It is reported that out of the 500 Iraqi soldiers in the 36th (Commando) Battalion who are going into Fallujah with the first wave of Marines, only 170 of them turned up. This is yet another example of the new Iraqi forces being wholly unreliable, and is especially worrying as the battalion was meant to…
Read More Fallujah – Vanishing Iraqi CommandosBrad DeLong has an interesting chart of the USD over the last two years, illustrating the point.
Read More Sliding Dollar (Again)Keith Olbermann of MSNBC’s Countdown ran with the voting oddnesses last night, covering much of the stuff that has been blogged heavily in the last few days. For example, those mystery voters: “Interestingly, none of the complaining emailers took issue with the remarkable results out of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. In 29 precincts there, the County’s…
Read More Voting Weird: MSNBC hits the story