UK drafts Iraq pullout plan includes US numbers

Once again, the UK media has actually flexed its’ journalistic muscle and produced this leak to the Mail newspaper in London yesterday. One wonders what happened to the “skillz” of the US media in this area… but I digress. The Mail has the Full Memo Decisions on coalition, and within that, UK force levels will …

UK losing (or lost) it’s grip on Basra?

Over the course of the past 2 years most of the criticism of the Iraq war has been focused squarely at US forces and the US Administration. However, the 2nd largest member of the “Coalition” (and the only one remaining in any significant number) were the British. They took control of the Southern section of …

If you’re not too fed-up, check out the UN Webcasts

Even though I’ve been feeling even more cynical than usual, especially towards the UN… I still found myself at the UN website this afternoon. They actually have a lot of information about the 60th General Assembly. They also have live webcasts throughout the Assembly. They start a 9AM EST and go all day. You can …