Iraq
Jerry Bremer disbanded the Iraqi Army partly because he wanted to make a splash on arrival and show who was in charge.
February 10th, 2008
Category: Policy Analysis, The occupation of Iraq
The Army doesn’t like RAND’s study on postwar planning. Too bad.
