Brigade Commander in Iraq Disagrees With Col. Reese’s Bleak View of Iraqi Troops

Last week I reported — ok, ok, fine, Michael Gordon at The New York Times scooped me by 20 minutes — that a senior military liaison to the Iraqi security forces, Col. Timothy Reese of Multinational Division-Baghdad, contended in a memo that the United States had done all More…

Col. Timothy Reese: ‘It’s Time for the US to Declare Victory and Go Home’

It’s Time for the US to Declare Victory and Go Home

As the old saying goes, “guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” Since the signing of the 2009 Security Agreement, we are guests in Iraq, and after six years in Iraq, we now smell bad to More…