Comments on: British Troops Rescued from Iraqi Jail

By: DL

DL — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:39:52 +0000

Here! Here!- Jolly good - pip pip -and all that sort of thing!

By: pragmatist

pragmatist — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:46:15 +0000

We know there is trouble brewing in the south. Much of the place is infiltrated by various Shiite militias. In some and Basra seems to come close they are the defacto government.

Focus from both government and press has been on the Suni based insurgency. However even if this did not exist there would be very serious problems: crime which has probably killed more than the insurgenct, corruption and factional interest represented by large numbers of armed groupings formal and informal.

As seen in much of third world these can topple any possibility of a competent and democratic government even without terrorists blowing up mosques trying to stimulate civil war and draw in the entire middle east.

By: David Schraub

David Schraub — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:21:00 +0000

While you got the site right, you got the name wrong. The post at TMV was not done by Mr. Gandelman but was written up by me, David Schraub, just one man in his harem of talented and attractive co-bloggers.

I'm not jealous of Joe--I'd be happy to give him all the credit in the world for letting me on his wonderful site--but ultimately I think it would be quite detrimental to his reputation as a sensible and thoughtful blogger if he kept getting credit for my delightful ravings.

By: Jim Henley

Jim Henley — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:20:28 +0000

And is it a good sign that British soldiers in mufti are shooting Iraqi police?

By: Don Singleton

Don Singleton — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:35:16 +0000

British troops freed in jailbreak

This sounds pretty bad, doesn't it. CNN makes it sound like British soldiers were shooting innocent civilians and police, and were being held by official Iraqi forces. CNN distorts things a lot. The BBC reveals they were being held not by the Iraqi ...