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Iraq Reviews > January 30, 2010

Blair Defends Iraq War, Citing 9/11 -- News from Antiwar.com

[News From Antiwar.com] 3- In the other hand Hitler did not wait for the right time and moment to invade Russia and crush the communism and then going south toward Persian gulf for its Oil, in that regard they waited fourteen years and bombed the hell out of Iraq before they went in, the difference between then and Iraq invasion is that Hitler was a fascist and a leader of such political party.., he wouldn’t wait to tell you otherwise, Tony Blair and George W. Bush or Paul Wolfwitz would never tell you that they are what is called the Neo Fascism, they will smile in a liberal or a democratic way but they would do the same thing that Hitler did.

The Iraq War Was A Turning Point For Robot Armies - Futurism - io9

[io9: science] Call them the New Hessians: Like the German troops hired by the Brits to fight in the Revolutionary War, these robots show us outsourcing our fight. But in this case, not just to another nation, but away from the human race entirely.

Posted at 03:31 PM

January 30, 2010

Blair Defends Iraq War, Citing 9/11 -- News from Antiwar.com

Posted at 03:33 PM

The Iraq War Was A Turning Point For Robot Armies - Futurism - io9

Posted at 03:31 PM

January 28, 2010

MoD News - Secrecy Clouds Iraq War Inquiry

[Military News Feed] Lord Goldsmith said: "I want to make it clear that I didn't agree with the decision that has apparently been made that certain documents are not to be declassified but I will give the evidence that the inquiry seeks."

Posted at 03:38 PM

Lawcast164: The legal basis for the Iraq War and Lord Goldsmith's ...

[Charon QC] Philippe Sands QC of Matrix Chambers and Professor of International Law at University College London has long been of the view that the war in Iraq was illegal and published a book to that effect some time ago. There are few supporters of the revivalist theory put forward by Lord Goldsmith at the Iraq Inquiry hearing today - but Carl Gardner is one lawyer who does. The podcast is a discussion between us rather than a traditional interview style podcast.

Posted at 03:33 PM

January 26, 2010

Gen. Petraeus: Afghan War Will Take Longer Than Iraq -- News from ...

[News From Antiwar.com] [...] Accident Number Two Afghanistan is to Pakistan as Iraq is to Texas. These accidents were also caused by clumsy art lovers who have no sense of balance. The art lovers in the Pentagon and Raytheonblackwaterboeingthon, tripped and ripped the Middle East Picasso almost ten years ago. While rumors persist, no firm date is known to exist in fixing this rip. [...]

Posted at 03:03 PM

PoliticsHome | News | Iraq war was illegal, says FCO legal adviser

[Politics Home - The Green Box RSS Feed] Sir Michael was forced to clarify the legal position, as he saw it, surrounding the use of force in Iraq after Straw had claimed that military action in Kosovo provided a precedent for the legality of Iraq, and that the UK could go to war if they had tried and failed to get a second UNSC resolution.

Posted at 03:02 PM

January 23, 2010

Petraeus: Afghanistan needs more 'sustained' effort than Iraq war ...

[Top News] Petraeus, who has been credited with the troop surge in Iraq, told The Hill after the discussion that Afghanistan is not like Iraq “in the sense that you won’t see precipitous downturn” in the violence and insurgency that took place in Iraq and that Afghanistan will take a much more “sustained” effort.

Posted at 03:34 PM

Britain was keen to avoid Iraq war: Ex-foreign minister ...

[WN.com - Photown News] London: Britain wanted to avoid the 2003 war in Iraq, its foreign secretary at the time said on Thursday, saying that backing the conflict was "the most difficult decision I have ever faced in my life." Jack Straw, the first serving .

Posted at 03:32 PM

January 21, 2010

Creative-i / Read it in full: Jack Straw's Iraq war letter to Tony ...

[Creative-i] That Iraq is in flagrant breach of international legal obligations imposed on it by the UNSC provides us with the core of a strategy, and one which is based on international law. Indeed, if the argument is to be won, the whole case against Iraq and in favour (if necessary) of military action, needs to be narrated with reference to the international rule of law.

Posted at 03:34 PM

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Is Health Care Reform the ...

[FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right] Let’s say at the end of that debate, 33 percent of Americans thought it was a good idea to invade Iraq, 46 percent thought it was a bad idea and the rest weren’t sure. Then let’s say that there were a bunch of elections in places like New Jersey and Virginia in the middle of this debate and George Bush’s party lost them all badly.

Posted at 03:33 PM

January 19, 2010

Ennahar Online - War in Iraq: Blair before the Commission of ...

[Ennahar Online] LONDON - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will testify Friday, January 29 before the commission investigating the controversial commitment of the United Kingdom in the war in Iraq in 2003, said Monday that committee.

Posted at 03:03 PM

Sindh Today - Online News » Britain went to war with Iraq on ...

[Sindh Today - Online News] London, Jan 19(ANI): Jonathan Powell, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s chief of staff, has admitted that Britain went to war with Iraq on the “assumption” that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

Posted at 03:02 PM

January 16, 2010

Needlenose » Blog Archive » Iraq continues to prove their war was ...

[Needlenose] For the hawks who foisted the Iraq war on us, the invasion and occupation were all about imposing the will of the United States on that country, not to mention the rest of the Middle East. Some who opposed the war saw it through a similar American-centric prism, claiming that the horrific internal violence that followed was purely in response to U.S. imperialism.

Posted at 03:35 PM

Iraq-Afghan War Veterans Launch New Business : Veterans Today

[Veterans Today] Hopefully this website will do for hunting and fishing what Travelocity and Orbitz has done for the travel industry. With its soon-to-come online reservation software outdoorsmen will soon be able to find, book, and pay for their dream excursion all online.

Posted at 03:32 PM

January 14, 2010

Neil Clark: Dutch Inquiry: Iraq war had no legal mandate

[Neil Clark] While he (Alistair Campbell), was protesting that Tony Blair, honourable as Brutus, acted with the deepest sincerity and the best of intentions, a high-powered inquiry headed by a former Dutch supreme court judge, Willlibrord Davids, reported that the Netherlands and its allies had no excuse under any interpretation of international law for going to war in Iraq in March 2003.

Posted at 03:33 PM

Dutch inquiry concludes the Iraq war 'was illegal' as Tony Blair's ...

[openDemocracy] The former prime minister will need to justify his style of government, which, from the informal decision-making, to the secret memos, to the only sporadic consultation with cabinet ministers, been exposed in a damning light by the Chilcot inquiry. Blair will need to answer questions about the presentation of the case for war and in particular why he deemed the September 2002 dossier on Iraq's weapons was 'beyond doubt.' He will also need to explain his post-invasion plan and more importantly, explain the timing of his decision to support a military invasion by the US.

Posted at 03:32 PM

January 12, 2010

Lucent Terrorism Library - The War Against Iraq (Lucent Terrorism ...

[Latest - Ebook30.com] The fifth installment in this series, The War Against Iraq covers events that led the United States from the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to recent military involvement in Iraq.

Posted at 03:06 PM

Dutch report: Iraq war not legal | Stock Market News - Business ...

[Rocket News] By Jonny DymondBBC NewsA Dutch inquiry into the run-up to the Iraq war is to issue its report.The current Dutch government set up the inquiry following the leaking of foreign ministry memos casting doubt on the legal basis for the war.

Posted at 03:04 PM

January 09, 2010

Canada | Draft Dodgers | War Resisters | Iraq

[GlobalPost] During the American Revolutionary War in the late 1700s, an estimated 50,000 colonists who wanted to remain loyal to Britain fled north to what would later become Canada. Thousands more crossed the border during the Civil War, using an underground railroad that led escaped slaves to freedom.

Posted at 03:34 PM

Jeff Weintraub: The American war in Iraq trails off

[Jeff Weintraub] Among Iraqi police, 22 died and 56 were wounded.=> Around the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007, as the inter-sectarian bloodbath in Arab Iraq seemed to be escalating out of control, a great many people concluded that Iraq was going irretrievably over the edge, that further US military involvement was a hopeless cause, and that the only sensible course was for the US to abandon the effort and start pulling out. There were some genuinely plausible reasons to reach this conclusion, but it turned out to be incorrect.

Posted at 03:33 PM

January 07, 2010

War News Updates: Iraq To Sue Israel Over Destroyed Reactor

[War News Updates] An Iraqi parliament member said Tuesday that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki plans to sue Israel for damages done to his country following its destruction of the Tammuz nuclear reactor.

Posted at 03:34 PM

Iraq in the Future Perfect Tense - At War Blog - NYTimes.com

[At War] Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, skipped past the upcoming elections in March, which have generated protracted political infighting and possibly been a motivating factor in three massive bomb attacks on government buildings, to discuss the impact that will have emerged from them.

Posted at 03:32 PM

January 05, 2010

Prairie Weather: Iraq wasn't a war. It was a signal.

[Prairie Weather] He has produced a fascinating and chilling thread of narrative history of the Iraq war's casus belli. He documents richly the consensus among Bush Administration decision-makers, outside of a few realists .

Posted at 03:04 PM

Commentary » Blog Archive » Iraq: The Forgotten War

[Commentary] Moreover, the Iraqi civilian death toll in November (88 civilians killed and 332 wounded) fell to its lowest level since the 2003 U.S.-led war began. Daily violence has drastically dropped across the country over the past two years, CNN reported, but sporadic spectacular attacks, including high-profile suicide bombings against government buildings on August 19, October 25 and December 8, continue to claim hundreds of lives.

Posted at 03:03 PM

Iraq Reviews > January 30, 2010

Blair Defends Iraq War, Citing 9/11 -- News from Antiwar.com

The Iraq War Was A Turning Point For Robot Armies - Futurism - io9

January 30, 2010

Blair Defends Iraq War, Citing 9/11 -- News from Antiwar.com

The Iraq War Was A Turning Point For Robot Armies - Futurism - io9

January 28, 2010

MoD News - Secrecy Clouds Iraq War Inquiry

Lawcast164: The legal basis for the Iraq War and Lord Goldsmith's ...

January 26, 2010

Gen. Petraeus: Afghan War Will Take Longer Than Iraq -- News from ...

PoliticsHome | News | Iraq war was illegal, says FCO legal adviser

January 23, 2010

Petraeus: Afghanistan needs more 'sustained' effort than Iraq war ...

Britain was keen to avoid Iraq war: Ex-foreign minister ...

January 21, 2010

Creative-i / Read it in full: Jack Straw's Iraq war letter to Tony ...

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Is Health Care Reform the ...

January 19, 2010

Ennahar Online - War in Iraq: Blair before the Commission of ...

Sindh Today - Online News » Britain went to war with Iraq on ...

January 16, 2010

Needlenose » Blog Archive » Iraq continues to prove their war was ...

Iraq-Afghan War Veterans Launch New Business : Veterans Today

January 14, 2010

Neil Clark: Dutch Inquiry: Iraq war had no legal mandate

Dutch inquiry concludes the Iraq war 'was illegal' as Tony Blair's ...

January 12, 2010

Lucent Terrorism Library - The War Against Iraq (Lucent Terrorism ...

Dutch report: Iraq war not legal | Stock Market News - Business ...

January 09, 2010

Canada | Draft Dodgers | War Resisters | Iraq

Jeff Weintraub: The American war in Iraq trails off

January 07, 2010

War News Updates: Iraq To Sue Israel Over Destroyed Reactor

Iraq in the Future Perfect Tense - At War Blog - NYTimes.com

January 05, 2010

Prairie Weather: Iraq wasn't a war. It was a signal.

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