Iraq: “”THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON”

From Instapundit (the entire post):

“THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON:” Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good. “There’s nothing going on. I’m with the 10th Mountain Division, and about half of the guys I’m with haven’t [...]

Influence Warfare (not) “It appears that American troops found the 550 metric tons of uranium in 2003 after invading Iraq”

At Destinys Choice:

Secret U.S. Mission Hauls Uranium From Iraq On July 5, 2008, the Associated Press (AP) released a story titled: Secret U.S. mission hauls uranium from Iraq .
The opening paragraph is as follows: The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program – a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium – reached a Canadian [...]

Sadr Lost – Who Knew?

Via the LongWarJournal:
Six days after the Iraqi government launched Operation Knights’ Charge in Basrah against the Mahdi Army and other Iranian-backed Shia terror groups, Muqtada al Sadr, the Leader of the Mahdi Army, has called for his fighters to lay down their weapons and cooperate with Iraqi security forces. Sadr’s call for an end to [...]

Exposing Useful Idiots: “Saddam paid for lawmakers’ Iraq trip”

Instapundit has the roundup.

“We have brought to Iraq the worst of America – our bureaucrats…”

PoliticalWarfare.org links to and excerpts a scathing insider criticism of the Foreign Service in Iraq.
The U.S. Foreign Service (Btw, why isn’t this called the US Diplomatic Service) is not the US SysAdmin, that is for sure.

Link to Bill Whittle Essay on Boyd and the OODA Loop – and a little (maybe) 5GW thinking at the End of Part 2

Here is part 1 and part 2.
I will be blogging on these later.