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Samsung Engineering Receives Contract To Develop Iraqi Oil Field

» by March 27th, 2012 at 7:50 am » Comments (6)

The Koreans may have lost out on the oil field contract in Kurdistan but Samsung has just scored a large contract to develop an oil field in the country's south:  Iraq ...more »

Picture of the Day: Iraqi PM Meets with President Lee

» by April 30th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (0)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="499" caption="- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (R) poses with visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki prior to their talks at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae ...more »

Wikileaks Torture Claims Similar to Korean War Accusations

» by October 26th, 2010 at 6:06 pm » Comments (2)

After reading this AP article about the Wikileaks Iraq War document dump I had to check whether Charles Hanley wrote it or not considering the claims being made: President Barack Obama ...more »

Iraqi Government Clamps Down On Bars In Baghdad

» by January 27th, 2010 at 4:52 pm » Comments (11)

So much for soldiers hanging out at juicy bars in Iraq: It started in the Green Zone, with Iraqi soldiers ordering restaurants to stop serving alcohol and confiscating bottles from ...more »

NY Times Columnist Gail Collins going naked on the use of Civilian Contractors

» by December 12th, 2009 at 12:22 pm » Comments (14)

Maybe Gail should talk to someone who has served in the military before she spouts off on a subject she knows so little about. Do you remember the scandal about the ...more »

Failed North Korean Nuclear Negotiator Chris Hill Causing Problems In Iraq

» by October 1st, 2009 at 5:44 am » Comments (0)

Via One Free Korea, his prediction of former North Korean nuclear negotiator Chris Hill being the wrong guy to send to Iraq appears to be coming to fruition: American insiders in ...more »

Remains of Michael “Scott” Speicher Found In Iraq

» by August 2nd, 2009 at 10:14 am » Comments (2)

Here is some good, but at the same time sad news for the family of Navy pilot Scott Speicher: The remains of the first American lost in the Gulf War have ...more »

Similarities In Reconciliation Between Korea & Iraq

» by May 28th, 2009 at 8:18 pm » Comments (7)

Here is the question many Iraqis are asking themselves: As for Abu Wissam, he doesn't know why the people he cheerily said good morning to for decades all of a sudden ...more »

Is the US Military Promoting Christianity in Iraq & Afghanistan?

» by May 8th, 2009 at 5:38 am » Comments (33)

I have to wonder if these guys are linked back to the recent Al Jazeera story?: The Pentagon was involved in the production of a cable program that featured two so-called ...more »

ROK Drop Book Review: The Gamble By Thomas Ricks

» by May 6th, 2009 at 3:57 pm » Comments (5)

Introduction If you only wanted to read two books about the on going war in Iraq the first one I would recommend is War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn ...more »

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