Today in Iraq

War News for December 23, 2003 Bring ‘em on: Iraqi judge assassinated in Mosul. Bring ‘em on: US soldier killed by roadside bomb ambush near Balad. Bring ‘em on: Explosions reported in central Baghdad. Bring 'em on: Four US soldiers wounded in ambush near Ramadi. Bring 'em on: US soldier wounded in drive-by shooting in Mosul. Bring 'em on: US troops under mortar fire near Samarra. Bring 'em on: US patrol ambushed near Samarra. (Last paragraph.) Bring 'em on: Thai soldier wounded by land mine near Karbala. Iraqi students riot over presence of US troops in Diyalah. Tale of Saddam’s capture more fiction than fact. "'Time' also quotes a U.S. intelligence official as saying some officials suspect the 'President Bush sends his regards' incident is 'apocryphal,' or fictitious." Is there anything the Bushies won't lie about? Halliburton claims political pressure forced them to gouge the US Army. Doesn’t the Bush family have extensive oil investments in Kuwait? Polish soldier killed by accidental weapons discharge near Karbala. Dangers for Iraqi police. More “Support the Troops” hypocrisy from Rummy. “The Pentagon is considering closing some or all of the more than 50 schools it operates on military bases in the United States — a move that could mean major changes at Fort Campbell and Fort Knox, which have military high schools.” Hey, we all gotta pay for Lieutenant AWOL’s tax cuts! Bush’s Confederacy of Cons. “Most analysts have identified three main components to the coalition behind President George W Bush's aggressive foreign policy: right-wing militarists, of whom Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is the exemplar; neo-conservatives, led by former Defense Policy Board (DPB) chairman Richard Perle, whose world view is similar to that of Israel's Likud Party; and Christian Right forces whose leaders are influential with Bush's political guru, Karl Rove.” Wounded soldiers at Walter Reed. Insurgency report. “In the heart of the ‘Sunni Triangle’, Saddam's capture last week by the Americans has done little to dampen the will to fight among fellow Sunni Muslims, angered by foreign occupation and at losing their once dominant minority position in society.” General Zinni tears a piece off Lieutenant AWOL and the Chickenhawk Commandos. "The more he listened to Wolfowitz and other administration officials talk about Iraq, the more Zinni became convinced that interventionist "neoconservative" ideologues were plunging the nation into a war in a part of the world they didn't understand. 'The more I saw, the more I thought that this was the product of the neocons who didn't understand the region and were going to create havoc there. These were dilettantes from Washington think tanks who never had an idea that worked on the ground.'" Read the comments of this Marine officer and former CENTCOM commander, and you'll realize how much trouble these conservative fools have caused for America. Casualty Reports Local story: Montana soldiers wounded in Iraq. Local story: Massachusetts soldier dies in Iraq. Local story: New York soldier killed in Iraq. Local story: Minnesota soldier wounded in Iraq. Off Topic Merry Christmas, Lard-Ass.