War News for Saturday, June 28, 2008
[Iraq Today] He made this transparently clear by adding a signing statement to the defense appropriation bill, indicating that he would not be bound by the law’s prohibition against expending funds: “(1) To establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq,” or “(2) To exercise United States control of the oil resources of Iraq.”
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US Senate Approves Iraq, Afghanistan War Funding
[Dr Nasir Khan] “Despite the positive measures for struggling Americans, our veterans, and their families included in this amendment, I deeply regret that this legislation will go to President Bush without the necessary checks to ensure that the war in Iraq is not open-ended,” Byrd said in a statement to the Senate.
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Posted at 03:33 PM
June 28, 2008
War News for Saturday, June 28, 2008
[Iraq Today] He made this transparently clear by adding a signing statement to the defense appropriation bill, indicating that he would not be bound by the law’s prohibition against expending funds: “(1) To establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq,” or “(2) To exercise United States control of the oil resources of Iraq.”
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Posted at 03:34 PM
US Senate Approves Iraq, Afghanistan War Funding
[Dr Nasir Khan] “Despite the positive measures for struggling Americans, our veterans, and their families included in this amendment, I deeply regret that this legislation will go to President Bush without the necessary checks to ensure that the war in Iraq is not open-ended,” Byrd said in a statement to the Senate.
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Posted at 03:33 PM
June 26, 2008
War News for Thursday, June 26, 2008
[Iraq Today] "An explosive device was detonated in the main street in Shirween region in Muqdadiya, northeast of Baaquba, wounding three shepherds," a police source told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq. He did not give further details.
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Posted at 03:33 PM
Flopping Aces - 9 new articles
[search the blog] Democrats and Republicans, Bush Administration officials, and former Clinton Administration officals, the Executive branch and Congress all believed that while there was dissent (as there always is) regarding the limited intelligence on Saddam’s regime the preponderance of intel demonstrated a threat, and Saddam’s refusal to fully, immediately, and unconditionally comply with the UN after 12yrs made the matter due for resolution. Lastly, the threat posed by Saddam’s regime and its history of working with Al Queda groups made the question of “unaccounted for weapons of mass destruction”
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Posted at 03:32 PM
June 24, 2008
POSITIVE NEWS ON THE WAR----IRAQ
[One Loon's Tales] -- Iraqi police seized two explosively-formed projectiles during an operation in Adhamiyah, Iraq. Later, a Sons of Iraq leader from Jihad turned in two rocket-propelled grenade rounds, five rocket-propelled grenade boosters and more than 1,600 machine-gun rounds to U.S. soldiers.
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Posted at 03:04 PM
Media Awash in Reports That Pres Bush did NOT Lie About Threat ...
[Flopping Aces] budgets had been scrapped after the fall of the Soviet Union, and their leadership replaced by political appointees and bureaucrats. Democrats and Republicans, Bush Administration officials, and former Clinton Administration officals, the Executive branch and Congress all believed that while there was dissent (as there always is) regarding the limited intelligence on Saddam’s regime the preponderance of intel demonstrated a threat, and Saddam’s refusal to fully, immediately, and unconditionally comply with the UN after 12yrs made the matter due for resolution. Lastly, the threat posed by Saddam’s regime and its history of working with Al Queda groups made the question of “unaccounted for weapons of mass destruction” far too dangerous to continue addressing with a foreign policy of national denial, procrastination, and/or laissez faire.
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Posted at 03:02 PM
June 21, 2008
It's the Iraq War that's Killing the Economy, Stupid!
[Political Cortex] As billions are going down the drain in Iraq, this wild misadventure is destroying the once strong U.S. dollar.
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Posted at 03:34 PM
So the Iraq war was all about oil, after all
[timesunion.com: Opinion Headlines] Yet, despite the vociferous denials, the four original partners of the Iraq Petroleum Co. (a misnomer, since all the companies are multinationals based in the United States or Western Europe) are about to receive contracts that allow them to service the fields in the country with the world's second-largest proven oil reserves.
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Posted at 03:33 PM
June 19, 2008
Media Corruption and the Iraq War
[Digg / upcoming] “Do you see what we’re hearing about the war?” “No,” replied Logan. “If I were to watch the news that you hear in the United States, I’d just blow my brains out, because it would drive me nuts.”
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Posted at 03:33 PM
McClellan testimony may shed light on Niger forgeries
[The Conscientious Objector] The committee wants McClellan, who was deputy press secretary at the time the administration was forced in July 2003 to admit the uranium allegations should not have been included in President Bush’s State of the Union address, to elaborate on Bush, Cheney, Hadley and Rice’s role in the campaign to discredit Joseph Wilson, a diplomat who had served in Iraq and Africa, who was selected by the CIA’s non-proliferation office, where Plame worked, to travel to Niger in early 2002 to examine the Iraq-yellowcake allegations. Wilson returned to the United States and reported to CIA officials that the claims appeared to have no merit, a finding that matched with inquiries from other U.S. officials.
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Posted at 03:32 PM
June 17, 2008
LATimes + TNR = Bush Never Lied to Us About Iraq
[Sparks from the Anvil] Senators Remove Their Own Statements from Report on Pre-War Iraq Intelligence Senators Caught Distorting and Misleading INtelligence Report Why America Went to Iraq and What Comes Next Democrats Admit: Saddam's Regime Harbored Al Queda .
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Posted at 03:04 PM
I have to say, I’m floored”¦.literally floored that an editor of ...
[Flopping Aces] On the campaign trail, Hillary Rodham Clinton dodged blame for her pro-war vote by claiming that “the mistakes were made by this president, who misled this country and this Congress.”
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Posted at 03:03 PM
June 14, 2008
Eat Crow Iraq War Skeptics
[THE AIR FORCE PUNDIT] In a Washington Post interview, CIA Director Michael Hayden said we're witnessing the "near strategic defeat of al Qaeda in Iraq." The Bush administration has taken heaps of abuse for its Iraq policy, including its decision to launch the "surge" last December. Now the strategy, which our nation's "best and brightest" regularly dismissed as a failure, has cleared the way for the establishment of a secure democracy in Iraq and a lasting peace.
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Posted at 03:34 PM
War Crimes, Anyone? Bueller?
[An Angry White Guy in Chicago] The "Phase II" report states -- in terms clearer than any previous government publication -- that there was no operational relationship between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, that Bush officials were not truthful about the difficulties the United States would face in post-war Iraq and that their public statements did not reflect intelligence they had at the time, and, specifically, that the intelligence community would not confirm any meeting between Iraqi officials and Mohamed Atta -- a claim that was nevertheless publicly repeated.
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Posted at 03:33 PM
June 12, 2008
MSNBC's Bernard on Clinton: "She ran as a man"
[Media Matters for America] Clinton almost ran -- she ran almost like a Republican, and she really ran like a man. And in the end, it could be said that that's what really did damage to this historic campaign by a woman.
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Posted at 03:32 PM
Senators Remove Their Own Statements From Report on Pre-War Iraq ...
[Flopping Aces] The Senate Intelligence Committee finally released it’s long-awaited/overdue report on their investigation into pre-war intelligence on Saddam’s Iraq. This final report was supposed to look at statements made by government officials in the run up to war from 1991-2003. It was supposed to examine the pre-war marketing or threat assessment and descriptions to the public about the intelligence regarding the threat posed by Saddam’s regime. Instead, the report looked at just 5 Bush Administration speeches. It completely left out any and all comments from Pres Bush Sr, Pres Clinton, anyone in his administration, and every member of the House and Senate over a twelve year period. The Committee determined that nothing any of those people ever said was as important and moving to the American people as 5 speechifications from President Bush and his administration.
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Posted at 03:31 PM
June 10, 2008
Iraq Closeup: The War in Numbers
[Baghdad Bureau] But more and more of this data are provided by Iraqis, notably in counting the number of civilian Iraqi deaths. And there is much uncertainty exactly how reliable those numbers are, for both technical and sectarian reasons.
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Posted at 03:02 PM
Crossfire War - Iraq PM Maliki Arrives in Tehran for Strategic ...
[NewsBlaze.com Current News - Opinions] Crossfire War-Rapid Fire News=Tehran-Baghdad-Damascus Watch-West Asia- North-Northeast Africa Theatre: Iraq PM Maliki Arrived in Tehran for Three Day Strategic Relations Visit.
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Posted at 03:02 PM
June 07, 2008
Senate’s Phase II report on pre-war Iraq intel is out: http ...
[anything you can do, i can do meta] Senate’s Phase II report on pre-war Iraq intel is out: http://twurl.nl/7b8r58 (and it’s pretty damning, of course)
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Posted at 03:34 PM
On that Senate Investiation Into Pre-War Iraq Intelligence
[UN Dispatch] 13, 2003, the chief UN inspector, Hans Blix, reported to the UN Security Council that there was no evidence of either active chemical or biological weapons programs or stockpiles. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei reported that there was no evidence of a reconstituted nuclear weapons program.
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Posted at 03:31 PM
June 05, 2008
WHY WE WENT INTO IRAQ!!
[International Military Forums] Nowadays, we hear many who have never had a kind word to say about the Iraq War pronounce on the retreat of the jihadists. It is as though the Islamists had gone back to their texts and returned with second thoughts about their violent .
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Posted at 03:38 PM
Guest Post: Tom Levenson on the Iraq War Suicides and the Material ...
[Cosmic Variance] Rather, the accounts of the Iraq War suicides — 115 current or former servicemen and women in 2007 - struck me for what was implied, but as far as I could find, not discussed in the mass media: the subtle and almost surreptitious way in which the brain-mind dichotomy is breaking down, both as science and as popular culture.
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