Archives for October 2005

Iraqi Government Totters US Goes it alone Against Mighty Sadah British Leave Basra Base The wrangling between President Jalal Talabani (a Kurd) and Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari (a religious Shiite) may after all threaten the stability of the government. Aljazeerah says, “Kurdish officials warned on Saturday they would consider pulling out of the government if […]

Those People in Washington are Such Cutups Is Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald planning to bring criminal conspiracy charges against Karl Rove and Lewis Libby (I don’t like calling him “Scooter”; I don’t think he is cute)? It seems pretty clear that they were guilty of criminal conspiracy, and of making Scott McClellan lie about it. […]

A Government of War Criminals A Press of Agents Provocateurs A Bureaucracy of Foreign Spies Just reading ordinary press reports on the state of government and the press in Washington is like stepping into Orwell’s 1984. The Attorney General authorizes torture, the president orders it with weasel words, and the press acquiesces, mostly not even […]

110 Shiites Dead in 2 Days Talabani Blasts Jaafari for Illegalities AP reports that guerrilla violence in Iraq has taken the lives of 110 Shiites in two days. Sounds like a sectarian civil war to me. Al-Zaman/ AFP/ DPA: Iraq’s president, Jalal Talabani, launched charges on Friday against Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari of having contravened […]