Iraq
Iraq Support At All-Time High
Voter confidence about the situation in Iraq has hit an all time high.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 51% of voters now expect the situation in Iraq to improve over the next six months. That’s up two percentage points from the preceding week.
Just 17% of voters now say the situation will get [...]
U.S. Forces Await Election Results
MOSUL, Iraq — U.S. soldiers in Mosul awaited the outcome of Tuesday’s presidential election that will decide the future of their mission in Iraq, but most of the dining hall TV screens were tuned to sports, not politics, as they ate breakfast.
Those who voted had already mailed in their absentee ballots long ago, and soldiers [...]
Photo Of The Day - 10/23/08
Ahmad al-Rubaye of AFP/Getty Images took this photo today during a ceremony celebrating the Iraqi government’s assumption of responsibility for security in Babil province, an area in the central part of the country that’s dominated by Shiites.
If you look closely, you’ll see that a member of the Iraqi armed forces is showing his mastery of [...]
Air Force Blows Up Own Plane
The U.S. Air Force has a novel solution for removing a C130 cargo plane from a hostile area in Iraq. Blow it up.
Nothing groundbreaking, I know, but it’s an interesting video to start off the week.
Soldiers In Iraq Celebrate The 4th
BAQOUBA, Iraq — It’s Staff Sgt. Edgar Covarrubias’ second Fourth of July in Iraq. No family barbecue, no fireworks, but Covarrubias says he’ll call his mom, wife and kids to share the day anyway.
Across Iraq, America’s Independence Day was a normal work day for most U.S. troops. But the military threw in a taste [...]
15 Of 18 Benchmarks Met In Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) - No matter who is elected president in November, his foreign policy team will have to deal with one of the most frustrating realities in Iraq: the slow pace with which the government in Baghdad operates.
Iraq’s political and military success is considered vital to U.S. interests, whether troops stay or go. And while [...]
Dems Shift Criticism From Iraq
As the situation continues to improve in Iraq, Democrats continue to aim away from the country that now seems to have a decent future on the horizon. The screaming headline above, from the Huffington Post, is a perfect example of where the argument is heading. Whereas just months ago the entire election was going to [...]
Iraq Soldier Discusses His ‘Kills’
‘Winter Soldier’ Jon Michael Turner Talks About Killing Iraqis:
What you don’t see in the propaganda piece above is Turner’s opening chant of ‘Eat the apple, F the corps, I don’t work for you no more.’ Classy. Watch the full speech here to get a better idea where this joker is coming from. He then throws [...]
‘Honour Killing’ Father Speaks Out
Iraqi Man Murders Daughter For Talking With British Soldier:
The Iraqi father who brutally murdered his teenage daughter in an “honour killing” for befriending a British soldier in Basra has said that he has no regrets, and that death “was the least she deserved”.
Abdel-Qader Ali boasted that he would have slaughtered his 17-year-old daughter Rand at [...]
War Protesters Shut Down Ports
Dockworkers Protest War In Iraq, Shutdown West Coast Ports:
Thousands of dockworkers at all 29 West Coast ports, including Los Angeles and Long Beach, took the day off work today in what their union called a protest of the war in Iraq, effectively shutting down operations at the busy complexes.
The action came two months before the [...]
