Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Allen L Roland's Radio Weblog] ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: The documents reveal that the British government regarded Bush's premeditated invasion of Iraq as illegal and had concerns that Prime Minister Blair and cabinet ministers could be brought up on war crime charges for participating in naked aggression. The documents reveal that Bush's decision to invade Iraq had nothing whatsoever to do with the reasons he gave the US Congress and the American people and that the "intelligence" he cited to justify his invasion was concocted and fabricated.

 [Scylla & Charybdis] Does the AP Realize How Slanted It Is ?: "The statement did not say when al-Roshoud was killed, but U.S. forces have launched a series of offensives near Qaim in past weeks against militants coming across the border. Al-Roshoud slipped into Iraq in April, according to the posting, the authenticity of which could not be confirmed.

 [Qando.net] The QandO Blog - Iraq News: Knight Ridder - WASHINGTON - The top U.S. commander in the Persian Gulf told Congress on Thursday that the Iraqi insurgency is undiminished and foreign fighters continue to swell its ranks, an assessment that appeared to conflict with more optimistic comments from the Bush administration.

[Juancole.com] Informed Comment: Professor Adel Saffy of Bahcesehir University in Istanbul compares the Bush-Blair agreement in April, 2002, to get up a war against Iraq through the manipulation of their publics to the Sykes-Picot agreement between Britain and France during WW I that led to the Middle East being carved up into small weak states (and involved the British duplicitously promising Syria both to the French and to Sharif Hussein of Mecca, the ancestor of Jordan's King Abdullah II).

[Oregonlive.com] OregonLive.com: The Oregonian's Iraq Blog: A few meeting notes that may be of interest to readers of this blog: .Kulongoski attending the funeral of every Oregonian killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 [Littlegreenfootballs.com] lgf: there is no hell. there is only France.: Everything you see in this weblog was developed and programmed by Charles Johnson, including but not limited to the slideshows, polls, user preferences, contact form, referrer list, daily/monthly statistics, site search, news search tools, link management system, random Zappa quote, and last but not least, the weblog system itself, which includes a full commenting system with a recent comments list, automatic archiving, RSS generation for syndication, an email-an-article feature, and a whole bunch of editing and administration features behind the scenes.

[Iraqwarnews.net] Iraq War Today: James Hepper, a gunner assigned to 1st Battalion, 13th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, keeps a close watch out for any hostile activities during a raid of an abandoned factory suspected of being used to make improvised explosive devices in Taji, Iraq, June 8, 2005. The factory was once a chemical weapons manufacturing plant.

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