January 13, 2009
I’ve been thinking about Raed Jarrar’s successful court case. Jarrar is a Palestinian-Iraqi who left Baghdad a few years ago and moved to the United States. He is known in the blogosphere for his provocative postings, which have been highly critical of the U.S. presence in Iraq.Now, Jarrar has w...
go to article »December 9, 2008
Some writers try to come off as concerned about Iraq's civilians. They even say that it's wrong to use them as political pawns. But actually that's all Iraqis are to the mainstream media. The journalists hate George Bush so much that they put the Iraqi population in the same recycle bin with Bush.On...
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If we are to believe the Washington Post, Iraqi women were doing just fine under Saddam Hussein's Baathist rule. In a story today, a reporter writes about a woman, "[Muna] Saud remembered when Iraqi women didn't need wasta -- connections -- to find a job. In the late 1970s, thousands of Iraqi women,...
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William Ayers has a piece in the NYT today in which he responds to accusations during the election campaign. He says he is nothing like the image presented by the media and the bloggers and "the character invented to serve this drama wasn’t me, not even close."IraqPundit was one of the blogs that ...
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Today's question is what Muslim city can turn itself into an appropriate backdrop for theater of Barack Obama? When John Kennedy spoke in Berlin, his speech became an historic soundbite. It appears BHO is looking for a similar clip for his own story.The NYT's Helene Cooper writes that Obama has a sp...
go to article »December 4, 2008
It all makes sense now. A friend sent me this link, which explains that many in the Middle East believe that Barack Obama is Shiite. You want proof?The Time magazine story says: "A Pew opinion poll a month ahead of the Nov. 4 election showed that 12% of Americans still thought Obama was a Muslim. Th...
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So! These days, Moktada Al Sadr’s not quite as mighty as the mainstream media once thought he was. Back in the day, Mookie was Iraq’s “kingmaker,” a veritable “power broker.” Some of DC’s talking heads predicted that by now, he’d have the country in his pocket. Of course, some actual...
go to article »November 26, 2008
WaPo says that with the U.S.-Iraq security agreement, Bush gives Obama “flexibility in fulfilling his campaign promise to bring the troops home.”Okay, fine: The deal, approved last week by Iraq's cabinet, was a “win” for Obama. But as always, WaPo missed the real story. In the penultimate g...
go to article »November 17, 2008
The Iraqi cabinet voted overwhelmingly Sunday to approve the security agreement that sets the conditions for the Americans' continued presence in Iraq from Jan. 1 until the end of 2011. Next the measure goes to parliament, where it is expected to be approved as well.Iraqis are telling each other the...
go to article »November 16, 2008
Iran just test fired a missile near Iraq's border. Obama's reaction? His "incoming administration plans to explore a more regional strategy to the war in Afghanistan -- including possible talks with Iran -- and looks favorably on the nascent dialogue between the Afghan government and "reconcilable" ...
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