Pen and Sword

Also at Kos . We've known for years that the Iraqi police we've been training can't be trusted. The force is infiltrated by mi...

What I've feared the most about our woebegone war in Iraq is coming to pass. We're learning nothing from the experience, and we...

From the Brave New World Dictionary: civil war: n. whatever the Bush administration says a civil war is. Or isn't. # When is a bribe n...

Former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card says we don't want to leave a safe haven in Iraq for al-Qaeda terrorists. He repeated tha...

Also at Kos . The "meeting of the mindless" has taken place in Jordan, and young Mister Bush has declared that Prime Minister Nur...

Also at Kos . Young Mister Bush has rejected the description of the situation in Iraq as a "civil war." Can you believe it? In a ...

NBC now says Iraq is in a civil war. I guess that makes it official. But don't think for a second that the poppycock rhetoric regardin...

Contrary to what you've probably heard your whole life, winners do quit, and they know when to do it. Losers don't know when to qui...

Worsterer: from the San Jose Mercury News : BAGHDAD, Iraq - Followers of the militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took over state-run tele...

It continues to go from worst to worster. The security situation in Iraq is so bad that young Mister Bush and Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki...