Iraq Reviews > March 31, 2006

War deserter tells of atrocities

 [WHATREALLYHAPPENED.COM] Police in Mosul largely disappeared from the streets, residents reported, and groups of armed men brandishing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade launchers roamed the city. Responding to the crisis, Iraqi authorities dismissed Mosul's police chief after local officials reported that officers were abandoning their stations to militants without firing a shot.

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Dick Cheney and reality: a strange and complex relationship

 [Building a Pyramid] CHENEY: No, I think it has less to do with the statements we’ve made, which I think were basically accurate and reflect reality, than it does the fact that there is a constant sort of perception if you will that’s created because what is newsworthy is the carbomb in Baghdad, it’s not all the work that went on that day in 15 other provinces in terms of making progress in rebuilding Iraq.

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Posted at 01:46 AM

March 31, 2006

War deserter tells of atrocities

 [WHATREALLYHAPPENED.COM] Police in Mosul largely disappeared from the streets, residents reported, and groups of armed men brandishing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade launchers roamed the city. Responding to the crisis, Iraqi authorities dismissed Mosul's police chief after local officials reported that officers were abandoning their stations to militants without firing a shot.

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Posted at 01:47 AM

Dick Cheney and reality: a strange and complex relationship

 [Building a Pyramid] CHENEY: No, I think it has less to do with the statements we’ve made, which I think were basically accurate and reflect reality, than it does the fact that there is a constant sort of perception if you will that’s created because what is newsworthy is the carbomb in Baghdad, it’s not all the work that went on that day in 15 other provinces in terms of making progress in rebuilding Iraq.

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Posted at 01:46 AM

March 29, 2006

The Strolling Dead

[Big Lizards:Blog:Main] The American military is now flatly asserting that Sadr-linked Shiite leaders in Iraq moved the bodies and staged the scene to falsely accuse Americans of committing a massacre in the Mustafa "mosque." (This presumably would include gruesomely handcuffing some of the bodies post-mortem, to make it look like execution rather than combat, though the article doesn't get into that level of detail.) U.S. commanders in Iraq on Monday accused powerful Shi'ite groups of moving the corpses of gunmen killed in battle to encourage accusations that U.S.-led troops massacred unarmed worshippers in a mosque. "After the fact, someone went in and made the scene look different from what it was.

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Posted at 01:38 AM

March 28, 2006

Op-Ed Contributor: Enemy of Our Enemy

 [A Democrat on the Redneck Riviera] The goals and worldviews of Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda were diametrically opposed, and no number of sketchy intelligence documents is going to bring them closer.

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Posted at 03:01 PM

The internet helps fight a war

[VandS Politics] The federal government is making public a huge trove of documents seized during the invasion of Iraq, posting them on the Internet in a step that is at once a nod to the Web’s power and an admission that U.S. intelligence resources are overloaded.

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Posted at 02:59 PM

March 23, 2006

Fourth (Year) And Long

[BushTracker.net] As the fourth year of his war in Iraq begins this week, the headlines about President Bush's Tuesday news conference blared the same tune this morning, focusing on a very brief exchange near the end of the proceedings. Q Will there come a day -- and I'm not asking you when, not asking for a timetable -- will there come a day when there will be no more American forces in Iraq?

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Posted at 04:21 AM

March 18, 2006

Rice Defends Iraq, Protesters Cry "War Criminal"

[The News is NowPublic.com | NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public] Rice Defends Iraq, Protesters Cry "War Criminal" commondreams.org: "Rice Defends Iraq, Protesters Cry "War Criminal"" University of Australia, Sydney, protest, Condoleezza Rice, Australia, , Iraq 95 Views 0 Comments green 19 hours ago | updated 19 hours ago Add Footage...

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Posted at 07:14 PM