Link R 121430Z 06 FM AMEMBASSY BAGHDAD TO SECSTATE WASHDC 5042 INFO IRAQ COLLECTIVE UNCLAS BAGHDAD 001992 E.O. 122956: N/A TAGS: PHUM, PREL, ASEC, AMGT, IZ SUBJECT: Snapshots from the Office: Public Affairs Staff Show Strains of Social Discord SENSITIVE 1. (SBU) Beginning in March, and picking up in mid-May, Iraqi staff in the Public Affairs section have complained that Islamist and/or militia groups have been negativelyy affecting their daily routine. Harassment o...

Ramsey Clark was on TV yesterday complaining about how Saddam Hussein was not going to get a fair trial. Then a thought popped into my mind. I have a srong feeling I'd be ecstatic if I woke up Christmas morning to hear that the bastard who created International ANSWER and infected the rest of the world with it was assassinated just like another member of Saddams defense team was. That's pretty bad, isn't it?

Good article here by Steve Sailer. Click here for link By Steve Sailer James Fallow's Atlantic report on the failure of our vaunted "training" efforts in Iraq is online . The article focuses more on the poor job we've done in training Iraqis, rather than the notable lack of effort the Iraqis have made to get trained. It took the U.S. only about 15 months after the declaration of war in 1917 to reach the point where we could hold our own against the Germans on the Western Fr...

by Lawrence Auster: I have always dismissed the idea of our simply pulling out of Iraq without a fully worked out plan for how we would carry on the war against our jihadist enemies after we pulled out. But an official communiqué issued by representatives of Iraq’s three main groups has me thinking for the first time that that’s what we ought to do. Meeting in Cairo to negotiate a reconciliation conference of Iraq’s Shi’ites, Kurds, and Sunnis, the leaders, who included Iraq’s presi...

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/004464.html Friends have sometimes criticized me for my relentless criticisms of the neoconservatives on the Islam issue, when, after all, the neocons are on the same side of the Islam issue as we are. But that, I reply to my friends, is the very question, isn’t it? My main gripe with the neocons is that by making so much noise about opposing expansive and militant Islam, they give their conservative readers the reassuring impression that the problem...

http://www.parapundit.com/archives/003097.html French Muslim youths who blame the French police for the deaths of a couple of deaths of two of their number continued rioting for the sixth straight night as the riots spread to additional areas. Dozens of vehicles and garbage cans were set on fire as youth gangs and police clashed for a sixth night in poor suburbs ringing the eastern side of Paris. Hundreds of police patrolled Clichy-sous-Bois, where the riots broke out, after two ...