Six Weeks to Go!
BAGHDAD—With six weeks to go until the Aug. 15 deadline for turning in their Constitution homework, Shi'ites and Sunnis have finally agreed that there will be some Sunnis on the Constitutional...
View ArticleIran reporting trip
Oh, President Bush, you rascal. You do so like to repeat yourself. Now that Iran is, unsurprisingly, number one — with a bullet! — on the “Countries We Don’t Like” list, the question in the White House...
View ArticleRedlines
Shot… MATTHEWS: Where is the heart of the zealotry here? Do you have a name of a person who is really saying, we will do anything it takes to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon? HERSH: The one...
View ArticleMunich 2006
Go read Billmon, please. I wish I were this smart: And so the most promising opportunities for a rational settlement have all passed us by. Instead of a moderate reform president and a group of nervous...
View ArticleUpdate on Iranian trip
BEIRUT — Things are moving along, albeit slowly, for “my Iranian trip”:https://www.back-to-iraq.com/archives/2006/04/iran_reporting_trip.php. I’ve discovered that I can’t just get a tourist visa and...
View ArticleIran supplying Zarqawi?
Omar over at Iraq the Model translates an article from az-Zamman that claims Iranian Revolutionary Guards are supplying Abu Musab al-Zarqawi with advanced weaponry, with Lebanese Hizbollah as the...
View ArticleIran attack this Friday? Not Likely
There’s some buzz that the U.S. is readying an attack on Iran, possibly as soon as this Friday. Don’t believe it. I’m due to be on board the _USS Stennis_, believed to be one of the ships taking part...
View ArticleHeading to the Gulf
Hello all. I’ll be in the Northern Arabian Gulf for a few days starting tomorrow to check out the training of the Iraqi Navy, the two oil terminals there (which supply Iraq with 90%+ of its income) and...
View ArticleIranian Hegemony: What’s Not to Like?
This week’s kerfuffle over Iranian President Ahmadinjad’s speech to Columbia University and his request to go to Ground Zero indicates that we, as a country, have indeed bought tickets to absurdistan....
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