Fool Me Twice, Shame On (…Where Do I Start?)
U.S. makes case that Iran arms flow into Iraq - Los Angeles Times Iraq: Failing To Disarm -- Description of Video-only File of UN Inspectors Discovering Warheads Secretary of State Addresses the U.N. Security Council warhead image - Iraq U.N. inspectors 2003 bbc http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38717000/jpg/_38717009_shell-bbc-150.jpg&imgrefurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2677315.stm&h=180&w=150&sz=4&hl=en&sig2=Rv9Zwmnz05cDNhpETtQZIQ&start=3&tbnid=baXU-P4AAwhHVM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=84&ei=gVPQRdBqu8jBAea1hbEP&prev=/images%3Fq%3Du.n.%2Binspectors%2Biraq%2Bwarheads%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26c2coff%3D1%26sa%3DG LAT Slide Show: Iranian "evidence":...
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Your Turn: Rites Of Passage
Nina Berman's photo of Iraq veteran Ty Ziegel and his wife, Renee Kline, won a first prize in the portraits category in the 2007 World Press photo awards announced Friday.
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Exit Haifa Street
If pictures from Baghdad have been hard to come by, last Monday's NYT video of a U.S./Iraqi raid was a deadly exception. The presentation left little to the imagination -- except the swearing. (Although why coarse language would be stricken, considering everything, is bizarre.)
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The Writing Is On The Wall
With the Stateside surge in surge talk, and Mr. Rove's success in embedding that term into the political lexicon (although Central Command lacks the men, resources, local alliances or even the basic foothold to implement anything close to what the strategy implies), some of the pictures -- if you...
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Not Enough Wheat
U.S. and Iraqis Are Wrangling Over War Plans http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/world/middleeast/15baghdad.html?ex=1326517200&en=96772c3fd092411f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss Here's the problem when you have an imaginary political solution, in the name of Mr. Bush's "New Way Forward," imposed from the top down. In Iraq, where NYT report John Burns tries to separate the wheat from the chaff, there...
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Decompensating
Compared to what's going on now, Nixon wandering the halls and babbling at paintings was kid's stuff.
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Foreign Relations
The politics are so raw, so unscripted right now, the pictures hardly bear much analysis.
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Striking Oil
Yes, yes.... everybody is awaiting Bush's "Forward Ho" speech on Iraq today. But the retooling of the Administration in the past week, both at the State Department and in the military, hints at a strategy that is even more wrenching to consider.
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The Phrases Change, But The Game Remains The Same
From now on, if you see Khalilzad in any significant political photograph, silently add the caption: "Have I got a plan for you!"
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Staring Us In The Face
Lastly, what I think this cover is really getting at, but the media is simply too terrified to explore, is the anger and skepticism of a manipulated military.
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One More Bullet
Navy medic Dustin E. Kirby, whose bloodied hand was the subject of a November 3 BAGnewsNotes posting holding a sniper's bullet in Karma, Iraq, was wounded himself earlier this week. He was shot in the left side of his face, also by a sniper, and also in Karma, on...
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Your Turn: Killing Time Between Christmas And New Years
Because I haven't given you much room lately to run with the discussion, I'm on the move, and the recent political images have been, well, remarkable, I'm offering you these two to consider over the weekend.
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Santa Hussein
(In light of Saddam Hussein's hanging in the middle of last night, I thought you might appreciate this BAGnewsNotes post that originally ran December 17, 2003 following the pre-Christmas capture of Saddam Hussein. It was titled "Santa Hussein" and is reposted here word-for-word.)
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Bush And Iraq: 2003 – 2007 (or so)
Six years in, we've run through countless comparisons, analogies and metaphors for "43" -- but not all.
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Blazer Boys
This was the White House press office's paltry offering on Saturday, on what must be one of the slowest news days possible; the work week gone and Christmas still two days off. You've got to give them credit for trying though; just the day before being hauled to the...
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Najaf
Earlier this week, Iraqi forces took control of the province of Najaf, south of Baghdad, marking the first time the United States has turned over that responsibility to national troops.... Inside a local stadium, commandos demonstrated their karate moves and kicks, and a police officer in plain clothes acting...
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Reversion To Form (Or: Showing Us The Gates)
It's been hard to look at the political pictures this week without feeling both disgust and sadness. It's possible that the latest incarnation of "Bush Gone Wild" is strictly temporary, and that "Let's Roll" reruns will quickly disappear once the Congressional season begins. Still, I can't look at the...
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Short Handed?
The shot above, although tied to an article about Grand Ayatollah Sistani and Iraq's religious politics, is spread over four columns and juxtaposed with the two column headline regarding Bush's plan to expand the size of the U.S. armed forces. Regardless of the denials in the headline article, however,...
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