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March 5, 2007
The Iraq-Capades
It's been a fine shitstorm of fuck-ups, eh? And as we approach the glorious five year mark to our great misadventure in Mesopotamia, Fat Charlie looks back and piles on.
(not in chronological order... well, in somewhat chronological order)
Overture
1998- PNAC letter to President Bill Clinton urging action on Iraq. Signed: Bill Kristol, Donald Rumsfeld, Fred Kagen, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle...
Clinton bombs Iraq- 1998 Operation Desert Fox.
Bush V Gore
9/11
Afghan war
Taliban "falls"
Act I
Link to Al-Queda
WMDS
Regime change
mushroom cloud
"he's the guy who tried to kill my Dad"
"slam-dunk"
"The British government has learned... yellow-cake from Niger."
"greeted as libertators"
Shock and Awe
Mission Accomplished
Troop movements in the sand
Jessica Lynch
statue goes down
"What I didn't Find in Niger"
looting
Viceroy Bremer
Order to de-baathify Iraq
Order to disband the Iraqi army
Fallujah
Five contractors burned and hung from a bridge
No-bid contracts go to Halliburton
Medal of Freedom to George Tenant
Finding Saddam in a spiderhole
Insurregency
Al-Sadr
Democracy for Iraq
Act II
Killing Saddam's sons
"Bring 'Em On"
Sunni Triangle
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Mahdi Army
a whistleblower
Sy Hersh
Abu Ghraib
Lyddie England
"college pranks"
purple fingers
Saddam's trial
Scooter's trial
Bob Woodruff nearly killed
no body armor
"you go to war with the army you have"
"last throes"
The Downing Street Memos
Act III
Al-Askari shrine bombing
"civil war?"
"I'm the decider"
The generals revolt
"civil war..."
bodies with holes drilled in the head being found in Baghdad
Malaiki
"brain drain"
training the Iraqi army
missing billions in reconstruction money
2006 midterms
Rumsfeld fired
Iraq Study Group report
"cut and run"
"defeatocrats"
The Surge
civil war
Iranians are behind this
British pulls troops
Walter Reed
Kevin Kiley
38 die, 105 hurt in Baghdad market blast, AP Wire, 15 minutes ago...
And no end in sight.
Posted by emily at March 5, 2007 11:15 PM
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