David Frum helped to write George W Bush’s iconic “Axis of Evil” speech a decade ago. That speech was heavily criticised at the time, but Bush’s claims have all been proved true, says Frum.
Iraq War
Only faint hope for a deal with Iran on nukes
For a couple of months things have been looking pretty bleak on the Iranian front.
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Faces of post-war Iraq
Citizens of Iraq have had good reason to flee their homes in recent years, but many chose to stay and build their lives there despite war and decaying infrastructure. Andrea Bruce offers a beautiful gallery of Iraqi pride.
The number crunching that is Iraq is finally done
The whole process had been an imaginary projection of US power in any case — removing the Iraqi people from the picture meant that all attention could be focused on American suffering and the meaning of the war in American life.
End of the mail sends the message: the Iraq War is over
Ex-Iraq War solider Brandon Friedman explains how the end of the mail run to soldiers is more of an official end to the war than any announcement a president can make. A war “survives on word from home,” says Friedman.
Secret CIA operations in Iraq
US president Barack Obama announced that the US military will leave Iraq by December 31 this year. But the CIA has a number of covert programs and counter-terrorism operations in Iraq that will continue, writes Eli Lake.
Manne vs. The Australian: more needs to be said about The Oz’s coverage of Iraq’s WMD
One of the more salient – yet overlooked – aspects of Robert Manne’s Quarterly Essay Bad News is its assessment of The Oz’s coverage of the Iraq War and its aftermath, writes NAJ Taylor.
Could Iraq have been another Libya?
Fighting continues in Libya, but only around the handful of remaining Gaddafi strongholds, in one of which the colonel himself may still be entrenched.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Libya endgame … why it’s important for one big win
Whatever is to come, the revolution was a popular one, an expression of the general will, and offers forth untold possibilities.
A soldier’s toughest mission: coming home
After months away at war in Iraq or Afghanistan, many US soldiers struggle with the transition back to home life. The NY Times interviews soldiers struggling with survivor guilt, injury and children they barely know.
US deficit is unsustainable … watch out for the ramifications
Like a drug addict who has cleaned out his pockets, it’s time to start stealing from the neighbours.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: helping to form the resistance is the Right’s legacy in Egypt
It’s clear that no event will convince the Right that they need to look clearly at the world, without projecting their fantasies onto it.
Rising Afghanistan death toll
The death toll for foreign troops in Afghanistan hit 700 for the year this weekend making 2010 the deadliest year of the nearly decade-long war. At least in Iraq foreign troop deaths are declining, explains Richard Farmer.
Michael Moore: Why I’m posting bail money for Assange
Film maker Michael Moore put up $20,000 of his own money for Julian Assange’s bail money overnight in London. Why? Because the Iraq War might never have happened if WikiLeaks was around back in 2002, says Moore.
The Afghanistan War needs less tanks
The US military’s tank-like MRAP (mine-resistant ambush-protected) vehicles work wonderfully in the streets of Iraq. But in the hills and desert of Afghanistan, the tanks just help the insurgents gain more ground writes Major Michael Waltz from the US Special Forces.
How journalism is failing us in the Iraq War
There’s a reason “embedded” became a dirty word in journalism: most of the news coming out from Iraq and Afghanistan is highly filtered, not representative of what is going on and completely overplays the US Military’s importance and success, declares Patrick Cockburn.
Howard’s ‘Iraq in six pars’ letter: Saddam was a very bad leader
In official correspondence to a Canberra primary school student named Christopher, sent on April 15 2003, John Howard lays out the case for the Iraq war in six succinct paragraphs
Iraq War Logs: the Australian contingent
Crikey has started sifting through the nearly 400,000 US military records that make up Wikileaks’ Iraq War Logs and has identified over 60 reports as most likely referring to Australian troops, writes freelance writer Luke Miller.
Iraq War Logs: one day in Iraq — 128 dead
Over the weekend Wikileaks released the Iraq War Logs — a database of nearly 400,000 military logs recorded over six years of the Iraq war and covering the years 2004 to 2009. This is one of those stories.
must read The Iraq War Logs
The claims from thousands of classified US military documents from the Iraq War, released to the public by WikiLeaks, are startling: 15,000 new civilians deaths have been uncovered, torture of detainees in Iraqi prisons and Down’s Syndrome patients used as suicide bombers. The UK’s Bureau of Investigative Journalism spent three months combing through them.
revealed Pentagon freaking over WikiLeaks’ Iraq document dump
With a whopping 500,000 classified documents on the Iraq War expected to leak on the WikiLeaks site this month, the Pentagon have put together a 120-person team to prepare for the expected scandal. The documents are expected to contain details on civilian causalities in Iraq.
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Traumatic brain injuries: the invisible wounds of Iraq and Afghanistan
Ex-American soldiers who cannot remember, cannot understand speech and have large chunks cut out of their brains bear the signature wounds of Iraq and Afghanistan: traumatic brain injury. One study estimates the number of those affected could be as high as 320,000, writes Christian Davenport.
Howard attacks multi-culturalism, apologises for nothing
Former prime minister John Howard has dumped on “multi-cultural” continental Europe, “irrelevant” UN veto nations and the Islamic world while lauding the moral superiority of the English speakers in a speech in Washington. Harley Dennett reports from Washington.
