Iraq

British Troops Are Like: “We’re Out of Iraq, Cheerio”

(CNN) — British troops will begin leaving Iraq in May, more than six years after joining the U.S.-led invasion that ousted former dictator Saddam Hussein, Britain and Iraq announced Wednesday. The British mission will wrap up by the end of May, with the last troops withdrawing over the next two months, British Prime Minister Gordon […]

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Dick Cheney is Fairly Pleased With His Eight Bloody Years

Ed Pilkington in New York guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 17 December 2008 01.19 GMT The outgoing US vice-president, Dick Cheney, last night gave an unapologetic assessment of his eight years in office, defending the invasion of Iraq, the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, secret wiretapping and the extreme interrogation method known as waterboarding. In his first […]

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