Afghanistan? D’oh!
Quiz time! Which two of the following Iraqi buildings have US troops protected from looters and arsonists?
- Ministry of Planning
- Ministry of Education
- Ministry of Irrigation
- Ministry of Trade
- Ministry of Industry
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Ministry of Culture
- Ministry of Information
- Baghdad Archaeological Museum
- Hospitals
- Ministry of Interior
- Ministry of Oil
Hint: they’re not subtle about their priorities. You’ll find the answer in Robert Fisk’s article on the looting of Baghdad.
With the neo-conservative forces claiming to have pulled a Homer*, I wonder if we’ll forget about Iraq as quickly as we forgot about Afghanistan? Mark Sedra has written some interesting pieces on the subject for Foreign Policy in Focus:
- The “Day After” in Iraq: Lessons from Afghanistan
- The Forgotten War Shows No Sign of Abating
- Afghanistan: Between War and Reconstruction
Elsewhere, a UPI investigation reveals that Saddam Hussein’s connections to the CIA go back as far as 1959. And on a related note, here’s a profile of James ‘World War IV’ Woolsey, ex-CIA director, member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, and Donald Rumsfeld’s proposed Minister of Information in the new Iraq regime.
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- Bush: Father, Son and the Holy Rhetoric
- Britney Spears & Tony Blair Nude Photos
