Iraq Reviews > November 28, 2009
US scuttled efforts at building consensus for Iraq war: ambassador ...
[Raw Story] Nor was it a coincidence that the Bushite neo-cons, like Wolfowitz, were talking-up that hostilities in Iraq would cost, at the most, a few tens of billions of dollars and after a few short months (before the hot Iraqi summer hit) most "coalitiion" troops would be out of Iraq, leaving at most about 50,000 (basically troops left in Iraq post-invasion to keep an eye on seized Iraqi oil facilities and resources...that is, until the Western oil companies could divvy them up). What could possibly go wrong?
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Greenstock: Iraq war “legal” but The Telegraph continues to be ...
[Tony Blair] “I regard our participation in the military action in Iraq in March 2003 as legal but of questionable legitimacy in that it did not have the democratically observable backing of the great majority of member states, or even perhaps of the majority of people inside the UK.”’
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November 28, 2009
US scuttled efforts at building consensus for Iraq war: ambassador ...
[Raw Story] Nor was it a coincidence that the Bushite neo-cons, like Wolfowitz, were talking-up that hostilities in Iraq would cost, at the most, a few tens of billions of dollars and after a few short months (before the hot Iraqi summer hit) most "coalitiion" troops would be out of Iraq, leaving at most about 50,000 (basically troops left in Iraq post-invasion to keep an eye on seized Iraqi oil facilities and resources...that is, until the Western oil companies could divvy them up). What could possibly go wrong?
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Posted at 03:33 PM
Greenstock: Iraq war “legal” but The Telegraph continues to be ...
[Tony Blair] “I regard our participation in the military action in Iraq in March 2003 as legal but of questionable legitimacy in that it did not have the democratically observable backing of the great majority of member states, or even perhaps of the majority of people inside the UK.”’
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Posted at 03:32 PM
November 26, 2009
The British National Party ”” Blog ”” Damning Evidence Given to ...
[The British National Party] Other witnesses revealed that British and US officials held “secret discussions” about ousting Saddam Hussein two years before invading Iraq and months before the September 11 terrorist attacks. Foreign Office officials had even drawn up an internal “options” paper that included the “possibility of regime change” in Iraq.
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Posted at 03:34 PM
Blair knew Iraq had no WMD before war, inquiry hears | Raw Story
[Raw Story] I would really like to see the arrest of the whole group of War Pigs, the rotten, lying bastards. I am truly saddened by the realization that so many people have died, on both sides.
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Posted at 03:33 PM
November 24, 2009
Conason Reminds Scarborough That The Iraq War and Tax Cuts ...
[Video Cafe's feed] When Joe was on the Colbert Report in 2008, he pretty much summarized the Bush fiscal legacy then, namely, that he took an economy that was generating budget surpluses, with projections that the deficits could be entirely wiped out, and wound up nearly doubling the deficits.
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Posted at 03:04 PM
Robin Meltzer: Iraq war enquiry begins
[Robin Meltzer] Like most people in Britain, I was just watching from the sidelines in pretty much daily disbelief as Blair's slathering adherence to George W. Bush's foreign policy left our own reputation damaged and our country less safe.
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Posted at 03:03 PM
November 21, 2009
Iraqi Mojo: Iraq war and nation-building has been expensive
[Iraqi Mojo] American military service members ”” 3 more than last week ”” have died since the war began in 2003, according to the US Department of Defense. A total of 13,883 have suffered injuries serious enough to keep them from returning to duty.
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Posted at 03:33 PM
t r u t h o u t | Iraq War Veteran on a Mental-Health Mission
[Truthout - All Articles] Just in the last three days right here at Fort Hood, I've heard commanders tell soldiers they are full of crap and don't have PTSD .so if we can't implement these needed changes quickly and rapidly we are going to have more loss of life on US soil by soldiers killing other soldiers."
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Posted at 03:31 PM
November 19, 2009
Iraq - Afghan Lessons from the Iraq War (Baltimore Chronicle ...
[Global News Blog Headlines] The Navy s top civilian on Tuesday rejected a clemency request from a Marine infantry squad leader convicted of killing an Iraqi man in 2006, a case that drew two jury convictions and five guilty pleas from seven other members of his squad.
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Posted at 03:34 PM
t r u t h o u t | Afghan Lessons From the Iraq War
[Truthout - All Articles] Bush had been voicing lots of optimism about the Iraq War and Vice President Dick Cheney had claimed the enemy was “in its last throes.” But it was becoming increasingly clear by 2006 that sectarian violence was ripping Iraq apart, that the death toll of American troops was rising, and that U.S. defeat was looming.
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Posted at 03:32 PM
November 17, 2009
Aletho News: Was the Iraq-War for Oil or for Israel?
[Aletho News] The Kurds of Iraq, explained Simon, are the world's "largest nation without a country". Simon lends subtle support to the idea that an irredentist "ethic minority" (Kurds) deserve their own separate nation which, like Israel, is poised to spring suddenly into being out of a battered nation of extremist Arabs....
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Posted at 03:05 PM
Post War Iraq Now Wants Nuclear Power For Energy Purposes | Trends ...
[Trends Updates] The sanctions on Iraq were imposed after the former President and dictator, Saddam Hussein invaded its neighbor, Kuwait. As per the sanctions approved by the United Nations Security Council Resolution 707, Iraq had been banned from initiating or conducting any sort of nuclear related activity, till the time, the Security Council could be convinced that, any such activities would not lead to proliferation of nuclear technology.
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Posted at 03:02 PM
November 14, 2009
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order: Blair Faces Iraq War ...
[Connecting the Dots in the New World Order] An independent panel of inquiry is to delve into Blair's controversial decision to follow a US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, dragging a large contingent of UK troops into the Middle Eastern country, in order to overthrow the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on grounds of his alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) threats.
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Posted at 03:34 PM
Did Big Oil Win the War in Iraq? | World | AlterNet
[AlterNet.org] However, organized resistance by Iraqis and people around the world has thus far succeeded in denying Big Oil its Big Prize: passage of the Iraq Oil Law, alternatively called Iraq Hydrocarbons Law, which would grant far greater control over Iraqi oil to foreign companies on terms much less favorable to Iraq than the current contracts provide.
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Posted at 03:32 PM
November 12, 2009
In the Iraq war, Christians pushed to the brink | eChurchWebsites ...
[eChurchWebsites Christian Blog covering the news, politics, media, law, religion, science, medical, education, internet, technology, Israel and more for the Church] HRW’s new report suggests that Kurds are supporting Christians and other groups by offering inducements to move north while “simultaneously wielding repression in order to keep them in tow.” The aim, it concludes, is to build a large local population prepared to register themselves as ethnically Kurdish - even if they’re not - and vote in support of Kurdish claims to control the plain.
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Posted at 03:35 PM
Living the war in Iraq | Homer Tribune
[Homer Tribune] Boden: “I miss how relaxed Homer is, I miss how nice people are, and most of all I miss riding my snowmobile. (After family and friends, of course.) My dad used to put a roast and veggies in a crock pot before we went riding, just thinking about it makes my mouth water.”
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Posted at 03:34 PM
November 10, 2009
View topic - Legitimacy of Iraq War Debate (split topic ...
[Brooklynian.com | Brooklyn Blog and Message Boards] As a person, as a Jew, as an American, I am proud that we took out a brutal thug who was raping and mass murdering his own people and who had bombed Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Israel without provocation.
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Posted at 03:05 PM
Retired Iraq war general gives leadership talk at campus | Daily Titan
[Daily Titan] Ricardo Sanchez smiles as he projects personal photos of himself with family, friends and celebrities during a presentation in the Titan Student Union Thursday, Nov. Some of the slides included Sanchez in everyday tasks like doing laundry, washing dishes or going to church.
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Posted at 03:03 PM
November 07, 2009
The Existentialist Cowboy: How the Iraq War Destroyed the US Economy
[The Existentialist Cowboy] That wars are good for the economy is just a bald-faced lie cooked up by the defense lobby for whom killing IS a living but only for the shrinking one percent who benefit: the Military/Industrial complex, truly MURDER INC. Fact is war is most often disastrous for the economy.
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Posted at 03:34 PM
How the Iraq War Destroyed the US Economy
[News] That wars are good for the economy is just a bald-faced lie cooked up by the defense lobby for whom killing IS a living but only for the shrinking one percent who benefit: the Military/Industrial complex, truly MURDER INC. Fact is war is most often disastrous for the economy.
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Posted at 03:33 PM
November 05, 2009
rideukbmx In Iraq: War Torn BMX // BMX Videos
[Mpora] "In between shooting photos for the Iraq article in the magazine this month, Walter Pieringer shot some video footage on his DSLR of his traveling companions getting attacked by dogs, riding in helicopters, and blowing shit up in the desert. He cut together this edit to try to convey a little bit of what it was like traveling to a war zone to ride BMX bikes.
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Posted at 03:33 PM
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4359 Wednesday, according to ...
[Breaking News] US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,275As of Wednesday, April 22, 2009, at least 4,275 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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