1月20日发生的伊拉克卡巴拉地下抵抗武装乔装美军在伊拉克伪军指挥部袭击美军事件更让人佩服其指挥官的胆略了,这一次战斗也堪称是游击作战的经典之作,并不输我国汉代班超36骑定西域的千古壮举,必将永载史册。下面是CNN原汁原味的报道,供国内喜欢英语阅读的同学欣赏。 KARBALA, Iraq (CNN) — Attackers who killed five...
Vietnam War 1963-1970 (10 years)= ~56,000 killed Iraq “Desert Storm”: (6 months) – 146 killed Iraq 2: 2003 – 2007 (less than 4 years) 3,051 So, normalized for time elapsed during a given war, soldiers killed during these wars have dropped by two orders of magnitude since WWII...
What are the benefits of dressing as a large woman and also wearing a thong? 32: Even the FBI, who put Big Momma into the field years ago, doesn’t even know Big Momma is not real. No wonder we have intelligence failures. Send Big Momma to fix Iraq. That’s a sequel I’d be i...
So the pacifist view is dim and dishonest. They want Bush to lose, they don’t care who they have to exploit or manipulate or who else will suffer to make it happen. They don’t recognize that Iraq is just one battlefield in the never-ending Jihad. They deny the Jihad is even real...
Iraq: Elections, Constitution, and Government (Updated January 26, 2007)IraqGovernment(Foreign)ElectionsMilitary operationsTransitionsMilitary occupational specialtiesElections in 2005 for a transition government (January 30, 2005), a permanent constitution (October 15), and a permanent (four year) ...
Anas Altikriti standing next to Iraqi Parliament Speaker Usama al-Nujaifi shaking hands with President Obama –Anas Altikriti, a top British lobbyist for the Muslim Brotherhood whose father heads Iraq’s Muslim Brotherhood party,metwith the president and Vice President Joe Biden as part of a del...
invasion of Iraq, most Americans understand that it was an illegal war based on lies about non-existent “weapons of mass destruction.” But our government is now threatening to drag us into a war on Iran with a nearly identical “big lie” about a non-existent nuclear weapons program, ...
Since the US invasion of Iraq, the United States has lost much of its credibility in the eyes of the Arab world as being an honest broker between Israel and the Islamic-Arab world. The war on terror is widely seen in the Arab world as a Christian-Jewish war against Islam. Even some...
Today is going to be a busy day. But let’s start with some health care talk in the morning. I just got off a call with Harry Reid, where much of the talk focused, with good reason, on the mess in Iraq and the President’s posturing on Iran. However, I’ll leave that to the...
It is a poor-poor defence when Americans say, “It was their (incumbent Iraqis’) decision to hang him. We had nothing to do with it.” Yeah sure buddy, we believe you as much now as when you told the world that Iraq was sitting on a tranche-load of Weapons of Mass Destructions!