Category Archives: Iraq

US lawmaker urged ROK to send 30,000 mercenaries to Iraq

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Tim Shorrock

During a visit to South Korea in 2008, U.S. congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) floated a proposal for the Korean government to send up to 30,000 mercenaries to serve as “constables” in Iraq, according to a diplomatic cable released last month … Continue reading →

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You don’t need a neocon to know the way the wind blows

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Tim Shorrock

Want to know what Richard Armitage has been doing all this time? My latest, from Salon: Ever since the 1950s, with the rise of America’s modern military-industrial complex, high-level U.S. officials and military men have moved between the government and … Continue reading →

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‘Stalinists’ in the Pentagon?

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Tim Shorrock

Here’s a story you won’t find repeated in the ‘left’ press. The Washington Post‘s brilliant Rajiv Chandrasekaran reports that a DoD unit in Iraq has sparked a confrontation with the State Department over its plans to reopen state-owned companies in … Continue reading →

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Neocons trash Juan Cole

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Tim Shorrock

Thanks to Billmon at Whiskey Bar, we get the twisted story about how the neocon/AEI axis helped torpedo Juan Cole’s appointment at Yale. From Jewish Week: When Cole’s potential hiring became publicly known, several of his detractors, including the American … Continue reading →

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Iraq: Flat-out civil war

Posted on June 9, 2006 by Tim Shorrock

Nir Rosen on the Zarqawi hit: “Iraq is in the midst of a civil war. This civil war may have begun the day the Americans overthrew the old order in Iraq and established a new one, with Shias on top … Continue reading →

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