iraq

Latest body count from Voice_of_reluctant_dissent 1139 days old

2,710 US service personnel have now died in Iraq since the invasion, as of yesterday evening. Nearly 20,000 have been wounded. Attacks by insurgents ...

$438 billion spent and >40,000 dead from Voice_of_reluctant_dissent 1245 days old

Three figures of note today. The death toll of US service personnel in Iraq has now reached 2,500. Meanwhile civilian casualties are estimated at between ...

Today in Parliament: cashing in on death, life for dissenters and freedom for terrorists from Voice_of_reluctant_dissent 1269 days old

[ ... ] to Iraq. 3) Meanwhile, Ken Barrett, the terrorist who murdered solicitor Pat Finucane in Northern Ireland, has been released after serving less ...

Bush to declare war on France, Germany and Italy? from Voice_of_reluctant_dissent 1269 days old

[ ... ] in Iraq. In my book that counts as "supporting terrorists". That Germany cuts deals with Arab terror groups is no surprise at all. Germany, ...

Two more retired US Generals call for Rumsfeld to resign from Voice_of_reluctant_dissent 1308 days old

[ ... ] of Iraq". The White House, of course, continues to stand by Rumsfeld. And Gen Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, has said that people ...

Hell in a handbasket from Voice_of_reluctant_dissent 1325 days old

Blogs are a common forum for anonymous confession. So here’s mine: I supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Not because I thought they had WMDs (I’m ...