My Monday column calls the election "Sistani's Triumph," and suggests that the government that comes out of Sunday's poll will be closer to the Iranian model than the American system. Here's the conservative columnist Terry Jeffries, in a column published in May of...
Live-blogging Pat and Frum on “Hardball”
I'm live-blogging Pat Buchanan and David Frum squaring off on "Hardball" with Chris Matthew. There's Commissar Frum looking smarmy and green. Ewww... And there's Pat, looking his usual great self. Frum :This is part of a broader struggle. This shows the entire Middle...
Raed: Vote for Food
No warbots will be quoting Raed today. He is mad. By Raed's calculation, turnout was less than 50%, at best, counting expats. Vote For Food In other news.... Get ready for The Morning After:Mosul - The local electoral commission representative only began his work in...
RAF C130 shootdown?
The London Telegraph speculates:An RAF C130 Hercules transport aircraft, believed to have been carrying SAS troops, crashed 20 miles north-west of Baghdad yesterday. Rescue helicopters flew over the crash site searching for any sign of life. But with the wreckage said...
Ayatollah Power!
Here's a great post by swopa at needlenose to take you step by step on how we got to this day of triumph for Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who, by the way, did not vote because he is Iranian.
Hey, Liberventionists: Who’s Moving the Goalposts?
When you erect the goalposts just beyond the line of scrimmage and make them 500-bodies wide, it's hard not to kick the ball of ridiculously low expectations through. Yes, it's great that Iraq's elections turned out less bloody than even the warbots anticipated, but...
More on Hungary and Serbia
In responding to Sophie Johnson's letter yesterday, I said that Vojvodina was ceded to Yugoslavia by the Treaty of Trianon (1920). A fellow historian wrote me yesterday to say that while this is technically correct, Serbia's claim to this territory is even stronger: a...
36 dead? “Not a high price”
Hala Jaber in the Sunday Times:"For what its worth, the election did go much, much better than many expected, both from the point of view of turnout, and from the point of view of security. After all, the Ministry of the Interior's official figure of 36 killed, mostly...
Iraqi election watch
A British military plane has crashed north of Baghdad. No details yet. UPDATE: The UK's Press Association newswire quoted military sources in Iraq as saying the transport plane rarely travels north of Baghdad. The sources said the aircraft is primarily used to ferry...
Kevin Sites from Banda Aceh
Kevin Sites, writing from Banda Aceh, has a disturbing essay up on his blog: Black Plastic Ibnu Jarir has no tent -- so the 28-year old fisherman must make one. And in this crowded refugee camp in the shadow of a silver mosque on the outskirts of the city -- fifteen...
