I've had some back and forth with the blog Bunker Mulligan about the Bush Doctrine, that is, the more Unilaterist (sp?) position taken by the current US administration versus the Multilateral, UN based actions that were the norm since WWII. There is no doubt that this doctrine, which was, as Bunker Mulligan pointed out, actually …
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The US governments Iraqi Survey Group, the group tasked to find the evidence of Iraqi WMD programs and weaponry will not be returning to Iraq reports the BBC today. They will instead be refocused to counter the insurgency in Iraq. Why are they stopping the search for WMD? Well.. because there are none. Funny, some …
Well, it's official. Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said today (BBC) that "some pockets" of Iraq will not participate in the elections on January 30th. Presumably it would be because of the security situation. He said the pockets "are not large"... but until we learn exactly who will and will not be voting we can't …
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