The Green Zone Follies

Baghdad, 29 March 07: “The famous “surge” is not working. Casualties are not going down and civilian deaths in our raging civil war are at an all time high.

The Death Tolls Are Unimaginable

A reputable British medical magazine (The Lancet. Ed) published the figure of over 600,000 Iraqi civilian dead and from what I have seen here, I entirely accept this. I had a copy of the mag on my desk and had finished reading it when a senior officer came in to drop off another of the endless puff reports we are expected to send around to the tired, furious and growingly mutinous troops

Long Boring Occupation

He saw the magazine, picked it up and read part of the article before taking it away. “Don’t read such defeatist crap!” he said.  Now we have little dramas playing out here for the American press.

Clowns And Photo Ops

Top brass, suitably dressed and accompanied with a small army of the press, visit  military hospitals and are photographed Being Compassionate with mangled soldiers. And afterwards, they leave the wards with the photographers in tow, go back to their quarters, have a drink, wash their hands several times and have an expensive lunch.

Israeli Jewish Officers

We have Israeli liaison officers here, and these Jews are still are hoping that Bush will attack Iran but it won’t happen in spite of the flood of “leaked” propaganda about “massing troops” and other such childish lies.

Iran Is A Hornet's Nest

We haven’t got the manpower and the Iranians have all kinds of deadly Russian missiles. If we moved a naval task force into the Gulf, they would pick our carriers off like a cat in a cage. Much threatening about attacks because of the captured Brits but we all know the Iranians will eventually release them, unharmed, when they make their point. Were they in Iranian waters? No one knows as borders are so screwed up that anything is possible.