Month: August 2007

Ayad Allawi Wants to Rule Again

Shorter Ayad Allawi: I’d like to be the leader of Iraq again, please. Allawi was the interim Prime Minister of Iraq from June 2004 until April 2005. Prior to that, he was member of Iraq’s Presidential Committee. He...

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Politico Open Thread

Peter Brown of the Politico seems super-excited by the Draft Thompson effort, mainly it seems because it gives him a chance to gush about Eisenhower. And we know how much everybody liked Ike. Brown also doesn’t seem to...

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Ayad Allawi Wants to Rule Again

Shorter Ayad Allawi: I’d like to be the leader of Iraq again, please. Allawi was the interim Prime Minister of Iraq from June 2004 until April 2005. He is one of the more disreputable people among the Iraqi exile...

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Privatizing the War on Terror

Just a snippet from a story posted by Al Jazeera about a suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan: At least 15 people in a convoy guarded by a private US security firm have been killed by a car bomb in southern Afghanistan. As many...

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