[Marine Corps Times - News] Petition: Iraq veterans deserve parade - Marine Corps News | News ...: said Paul Rieckhoff, founder and executive director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, in a statement. “This Super Bowl weekend is a critical moment to put the spotlight on our country’s real heroes.

[News] Daily Chronicle | Cities consider parades for Iraq War vets: Louis parade welcoming home Iraq War and other post-Sept. 11 veterans was such a hit that at least 10 other cities around the country are considering similar celebrations.

[Military | WVBT TV] More cities consider Iraq vets parades | Associated Press: Schneider and Appelbaum said the idea began in December with a simple conversation between the two of them about why there were no big celebrations to mark the end of the Iraq War. So they sought donations, launched a Facebook page, met with the mayor and mapped a route.

[Rare Chicago! Recent Posts] Chicago, It's Not Too Late for a Iraq War Vet Parade | Rare Chicago!: Chicago has parades for Italians, for Irish, for Polish, for African Americans, for Lesbian and Gay Pride -- for...you name it: for pretty pink  pooches, probably.  How about a parade for our neighbors, our friends, our sons and our daughters?  How about a parade for the fallen, those who lived down the block or went to the same church?

[Newsvine - PhotoBlog - Articles] St. Louis hosts first big parade to welcome Iraq War veterans: Larry Connor, center, Vietnam veteran, salutes his fellow servicemen during the Welcome Home Heroes Parade in downtown St. Louis, Mo., Jan.

[News] More U.S. grassroots parades for Iraq war vets possible (Reuters): Reuters - Organizers of a parade for Iraq war veterans that drew thousands of flag waving spectators in St. Louis last weekend have been asked by people around the country for help in planning similar events, officials said Friday.

[Nathan Rudy] NJ Giants Deserve a Parade? How About Our Iraq War Vets ...: I supported the invasion of Afghanistan, and opposed the Iraq War from the start.  But I always supported the men and women who were asked to fight in both wars.  As the son of a vet, grandson of a vet, great grandson of a vet, etc. all the way back to the French and Indian War I understand that I cannot understand the sacrifices and horrors they face.

[Odd Onion] More U.S. grassroots parades for Iraq war vets possible | Odd Onion: About 4,500 U.S. troops were killed in Iraq from the 2003 invasion until the last troops left in mid December. The war and subsequent occupation were marred by the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the killing of civilians by troops or private security contractors.

[Nation Now] Super Bowl parade? What about a parade for Iraq vets? - latimes.com: It's a pretty simple question on the eve of Super Bowl XLVI weekend: "If the Giants and Patriots Deserve a Super Bowl Parade, Don't Iraq Vets?"

[Georgia Social Blog | Site Wide Activity] War not over: Ga. vets of Iraq now going to ... - Georgia Social Blog: War not over: Ga. vets of Iraq now going to Afghan. February 4, 2012 in News. The Iraq war is over, but that doesn't mean peacetime has begun for all the American soldiers who fought it. ? Taylor Townsend is at the head of the class ...

[The Blue States] If the Giants or Patriots Deserve A Super Bowl Parade, Don't Iraq Vets?: As far as specifically the Iraq War, I remain skeptical of the reasons we were led into that war, but the soldiers did their job (still doing their job in A’stan) and they need to be recognized for it even if they don’t really desire the recognition. I seem to think their could be some solace in seeing us come out and acknowledge/praise them.

[Newsvine - The Maddow Blog - Articles] The Maddow Blog - Putting veterans back to work: In 2012, America's Republicans, Conservatives, Democrats, and Liberals ALL Claim to Honor our Veterans, Servicemen and Women, how can anyone deny them the Job Opportunities that Obama's plan is offering? These are NOT 'Free' or 'Make Work' jobs, the Veterans will still have to qualify for the jobs, and the work certainly NEEDS doing (in many cases, it's long overdue), why can't we have a '2012 GI Bill of Rights', to repay these brave men and women for their service?

[Arizona State Council VVA Blog] More cities consider parades for Iraq War vets - vvaarizona.org: Arizona State Council VVA Blog. Serving Vietnam ... Vietnam Veterans of America - Arizonal State Council. “Never again shall one ... The St. Louis parade welcoming home Iraq War and other post-Sept. 11 veterans is ...

[Milblogging.com : The World's Largest Index of Military Blogs (Milblogs)] Living veteran declared dead 4 times by VA - Milblogging.com : The ...: Soldiers are personally responsible for all content they publish on social media sites, blogs or other websites, but a Soldier’s friends and Family members also need to be aware of what they post. A friend or Family member’s post can put a Soldier and his/her unit in danger.

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[Newsvine - U.S. News - Articles] U.S. News - More cities consider parades for Iraq War vets: I served in Vietnam than got out of the millitary.I was a mechanic then.I spent many years out then went back in the army in time to go to Desert Storm.Then I went over to Iraq for a while in 2008-09.So I have served in 3 wars for our country.I have always thought it was my duty to serve in the military since I was a half citizen to this country.When I was born my dad was still a Canadian citizen.I was born to an American mother in Peoria Ill.Hence my duty to serve being an American and born an American,the greatest nation in the world.I am retired from the military now,and if they want to have a parade for the younger vets then let them.Even though I was in Iraq for that war,I will stand on the side with my fellow Vietnam and Desert Storm vets cheering them on.The young ones deserve something for their service too.

[Rare Chicago! Recent Posts] Chicago, It's Not Too Late for a Iraq War Vet Parade | Rare Chicago!: Some 200,000 Vietnam Veterans and their families took part, marching through the Loop, wearing the remainders of their uniforms, while 300,000 people looked on.  A rare day for Chicago and one of its proudest.  Chicago went where other cities did not.

[Military | WVBT TV] More cities consider Iraq vets parades | Associated Press: Schneider and Appelbaum said the idea began in December with a simple conversation between the two of them about why there were no big celebrations to mark the end of the Iraq War. So they sought donations, launched a Facebook page, met with the mayor and mapped a route.

[Newsvine - PhotoBlog - Articles] St. Louis hosts first big parade to welcome Iraq War veterans: People in the crowd waved American flags and held signs reading, "Welcome Home" and "God Bless Our Troops." Fire trucks with aerial ladders hoisted three huge American flags along the route.

[KHQ - ***News***] More Cities Consider Parades For Iraq War Vets - KHQ Right Now ...: Louis on Jan. 28 say they have been approached by officials in Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Tucson, Ariz., Nashville, Tenn., and Greensboro, N.C.

[Home Post] First-Ever Welcome Home Parade Held for Iraq War Vets (Video ...: Welcome Home Parade for Iraq War Vets. The first-ever parade welcoming home troops who fought in the Iraq War went off without a hitch on Saturday in St.

[Nathan Rudy] NJ Giants Deserve a Parade? How About Our Iraq War Vets ...: I supported the invasion of Afghanistan, and opposed the Iraq War from the start.  But I always supported the men and women who were asked to fight in both wars.  As the son of a vet, grandson of a vet, great grandson of a vet, etc. all the way back to the French and Indian War I understand that I cannot understand the sacrifices and horrors they face.

[Arizona State Council VVA Blog] More cities consider parades for Iraq War vets - vvaarizona.org: Arizona State Council VVA Blog. Serving Vietnam Veterans in Arizona ... State Council. “Never again shall one generation of veterans abandon another” ... The St. Louis parade welcoming home Iraq War and other post-Sept.

[The Blue States] If the Giants or Patriots Deserve A Super Bowl Parade, Don't Iraq Vets?: As far as specifically the Iraq War, I remain skeptical of the reasons we were led into that war, but the soldiers did their job (still doing their job in A’stan) and they need to be recognized for it even if they don’t really desire the recognition. I seem to think their could be some solace in seeing us come out and acknowledge/praise them.

[The Catholic Herald] Crowds at St. Louis parade pay tribute to soldiers back home from Iraq: "It's hard to believe that private citizens came up with this idea in three weeks time and made it this huge -- a turnout like this on a January day," said Richard Cullen, quartermaster of a Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Illinois. He is a member of Holy Ghost Parish in Jerseyville, Ill.

[Nation Now] Super Bowl parade? What about a parade for Iraq vets? - latimes.com: It's a pretty simple question on the eve of Super Bowl XLVI weekend: "If the Giants and Patriots Deserve a Super Bowl Parade, Don't Iraq Vets?"

[Project 365 Vets] Photos from the St. Louis Welcome Home Iraq & Afghanistan War ...: Now I am an old codger, so it gave me an opportunity to do more than thank our Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans. I got to thank a whole lot of Vietnam Veterans …

[You Served® - Veteran and Military Blog and Military Podcast] WELCOME HOME: IRAQ VETERANS TO BE HONORED AT ...: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) is pleased to offer a “Welcome Home” to members of the U.S. Armed Forces returning from war in Iraq, and pledges that when completed, The Education Center at The Wall will honor the men and women who have served in all wars and are part of America’s legacy of service. VVMF and its founders emphasize that the planned Education Center will include and honor those who bore the burden of service in Iraq and who are currently fighting in Afghanistan.

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[Sovereign Independent] Fingers Itch for a War on Iran | Sovereign Independent: It was the Gulf Arab reticence to pay up that led to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, and the full-scale entry of US troops into Saudi Arabia (which enraged Osama Bin Laden and his minions) and into a decades long war against Iraq (1991-2011). This is all true as context: there has been a long-standing animosity between the Atlantic powers and Iranian democratic ambitions.

[Hairbytito.com] Iphone Battery Pack Best Buy: Britain and the United States after World War II is approaching the limit the United States, please use such means to protect the interests of the United States itself frequently. disharmonious there is a particular political connotation, it means the collapse of the Cold War, states United, and after the Cold War, a great tool if you keep playing like that in the United States, its real intent is the same: the U.S. position is not any other country beyond the short term to ensure no.

[Persecution] Military Archbishop: U.S Invasion Led To Fewer Iraqi Christians ...: His comments come only a month after the final pull-out of U.S. troops from Iraq, where they remained following the invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. Aid agencies estimate that over the course of eight years, the Catholic population of Iraq fell from over 800,000, to less than 150,000 now

[Muftah] Muftah » Iran-U.S. Analysis Failing to Offer New Ideas: Moreover, with its leaders either jailed or exiled, the Green Movement is little more than a fond memory in Iran. The three million protestors who took to the streets of Tehran immediately after the 2009 elections have returned home to Facebook, satellite television, and their daily lives.

[Kevin Trudeau Show] Pentagon Unable to Account for Missing Iraqi Millions : Kevin ...: After the Coalition Provisional Authority turned over sovereignty to the new government of Iraq in 2004 after the US invasion, the government of Iraq turned over about $3 billion of the money to the Pentagon to help pay for contracts the CPA had authorized before it ceased operations. Of that money, most was held in an account worth about $2.8 billion at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the remainder, $217.7 million, was held in cash in Saddam’s palace.

[Judeofascism.com] Judeofascism.com: Just as they did with Iraq, Zionist-front New York ...: Financed by Jewish bankers such as the Rothschilds and Jacob Schiff, and perpetrated by Soviet Communists well prior to the Holocaust, the Holodomor and other “historically necessary” left-wing exterminations like it that killed tens of millions in the early Soviet sphere were principally designed and implemented by Jewish Bolsheviks such as Leon Trotsky, Lazar Kaganovich and Genrikh Yagoda, in part to crush "anti-Semitism" (but in reality, crush opposition to murderous, Judeofascist-serving international rackets like communism).

[Syria Comment] Syria Comment » Archives » UN Security Council Meets; SNC ...: First Robert Danin, formerly of the NSC, now at the Council on Foreign Relations, argues that the U.S. can take more non-military action against Assad””viz., recall the U.S. ambassador, threaten to close the U.S. embassy, create an international contact group to handle Syria, provide more support to the opposition, keep Syria on the UN agenda and indict Assad for war crimes. Those all sound like sensible steps to me, although I’m skeptical they will be enough to make the difference.

[AIDemocracy.org] AIDemocracy.org | Iraq War: A successful business trip: The last convoy of US troops to leave Iraq has entered Kuwait, nearly nine years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, BBC reports. The aura of victory spread over the Pentagon .

[The Burning Platform] COMING WAR WITH IRAN « The Burning Platform: Maybe some young hotheads in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard decide to take a boat out and attack a US frigate - launch a few RPGs at it before they’re blown out of the water. Then the US feels it needs to mete out some punishment and launches a strike against the base the boat came from - which would be attacking the Iranian mainland - and the thing spins completely out of control.

[We Meant Well - Peter Van Buren] Talking Points for Explaining Chaos in Iraq | We Meant Well - Peter ...: Thank you all for your patience since January 1, when PM Maliki turned 180 degrees from us/US and began unraveling Iraq. We were of course caught by surprise over these events, most of my staff being detailed away to host holiday parties, then Bill took my Blackberry to Davos by accident, and we switched to Chrome in the office and the printer wouldn’t work at first, but we now have your talking points formulated.

[The CSF] Military archbishop: US invasion led to fewer Iraqi Christians | The CSF: His comments come only a month after the final pull-out of U.S. troops from Iraq, where they remained following the invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. Aid agencies estimate that over the course of eight years, the Catholic population of Iraq fell from over 800,000, to less than 150,000 now

[Sovereign Independent UK] Cameron Needs a Heart Transplant | Sovereign Independent UK: An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon.”

[CounterPsyOps] Petrodollar pumping US policy on Iran, backfire looms ...: At the heart of the issue is not Iran’s dubious attempt to build nuclear weapons, or even oil, but how that oil is paid for.  In 1973, Richard Nixon promised King Faisal of Saudi Arabia that the US would protect Saudi Arabian oilfields from any and all interested parties seeking to forcefully wrest them from the House of Saud.  It’s important to remember that in 1973, Saudi Arabia didn’t have a fraction of the military and ground forces it possesses today (almost exclusively US manufactured weapons) and the USSR was very much a threat.

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[Online Certificate Programs] Online Certificate Programs: Top 10 Controversies From the Iraq War: Iraq experienced some glimpses of a democratic system when Saddam's regime was taken down and millions of Iraqis got to vote, but the instability of the national government and military have overshadowed Iraq's ability to become a fully functioning democracy.

[TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE] TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE » Blood on Whose Hands? Bradley ...: On the other hand, the grave risks that were hidden in those leaked documents, as well as in all the other government distortions, cover-ups, and lies of the past decade, have been graphically illustrated in aortal red.  The civilian carnage caused by our rush to war in Iraq and by our deeply entrenched stalemate of a war in Afghanistan (and the Pakistani tribal borderlands) is not speculative or theoretical but all-too real.

[Pajamas Media] PJ Media » Did Clip of Brian De Palma's Redacted Lead Frankfurt ...: His help following the Indonesian tsunami got ONE mention on German TV, and that was about a month after repeated showings of the UN’s calling us stingy and German pundits repeated how the sending of a carrier only proved that Americans were incapable of considering anything but military solutions to problems. Bush may have made some mistakes along the line, but he sure isn’t responsible for the ignorance and prejudice of Europe’s chattering class.

[The Captain's Journal] The Captain's Journal » Concerning Declarations Of War And Tech ...: Congress voted in both Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom to give the President the authority to use force to effect our desired ends in those campaigns.  Call it what you will, these were declarations of war, albeit against a country in one case, and against a transnational religious insurgency in another case.  Actually, since Salafists of various stripes and other Islamic religious fanatics crossed the Jordanian and Syrian border to fight the U.S. in Iraq, at some 80 – 100 per month at the height of it, we have fought a transnational religious insurgency in both Iraq and Afghanistan.  In both cases the use of force was authorized by Congress.

[Watching America] Watching America : » Iraq: Another Political-Military Failure by the U.S.: the invasion of Granada (a 344 square kilometer island, whose most important national product is nutmeg) in 1983 culminated in a success for Washington and the invasion of Panama in 1989 with 26,000 men, which was motivated by the capture and indictment of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, also ended successfully.

[Wings Over Iraq] World Brief | Wings Over Iraq: Detainees from Libya's civil war held by revolutionary brigades continue to be subjected to torture despite efforts by the provisional government to address the issue, the U.N. human rights chief said on Wednesday.

[WikiLeaks Press] This Week in the Press: 29 December 2011 – 4 January 2012: in Pakistan itself, and that Muslim League-Nawaz calls for the restoration of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was motivated merely by a wish to score political points, and that plans were made for the judge to be re-deposed at a later stage. Chávez also noted that five South American leaders – including himself – have been diagnosed with cancer in recent years.

[IRISHTIMEZ.COM] Motions Submitted for the AGM on Sat 28th Jan 2012 | IRISHTIMEZ ...: . At the end of 2011, The United States officially announced the end of the war in Iraq and withdrawal of all troops at the end of 2011. With hundreds of thousands Iraqis dead, the US leaves behind chaos, a broken infrastructure, poor living conditions, and the increasingly authoritarian control from Maliki’s Shiite collation. Sadly, what we in the anti-war movement foresaw in 2003 has turned out to be the case.

[Mondoweiss] Kampeas: Jewish neocons are more than 2 degrees removed from ...: If our tentative working hypothesis is that the power and influence of Zionist Neocons may have caused the US to invade Iraq to further the interests of Israel even though it was clearly against US vital interests to do so, then we should limit our inquiry to Zionist Neocons, not Jewish economists, Jewish nuclear weapons experts, Jews on Team B, Jews on First, or Jews in general.

[Guernica / Blog] Guernica / Chase Madar: Blood on Whose Hands?: She was subsequently a leading hawk when it came to escalating and expanding the Afghan War, and is now responsible for disbursing an annual $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt’s ruling junta whose forces have repeatedly opened fire on nonviolent civilian protesters. So who’s been attacking the international community and putting lives in danger, Bradley Manning—or Hillary Clinton?

[Leon_H_Wolf's blog] Ron Paul Goes Full Metal Truther | RedState: Without casting any judgments on whether our military activities are justified or not and without even judging whether we’re the good guys or not, the fact is that when someone’s home gets blown up in Iraq and it’s an American bomb, people may hate us for that whether it’s irrational or not. After all, if most of the American people don’t understand what we’re doing in Iraq, do you really think the Iraqi people have a clue?

[FP Passport] U.S. marks official end to Iraq war | FP Passport: Kidwai noted works by Mohammad Abdul Hakim Khan (Patiala, 1905), Mirza Hairat Dehlawi (Delhi, 1912), and Mirza Abu'l Fazl (Allahabad, 1912).[21] Dehlawi was motivated consciously by a desire to give "a complete and exhaustive reply to the manifold criticisms of the Koran by various Christian authors such as Drs. Sale, Rodwell, Palmer, and Sir W.

[Poison Your Mind] Ron Paul And Good Craziness, Ctd, Part Deux | Poison Your Mind: His extremism on foreign policy is as dangerous to the world as the neocon vision because he would be happy to let the rest of the world burn with America sitting on the fire hose. We don’t need Ron Paul to have this debate, we need to empower the progressives who raised concerns about the Iraq War from the beginning–

[Front Porch Republic] The GOP in Limbo: How Low Can You Go? | Front Porch Republic: Exploiting the unfocused rage held by Republicans against the mainstream media, which is seen as being in the corner of the hated Obama, Gingrich has given the media talking heads repeated pokes in the eye during the debates.  Gingrich does it with ease and it has yielded rich dividends in cheers and votes.  But it’s contentless.  It neglects to mention that the ostensibly “liberal” media has never met a war it hasn’t liked and that it shares the foundational economic and foreign policies of every Republican president.  It ignores Fox News’ comparable propaganda and manipulation on behalf of the Republican establishment.  It also overlooks the fact that Gingrich, as president, would not be much different from Obama (based on his record).  So we have the opportunity to exchange Pepsi for Coke.  That tiny difference is enough to get many Republicans worked into a frenzy.  They can see Romney’s centrist opportunism for what it is.  They can’t see the presence of the exact same thing in Gingrich because he speaks conservative platitudes with such force and bashes Obama and his media friends with such aplomb.  It’s all style, no substance.  Just like Obama.  Ironically enough.  (If GOP voters really want to stick it to the corporate press, they should vote for Congressman Paul, who is ignored/ridiculed/attacked by the entire lot, from MSNBC to Fox, from AP to CBS.)

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[Iraq Inquiry Digest] Hague slaps the Deputy National Security ... - Iraq Inquiry Digest: The trouble for both Hague and the Inquiry is that many of the officials who are implicated in what Hague says went wrong over Iraq are now in senior positions in the government’s national security structure. Peter Ricketts is the current national security adviser and Julian Miller his deputy.

[Dirty Celebrities] Dirty Celebrities » Blog Archive » UK inquiry: Iraq citizen's death ...: The UK announced the public inquiry in 2008 after the nine other Iraqis alleged torture at the hands of British troops and sued the MOD for damages. Charges were dropped in 2007 against six British soldiers accused of involvement with Mousa’s death, but one accused soldier, Corporal David Payne, pleaded guilty in 2006 to a charge of inhumane treatment, becoming the first British soldier to admit commission of a war crime in Iraq.

[Politics & Society] The Iraq War Inquiry: A Guide to the 2009/2010 British Investigation ...: Early on in the Inquiry, questions were asked about the development of the United Kingdom's policy towards Iraq from 2001 to 2003, as well as the relations between the UK and America. There has also been a lot of focus on the intelligence which suggested Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator, was in possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), which was one of the reasons cited for the invasion.

[Iraq] The UK Iraq War Inquiry: The Role of the British Government is ...: Greenstock explained that he called for an international agreement because without a UN resolution, the war waged by the U.S. and backed by the UK would lack legitimacy. However, by the time the UN Security Council readmitted the WMD inspectors in Iraq for further investigation, the U.S. military was already prepared for war.

[Iraq Inquiry Digest] The need for clarity » Iraq Inquiry Digest: A number of threads from previous posts on the Digest need pulling together to get a clear picture of how Tony Blair persuaded his attorney general, his Cabinet and Parliament to back war against Iraq on the basis of intelligence in spite of the failure of UN inspectors to find Saddam’s alleged WMD and Saddam’s failure to obstruct or expel them, as Hans Blix has recently pointed out.

[Juliesthinktank.wordpress.com] Iraq war has become synonymous with a man whose achievements ...: The continued harassment Blair has endured in the hands of the press in Britain has now become tasteless in the minds of newspaper readers who have become accustomed to see a story or two about him on the front or inner pages of newspapers nearly every week. The Telegraph’s latest attempt to smear him has only ended up chipping into the credibility of this media house I once had respect and admiration for.

[Suite101: British/UK Affairs Articles] Blair's Decision on Iraq: Tony Blair's Reasons Examined at Chilcot ...: Previous inquiries concerning Iraq, the Hutton in July 2003 regarding the death of former UN weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly and the Butler Review July 2004, looking at the inconsistencies in intelligence relating to WMD did not deal directly with the legitimacy of the decision to go to war or whether parliament was deliberately misled on the scale of the threat posed by Iraq.

[Knights Party Veterans League] Iraq: Panetta's Immunity Request Not Protection from ICC: But, even if Panetta’s negotiating ploy is successful, anti-American factions in Iraq led by the Sadrists may seek prosecutions before the ICC (International Criminal Court).  What Panetta isn’t taking into account is the groups that have been conducting covert investigations of the use of “special weapons” by the US in Iraq.

[Newsweek Blogs] British Iraq Inquiry Likely to Seek Testimony from U.S. Witnesses ...: But some of the testimony it has elicited is quite revealing””particularly in comparison with the kind of information produced by patchy official U.S. investigations into the Iraq War. U.S. inquiries to date never produced public testimony by Bush, former vice president Dick Cheney, or other senior war planners like Pentagon policy gurus Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, or top U.S. diplomats like Colin Powell and Richard Armitage.

[Guy Fawkes' blog] BREAKING: GOD to Quit, Job Split - Guy Fawkes' blog: Is that the Guy that we didn’t VOTE for Who basically told the IRAQ enquiry to go and F–k themselves over the communications between the WAR mongers Bliar and Bush. Or the Unelected Guy who told Broon that he could NOT investigate Murdoch Empire.

[Cynthia Yildirim's blog] UK troops guilty of 'gratuitous violence' against civilians in Iraq ...: The brutal death of an Iraqi man held by British soldiers months after the U.S.-led invasion of the country was an "appalling episode of serious gratuitous violence" and partly a result of the U.K.'s failure to properly train troops on interrogation techniques, a report said Thursday.

[lukesmolinski] Baroness Manningham-Buller: one of my great heroines ...: When Eliza Manningham-Buller was asked at the Iraq Inquiry what she thought of this indirect threat – in the questioner’s words, “the theory that at some point in the future, [Saddam] would probably have brought together international terrorism and WMDs in a threat to Western interests”

[Philiphunt1066's Blog] The damning of Tony Blair: Former PM to be held to account on Iraq ...: The inquiry heard how Major-General Tim Cross, a senior British officer, asked Mr Blair to delay the invasion of Iraq two days before the conflict, partly because planning for afterwards was ”˜woefully thin’.

[Centurean2's Weblog] Israel's voice on Britain's Iraq Inquiry accuses critics of “anti ...: The ambassador’s comments and the attention paid to them by The Times may be helpful in the long run, if only by drawing attention to the Israeli dimension in the Anglo-US invasion of Iraq in 2003, a dimension that hitherto has scarcely been mentioned. Yet it is a fact that the campaign to overthrow Saddam Hussein was initiated, well before 9/11, by a group of influential American neo-cons, notably Perle, Feith and Wolfowitz (once described by Time magazine as “the godfather of the Iraq war”) nearly all of whom were ardent Zionists, in many cases more concerned with preserving the security of Israel than that of the US.

[Dark Politricks] Iraq: Panetta's Immunity Request Not Protection from ICC | Dark ...: When the money dries up and America’s prestige dries up with it, pushed forward every so much more quickly by our lonely position on the wrong side of so many issues, siding with Israel while they have the worst government in their short history, entire continents will become “no fly zones”

[My Elgg site: buladoo4p3w's blog] My Elgg site: buladoo4p3w's blog: Shox ugg ultimate short things: But with the deployment now winding down, people like Conservative leader David Cameron are urging Mr. Brown to open an inquiry into why Britain went to war in the first place and its role in Iraq through the years."What we .

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[Iraqi Dinar News] * FRANKS Monday Evening Call Notes and Recording Link: Dinar ...: We’ll I am sure Frank got a good nights sleep knowing he got everyone revved up and they went out first thing to buy Dinar…..so for dinner tonight he is having a big steak dinner at Peter Luger’s in NYC…..oh and he says …”Thanks” to everyone who just payed for this dinner…..another day of “get ready to cash in”

[Colt Brennan Blog] Behold: The Prince of Persia. . . the War in Iran has begun | Colt ...: as with Iraq, the president has paved the way for the conditioning of the American .thought, thanks to the complicity of the corporate media (and that's not a clich .

[Free realitytv] Iraq's Secret War Files – 48min Documentary | Free RealityTV: @3338600927 You are right.The US has supported terrorism all over.Iran will unite the Mid east,shut off the oil.China will call in the debt and with their army spread so thin ,no oil and bankrupt,USA will be the third world country.The only thing that will change is the innocent people killed will be Christians and Jews.WW3 will be the result and with the nuclear weapons at their disposal,no one will survive.We might as well bend over and kiss our asses good-bye. Very soon!

[SALTLAW] Confronting Fundamentally Un-American Conduct: Resisting ...: on C-span discussing his book.  Glenn Carle had been orderd to use and had used the Enhanced Interrogation Techniques and explained the bizarre pattern of how he was to proceed.  If a person answered the question they were considered to be cooperating.  If a person said they did not have any information, they were to be presumed to be uncooperative and therefore to be subjected to the enhanced interrogation techniques.  Carle, based on his experience, was absolutely categoric in saying that this was absurd and counter-productive.  Between Soufan at the FBI and Carle at the CIA, we have interrogators (at the level of a lieutenant-colonel so to speak) describing in detail the nature of the enhanced interrogation techniques and their ineffectiveness.  An additional revelation from Carle was that when he was to start his interrogation tasks at secret sites of these Al-Qaeda types, he was assured that there was a Presidential finding (President Bush authorizing the action) as well as the Justice Department analyses saying these techniques were authorized and legal.  At the same time, when he saw the relevant Yoo-Bybee torture memos back in 2002, he did question the quality of the legal advice but he was a person at the level of a lieutenant-colonel being told that up his chain of command to the President everyone had signed off on these actions.

[World And World] The Military And African Americans | World And World: There has been no war fought by or within the United States in which African-Americans did not participate, including the Revolutionary war, the Spanish-American war, the world wars, civil war, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (we are the only group that can make that claim!)Now you tell me, how could anyone question the patriotism of African-Americans?

[NewsWire] Joe Peacock: So You Want to Know What I Think About Occupy Wall ...: Forget the Iraq War protests which were mainly just reactionary leftists screaming in the street because they hated Bush. This cause actually matters.

[UFO Blogger : Uncover The UFO Truth] Iraq War Update: Rothschild Now Owns Iraqi Oil |Latest UFO News ...: " —President Bush, joking about his administration's failure to find WMDs in Iraq as he narrated a comic slideshow during the Radio & TV Correspondents' Association dinner, March 25, 2004

[Mediaite] Liz Cheney Iraq War | Liz Cheney Bill O'Reilly | Video | Mediaite: I don’t know who you are listening to about Iraq, but you are far off the mark.  Are there extremists that hate us in Iraq, sure, not as many as there were.  Are there more Iraqis the respect and appreciate what we have done over there, of course.  It’s a mixed bag, but not as bad as it was when SH was in power.  BTW, those peaceful members of society in Iraq, they found hundreds of thousands of them in mass graves.  They happened to be in tribes Saddam was not fond of.  Then the matter of the Kurds that were gassed, women, infants and children, didn’t matter.  That’s one of the crimes old Saddam swung for and those hundreds of thousands of victims in all those mass graves, the girl Uday fed to his rottweiler, the ones that were thrown into the shredder, head first or feet first depended on Saddam’s mood,  and many others tortured, maimed and killed received justice.  Would have never happened without us.

[Sacramento News] Kristin Cavallari Voted Off 'Dancing With the Stars' in Shocking ...: The competition continues Monday, with former talk show host Ricki Lake, actor David Arquette,  activist Chaz Bono, TV host Nancy Grace, reality TV personality Rob Kardashian,  fashion guru Carson Kressley , Iraq war veteran and actor J.R. Martinez , singer Chynna Phillips and Solo.

[freedetainees.org] The greatest « freedetainees.org: Hedges on Obama: “He has ruthlessly prosecuted the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where military planners speak of a continued U.S. presence for the next couple of decades. He has greatly expanded our proxy wars, which rely heavily on drone and missile attacks, as well as clandestine operations in Pakistan.”

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[antibvbl] Moonhowlings » Memorial Day Weekend: Brief History and Rolling Thunder: Their efforts and sacrifices have helped make the USA the great country that it is, and as much as Memorial Day in modern times has become the start of summer with thoughts of beaches and barbecues, we should all take a moment to remember the sacrifices of those who’ve served in our Armed Forces, or who are now serving in them.

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[Nannies4hire] Nannies4hire » Blog Archive » Iraq War Vet Fights for Return of ...: can’t do anything,” Elias said. “They’ve had

[YOU GO USA] Iraq War Vet Fights for Return of Children Taken by Estranged Wife ...: Elias had attempted to equivocate streamer to justice over control issues until Nakamura had a authorised request drafted observant that she and her dual children could, “visit Japan though any restrictions underneath any circumstances,” and if he didn’t approve he would have to, “surrender any control rights of Jade and Michael, to Mayumi.” Nakamura also wanted Elias to determine to a terms that she could immigrate to Japan with a children during any time.

[BOMBLog] BOMBLOG: Be My Date: The Spoils of Michael Rakowitz by Elias ...: Spoils runs until the end of the Autumn season, which wraps up on Thanksgiving. After Thanksgiving, the restaurant starts its Winter season.

[- OFinder aggregated posts with the keyword: children] ** Iraq War Vet Fights for Return of Children Taken by Estranged ...: When Marine Corps veteran Michael Elias was serving a tour of duty in Iraq back in 2008, he longed for the day when he could return home to his son and daughter. Little did he know that only a few months after his return, he would lose them to their mother, who fled with them to her native home of Japan.You're logged in as Account

[neverstoplooking.org] Unfortunately, non-custodial abductions are still too frequent ...: When veteran Michael Elias was serving in Iraq in 2008, he longed for the day when he could return home to his wife and two children in New Jersey.

[Parenting-Source.com] Iraqi War Vet Fights for Return of His Children | Parenting-Source.com: Just like thousands of other soldiers who have fought in foreign wars, Michael Elias longed for the day he would return home from Iraq and see his wife and two children again. But when that day finally came, he quickly realized it wasn’t the dream home coming he had hoped for.

[Asian Tour Travel] Iraq War Vet Fights for Return of Children Taken by Estranged Wife ...: When Marine Corps veteran Michael Elias was serving a tour of duty in Iraq back in 2008, he longed for the day when he could return home to his son and daughter. Little did he know that only a few months after his return, .

[MWC News] Iraq denies immunity for US troops after 2011: Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, has won enough backing from Shia, Sunni and Kurdish political blocs to keep some US soldiers in Iraq as military trainers, but without granting them immunity if they commit crimes. Baghdad and Washington must still negotiate .

[WorldFocusAir] Iraq War Vet Fights for Return of Children Taken by Estranged Wife ...: Iraq War Vet Fights for Return of Children Taken by Estranged Wife to Japan. When Marine Corps veteran Michael Elias was serving a tour of duty in Iraq back in 2008, he longed for the day when he could return home to his .

[Corey Robin] The New York Times Review of The Reactionary Mind: My ...: The second claim occurs in the midst of a dense five-page discussion””via Bacon, Richelieu, Hand, Michael Walzer, Bush, and Perle””of the following phenomenon: The more terrible a threat is to a nation’s well being (e.g., thermonuclear war with the Soviet Union), the less proof that nation’s government will require of the existence of that threat in order to take action against it. Flouting the rules of evidence in situations like the run-up to the Iraq War is not accidental or peculiar;

[Flower & Thistle] Every time a President plays fast and loose with the law, a Dick ...: Jonathan Chait evidently also noticed .That is the belief that drove the Bush administration to deem war against Iraq an essential part of the war on terror.

[Feral Jundi] Industry Talk: The Contractor POW's And MIA's Of Iraq And ...: The only American service member among the missing is Sergeant Altaie, whose family fled Iraq when he was 9 years old and settled in Ann Arbor, Mich. Some combination of homesickness and a love for both the United States and Iraq spurred him to join the Army in 2004, and he deployed to Baghdad the next year.

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[The Passionate Attachment] Obama's Jewish Team Sets the Record Straight on President's Pro ...: Like this: Like. Be the first to like this post. Written by Maidhc Ó Cathail. October 6, 2011 at 11:19 am. Posted in Uncategorized. « The Wonderful Post-Iraq War World of Tony Blair ...

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[The Burning Platform] NEO-CON SUCCESS STORY « The Burning Platform: WASHINGTON ”” One in three U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 military believes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting, and a majority think that after 10 years of combat America should be focusing less on foreign affairs and more on its own problems, according to an opinion survey released Wednesday.

[LewRockwell.com] An Iraq War Veteran's Quest ... - Lewrockwell.com - LewRockwell.com: I deployed twice to the killing fields of Iraq, and I was completely oblivious to the fact that the war was based on total lies. I had friends who were maimed and murdered all in the name of nothing genuinely patriotic.

[The Best Defense] General Mattis on the American experiment and military ethics - By ...: It's also worth noting that the Marine Corps looks at COIN as a tool through which to identify the enemy and kill him, and that regardless of the particular tactics we're using to do so, our mission is still to locate, close with, and destroy the enemy. It seems like the Army tends to talk about COIN and humanitarian operations as an end in themselves to a much greater extent.

[LewRockwell.com] The First American Dollar War Defeat by Ron Holland: The FED chairman replied, "General, if you know what is good for you, I suggest you stop reading those Australian hm., I mean Austrian economics articles on your "hate America" alternative media sites like "Lew Rockwell" or "The Daily Bell" and stay away from that freedom gadfly Ron Paul. We know you visit those reprehensible sites almost every day."

[the new citizenship project] Our Police State: We were now wearing BDUs and carrying fully automatic machine guns and wearing the same body armor as soldiers were in Iraq. All of our 870 Remington shotguns were removed from the patrol cars and replaced with full-automatic H&K-made G36 machine guns - to the protest of all the patrol officers, mind you.

[Everyone's Blog Posts - Today Perhaps 2.0] civil war coming to america?: The European Union Times is reporting here that Obama is using the deployment of additional troops to Afghanistan to cover for the movement of some 200000 troops, presently on duty in countries other than Iraq and Afghanistan, to USNORTHCOM to prepare .failed to provide their brother/sister veterans competent medical care, denied disability benefits, denied compensation for treatment as prisoners of war, placed single parents in confinement and taken their children, .

[Cuthulan's Blog] Darwin Award for Soldiers and Israel ,Will Natural Selection End ...: Later conflict with Saddam let to the first and second Gulf Wars, and to thirteen years of severe U.S.-imposed economic sanctions on Iraq between the two wars, which taken together completely obliterated the Iraqi economy. An estimated one million people were killed in the two Gulf wars, and the United Nations estimates that the economic sanctions, in combination with the destruction of the social and economic infrastructure in the First Gulf War, killed another million Iraqis.

[North Capitol Street] Honoring Our Troops Coming Home from Iraq, in Words & Deeds: One of the most deployed brigades in the US Army, the 2nd Brigade Combat Team has participated in three deployments to Afghanistan and four deployments to Iraq. He placed today's veterans squarely in the proud tradition of America's ... National Video Game Association » Batman: Under the Red hood, Review; Afrisports In Troubled Waters in Div 2 | LusakaTimes.com; The “Ruling Class” Wedding « LewRockwell.com Blog; After Gaza uproar, Israel orders combat officers to protect …

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[Autoblogging Information] American Security Project Report Finds Progress In Iraq and the War ...: While the Iraq troop surge has made important tactical improvements on the ground and has marginalized al Qaeda there, incidents of jihadist violence have continued to increase around the world, according to data from the National Counter Terrorism Center. Jihadist terrorist incidents worldwide have nearly doubled from 2005 to 2007, even after excluding attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan and those related to ongoing Israeli-Palestinian violence.

[MoJo Articles | Mother Jones] How US Taxpayers Got Plucked in Iraq | Mother Jones: The US Department of Agriculture representative from Baghdad visiting the plant with us said the solution was to spend more money: $20,000 to pay a contractor to get license plates for the four Hyundai trucks outside in the parking lot facing Mecca. Our initial grant did not include licensing the vehicles we bought.

[The 4th Media] The Al Qaeda Legend : Wither The “Global War on Terrorism”? Part I: In turn, large scale military campaigns have been waged in several countries as part of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). The wars on Afghanistan and Iraq were conducted under the banner of the Global War on Terrorism. Both the Afghan and Iraqi governments were identified as “state sponsors of terrorism”.

[The Political Surf] Cheney is right. Obama owes President Bush an apology | The ...: But Cheney is correct that Obama’s rhetoric on how Bush fought the War on Terror is hypocritical. In fact, Obama has used five times the amount of predator drones that Bush utilized and under Obama’s watch, 1,100 persons, al-Qaida and other terrorists, have died from U.S. drone attacks.

[GlobalResearch.ca] The Al Qaeda Legend : Wither The "Global War on Terrorism"?: In the inner consciousness of Americans, the attacks of September 11, 2001 justify acts of war and conquest, directed against the State sponsors of terrorism, including Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran.   

[Centurean2's Weblog] Terrorist Op-Ed: Libya's Al Qaeda Rebel Commander Writes Column ...: Belhaj, for those that don’t know, is a founding member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an official Al Qaeda affiliate, and listed by both the US State Department [2] and the United Kingdom Home Office [3] as a foreign terrorist organization and proscribed terrorist organization respectively. LIFG was the subject of a lengthy report issued by West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center [4] regarding foreign fighters turning up in Iraq killing US and British soldiers, LIFG and more specifically, the Benghazi-Darnah region of Libya lending more fighters to Iraq per-capita than any other nation, including Saudi Arabia.

[War On Terror News] American Forces Network in Iraq last day on air - War On Terror News: BAGHDAD - American Forces Network Radio - Iraq, the radio network run by U.S. troops deployed to Baghdad, plans to fill its final day of broadcasting in support of Operation New Dawn with events and special guest appearances by service members, U.S. civilians, Iraqi counterparts and several surprise guests here, Sept. 23.

[Veteran's Legal Support Center Blog] Ghosts of Iraq war still haunt RI veteran struggling with PTSD: And her early experiences with DiRaimo and other veterans and their families moved her to initiate the inter-agency study that produced “The Rhode Island Blueprint: Addressing the Needs of Returning Soldiers and Their Families,” a statewide plan to help the men and women who have fought the post-9/11 wars. It has become a national model, she says, recognized by the Department of Defense.

[Centurean2's Weblog] And We Thought We Were Free | Centurean2?s Weblog: In that regard, as I watch the TSA security fiasco unfold as well as George W Bush and Dick Cheney’s recent book tours ~ where they rationalize their illegal wars and economic rape of Iraq and Afghanistan as well as justify torture as a means to this criminal end ~ I immediately think of Milton Mayer’s classic THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE (The Germans 1933 - 1945).

[Longshot's Blog] Hank Williams Jr. Puts A White Sheet and Hood On For America ...: So it was OK to declare war in Iraq where we lost over 4,000 American troops lives, but now they are upset over a single terrorist death because he was American born? Or is it the fact that their President didn’t get Bin Laden or any other terrorist who has followed.

[Centurean2's Weblog] Harvest of Hypocrisy? UK Opium Poppy ... - Centurean2´s Weblog: Still, the public–desperate for the change in direction promised by the Obama administration–have been happy to fill in with their imagination what the new president has failed to deliver in reality. In a feat of doublethink so Orwellian that we can imagine Orwell himself would scarcely have believed it, there are many people who will say that Obama has ended the Iraq war.

[The American Spectator and The Spectacle Blog] The American Spectator : The War on Terror Drones On: If they are not uniformed, but they are an actualcombatant (Milligan, for example, was blowing things up himself)and they are captured on an active battlefield (defined by the UScourts to mean a place where US troops are actively engaged inbattle and no courts are open and operating) then they can besubjected to a different kind of commission, a commission ofnecessity established based on the lack of an operating judicialsystem with jurisdiction. If they are an actual combatant but not amember of an entity against whom the US Congress has declared war(and AQAP, created in 2009, isn’t such an entity) and they are noton what the US courts called a battlefield and what Goldsmith/Brennan are NOW redefining as a “hot” battlefield (so as to stilluse “battlefield” rationale on locales that are otherwise excludedfrom the legal definition of battlefield) then they can still besubject of a capture (or kill) operation if they pose an imminentthreat of danger to “the US” (i.e., it is an “absolute necessity”for self defense purposes to kill them).

[MarkCz.com: Blog] 9/11: Iraq erased from 'War on Terror'? - Blog - MarkCz.com: You have to imagine that the families of the 4,792 military fatalities in Iraq would be troubled to know that their loved ones are no longer included in the “War on Terror.” Similarly upset might be those injured or otherwise harmed in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

[Community] This is a war and attacks are justified - - Community: And there is good news that al-Qaida’s affiliate in Iraq has been severely weakened by a money squeeze, internal squabbling, a shortage of volunteer suicide bombers and more effective Iraqi efforts to snatch the terror group’s foreign recruits when they slip across the border from Syria.

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[Wings Over Iraq] WoI Brief | Wings Over Iraq: As Syrian army defectors begin launching attacks on government forces, Syria's largely peaceful rebellion appears in danger of descending into a sectarian civil war with wider regional consequences. – Reuters.

[The Sunday Leader] White House Petitioned To Probe Alleged War Crimes In SL | The ...: McDonald, you are right pointing out the sri Lanakan government is HAVING A VERY VERY POOR Record on effectively investigating VIOLATIONS into CRIMES and ABUSES committed by the GOVERNMENT itself NOT ONLY during the WAR but also AFTER the WAR. If one looks for JUSTICE the answers is NULL as the present dictatorship is ruining the current democracy and Freedom and Justice of its Citizens.

[themcglynn.com/theliberal.net] Afghanistan & Iraq U.S. Occupation Casualties & News | themcglynn ...: 18 in Tikrit, Iraq, of injuries suffered in a non-combat related incident. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.

[Mail.com: International] NATO urges Libyan authorities to seize arms caches - World news: A senior NATO diplomat said the United States was particularly concerned about the possibility the weapons would end up in the "wrong hands." Washington is working closely with the National Transitional Council "to make sure that these weapons are controlled and put under lock and key," the diplomat on condition of anonymity in compliance with standing regulations.

[Islamic Invitation Turkey] War opponents to occupy Trafalgar Sq. « Islamic Invitation Turkey: “[We] will occupy Trafalgar Square on Saturday 8 October to show our opposition to war, representing the vast majority of people in Britain who have opposed Britain’s involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya,” the Stop the War Coalition said.

[Mexico Drug Wars] Pentagon: Budget pinch to exclude some priorities | Mexico Drug Wars: And while Lynn stressed that no decisions were made, he said commanders got a good idea of the missions the Pentagon wants to protect and those that are likely to be targeted for cuts. He said the projected total cut of at least $450 billion is so large that simply killing a major weapons program will not solve the problem.

[Lux Libertas - Light and Liberty] Lux Libertas – Light and Liberty » Not in the MSM: However, the progress of Iraqi forensic police officers learning evidence testing techniques and procedures is anything, but a scripted piece of fiction. Officers with Iraq’s Federal Police have been working with International Narcotic and Law Enforcement contractors in a series of Tool Marking and Firearms, Chemical, and DNA forensics classes, at the Baghdad Police College, throughout the month of Sept. The courses are designed to create qualified individuals to operate self-sustaining forensics labs around the country. 

[Flash News Today - Online News Magazine] Gunmen kill four during hostage crisis in western Iraq | Flash News ...: However, police chief Colonel Sadiq Al Obeidi, two police officers and a civilian were killed by the hostage takers when security forces moved in. Seven gunmen were also killed by security forces while two others were arrested, according to the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA).

[Dear Kitty. Some blog] Dear Kitty. Some blog :: British Iraq war scandals continue :: August ...: Canada urged to launch Cheney torture probe: here. Military Spending Waste: Up To $60 Billion In Iraq, Afghanistan War Funds Lost To Poor Planning, Oversight, Fraud: here.

[The Red Phoenix] CIA Drone Kills Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, Secret US Memo ...: The Obama administration has spoken in broad terms about its authority to use military and paramilitary force against al-Qaeda and associated forces beyond “hot,” or traditional, battlefields such as Iraq or Afghanistan. Officials said that certain belligerents aren’t shielded because of their citizenship.

[My Blog] Learning from 9/11: Invasion of Afghanistan was the immediate response to 9/11, barely a month after the attacks. The Afghanistan war has always been on a smaller scale, always been more closely related to the 9/11 attacks, and always been easier to label as a purely defensive action intended to root the terrorists out of their home in Taliban territory.

[Health Impact News] US Tries To Push Big Dairy Operations in Iraq | Health Impact News: Breggin, MD that the Antidepressant Caused a Stimulant-like Syndrome Leading to Manic-like Behavior, Suicidality and Violence By Peter R. Breggin, MD The headline from the Winnipeg Free Press in Canada tells the story: “Judge Agrees Prozac Made Teen a Killer.”

[Freedom and Liberty vs. Islam and Sharia] Iran's Secret War, Pakistan is NOT a U.S. Ally; Why Do We Allow ...: Roundup: Afghanistan, Taliban, Assassinations, Media war, Barbarism; Iraq (U.S. Leaves=Israel destroyed), Al-Qaida remains, beware a Trojan horse, Islamic Turkey (Erdo?an), attacking Kurds, and more… Libya Updates: brutal violence, racism, .

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[Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] US troops no longer needed in northern Iraq: general: His upbeat comments reinforced suggestions from the former commander in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, who said recently that progress in transferring security duties to local forces could mean a large contingent of American troops would not be required to contain tensions.

[Centurean2's Weblog] War on Error: How Israel Bankrupted America | Centurean2?s ...: In an article entitled “9/11 revisited”, I summarized 21 questions raised by David Ray Griffin’s book, The New Pearl Harbour Revisited. In that work, Griffin pointed out unequivocally that virtually every dimension of the official account of 9/11 was false beyond reasonable doubt.

[INCMOVIE] We Were Soldiers (Widescreen Edition) Reviews | INCMOVIE: Inglourious Basterds (Two-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray] Brad Pitt takes no prisoners in Quentin Tarantino’s high-octane WWII revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds. As war rages in Europe, .

[Wings Over Iraq] WoI Brief | Wings Over Iraq: As Syrian army defectors begin launching attacks on government forces, Syria's largely peaceful rebellion appears in danger of descending into a sectarian civil war with wider regional consequences. – Reuters.

[The prison gates are open...] Marxism & Bourgeois Nationalism « The prison gates are open…: Following the consolidation of Ba’ath rule in Iraq, the ICP experienced two separate waves of repression: one in 1963 following the coup and the subsequent unrest, and the other in 1977, led by Saddam. (5) Historian Bob Feldman writes in a February 2006 piece on Iraq that “By March 1963, an estimated 10,000 Communist Party of Iraq members had been arrested by the Ba’th regime and many imprisoned Iraqi leftist activists were not treated gently.” (6) Quoting Said Aburish’s book, “A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite”, Feldman continues:

[Wings Over Iraq] Hybrid War | Wings Over Iraq: Dealing with the Little Satan Hiz'B'Allah rocket war of '06 with a decidedly American view of the conflict -it's way better than Candian Parliament or the Golf Channel and super sure to get your brain all cranked up. Yours truly plots to disseminate the deets and break them open like .

[3CHICSPOLITICO] Serendipity SOUL | Friday Open Thread | 3CHICSPOLITICO: Large numbers of US troops are no longer needed on the ground in northern Iraq to defuse Arab-Kurdish tensions and have begun handing over control to local forces, a US commander said Thursday. Army Major General David Perkins, who leads 5,000 US troops deployed in northern Iraq, said the American contingent has gradually withdrawn from checkpoints that it had overseen to prevent clashes between Kurdish troops and Iraqi army and police.

[Indian Punchline] Iraq joins the US supply chain - Indian Punchline: This is also what distinguishes big powers from not-so-big powers like India (with its liberation war in East Pakistan or its IPKF war in Sri Lanka). 

[Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Stephen Hill, a gay soldier serving in Iraq - guardian.co.uk: Though students at Harvard had been allowed to participate in the program in the past, alumni donations, rather than the university, previously funded Harvard's ROTC branch, according to Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences James Glaser, who serves as Tufts' ROTC representative on campus.

[To Build Solar Panel] The Debate is Over « To Build Solar Panel: Indeed, it is precisely because the climate crisis is so profound that we need to encourage the American debate on the subject to move on, finally and for good, and start to focusing on how to build a bright green future as quickly as possible. The science, after all, is pretty unequivocal at this point.

[Immelman for Congress] Immelman for Congress » Blog Archive » U.S. Forces Pull Back in Iraq: Iraqi forces assumed formal control of Baghdad and other cities Tuesday after American troops handed over security in urban areas in a defining step toward ending the U.S. combat role in the country. A countdown clock broadcast on Iraqi TV ticked to zero as the midnight deadline passed for U.S. combat troops to finish their pullback to bases outside cities.

[Gadling] Not to Forget: the Kuwaiti Museum of Saddam Hussain Regime ...: Case in point: after being taken through a dozen or so Iraqi-occupation-themed dioramas that could rival a junior high science fair in its level of sophistication, we were ushered into a room showing graphic photos of Kuwaiti war injuries, and, eventually, a room whose centerpiece was a giant bust of Mr. Hussain himself, which the docent proudly said was donated by US troops after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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[We Meant Well - Peter Van Buren] Foreign Policy.com | We Meant Well - Peter Van Buren: and provide analysis of Iraq and be expect to be taken seriously. While of course some of your conclusions are accurate, (the sun shines on a dogs ass occasionally too), the rationale behind them provided here clearly demonstrates that although you were in Iraq for a year, judging by this piece you could have never been there and are merely regurgitating highlights from the latest SIGIR quarterly report.

[Big Journalism] MSNBC Guest: Solyndra is Bush's Fault! (Despite Truth) - Big ...: "On October 6, 2004, the head of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), Charles Duelfer, announced to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee that the group found no evidence that Iraq under Saddam Hussein had produced and stockpiled any weapons of mass destruction since 1991, when UN sanctions were imposed."

[Bangor Daily News] Christie is too fat to be president — Maine Opinion — Bangor Daily ...: Next story: With al-Awlaki killing, Obama expands war on terror » .... But the lame stream media goes bonkers over the fat assed first lady and gives her a pair of new balance sneakers to walk it off. Turn off your tv's use the .... “Iraq is a long way from , but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.” ...

[Outside the Beltway] Fast & Furious Update: Federal Funds Used To Purchase Weapons ...: Why the ATF was willing to let this weapons get away without any means of tracking them is the question everyone has been asking since this story became public back in March, largely thanks to Dodson finally coming forward. Without a valid explanation, it becomes harder to accept the “botched sting operation”

[Eurasia Review] Cindy Sheehan: I'm Not The Deather - OpEd: First of all, I find it cute that the Lamestream media is reading my Facebook wall and reporting it as “news.” That’s almost as ridiculous as reporting what Obama said on Sunday evening as “news.” The only proof of Osama being dead again that we were offered was Obama telling us that there was a DNA match between the man killed by the Navy SEALS and OBL. Even if it is possible to get DNA done so quickly, and the regime did have bin Laden DNA lying around a lab somewhere–where is the empirical proof?

[Mediaite] Dick Cheney: Iraq War Was 'Sound Policy' That - Mediaite: Well lets see.  Putting aside the conspiracies, Cheney was put in charge of overseeing the counter-terrorism task force for which he completely ignored the outgoing administrations warning of Al-Queda.  Instead Cheney went to work with his secret meetings to take care of his oil buddies while blowing off counter terrorism czar, Richard Clarke and the warning of an imminent attack.  Of course 9/11 then happened on Cheney and Bush’s watch which created a convenient opportunity for Cheney (who was pretty much was running things for the first four years) to push forth very anti-Constitutional measures as well as bullying and lying, with the help of the right wing media and corporate media following along, his way into attacking Iraq.  Of course then, America went in and destroyed the infrastructure of a country of people who had nothing to do with attacking us.  And Cheney sent Paul Bremer into Iraq who dissolved a government structure that was in place replacing it with a laissez faire structure which turned Iraq into a “wild west” where tax payers money became a bottomless trough of wasteful, overcharged spending enriching private contractors.  Meanwhile,  while Cheney’s policies were enriching his supporters the Iraqi people were left behind in despair opening the door for Al-Queda to move in.  And Iraq has been fucked ever since.  But who gives a shit…

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[Iraqi Dinar Rumors] Torture trial for Rumsfeld? 'Abused' US contractors file suit | Iraqi ...: The two men worked for a private security company in Iraq in 2006 when they highlighted concerns their firm was engaged in corruption. They were detained for nine months at a US military facility near Baghdad airport and released without explanation or charge.

[Business Insider] Rebels Believe They Have Qaddafi Pinned Down In This Desert ...: If Iraq and Afghanistan didn't prove how totally devoid of ethics these so-called journalists are maybe the sheer magnitude of the unadulterated crap that passes for news in this war on Libya will finally wake people up. It has been suggested that television journalists in particular be required to wear military uniforms while reporting on these preemptive wars.

[The American Spectator and The Spectacle Blog] The American Spectator : Tehran Follies: While all this is going on, the Israelis have let it beknown that they project 2015 as the latest date when Iran will havethe full capability to construct and deliver a nuclear-armedmissile anywhere in the area from the Middle East to all of Europe.The Russians insist this analysis is without foundation, and theObama Administration devotes most of its energies toward increasingthe so far ineffective economic sanctions on Iran. Tehran hasresponded by announcing it is moving a large portion of its nucleardevelopment program for safety

[Iraqi Dinar News] * AndieZ (SEP 24 – 6:30pmCST – OKIE): OOM 9/24/11 | Iraqi Dinar ...: Med, Scott G, and bondlady, seem to be grounded and stick to facts…..others are loose cannons………..I drove by a bank and seen a guy with a suitcase sitting under a tree in the shrubs, he was dirty and tathered and appeared he had been there living behind the brush……Then I read in a post, where is Poppy2, he seemed to have disappeared………well last post was he was heading to the bank with his bags packed (2 weeks ago)………I believe I spotted Poppy !!

[HorsesAss.Org] HorsesAss.Org » Blog Archive » Open Thread 9/19: That soend’t include invading Iraq and Afghanistan and trying to turn them all into American-style democracies. The purpoe of the tax code is also no to insure H &

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Exposed: Ron Paul's Foreign Policy Ignorance ...: “This medieval threefold choice, then ”” conversion, subjugation, or the sword ”” is the ultimate source of conflict, not U.S foreign policy (see also “Reciprocal Treatment or Religious Obligation,” which compares al-Qaeda’s messages to the West with its internal messages to Muslims, documenting all the contradictions).”

[HorsesAss.Org] HorsesAss.Org » Blog Archive » Open Thread 9/21: Note this predates the abolition of slavery. Although they’ll deny it in cocktail conversation, cheap labor conservatives know in their hearts that they lost the Civil War, so now they’re trying to gain in Congress what they couldn’t win on the battlefield.

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[Antiwar.com Original] 100 Days of Solidarity With Iraq by Medea Benjamin -- Antiwar.com: Despite the fact that there is a Bush-era agreement with the Iraqi government to leave, despite the fact that the majority of Iraqis and Americans don’t support a continued U.S. presence, and despite the fact that Congress is supposedly in an all-out austerity mode, strong forces ”” including generals, war profiteers, and hawks in both parties ”” are pushing President Obama to violate the agreement negotiated by his predecessor and keep a significant number of troops in Iraq past the Dec. 31, 2011 deadline.

[Travel Impact Newswire] 100 Days of Solidarity to End the U.S. Occupation of Iraq | | AlterNet: Despite the fact that there is a Bush-era agreement with the Iraqi government to leave, despite the fact that the majority of Iraqis and Americans don’t support a continued U.S. presence, and despite the fact that Congress is supposedly in an all-out austerity mode, strong forces – including generals, war profiteers and hawks in both parties –

[Patrick Henry Press News] Iraq: 100 Days of Solidarity | Patrick Henry Press News: But if U.S. troops are to leave Iraq at the end of this year as promised - repeatedly - it will take grassroots pressure to counter the growing “occupy-Iraq-forever” chorus in Washington.In spite of President Obama’s oft-repeated promises, his administration appears unwilling to withdrawal all U.S. troops, much less private contractors. Obama’s hand-picked Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, has already endorsed a plan that would see 3,000 to 4,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq indefinitely, ostensibly to “continue training security forces there.” (Tim Sloan, AFP/Getty Images)

[All Global News on One Page] Iraq 100 Days of Solidarity - All Global News on One Page: Despite the fact that there is a Bush-era agreement with the Iraqi government to leave, despite the fact that the majority of Iraqis and Americans don't support a continued U.S. presence, and despite the fact that Congress is supposedly .strong forces — including generals, war profiteers and hawks in both parties — are pushing President Obama to violate the agreement negotiated by his predecessor and keep a significant number of troops in Iraq past the December .

[Wings Over Iraq] WoI Brief | Wings Over Iraq: Despite new resolve to issue a Security Council resolution addressing violence in Syria, the first negotiations on Wednesday among all 15 members of the Council over the wording bumped along an old rut. As Syrian army defectors begin launching attacks on government forces, Syria's largely peaceful rebellion appears in danger of descending into a sectarian civil war with wider regional consequences.

[IDEALS] IDEALS » Blog Archive » FAMILIAR HAWKS PRESS OBAMA ON IRAQ WITHDRAWAL: The letter also focused considerable attention on the threat allegedly posed by Iran which, it charged, “has increased its attempts to expand its influence in Iraq, including through the killing of American forces and support to Iraqi political parties. Maintaining a robust American presence in-country would blunt these efforts, and help ensure Iraq remains oriented away from Iran and a long-term ally of the United States.”

[Wings Over Iraq] WoI Brief | Wings Over Iraq: With just over three months until the last U.S. troops are currently due to leave Iraq, the Department of Defense is engaged in a mad dash to give away things that cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars to buy and build. – Huffington Post.

[War & Peace in the Middle East] State Department's search for a ... - War & Peace in the Middle East: (The morning news summary at State includes this message: “Due to the security classification of many documents, the daily addendum will not include news clips that are generated by leaked cables by the website WikiLeaks.”) The corollary to such a position evidently goes something like this: since we won’t punish our own technical security people or the big shots who approved the whole flawed scheme in the first place, and the damned first amendment doesn’t allow us to punish the New York Times, let’s just punish one of our own employees for looking at, creating links to and discussing stuff on the web - and while he was at it, writing an accurate, first-hand and critical account of the disastrous, if often farcical, American project in Iraq.

[Guernica / Blog] Guernica / Peter Van Buren: Freedom Isn't Free at the State ...: Back in that windowless room for a second time, I faced the two DS agents clumsily trying to play semi-bad and altogether-bad cop. They once again reminded me of my obligation to protect classified information, and studiously ignored my response—that I indeed do take that obligation seriously, enough in fact to distinguish between actual disclosure and a witch-hunt.

[This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here] This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here » Blog Archive » Round 1 ...: And the soldier who was once branded in madness as a baby killer is now glorified as a saint, an angel in camouflage and their service is being used by the Chicken Hawks In Chief as a guilt inducing distraction. The monuments both of stone and of flesh are sullied by those who have propagated this current war of convenience and who see only profit in its perpetuation.

[Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news] The Accidental Spy: The Only Employee at State Who May Be Fired ...: The corollary to such a position evidently goes something like this: since we won’t punish our own technical security people or the big shots who approved the whole flawed scheme in the first place, and the damned First Amendment doesn’t allow us to punish the New York Times, let’s just punish one of our own employees for looking at, creating links to, and discussing stuff on the web -- and while he was at it, writing an accurate, first-hand, and critical account of the disastrous, if often farcical, American project in Iraq.

[Noiraqwar-chicago.org] Blog Archive » Occupy Iraq Forever? Bring'em Home!: Despite the fact that there is a Bush-era agreement with the Iraqi government to leave, despite the fact that the majority of Iraqis and Americans don’t support a continued U.S. presence, and despite the fact that Congress is supposedly in an all-out austerity mode, strong forces — including generals, war profiteers and hawks in both parties —

[Iraq - All] LexisNexis News - Latest News from over 4000 sources, including ...: "A force of only a few thousands Americans also will have a greatly reduced capacity to undertake unilateral counterterrorism operations," he went on in an apparent allusion to Washington's interest in striking against Al-Qaeda in Iraq cells, which have staged something of a comeback recently in predominantly Sunni communities that have felt marginalised by Maliki's government, and against Shi'a militias allegedly tied to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which Washington claims were responsible for a series of lethal attacks on U.S. forces in June.

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