IVAW to crash the debate?

"Sgt Matthis Chiroux plans on getting in with his colleagues regardless.He spoke with Stephen of GlobalPundit.org earlier this week." [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjWvzqaezsc]

Party time in Iran?

has anyone checked the balloons lately? "Hostile" Iran Sparks U.S. Attack Plan "A second American aircraft carrier steamed into the Persian Gulf Tuesday as the Pentagon ordered military commanders to develop new options for attacking Iran." and then Gates trots out his they're killing us in Iraq crock. Not to be outdone, Mullen drops this load... No attacks are imminent and the last thing the Pentagon wants is another war, but Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen has warned Iran...

Badr Backfill for Maliki

Juan Cole has an informative collection of translations that explain the fallout of the resulting mutiny in Basra of the Puppet Regimes inept matchstick men. I find it hard to believe that this wasn't tucked away in the back of his mind somewhere before he decidifieded to embark on his first reign of terror on his own people. The induction of Badr Corps fighters (the paramilitary of ISCI) and those of the Da'wa Party into security positions came in the wake of the firing of thousands of...