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Iraq Today: War News for Thursday, December 31, 2009
[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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Rachel Maddow: Bush and Cheney justifying Iraq War through torture ...
[Dandelion Salad] Senior administration officials followed the President and Vice President’s lead. Our recent bipartisan Senate Armed Services Committee report determined the following: Senior officials in the United States government solicited information on how to use aggressive [interrogation] techniques, redefined the law to create the appearance of legality, and authorized their use against detainees.
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Posted at 03:33 PM
December 31, 2009
Iraq Today: War News for Thursday, December 31, 2009
[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
Rachel Maddow: Bush and Cheney justifying Iraq War through torture ...
[Dandelion Salad] Senior administration officials followed the President and Vice President’s lead. Our recent bipartisan Senate Armed Services Committee report determined the following: Senior officials in the United States government solicited information on how to use aggressive [interrogation] techniques, redefined the law to create the appearance of legality, and authorized their use against detainees.
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Posted at 03:33 PM
December 29, 2009
Godless Liberal Homo: The Iraq War Is Still Going
[Godless Liberal Homo] With healthcare, Global Warming, the Great Recession, and the War in Afghanistan, it is easy for people to be overwhelmed and overlook the Iraq War, coverage of which is largely censored by corporate media these days. Yet, the occupation and war against the Iraqi people are making all of those problems worse, while unleashing terror, devastation, and death in that country.
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Posted at 03:04 PM
Iraq War veteran and welterweight standout Steve Carl signs with ...
[Untitled] Carl, 25, a U.S. Army sergeant who served in the Iraq War, took up MMA about five years ago while stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, and has since compiled a professional record of 10-1. His rear naked choke submission of the previously undefeated Ivan Ivanoff at the M-1 Challenge in Bulgaria earlier this year won him international acclaim and drew the attention of matchmakers from all of the top MMA promotions.
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Posted at 03:02 PM
December 26, 2009
Iraq Today: War News for Friday, December 25, 2009
[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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December 24, 2009
Iraq Today: War News for Thursday, December 24, 2009
[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 03:33 PM
War Vet: I Served 40 Months in Iraq, After Which I Didn't Want to ...
[PopShizle.com] Veteran with PTSD: "I don't feel comfortable at home anymore. My threat tolerance and response to perceived threats is so finely tuned that I felt safer in Iraq.
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Posted at 03:32 PM
December 22, 2009
Aisha: The Treachery Behind The Iraq War
[Aisha] Valerie Plame, the wife of U.S. ambassador, Joseph Wilson, was acting as a spy on behalf of America, when she was inexcusably outed by the Bush Administration, due to the fact, her husband came back with a report that didn't serve the purposes of the warmongering President and Vice President. She could have been killed by enemies of the nation, while doing her job, when the Bush Administration exposed her status, out of sheer revenge.
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Posted at 03:04 PM
MoD News - Iraq War Inquiry
[Military News Feed] Edward Chaplin was formerly Foreign Office director for the Middle East and North Africa while Sir Peter Ricketts chaired the joint intelligence committee (JIC) for the first nine months of 2001and is now the Foreign Office's most senior official.
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Posted at 03:02 PM
December 19, 2009
Civic Center: Two Iraq War Movies: The Hurt Locker vs. Avatar
[Civic Center] Though the movie is intelligent and brilliantly directed by Kathryn Bigelow, it's also an Iraq War movie that The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times can love. Politics don't ever into it, and the point-of-view is completely and artistically through the very subjective eyes of three American soldiers.
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Posted at 03:34 PM
Iraq: the path of war | openDemocracy
[openDemocracy] The Saudi decision, which meant that Desert Fox had to be undertaken with less competent forces, was a considerable shock to the Pentagon, to the Bill Clinton administration, and even more to the neo-conservatives. Those who had already been calling for regime-termination in Iraq now saw that the Saudi royal house too could not be relied on to support American actions.
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Posted at 03:32 PM
December 17, 2009
Britain's 'Open Inquiry' Into Iraq War Censored -- News from ...
[News From Antiwar.com] The Chilcot Inquiry, Britain’s long sought public inquiry into the start of the Iraq War, has had its share of interesting testimony, but today the testimony got a little too interesting when Sir Jeremy Greenstock took the stand.
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Posted at 03:34 PM
Meek wants war bonds for Afghanistan, Iraq
[The Buzz: Florida Politics] “At a time of tremendous sacrifice for our military families, we need to promote shared sacrifice and shoulder collective responsibility as a nation as we fight two wars halfway across the globe,” Meek said. “War bonds are a cost-effective way to reduce our dependence on foreign creditors and create an outlet for Americans to express their patriotism and support for our service members as well as the security mission for which they are deployed.”
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Posted at 03:33 PM
December 15, 2009
Downing Street Says » Iraq War
[Downing Street Says] Asked if the Prime Minister would agree with the Defence Secretary who had reportedly said that he would not have supported the Iraq War if he had known that there were no WMDs in Iraq, the PMS said that the Prime Minister had always been very clear on the Iraq situation; he welcomed the fact that there was an inquiry, he welcomed the fact that it was independent but he would not comment on aspects of the inquiry or related matters.
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Posted at 03:04 PM
Matthew Yglesias » Blair, Iraq, Oslo, and “Just War”
[Matthew Yglesias] Sometimes I like to imagine Tony Blair perched above an enormous dunk tank, filled with pirhanas. And Hans Blix standing in front, with a limitless supply of baseballs.
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Posted at 03:03 PM
December 12, 2009
World News Australia - Iraq war just, even without WMD: Blair
[World News Australia] [1] => Array ( [article_id] => 1140591 [headline] => US, UK sought 'smoking gun' for Iraq war [abstract] => British and US government officials had scrambled to find a "smoking gun" to justify invading Iraq in 2003, an inquiry into the conflict has heard. [content] =>
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Posted at 03:34 PM
Is Avatar an attack on the Iraq War? - Telegraph Blogs
[News] James Cameron has made some of the best science fiction films of the modern era, including The Terminator and Aliens. He’s also responsible for the most successful film of all time, Titanic, which raked in nearly $2 billion worldwide in box office receipts.
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Posted at 03:33 PM
December 10, 2009
Pan-African News Wire: Iraq War Update: PM Asks For Patience After ...
[Pan-African News Wire] Nouri al-Maliki was expected to attend a special parliamentary session Thursday where lawmakers have demanded his interior and defense ministers appear to answer questions on how bombers once again found holes in security in heavily guarded central Baghdad, according to the parliament speaker's spokesman.
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Posted at 03:33 PM
Justification for Iraq War Provided by Guy Who Knows Really Good ...
[Indecision Forever] The 45-minute claim was a key feature of the dossier about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction that was released by Tony Blair in September 2002. Blair published the information to bolster public support for war.
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Posted at 03:32 PM
December 08, 2009
Looking for books on the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980's - Straight ...
[Straight Dope Message Board - Cafe Society] See if you can find Efraim Karsh's The Iran-Iraq War, which is very short (only about 100 pages), but is a summary. Also, while this is more of a look at the politics of the war than the actual military campaigns, Dilip Hiro's "The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Millitary Conflict"
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Posted at 03:07 PM
Filmstalker: Wachowski's futuristic Iraq war film?
[Filmstalker] However some twitters from Arianna Huffington, Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of The Huffington Post newspaper, have revealed that she's on set with the Wachowski's and working on an Iraq war film with a difference, the difference being it's set some ninety years in the future.
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Posted at 03:04 PM
December 05, 2009
Iraq War Cost Set To Top Vietnam War Cost? « Bring the Military Home
[Bring the Military Home] bush is insane and should have a sanity test. He is sending out sons and daughters overseas to basically be slaughtered needlessly.
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Posted at 03:35 PM
Docudharma:: Iraq War Inquiry, Day Seven
[Docudharma - Front Page] And, as mentioned above, while all this planning, quietly, was taking place as to invading Iraq and toppling Saddam we had troops in Afghanistan, Afghanistan where al Qaeda was hold up and the Taliban regime was protecting. As it seemed the focus even before the invasion of that country took place to get to the guilty band of extremist who carried out 9/11 was on and growing towards Iraq, the President was telling everyone we were going to get bin Laden Dead or Alive but we were going to get him.
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Posted at 03:32 PM
December 03, 2009
The UK Iraq War Inquiry: The Role of the British Government is ...
[Suite101: Politics & Society Articles] Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British ambassador to Washington from 1997 to 2003, was called to testify last Thursday. One of the key points of his declaration was that once the U.S. decided to take military action against Iraq, the British government never considered opting out or opposing it, for it was, quoting his words, “a waste of time”
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Posted at 03:42 PM
How Iraq could win the war in Afghanistan - Full Comment
[Full Comment] Here at Full Comment, you'll find an eclectic mix of commentary on news, politics and pop culture ”” plus the occasional dig at a Star or Globe pundit who's gone off the rails.
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