Rulers of Iraq

Sometimes reality is quite different from what you think it is.

We walked into the Iranian embassy today to interview the ambassador. It was built 70 years ago and reoccupied by the Iranian mission after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. My translator looked at me as we walked through the double wooden doors to interview the Iranian Ambassador.

"This is the second ruler of Iraq," she said.

I looked at her.

"After Crocker," she said, referring to the U.S. Ambassador. She never mentioned the Prime Minister of Iraq, Nouri al Maliki. She expressed what most Iraqis feel, Iraq is a tug of war for power between Iran and the United States.

Courtesy link (which means I stole the whole fucking post)

Baghdad.

Must read IMHO

Update?

I didn't know it was possible for me to be this angry, pissed off, depressed and emotional.

I was supposed to be a civilian two weeks ago.

Ten months left. Fuckin' hooah.

Via Fun With Hand Grenades.

Reality

I'm not so sure the mother is absent-minded.

Little girl eying food at counter: Mommy, how much is a dollar?
Absent-minded mother: Thirty-six cents.

Via Overheard in New York.

What Great Nations Do

Think.

Professional politicians and Wall Streeters insist on calling the US a ‘Great Nation’ when the fact is that, for the middle class and working poor, America is just another mediocre country with no real future, a third world workplace and more citizens in prison than China.

Via The Daily Scare.

In which I lose my cool while debunking right wing Libby myths at the White House press briefing

Need a touch of reality? We gotcha covered.

Today at the White House press briefing, I got into a somewhat heated (on my part) dispute with John Gizzi, political editor of the right wing web magazine HumanEvents.com. It happened like this…

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