Trevor had a contest about “why we’re here” recently. It’s too late for my entry, but I can tell you why I’m here.
I’m here for SUV drivers, bodywash users and America’s dependance on foreign oil.
Make no mistake about it, forget WMD, or a third world nation’s stability. If it was for those reasons, why isn’t [...]

Today was very quiet again in the International Zone. I normally hear more sounds of Baghdad flowing in from across the river. Not today. The curfew has quieted things down a lot. Very little gunfire punctuated the day, which is very unusual.
Tonight I went and worked out at the gym here. My iPod and Tracy [...]

I’m watching Major General Rick Lynch (who I work for) doing a live press conference on the Pentagon Channel right now, wherein he suggested that the violence in Iraq is being overstated, and the the Coalition thinks the number of attacks and murders is much lower than what has been reported thus far. He suggested [...]

Free Iraqi opines that Iraqis are still thinking like Saddam:
The main problem is us, Iraqis whether we’re She’at, Sunni or Kurds. And the problem is also the American administration’s ignorance on many of the facts on the ground with the exception of the American embassy and namely Khalil Zada who I think is doing a [...]

Why couldn’t President Bush have simply hired Mansoor Ijaz to tell the story of Dubai? I’m certainly nearly convinced the Dubai deal is OK after reading this editorial in the Christian Science Monitor:
Dubai’s business environment is the Middle East’s only meritocracy. Young men and women compete openly with ideas and ambitions to make their nation [...]