Nearly four years after “Mission Accomplished!” “The Surge” begins: In an attempt to quell the Iraqi Civil War, the Second Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, of the United states Army (private mercenaries) arrives in Iraq, as part of a 20% increase above the 155,000 troop level already occupying Iraq.

       Postscript: In the two months since “The Surge” began, civilian killings, due to terrorist violence, was up 50% over the two months before “The Surge” began.

       [added 3/22/2024]

       While the United States Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq, the Philippines and west Africa defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” de facto Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush (having received an unlawful advantage of 43 ineligible Electoral votes) issues Executive Order 13425, ordering the trial of “detained unlawful enemy combatants”—some of whom have been incarcerated for up to five years without due process—by military commissions.  This is something that the supreme court, of the corporate United states, declared to be unlawful eight months previous.

       [added 10/23/2020]