Beheadings bad for retention rates

A group of five armed men shot the 12 soldiers in the head after stopping the vehicle carrying them on a road leading to Kirkuk. Some interesting facts on the New Iraqi security forces: *Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz told senators that Iraqi Army units...

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Moqtada al Sadr: fingers ink-free!

How predictable is this?Look, no purple! "I stood aside for the elections and did not stand against them as I did not want to show disobedience toward the Marjaiyah (senior clerics). "I did not join these elections so that I wouldn't be one of the West's pawns. "The...

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PurpleFinger Haze wearing thin

The warbloggers realize that their purple-finger romantic haze hasn't quite obscured the truth of their Iraqi Fantasy Elections, so they roll lame-o joker Arthur "Good News!!" Chrenkoff out to refute the argument of those who refuse to buy the democratic bait and...

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West 2005 Convention

A few members of the Antiwar.com staff attended the West 2005 Convention in San Diego, "the largest event on the West Coast for communications, electronics, intelligence, information systems, imaging, military weapon systems, aviation, shipbuilding, and more. " Here's...

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Now They’re After Putin (Part XII)

Now They're After Putin (Part XII) I was wondering how long it would take them to blame the death of Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania of Georgia -- felled by an accidental gas leak -- on the Russians. The answer -- a matter of hours -- is in today's New York Times: "The...

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Reason: War? What war?

You'd barely know there's a war on from Reason magazine's online commentary on the State of the Union speech: only Ron Paul devotes his remarks to foreign policy, and is, as usual, great on the subject. Bob Barr mentions the "war on terrorism" in the context of the...

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