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 …

North Korea and US commit to Nuclear free Peninsula

It’s all over the newswires today so pick your source… the crux is that there has been a “breakthrough” in 6 party talks with North Korea which has resulted in an agreement for NK to give up its’ nuclear arms ambitions permanently and rejoin the NPT. The US has in turn agreed that it will …