Month: June 2006

Basra: The Stable and Safe Region of Iraq?

Not according to this report in today’s New York Times: BASRA, Iraq — Politics, once seen as a solution to the problems of a society broken by years of brutal single-party rule, has paralyzed the heart of Iraq’s...

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Reality Intrudes

Shit happens. Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has told White House aide Karl Rove that he does not expect to seek charges against him in connnection with the CIA leak case, Rove’s lawyer said today. In a statement this...

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