McClatchy still reports from Iraq, as they have since the start under the Knight-Ridder brand. Juan Cole uses them as a source for a lot of his reporting.

Like this item today: Muslim scholars issue fatwa prohibiting any long-term US/Iraqi pact (Sorry, S&A don’t have direct links to posts… It’s the 4th item down, currently). Or this (of what is becoming very typical): Virginia’s GOP Head Compares Obama to Bin Laden

It’s just so comforting to see that the Worlds (potentially) most dangerous Nation is being run by kindergarten dropouts. 🙂

I can’t wait for the State Department coming to grips with the reality that after withdrawal they will be dependent on the Iraqi government for security and the mercs will have to leave.

I notice nobody talks about the US casualty figures any more…

including me [and i’m feeling guilty about that]. i’ve suspended my protest blog and letter-writing campaign for now, and i noticed that the warcomeshome.org counter on my blog hasn’t been updated for a couple of months either.

Kryten, after a while you get tired of tracking down the truth through the maze of lies they have erected, like the Iranian IEDs that seemed to have parts from South Florida. They have been hiding the real number of deaths since the wars began, and Afghanistan now exceeds the toll from Iraq on a daily basis. The people need to know what wars cost so they’ll avoid them. The Hedgemony has been hiding the real costs in lives and money since this started.

I drove a different route today and saw a couple of political signs on a side street, but they were out numbered by “For Sale by Owner”.

The truth of course is that nobody (apart from the morons in charge) actually knows. There is never any concrete proof given. I wouldn’t be surprised if they just execute some schmuck they have stuck in one of their prisons around the World when they need a distraction, like an upcoming election say. 🙂 Or, maybe it’s someone that was ‘accidentally’ terminated during ‘interrogation’. *shrug*It always seems to happen when they need some *good news* Amazing… I guess being ‘Righteous, God fearing people’ has it’s benefits… LOL

I notice nobody talks about the US casualty figures any more… 😉 Or whenever the Pentagon (or any official) does, they never use a combined Iraq/Afghanistan figure. Usually one or the other… sounds a little better that way I guess.

Obviously, nobody with any brains believes anything these clown say. Their credibility hit zero long ago. I guess they didn’t get the memo. 😉

Or they could just be making it up to score points with headquarters, an old and too often honored tradition in the military to explain a lot of dead people.

Almost all of our local races are decided in the primary, Hipparchia, so people don’t get carried away in the general.

Frankly I think they show ratings preference for foreign fighters in Iraq, Kryten. There were probably a lot of Iraqi up-and-comers who were every bit as evil as this Moroccan Swede but they lack accent.

It’s like in the USA… “Evil people disagree with us, therefore, everyone who disagrees with us is evil”. 🙂 The *us* being of course the Bushmoron GOP’s. No other viewpoint is acceptable to the *narcissists-in-charge*.