Iraq Reviews

t r u t h o u t | Vanity of Vanities: The Iraq War Seven Years Later

[Truthout - All Articles] The [UN] Security Council Resolutions on Iraq passed during the 1990s did not constitute a mandate for the US-British military intervention in 2003. Despite the existence of certain ambiguities, the wording of Resolution 1441 cannot reasonably be interpreted (as the government did) as authorizing individual Member States to use military force to compel Iraq to comply with the Security Council's resolutions, without authorization from the Security Council.

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[Ten Percent] Seventh Anniversary Of The Iraq Invasion « Ten Percent: Regarding Iraq, the last Security Council resolution essentially said, 'Look, send the weapons inspectors out to Iraq, have them come back and tell us what they've found ”” then we'll figure out what we're going to do. There are people who deny the Holocaust, there are people who deny the death toll in Iraq, they are of the same ilk, quit whining and own your historical antecedence, you want good war, you have to hide bodies, real fucking simple.

Mudville Gazette: In this light, the two-word prescription for Iraq that Secretary of State Colin Powell has so far repeated -- "reinvigorate sanctions" -- is more ambitious than it sounds, while the hugely aggressive plan endorsed two years ago by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his likely deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, which involved recognizing an alternative Iraqi government and providing it military cover to set up a headquarters in southern Iraq, sounds just as ambitious as it is. Both ideas would require radical reversals by unhappy allies such as Turkey and Jordan, and Secretary Powell would have to win over non-allies such as Syria and Russia too.

[SamSederShow.com - unbought, unbossed] waste | SamSederShow.com: The proposal, offered by Monaco and co-sponsored by the United States, failed by a margin of 20 in favor and 68 against, with 30 abstaining. The vote came just hours after the 175 countries assembled at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) rejected a U.S. proposal to limit the hunting of polar bears.

[Chasing Evil] Chasing Evil: Karl Rove, Still Lying on TV About Iraq: weapons inspectors were reporting back from Iraq, the White House was seeking a second Security Council vote that would have officially sanctioned military action. That effort was unsuccessful, and the U.S./U.K.

[richardhowe.com] richardhowe.com » 'The War Place': Section 9: Peter Jennings of ABC-TV says “We don’t know if the ”˜mother of all battles’ is about to begin, but Saddam Hussein now finds himself in the mother of all corners.” The U.S.S.R.’s Foreign Minister says the Iraqi minister agreed to some of the conditions in President Bush’s ultimatum. Everyone is waiting for an authoritative statement about this from the U.N.

[Intifada Palestine] Who To Blame For the Iraq War? | Intifada Palestine: A November 20, 2001 Wall Street Journal op-ed argued that the US should continue to target regimes that sponsor terrorism, claiming, “Iraq is the obvious candidate, having not only helped al Qaeda, but attacked Americans directly (including an assassination attempt against the first President Bush) and developed weapons of mass destruction.” Who is the professor of strategic studies at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University who made these spurious claims?

[Politics Daily] Iraq War Debate: Surge Success, Intelligence Mistakes, Civilian ...: Our review found that after the publication of the October 2002 NIE but before Secretary of State Colin Powell's February 2003 address to the United Nations, intelligence officials within the CIA failed to convey to policymakers new information casting serious doubt on the reliability of a human intelligence source known as 'Curveball.' This occurred despite the pivotal role Curveball's information played in the Intelligence Community's assessment of Iraq's biological weapons programs, and in spite of Secretary Powell's efforts to strip every dubious piece of information out of his proposed speech. In this instance, once again, the Intelligence Community failed to give policymakers a full understanding of the frailties of the intelligence on which they were relying.

[Redress News] Who's to blame for the Iraq war? > Iraq > Redress Information ...: A 20 November 2001 Wall Street Journal op-ed argued that the US should continue to target regimes that sponsor terrorism, claiming, “Iraq is the obvious candidate, having not only helped al-Qaeda, but attacked Americans directly (including an assassination attempt against the first President Bush) and developed weapons of mass destruction”. Who is the professor of strategic studies at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, who made these spurious claims?

[Dirk Bradshaw Blog] Who think that Ron Paul is the only Republican presidential ...: If you look at the UN security council’s ability to do their job, you will see that they could not stop a country like the USA to invade another country like Iraq. The UN is supposed to stop big countries from bullying weak countries.

[Israpundit] Israpundit » Blog Archive » Palestinians are getting stronger with ...: The government, particularly in light of this crisis with the Obama administration, is likely to cave in to Washington’s demands and make a series of goodwill gestures to Abbas in the form of the lifting of more roadblocks - close to 30 have already been lifted - as well as releasing Fatah prisoners.

[Ephems of BLB » Ephems] Ephems of BLB » Blog Archive » Gordon Brown at the Iraq Inquiry ...: by the hole it had dug for itself over Iraq, while Le Monde said that Mr Blair had once again “decided to dump on France the main bulk of the responsibility for his own diplomatic failure”. In a stinging editorial, France’s newspaper of record said Mr Blair’s efforts to win a majority for a second resolution had failed and that “contrary to the internationalist principles he has avowed since the start”, the war would now begin without specific UN authorisation.

[Feed for Arabist.net] Iran sanctions: lessons learned from Iraq - Blog - The Arabist: I'm not convinced that sanctions would really stop Iran's nuclear program (some argue that they might accelerate it), but even worse is the idea that they would push people to join the Green Movement. We know from the Iraq experience that sanctions hurt more than helped any resistance to the Saddam regime, and gave it extra tools to pacify the population.

[Israpundit] Israpundit » Blog Archive » Capitulate or else: I further queried this officer as to whether he had ever heard Petraeus express the view imputed to him by Mark Perry ”” namely that Israel’s West Bank settlements are the biggest obstacle to a peace accord and that the lack of a peace accord is responsible for killing American soldiers. This officer told me that he had heard Petraeus say “the lack of progress in the Peace Process, for whatever reason, creates challenges in Centcom’s AOR [Area of Responsibility], especially for the more moderate governmental leaders,” and that’s a concern ”” one of many ”” but he did not suggest that Petraeus was mainly blaming Israel and its settlements for the lack of progress.

[World Blog] Iraq's politics: an explosive chess game - World Blog - msnbc.com: for their "freedom"- pure BS dude) remain will Iraq align themselves with Iran, can they increase oil production quickly, how do the Kurds get compensated for the northern fields?, will the centralized government take more than they give to the Kurds?, how powerful are the Shiites in the South? and what do specifically want?, a coualition with their tranian family and tribal members?

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War in Iraq, George W. Bush

[die cutting machines] The all-powerful dictator who once had thirty-seven palaces was living in a few cubic feet underneath a mud hut. Bush immediately went on television to trumpet his capture, “I say to the Iraqi people, ‘You will not have to live in fear of Saddam ever again.’” But elsewhere, there was little to crow about.

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[Watching America] Watching America : » Was George W. Bush Right After All?: Now, a political process will begin in Iraq: search for majority, coalition formation, horse-trading and certainly manipulation and violence, too ”” but nobody can claim power with nothing but authoritarian demeanor. This is a significant achievement for political culture, a fact that has to be thought-provoking for those who defy the former U.S. president (more or less the whole world).

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | Vanity of Vanities: The Iraq War Seven Years Later: The [UN] Security Council Resolutions on Iraq passed during the 1990s did not constitute a mandate for the US-British military intervention in 2003. Despite the existence of certain ambiguities, the wording of Resolution 1441 cannot reasonably be interpreted (as the government did) as authorizing individual Member States to use military force to compel Iraq to comply with the Security Council's resolutions, without authorization from the Security Council.

[Veterans Today] Seventh Anniversary of Iraq War Passes : Veterans Today: Today, more than three months after Bush’s stirring declaration of war and nearly two months since he declared victory, no chemical, biological or nuclear weapons have been found, nor any documentation of their existence, nor any sign they were deployed in the field.

[cara] cara The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder - Trailer: The Bush administration did everything in their power to stifle an investigation. The Commission he appointed to investigate 9/11, admitted they were lied to and “set up to fail”.

[Generic Ketchup] 'Bush did not go to war because of Israel | Generic Ketchup: To back up his statement, Rove points to the less-than-complete international accounting Hussein had given of his chemical, biological and nuclear weapons program, his support of terrorists, his continued threatening of American pilots overseeingIraq ’s no-fly zone, his evasion of sanctions, and his flouting of 16 UN resolutions following the end of the Gulf War, among other issues.

[Politique Opinion] This Day in Politics: March 19, 2003 - Bush announces war on Iraq ...: This Day in Politics: March 19, 2003 - Bush announces war on Iraq. Screen shot 2010-03-20 at 12.43.36 AM. On March 19, 2003, in Washington DC, George W. Bush announced that US war against Iraq. His address went on to talk about the following points: ... This entry was posted on Saturday, March 20th, 2010 and is filed under Uncategorized. You may follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site . ...

[The Stump] Letters: Don't whitewash motives for war in Iraq | OregonLive.com: There was a substantial minority of Americans who found Bush's case for Iraq's participation in 9/11 flimsy from the outset. Many of our most important allies were against the Iraq war from the beginning, and they pointed out to the Bush administration the questionable nature of its "intelligence." But Bush always listened only to the advice he wanted to hear.

[ez game imo] ez game imo: 7th anniversary of the Iraq War: Watch this, shut up, go back to bed America, here is American Gladiators, here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their f***ing skulls together and congratulate you on the living in the land of freedom.

[DimeWars.Com Recent Blog Posts] Condoleeza Rice Flip Flops Position On Iraq War: Former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice has finally voiced regret at the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq but says the Bush administration had in the end "got it right" in the country - whatever .Man Who Threw Shoe At George Bush, Gets A Shoe Thrown At Him At Press Conference in Paris.

[World Blog] Corruption is Iraq's latest enemy - World Blog - msnbc.com: it is obvious DEMOCRACY is a beautifull word and a praiseworthy concept.but the US in no more an example of it on all levels of government you have corruption,lies,distortion of truth.IRAQ is the blatant proof and if after the troops leave they can not change they go the same way as Lebanon.When will we bring Busch/Cheney and co to justice and let them repay the American People for their ingnorance,incompetence and arrogance

[Seemedia's Blog] Happy Birthday to the Iraq War « Seemedia's Blog: The number of coalition troops killed in Iraq has dropped significantly from their high of 961 deaths in 2007 according to icasualties.org but this does not mean the region is stable.

[NewsReal Blog] From the Debates of David Horowitz: March 20, 2010 | NewsReal Blog: And then a million of them - not just demonstrating for “peace” but denouncing George Bush as Hitler, and America as the real “Axis of Evil?” What were Leslie Cagan and Medea Benjamin, two of the most important leaders of the so-called peace .and using a Saddam Hussein supporter to run their organization in Iraq?

[Therearenosunglasses's Weblog] Behind the Afghan imbroglio « Therearenosunglasses's Weblog: But the US attack on Iraq before the stabilisation of Afghanistan and the construction of a modern sprawling military base in the far-flung eastern Nooristan province close to the Chinese border raised many eyebrows in Beijing. According to some information, US intelligence had initially called in and trained some young Uyghur Muslims in Afghanistan for creating troubles in Xinjiang province.

[The Hook News Blog] Uncivil discourse: Protesters disrupt Yoo at Miller Center | The ...: Matt, you make a good point, and at a time when the School Board in Texas is striving to declare the Christian heritage of our nation, I wonder how Christians could possibly defend the practice of waterboarding, or ever question whether it is torture or not. I challenge anyone to read this, and then describe this as anything other than cruel, inhumane treatment- one human being inflicted upon another.

[Mediaite] Notice Something Missing? MSM Seems To Collectively Forget ...: And then some damn Klucker implies that Brett didn’t owe it to the American people to ask tough questions of him instead of propping him like a damn hero. And if that is not enough it, is A-okay for little Brett Baier to act like a PRICK to Obama because the health care has a significant impact on our economy.

[the planet harris blog] Come Warm Yourself By This Friendly Fire « the planet harris blog: But let’s be honest, it would be just as easy to accuse George Walker Bush and Tony Blair of such crimes too. The further back one stands from the issues, the more the leaders on both sides appear to simply be finding excuses to send tanks and guns into a given area.

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US military deaths in Iraq war at 4385 Tuesday, according to ...

[Washington Examiner Site Feed] As of Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at least 4385 members of the US military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

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[Stop the War Coalition site feed] stopwar.org.uk: left few analysts and commentators in the Middle East declaring the elections a success and Iraq on the road to stability." Now, I do admire the courage of Iraqi voters. And the situation in Iraq is more secure than at any time in the last few years.

[Dirk Bradshaw Blog] Iraq war veterans accuse US military of coverups - 16 Mar 08 ...: @WorldAgainstUSA COMMUNISM FINISHED IN 1989, IN 1986 NUCLEAR PLANT OF CHERNOBIL BLEW UP AND KILLED 300.000.000 BEINGS LIVINGS CREATURE, THE COMMUNISM AND THE DISASTER OF THE CENTURY, NAZIS AND COMMUNISTS , EITHER MAN WORLDAGAINSUSA IT SEES THE CHERNOBIL VIDEO, IT SEES THE DISASTER OF THE COMMUNISM IN RUSSIA AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT, THE CIA ALREADY KNOWS ITS NAME, ADDRESS, CARE, DANGER

[rabble.ca - News for the rest of us] "Green Zone": War resister comments on new Iraq War action film ...: War resister Chuck Wiley shares his thoughts on the Green Zone, a new Iraq war action film. In 2006, Wiley was in Iraq as a Chief Petty Officer aboard the aboard the USS Enterprise, a US naval vessel.

[KIVI - National News] US military deaths in Iraq war at 4385 - KIVITV.COM | Boise. News ...: McLyman, 26, of Federal Way, Wash., died March 13 in Balad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked her base with mortar fire. She was assigned to the 296th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.

[ChicagoTribunal.com] Antioch high school graduate killed in Iraq war | ChicagoTribunal.com: By Admin on March 18, 2010. The Daily Herald reports: Former Antioch Community High School football player Richard “Joe” Jordan was remembered on campus Wednesday, one day after he died .

[At War] Iraq Elections: Sadr and His Rivals - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: At War is a reported blog from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other conflicts in the post-9/11 era. The NYT’s award-winning team provides insight ”” and answers questions ”” about combatants on the faultlines, and civilians caught in the middle.

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | Iraq: A Tale of Two Wars: We sat in a tent with about ten Kurdish men, eating a meager meal made of meat wrapped in grape leaves and fresh goat's milk, while the only Kurd that spoke English, a former teacher, told us tales of how Saddam Hussein waged a relentless war against his people. After the lunch and tales were finished, we thanked the men for their hospitality and they thanked us for helping them.

[News] US military deaths in Iraq war at 4385 (AP): AP - As of Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at least 4,385 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

[News Feeds Blog] Janine R. Wedel: Shadow Elite: March to War - Is Ahmed Chalabi ...: Members of the Neocon core and a much larger group of associates and allies laundered this “information”, branding it as official and respectable, and embedded it in their campaign to sell the invasion of Iraq to the U.S. Congress, journalists and ultimately the public. Soon after U.S. boots were on the ground, Chalabi was installed on the Iraqi Governing Council as a U.S. taxpayer-funded envoy to Iraq until his brief (supposed) 2004 fall from Bush-administration grace.

[Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies] Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies » Blog Archive » An Iraq War ...: Beyond Duty: Life on the Frontline in Iraq. Oxford: Wiley, John & Sons. Thanks to Evelin Lindner for pointing at this important book. Kind regards, Uli Spalthoff. This entry was posted on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 at 3:42 pm and is ...

[Dirk Bradshaw Blog] The War Party ”” Zionism in neocon Foreign Policy (4/5) | Dirk ...: MIDDLE EAST STABILITY: “Iraq’s future could affect the strategic balance in the Middle East profoundly, it would be understandable that Israel has an interest in supporting the Hashemites in their efforts to redefine Iraq,” CONTROL IRAQ, HELP ISRAEL: “Were the Hashemites to control Iraq, they could use their influence over Najf to help Israel wean the south Lebanese Shia away from Hizballah, Iran, and Syria.”

[Dear Kitty. Some blog] Dear Kitty. Some blog :: Tony Blair's South Korea-Iraq oil scandal ...: Tony Blair has received cash from a South Korean oil firm in a deal kept secret until the business appointments watchdog intervened, the Guardian has learned.

[Global News Blog Headlines] Iraq - Followers of Sadr Emerge Stronger After Iraq Elections (New ...: The followers of Moktada al-Sadr, a radical cleric who led the Shiite insurgency against the American occupation, have emerged as Iraq’s equivalent of Lazarus in elections last week, defying ritual predictions of their demise and now threatening to realign the nation’s balance of power.

[Commentary] Commentary » Blog Archive » Where's the Support for U.S. Civilians ...: Maybe Jim Dwyer would have preferred that he join the press corps in daily bemoaning Iraq’s woes, but that wasn’t what he was paid to do. His job was to give the official CPA line, and in the process try to calm and improve the situation rather than simply pointing out the numerous deficiencies that were being (for the most part accurately) exposed by the news media.

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Why Iraq war films fail « Prospect Magazine

[Prospect Magazine» Magazine] Yes, thousands of innocent Iraqis have been killed by the Americans, but the great majority of them have been killed by mistake: because of misunderstandings and mutual incomprehension rather than through deliberate brutality. The classic example is the family ordered in shouted English to slow down at a checkpoint and when, for whatever reason they don’t, a nervous soldier opens fire, killing mom and dad, leaving screaming children covered in blood in the backseat.

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[anggiaputrinilasari's posterous] Going Home: Returning to Iraq after 10 years ...: This is meant to ensure security - although given past events this hasn’t seemed to have worked - but at the same time it just makes life really difficult as all the checkpoints become very congested. During critically dangerous periods, people in each area would open up shops and markets within their houses, so when it was too dangerous to pass through a checkpoint most of the things you might need would be available within the area.

[Gorilla's Guides] Iraq: Humanitarian Needs Persist | Refugees International ...: Most Iraqi refugees in Syria have benefited from generous government policies and hospitable neighbors. The government’s recent efforts to extend residency permits for six months, their commitment to issue some work permits, and their engagement in drafting legislation that will address the presence of Iraqis in Syria are all positive steps that help to advance the protection of refugees.

[Boise Weekly] Triumph of the Swill | The Hurt Locker supports the troops””and the ...: As film critic Andrew Breitbart wrote, The Hurt Locker stripped its Iraqi characters of their humanity "and turned [them] into story-props: villains, victims, foul-mouthed hustlers, or strange alien beings who keep an awkward distance and mourn the dead by yelling savagely at the sky."

[Iran News Digest | Stay Informed. Stay Green.] 3/18 Iran & the Middle East: This was not charity: The Islamic Republic of Iran was determined to ensure that its client could solidify its standing within Lebanon’s Shiite community and reconstitute its fighting strength before the next round against Israel. Hezbollah used these funds to compensate the Shiites who lost relatives, homes, and businesses during the war.

[The Best Defense] Iraq isn't as bad as you thought - By Tom Ricks | The Best Defense: Of course with enough fear it could come back, but Shiites do not feel threatened by any other group, and Sunnis aren't being rounded up, the security forces provide decent enough security, and they are pervasive, there is no reason for people to cling to militias in self defense and besides militiamen are still being rounded up, I just don't see enough fuel here for a conflagration -- leaving aside the Arab/Kurdish fault line, of course. (Though if Maliki went to war with the Kurds that would only further unite Sunni and Shiite Arabs.) The Iraqi Security Forces like Maliki enough, even if they prefer Alawi.

[Signs of the Times] American Police Training and Political Violence: From the ...: In response to the wave of neo-conservative analysts extolling the virtues of empire in the aftermath of 9/11, Chalmers Johnson writes in Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic that the idea of "forcing thousands of people to be free by slaughtering them - with Maxim machine guns in the 19th century, or 'precision munitions' today - seems to reflect a deeply felt need as well as a striking inability to imagine the lives and viewpoints of others." He added that "all empires require myths of divine right, racial preeminence, manifest destiny or a 'civilizing mission' to cover their often barbarous behavior in other people's country."67 American imperial intervention throughout the long century from the conquest of the Philippines through the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has indeed sown much human misery and violence. While it has helped to vanquish some genuinely totalitarian forces, such as the Nazis and imperial Japanese, all too often those at the wrong end of the guns have been supporters of nationalist and social revolutionary movements seeking badly needed social change.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » Sunday, Bloody ...: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is fighting for his political future against a coalition led by mainly Shiite religious groups ”” the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council and a party headed by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. He also faces a challenge from secular alliance led by Ayad Allawi, a former prime minister and secular Shiite, who has teamed up with a number of Sunnis in a bid to claim the government.

[mcclatchydc.com: World] LIVE BLOG: Polls now closed in Iraq after day of bombings | McClatchy: Major General Mohammed Al Askari, Iraqi ministry of defense spokesman: “Gunmen used mortars and stun bombs and the aim was to frighten people and shake their will to go to the polling centers and the truth of the matter only six mortar rounds hit Baghdad, one of them caused damages and the rest were minor and so far casualties stand at 15 killed and 20 injured.

[City Room] 105000 Dots for Iraq, and Counting - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com: The following year, in a project called “Dog or Iraqi,” he allowed the audience to decide whether he or a dog should be subjected to the torture technique called waterboarding, in which water is poured over a person’s face and into his mouth and nose, causing a drowning sensation. He was chosen over the dog and was waterboarded.

[Reason Magazine Full Feed] Iraq: Mission Accomplished! (Really, Now) - Hit & Run : Reason ...: So, John, again, because you're slow, IFthe Iraq invasion was wrong WHY would itbe wrong to want the aggressor to lose? And how is it that you canbe all sorts of aggressive towards those who would want the UnitedStates to lose an aggressive action, but not be mad at those whoplaced those Soldiers in harm's way for no reason in the firstplace?

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Iraqi police: Mortar fire kills 3 as Iraqis vote in key national ...: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is fighting for his political future against a coalition led by mainly Shiite religious groups ”” the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council and a party headed by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. He also faces a challenge from secular alliance led by former a secular Shiite, Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, who has teamed up with a number of Sunnis in a bid to claim the government.

[At War] Leaving Nebraska for Iraq - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: Her husband, a 42-year-old Iraqi screenplay writer, asked for his first name to be withheld because of fears that the couple may draw the attention of insurgents or kidnappers. He said that despite the geographical distance, they quickly realized that they had a lot in common.

[mcclatchydc.com: World] Iraqis question U.S. convoy's driving in fatal crash | McClatchy: The 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team convoy was going against traffic, but only on a short curve as part of the standard practice of swinging around an Iraqi checkpoint at a designated place, he said. The passenger van also appeared to be going in the wrong direction, Reese said, perhaps in an attempt to cross the median.

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War News Updates: How Realistic Is Iraq War Film Green Zone?

[War News Updates] The central idea—that warmongering civilian planners knowingly lied about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as a reason to invade Iraq in 2003—is challenging enough. But the filmmakers then have their nefarious civilians engage in a cover up and, while they're at it, willingly make moves that will directly lead to Iraq's Sunni insurgency.

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[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Green Zone Advances Liberal Narrative of Iraq War: The United States, with a coalition of willing nations, went to war in Iraq to remove Saddam, and the United States did so based on the 22 stated reasons for war in the congressional authorization to use force that leading Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, supported. Saddam was in violation of 17 U.N.

[Everyone's Blog Posts - 12160.org] EXCLUSIVE: Larry Franklin, Defense analyst in spy case was double ...: Franklin said the FBI first pressed him about working undercover in an investigation into alleged Israeli spying in the United States in May 2004, after he had become a subject of investigation into whether he provided sensitive information to reporters at CBS News on Iraqi exile leader Ahmed Chalabi's relations with Iran.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Lewis On Sixty Minutes: Washington got away with the Iraq war, torture, warrantless wiretapping and politicizing every department of the federal government, so why would anyone get upset over the looting of hundreds of billions and crashing the economy? .... In the civil lawsuit filed Wednesday, Blumenthal alleges Moody's and S&P knowingly assigned false ratings to complex investments that helped push the country into recession.” http://www.google.com/hostedne.....QD9EBTBT80 ...

[Crooks and Liars] PBS Frontline: The Definitive Account of "Bush's War" | Crooks and ...: Having no idea what to do in Iraq once it became clear that a civil war was underway, the Bush White House simply tried a bit of this and a bit of that, and when nothing worked, someone was singled out to be a scapegoat for failures so .

[Documentary Films .NET] Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers | Documentary Films .NET: No matter what a person thinks about the men and women seeking a small part of the fortune and the risks they take, it is difficult not to look for new and better curse words for these folks. Combine that with the 600% growth the company has enjoyed and the fact that the U.S. government awarded them with a $73 million contract from FEMA for Katrina “relief” and the question of just who is running the government becomes increasingly salient.

[Everyone's Blog Posts - 12160.org] EXCLUSIVE: Larry Franklin, Defense analyst in spy case was double ...: Bush administration and acknowledged he was talking to the news media and AIPAC officials because he was concerned about the administration's plan to go to war with Iraq without a policy for containing Iran.

[BBC NEWS | Peston's Picks] BBC - Peston's Picks: BAE: 'a knowing and wilful misleading of the ...: So how can it be proper conduct for the U.S. Government to arrange major re-construction contracts, telecommunications contracts and the sale of 500 new training, transport and fighter aircraft to the Iraqi government from largely American suppliers, under the military umbrella of the Multinational Security Transition Command - Iraq (an American quango now known as United States Forces- Iraq)?

[Radicalislamvsworld's Blog] HISTORY - Time line [some] Important Dates in radical 'ISLAM VS WORLD': This clash within Islamic countries between Islamist religious forces and modernizers like Kemal Atatuerk in Turkey, Habib Burgiba in Tunisia, Gemal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarek in Egypt, the deposed Reza Shah Pahlavi in Iran, and even Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Islamist religious forces is long, deep and powerful. The modernizers in these countries have usually come from military rather than civilian backgrounds, and by transforming one of the few intact institutions of the old regime - namely the military bureaucracy - into an instrument of political power and hegemony, they have consolidated their authority, often with limited popular support and democratic institutions.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Will Obama Still Be Blaming Bush in 2012? Bet on It: And, despite the erosion in public support for Obama, a majority still says that he understands their needs and problems better than congressional Republicans. A majority also credit Obama ”” more than Republicans ”” with making an effort at bipartisanship, and they back the White House’s policies on a variety of issues, including allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military and repealing the Bush tax cuts.”

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Iraq War Triumphalism Ignores a Key Matter: Dead Civilians ...

[Politics Daily] "This is something that is harmful and corrosive to our nation." Given that Wehner worked for a president who pre-sold this war with a willful campaign of misrepresentations about Iraq's WMD capabilities and ties to al-Qaeda, it's tough to take him seriously when he frets aloud about the loss of public trust. But just as "corrosive" for the nation is a triumphal consideration of the war that does not take into account the profound suffering experienced by the Iraqi people.

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[The Common Ills] 2 US service members died in Iraq over the weekend « The Common Ills: More than 700 names line the black granite walls of the 1st Cavalry Division's Iraq war memorial. Of those, 169 fell while serving with the 1st Cavalry-led Multinational Division-Baghdad from 2004 through 2005, 492 fell during the 2006 to 2008 surge years and 69 fell during the division's latest deployment to Iraq from late 2008 to early 2010.

[El Luchador Says........] El Luchador Says........: A Strong Left Jab: The film eventually becomes a search for Al Rawi, both by Miller and Brown, who hope that the General may be the only stabilizing force left in Iraq, and by Poundstone, who needs him dead in order to cover for one of the biggest lies ever sold to the American public. Amy Ryan plays a Wall Street Journal reporter, Lawrie Dayne, who has unknowingly become the messenger for the Pentagon's WMD story, the afore mentioned lie, and a symbol for the media as a whole during that time.

[Politics Daily] The Iraq War: Suddenly, It's Not So Bad After All -- Politics Daily: KELLY, while you are off in several directions (why the heck do you comment on rich people getting off in this rant of yours????), we DID HAVE A CAUSE IN IRAQ AND LOOK! TO THE DISMAY OF LIEberal SCUM LIKE YOU, WE HAVE EVIDENTLY SUCCEEDED, WINNING THE WAR AND WINNING RIGHTS FOR PEOPLE THAT WERE IN A COUNTRY THAT HARBORED AND TRAINED TERRORISTS AND YES, HAD THE COMPONENTS OF WMD AND WOULD IN FACT USE THEM.HAHAHA!

[PERRspectives] PERRspectives: Rove: No Bush War for Democracy in Iraq: Democracy was absent from Bush's September 12, 2002 address to the UN and his October 7, 2002 Iraq war justification in Cincinnati. And in the run-up to the invasion, democracy promotion remained essentially invisible in the 2003 State of the Union (ironically, it is mentioned regarding Iran), March 17 press conference, and even during Bush's March 19 address to the nation declaring the commencement of hostilities.

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Surprise: Matt Damon anti-war movie an ...: Unless its unabashedly pro-American, which 1) would never happen because 2) there aren’t any actors left in Hollywood that could pull off that level of dishonesty without seeming patronizing and ironic. There’s a few (e.g.

[PERRspectives] PERRspectives: Rove Book: No Pushback on Iraq WMD My Bad: Bush notes he spends "a lot of time on the phone listening to our European allies." Then we see a photo of him on the phone with a finger in his ear. But at one point, Bush showed a photo of himself looking for something out a window in the Oval Office, and he said, "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere." The audience laughed.

[Old Salt Books Blog] Shadow warriors : the untold story of traitors, saboteurs, and the ...: In Shadow Warriors, Timmerman brings to light the vast underground working to undercut our nation’s efforts to win the war on terror-revealing the when, where, how, and who for the first time. He also exposes the Democratic politicians who have sold out America’s national security for political gain.

[Extacy's Empire] Movie Review: Matt Damon's Green Zone | Extacy's Empire: Miller's squadron is on a mission to find weapons of mass destruction, since the highly reliable intelligence confirming Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's deadly stash of WMD is what persuaded Congress to authorize George W. Bush to invade the country in the first .

[NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] The NY Times on Bush and WMD: 'Does Karl Rove or the President Owe ...: in the whole endeavor, convincing the country that Bush made not effort to build a coalition. In truth, only France, Germany and Russia opposed the war, and all of them had their own reasons for doing so. The media and Dems also successfully convinced so many that Bush misled the public about WMDs; and that it was solely Bush who believed Iraq had them. Of course, we all know that most Democrats thought Hussein had them as did most of the world. The multiple UN Resolutions against Hussein are all but forgotten now. Let's never forget the daily counting of casualties in the media, something which was unprecedented in American journalism;

[The Caucus] Rove on Iraq: Without W.M.D. Threat, Bush Wouldn't Have Gone to ...: While the opportunity to bring democracy to the Middle East as a bulwark against Islamic extremism “justified the decision to remove Saddam Hussein,” Mr. Rove makes clear that from the start, at least, the suspected weapons and their perceived threat were the primary justification for war.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Larison is Shrill: So the real problem in America, the core source of partisan rancor is that Iraq war critics weren't nuanced enough in their arguments. Fucking hell.

[The Common Ills] Iraq snapshot « The Common Ills: Most of the rest of the world is aware that the US is a Military/Corporate Empire and that the spread of this Empire is harmful globally to peace, the environment, and economic health. Part of Camp OUT NOW's mission is to bring awareness to Americans about the profound cost to all of us from this Empire.

[jezblog] j e z b l o g: But sometimes we can take out a bully. And Blair justified the decision to invade Iraq on those grounds.

[The Anchoress] The Anchoress | A First Things Blog: After 9/11, when we saw what the enemies of this country are capable of, and we saw what it is like to lose thousands of people in a single day, Saddam Hussein was an unacceptable risk that we could no longer afford to simply sweep under the rug and hope that he wouldn’t do something catastrophic. Regime change in Iraq had been U.S. policy for years before Bush ever took office.

[Around The Sphere] Mittens And The Brain « Around The Sphere: The closest Bush ever came to using those two precise words ”” the moment that most people remember as the “go shopping” moment ”” were his September 27, 2001 remarks at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport when he urged Americans to “get down to Disney World in Florida” and “take your families and enjoy life, the way we want it to be enjoyed.” But Rove insists that the “closest he ever came” was a different speech in which Bush praised Americans for “going about their daily lives, working and shopping and playing, worshiping at churches and synagogues and mosques, going to movies and to baseball.” Even there, Rove skips past the argument made by critics ”” that Bush, in a unique position to demand more of Americans, gave an “all-clear” sign and moved on. In writing about Hurricane Katrina, one of his only regrets is “flying over the region in Air Force One on Wednesday, rather than landing.” In one of Rove’s few admissions, he admits that he’s “one of the people responsible for this mistake.”

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The Jawa Report: War In Afghanistan/Iraq Probable Cause Of Recent ...

[The Jawa Report] Yemeni authorities said this week that the American, Sharif Mobley, 26, who had worked for six years as a laborer at nuclear plants in New Jersey, had been arrested last week in Sana, the Yemeni capital, in a sweep of militants tied to the Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda and the Somali movement Al Shabab.Leftist/terrorist propagandist talking points. If we weren't in Iraq & Afghanistan the radicalization would still happen, the terrorists hate us.

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[Eurasia Review] Al-Qaida Moving Between Yemen And Saudi Arabia; Flying US Or UK ...: Quoting an interview with the London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat, Brigadier General Ali Hassan al-Shatir, head of the Morale Guidance Directorate in the Yemeni Army said that since the rebels agreed to the Yemen government's conditions several weeks ago, the north-eastern region was finally able to come under the control of the government.

[Libertarian Blog] Afghanistan and Iraq -- combat, but not war - Libertarian Blog ...: I don't think being in Iraq and Afghanistan achieves any of these goals, and although one day in a more friendly world, we can open our borders to free movement among cultures, until that time, we need to use technology to its greatest power to prevent terrorist attacks -- without turning America into a police state.

[Nation & World] Arrest raises concern about radicalized American Muslims ...: "It's a troubling trend, fed by an ideological claim found all over the Web that says the U.S. is at war with Islam," said Rick Nelson, director of the counterterrorism program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and co-author of a new study of the homegrown extremist threat.

[San Francisco Sentinel] San Francisco Sentinel » Blog Archives » IN THE CROSSHAIRS: How al ...: It is meant to convey that insurgents and terrorists being pinpointed and attacked by drones in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and possibly Somalia are coping with this novel threat. Al-Qaida, the Taliban, the so-called Islamic Army in Iraq and Shabab militants in Somalia all claim to have shot down American drones.

[GlobalPost] Yemen | Radical Islam | Terrorism: While his education and intellect provided him with an understanding of and deep insight into the structures of contemporary Islam, the fact that he was born and raised in a culturally degenerated country and in a society, the moral standards of which are merely a shallow "if it doesn't do any harm, it's morally good", bars him from gaining substantial comprehension of a community, which obeys to a far more complex and afterlife-oriented philosophy.

[Creative-i] Creative-i / AFRICOM's First War: U.S. Directs Large-Scale ...: The tone of the feature was of course one of approval and endorsement of the Pentagon’s rationale for directly intervening in Somalia at a level not seen since 1993 and support for proxy actions last witnessed with the invasion by Ethiopia in 2006. The report began with a description of a military surveillance plane circling over the Somali capital and a quote from the new chief of staff of the nation’s armed forces, General Mohamed Gelle Kahiye: “It’s the Americans.

[freedetainees.org] Interview: Anwar al-Awlaki « freedetainees.org: The American people are the ones who have voted twice for Bush the criminal and elected Obama who is not different from Bush as his first remarks stated that he would not abandon Israel, despite the fact that there were other anti-war candidates in the US elections, but they won very few votes. The American people take part in all its government’s crimes.

[Victory Institute Newsdesk] Newslinks 6-7 Mar 2010 « Victory Institute Newsdesk: Adam Gadahn aka Azzam al-Amriki: “Brother Nidal is the ideal role-model for every repentant Muslim in the armies of the unbelievers and apostate regime”

[The CenterLine] The End of Violent Sectarianism in Iraq « The CenterLine: The Americans signed the Status of Forces Agreement in 2008, but it was only on June 30, 2009, that the Iraqis began to understand that the Americans are serious, as they watched them live up to their agreements and effectively end the occupation. For the first month, the Iraqis tested the Americans, almost arresting American soldiers at one point, and then, when they were confident that they really were sovereign, they did something strange - they asked the Americans back in, and once again the U.S. military could do whatever it wanted, including going on patrols and conducting arrests.

[the world cares.com] this ain't livin' » Blog Archive » Climate Change and Biodiversity ...: WASHINGTON ”” The arrest in Yemen of a New Jersey man accused of joining Al Qaeda is the latest in an alarming string of cases involving radicalized American Muslims, a trend some experts link to the duration of the wars in Iraq and …

[India Current Affairs] India Current Affairs » Blog Archive » YEMEN ON THE BRINK ...: The Washington Post in an editorial stated that the US has already launched a military offensive in Yemen. Clinton said in early January that it was “time for the international community to make it clear to Yemen that there are expectations and conditions for our continuing support for the government”.

[The Common Ills] Peter Moore, the League of Righteous, etc. « The Common Ills: It’s a war of terror on the people, now being expanded by Obama. During the current and largest US offensive of the war, which is going to spread over the next year, innocent civilians are being killed by U.S./NATO bombs, driven from their homes, and innocent Afghans have been imprisoned and tortured in secret US detention centers.

[Colorado Independent » Blog] Polis urges support for withdrawal from Afghanistan « Colorado ...: Yes, there is a very real threat, but the answer is NOT to continue to indefinitely occupy countries where we only breed more sympathy with those who would do us harm. The correct and more important way to leverage American military might to combat this menace is to have targeted and aggressive intelligence gathering and targeted special operations against the terrorists no matter where they are.

[Dandelion Salad] AFRICOM's First War: U.S. Directs Large-Scale Offensive In Somalia ...: In addition to using such a multinational regional force in Somalia, the U.S. can also deploy it against Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in Uganda, Congo and Sudan, and could even employ it against Eritrea, Zimbabwe and Sudan, along with Somalia the only nations on the African continent not to some degree enmeshed in military partnerships with Washington and NATO. (Libya has participated in NATO naval exercises and South Africa has hosted the bloc’s warships.) [11]

[Change.org's War and Peace Blog] H20 or Al Qaeda: Yemen's Gravest Security Threat | War and Peace ...: Helping the Yemeni government to plan and implement alternative water projects and giving citizens financial incentives to adopt less water-dependent farming techniques mark the most significant steps the international community could adopt to combat extremism in Yemen. Flooding the country with billions of gallons of H20 - not pumping in F16s and hellfire cruise missiles - will ultimately help to win the long-term battle for security and stability in the southern Arabian peninsula.

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The Iraq War: Suddenly, It's Not So Bad After All -- Politics Daily

[Politics Daily] KELLY, while you are off in several directions (why the heck do you comment on rich people getting off in this rant of yours????), we DID HAVE A CAUSE IN IRAQ AND LOOK! TO THE DISMAY OF LIEberal SCUM LIKE YOU, WE HAVE EVIDENTLY SUCCEEDED, WINNING THE WAR AND WINNING RIGHTS FOR PEOPLE THAT WERE IN A COUNTRY THAT HARBORED AND TRAINED TERRORISTS AND YES, HAD THE COMPONENTS OF WMD AND WOULD IN FACT USE THEM.HAHAHA!

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[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Green Zone Advances Liberal Narrative of Iraq War: All of you out there that read this who are FED UP with this BS coming out of Matt Damon and the rest of these people that control what we see and think. There is an alternative to combat this crap.

[Liberal Conspiracy] Liberal Conspiracy » Moral courage in Alternative Iraq: pastoral theology chair at Oxford was Oliver O’Donovan, and his book on The Problem of Self-Love in Augustine (Yale, 1979) is just terrific. He’s written on the Iraq war, too, but –

[GOP 12] GOP 12: Daniels defends Iraq war projections: So the first question was "Okay, what kind of war are you gonna fight" and "how long are you gonna be there?" And it's all over the record that the estimate was to defeat the Iraqi army and to be there six months, at which time -- it was believed then -- we'd already be starting to withdraw.

[NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Barbara Walters Lets Jesse Ventura Spread 9-11 Truther Rant, Gives ...: WALTERS: Whatever one may feel about President Bush, you say the reason this was done was to protect oil interests, or because the president wanted to have the Iraq war. That the government would deliberately kill three thousand people!

[Blog News Web - Updated Every Minute] Leon T. Hadar: Victory in Iraq at Last (Not!) | Blog News Web ...: Neoconservative ideologues had promised that winning the war in Iraq would be a “cake walk” ”” a relatively brief and cost-free military campaign that will not require many American troops and vast financial resources (Iraqi oil will pay .religious and tribal rivalries between Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds and assured us that Iraq would be transformed into a functioning liberal democracy and that a pro-American Iraq could serve as a model for the entire Arab Middle East.

[Chiamare] Democrat Tim Ryan kicks Bush's ass | Chiamare: We have to police the world because the worthless, liberal, pacificst ,progressive UN will not police and enforce the world like they are supposed to. I told you that!

[BrothersJudd Blog] BrothersJudd Blog: IF ALL WE CARE ABOUT IS CASUALTY CALCULUS...:: But Europe’s liberation from Nazi domination cost the lives of 70,000 French civilians and 500,000 German ones through bombing; and, whereas this was the direct responsibility of the British and Americans, most Iraqi civilians were killed by foreign or native insurgents.

[Arab News Blog] Arab News Blog » That 'democratic justification' for invading Iraq ...: But I am also sure you know what some of your people are quietly saying: “How come we Iranian-Persian-Shiites ”” who always viewed ourselves as superior to Iraqi-Arab-Shiites ”” can only vote for a handful of pre-chewed, pre-digested, ”˜approved’ candidates from the supreme leader, while those lowly Iraqi Shiites, who have been hanging around with America for seven years, get to vote for whomever they want?” Unlike in Tehran, Iraqis actually count the votes. This will subtly fuel the discontent in Iran…

[Liberal Whoppers] Newsweek Declares 'Victory At Last' In Iraq, While Team Bush ...: Klein wrote on April 5, 2007.) As it is, if the positive trajectory of events continue and Iraq does end up reshaping the political culture of the Arab Middle East, the Iraq war will, on balance, have advanced American interests in the region. Newsweek declared : “Bush’s rhetoric about democracy came to sound as bitterly ironic as his pumped-up appearance on an aircraft carrier a few months earlier, in front of an enormous banner that declared MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

[FAIR Blog] FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Tom Friedman's Iraq War: Ironically, though, it was the neo-conservative Bush team that argued that culture didn’t matter in Iraq, and that the prospect of democracy and self-rule would automatically bring Iraqis together to bury the past. While many liberals and realists contended that Iraq was an irredeemable tribal hornet's nest and we should not be sticking our hand in there;

[Blog News Web - Updated Every Minute] Cenk Uygur: Jesse Ventura: MSNBC Tried to Shut Me Up | Blog News ...: I went to do my show, they were putting together a five-day-a-week show for me, and then all of a sudden, a phone call came to one of my subordinates, and they said, “Is it true that the Governor doesn’t support the war in Iraq?” This was right before, as the Iraq war was going on, getting ready to hype up.

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Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Oscar for Iraq war film well ...

[Anderson Cooper 360] This past weekend, Iraq had a real election and in spite of threats and bombings, millions of voters participated in record numbers. It is a giant step forward in Iraq's road to democracy and has the potential to be a beacon for others in this battle-scarred region.

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[Anderson Cooper 360] Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Back from Iraq war, and alone ...: A few days after I had returned from a six-month deployment to Iraq, my second sojourn in the Middle East since 2001, I remember feeling like I was an alien creature from some other planet.

[SWJ Blog] Putting the “I” in the COIN Team (SWJ Blog): Dupuy pointed out in has classic study, A Genius for War , it produced a system that institutionalized excellence at the tactical and operational levels of war from the defeat of .Institutionalizing excellence in PRT performance should become a key goal as we move forward in Afghanistan and Iraq.

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Drone Warfare and the ...: As a fine example of this, and of battlefield ingenuity, during the Iraq War, some clever soul in the Air Force discovered that practice bombs (full weight, but concrete instead of explosive) made adequate tank killers:, tanks adjacent to .Instapundit » Blog Archive » KENNETH ANDERSON on Drone Warfare and the Harvard National Security Conference.

[Anderson Cooper 360] Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Two brothers, two homicides ...: Where is God in these tight knit communities. I pray that God touches these young peoples souls while they are still alive.

[Mediaite] Olbermann Reflects, In Great Detail, On MSNBC Anchors Of The Past ...: Her unease deepened with the coverage of the Iraq War in March and April of 2003, which she thought celebrated the triumphs of war at the expense of the scarcely visible tragedies. These concerns formed the basis of a lecture Banfield delivered at Kansas State University on April 24, 2003, a couple of weeks after the fall of Baghdad.

[Anderson Cooper 360] Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Homicide in Hollenback: Why a ...: good Morning from India Anderson: What would happen If as many servicemen were killed in Afganistan as are children in the United States by guns every years? One might think there would be massive anti-war protests.

[T Magazine] Vain Glorious | A Scar Is Born - T Magazine Blog - NYTimes.com: From the beginning, the director, Daniel Sullivan, and Linney knew that Goodwin’s visible scars would be an important facet of the production, so the actress suggested calling in Mindy Hall, an accomplished (and as of this past Sunday night, Academy Award-winning) makeup artist who Linney had worked with on four films, including “Kinsey.” “I knew Mindy would be able to come up with something a) the theater would be able to afford, b) that would look realistic and c) that I would be able to put on myself,”

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The revisionist history of the Iraq War (or how Dubya was right ...

[Unreported] I know liberals like to think Dubya and his crew were so evil no one will ever, ever forget the lessons learned during the Bush years, but this kind of revisionist bullshit has a way of slowly seeping into the populace’s subconscious. After enough hours of hearing Liz Cheney talk about how rad her dad is, and reading enough of Friedo’s disgusting columns, people will start to believe this crap.

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[The Common Ills] US military announces 2 deaths « The Common Ills: ) calls out the latest attempts at revisionary history, "I know liberals like to think Dubya and his crew were so evil no one will ever, ever forget the lessons learned during the Bush years, but this kind of revisionist bulls**t has a way of slowly seeping into the populace’s subconscious. After enough hours of hearing Liz Cheney talk about how rad her dad is, and reading enough of Friedo's disgusting columns, people will start to believe this crap."

[Spectacular Attractions] Digesting Avatar « Spectacular Attractions: The fantasy of Sully giving up the impediment of his (American) humanity is a guilt-ridden 9/11 death wish. References to “fight terror with terror” and “shock-and-awe campaign” don’t belong in this 3-D Rapa Nui with its blather about the Na’vi’s “direct line to their ancestors.” Once again, villainous Americans exhibit no direct communication with ancestors.

[FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right] FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Guest Column: Will Bin Laden ...: The Republican Party's campaign platform in the 2000 election called for "full implementation" of the Iraq Liberation Act and removal of Saddam Hussein, and key Bush advisors, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and Rumsfeld’s Deputy Paul Wolfowitz, were longstanding advocates of invading Iraq.[32] After leaving the administration, former Bush treasury secretary Paul O'Neill said that an attack on Iraq had been planned since the inauguration, and that the first National Security Council meeting involved discussion of an invasion. O'Neill later backtracked, saying that these discussions were part of a continuation of foreign policy first put into place by the Clinton Administration.[33]'

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: well you get what you vote for Bill clintonwill cheat again and embarrass the American people we will once again have a scandle in the white house, why take that chance, I truly believe out withe the old over 60 presidents, hillary is from a different generation and she repeats everything Obama says he says change, she says change, if you listen carefully she almost quotes him word for word, and she still uses the word I, I I this is a personal victory NOT for the American people , but for her, and her husband he got kicked out the whitehouse, it should be a law once your kicked out ,you cant come back in, the other countries are probably laughing at us for picking a woman to even try to run the white house,I cant see her dueling wtih osama bin laden or the president if Iran? tell hillary to go home and cook.

[News Blog] The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: News Blog: It's the basics that will get votes and all howard can say is look what i've done over the past decade - yes mr howard look what you've done and look at the resulting mess!Accussing labor of being all about unions is a tired old line that nobody believes!Labor cares about the average aussie/aussie family not those who are mega rich and lets not forget where howard and the libs get financial backing from - various wierdo religious cults.Howard keeps on about what he's achieved so far,well he's had a decade to fix our hospital system which is 3rd world standard,under howard the rich have gotten richer and your average aussie battler makes no headway,people are tired of struggling causing them to lose thier homes etc and do we really want costello as our leader in 18 months time??No! We don't want howard or costello now or in the future - show them the door and make sure it hits them on the arse on the way out of govenment!

[The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog] The American Spectator : Saul Alinsky Takes the White House: Now that system is being controlled by Marxists of the Alinsky type, who want nothing more than to start the brainwashing at ever younger ages in order to perfect the process in preschool. The only hope for this country's future is in the several million children who are home educated, and allowed the freedom of thought that the public school system so completely suppresses.

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Election Reaction From Around Iraq - At War Blog - NYTimes.com

[At War] As Iraq returns to normal life after nearly a week of election curfews and holidays, New York Times correspondents and Iraqi stringers have spoken to Iraqis around the country about their choices, hopes and expectations. We will present them here as they come in, with updates on the results as boxes begin arriving from around the country to the Green Zone headquarters of Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission.

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[Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] At UK's Iraq inquiry, Gordon Brown says invasion justified _ ...: Ex-UK minister: postwar planning for Iraq lackingLONDON ”” British officials worried before the invasion of Iraq that the Americans weren't putting enough thought into postwar planning, the head of Britain's defense ministry at the time said Tuesday. Former Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon told an official inquiry into the war that planning was not as "detailed and comprehensive as we would have liked."He acknowledged the aftermath of the 2003 invasion "did not go as well as we wanted it to go."Britain is holding its third and widest-ranging inquiry into the conflict, which triggered huge protests and left 179 British dead before the country's troops withdrew from Iraq last year.

[Arab News Blog] Arab News Blog » War Reporting: after the fall of Saddam when journalists could get out into all parts of Iraq fairly freely, but as the violence mounted and journalists were targeted in the struggle access to many parts of Iraq or to many Iraqis became much more difficult. For years, journalists (even those not living in the Green Zone) were forced either to huddle down in offices and rely on stringers, or else go out into the field with the military as embeds. Both routes offered useful perspectives, but neither is perfect.

[The Daily Colonial] The Daily Colonial » Blog Archive » Bullets and Bylines: Kalb ...: Chandrasekaran recently returned from Marja, a danger zone where the experience of trudging across land under heavy gunfire reminded him of the battlefront experience circa World War II. He said that reporters in Afghanistan are severely impeded by the dangers of the work, in a country where vast, volatile areas are closed off to any journalist who values their life.

[Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] In UK's Iraq inquiry, Gordon Brown says that going to war in Iraq ...: UK's Brown faces questions over Iraq warLONDON ”” British Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended the decision to invade Iraq, saying Friday before an inquiry on the war that deposing Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do. In testimony before a looming national election, Brown praised the sacrifice of those who died and immediately addressed a critical question: Did he agree with Britain's choice of going to war?"It was the right decision and it was for the right reasons," he said.

[Immelman for Congress] Immelman for Congress » Blog Archive » Biden-Cheney Duel on Talk TV: and that the Bush mishandled it from the outset by taking its “eye off the ball.” That, he said, left the U.S. in a more dangerous position in Afghanistan, the al-Qaida stronghold where Osama bin Laden and his cohorts plotted the Sept 11 terror attacks.

[Entertainment Daily] UK's Blair promises autobiography “The Journey” will offer an ...: Publisher Random House paid an estimated 5 million pounds ($7.5 million) for Blair’s personal account of his time in power, after a bidding war that Washington literary power-broker Robert Barnett ”” an attorney whose clients include President Barack Obama, his predecessor George W. Bush and both Bill and Hillary Clinton ”” described as among the most fierce in memory.

[JimMacMillan.Net] Iraq War Diary - January 30, 2005: Election Day; Birthday in Mosul ...: Car bombs were unlikely today, since “no-roll” enforcement, communicated on local television and radio and in newspapers, meant that nobody would be driving besides the Army and the Iraqi forces, thus making it pretty hard for insurgents to roll up on a site unnoticed. Still, barricades, barbed wire and lots of other secret military ops would have made it impossible to get close to the polls for anybody who tried.

[SNP Tactical Voting] SNP Tactical Voting: Jim Murphy's Altar Boy Error: For me, Jim Murphy's move was always foolish given the Iraq War alone. Countless civilian deaths, their lives rendered almost meaningless, sacrificed for so little gain in the face of international condemnation for not following through with the weapons inspections and consensual UN approach.

[The Common Ills] Attacks on press freedoms and the elections « The Common Ills: Most outlets rely on Iraqi journalists to be stringers and eyes and ears as well as to be the co- or sole reporter on news reports but many of the Iraqis cannot register as journalists due to threats that might follow as a result of their occupation being known. This has seriously curtailed a great deal of coverage news consumers would otherwise be receiving.

[Committee to Protect Journalists] Protective bylines, and why they're necessary - Blog - Committee ...: Theyhave asked that they not be connected to an American news organization. In order to indicate where the information is coming from, however, we wantedreaders to know that it is coming from a person on site where the eventsdescribed were happening.

[TED Blog] TED Blog: TED Fellow Sean Gourley published in Nature: If we look at the war in Iraq and take a random sample of 2,500 attacks, we find that there are on average ~1,800 attacks that kill 1 person, ~30 attacks that kill 5 people and ~1 attack that kills 20 people. Of particular interest is when we take this same sample of 2,500 attacks from any modern war, we see a very similar ratio emerge.

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Will the War in Iraq Ever Go Away? -- Politics Daily

[Politics Daily] The soldiers find heads outside the building they are guarding all of the time because the opposition kills the Iraqi government employees so they can get their jobs....They were better off with a dictator (Hussein) because people were afraid of him and there was very little crime.

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[BIGON Sandbank] David Miliband 'did not lose sleep' over Iraq backing | BIGON Sandbank: Mr Miliband, who was a junior minister at the time of the invasion, said: "The authority of the UN, I think, would have been severely dented if the hypothetical case that you are putting - that we had marched to the top of the hill of pressure and then walked down again without disarming Saddam - then I think that would have been really quite damaging for any of the multilateral aims that we have that need to be pursued through the UN.

[Politics] Iraqis may prove war was a mistake worth making | Washington Examiner: Iraq has seen 9400 men in uniform killed since the U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein's regime. That's not even half of a 10th of a percent of the nation's population of almost 24 million.

[Business Xanadu] Who agrees with my opinion School Business on the Iraq war?: It made sense to kill Saddam Hussein really, get some person who objects to the US cause, set up a permanent strategic location to do military operations in the middle east, against Iran, China, Syria, Egypt and India. The whole war is coated in this feel good we care about these people crap.

[Tony Blair] Iraq Inquiry: Miliband to “pejorative” Lyne - “UN”¦ feeble follow ...: SIR RODERIC LYNE: Now, he had the intent, he was presumed to have some material, his capability had been hugely constrained since 1991 by a range of measures, not just by trade sanctions, but, much more importantly perhaps, by an arms embargo, by deterrence, by No Fly Zones, by a Naval embargo. Was military action, in March 2003, the only way of continuing to contain this intent, this threatened this desire of Saddam Hussein, to become once again a potential aggressor?

[J. Neil Schulman] J. Neil Schulman on War « J. Neil Schulman: With Iraq I believed the WMD threat was real, and as I’ve stated elsewhere I believe the disinformation that led to this threat appearing credible came from Saddam Hussein’s attempt to bluff Iran, which as we know is well along the way to having its own A-bombs. Saddam Hussein was an evil dictator and, again, it did not take much of a casus belli to want to see Iraqis —

[The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy] Sorry, Rove, Bush Did Lie About Iraq | The Smirking Chimp: Nevertheless, Bush followed up his false pre-war claims about Iraq's WMD with a post-invasion insistence that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had barred U.N. inspectors from his country, a decision that Bush said left him no choice but to invade.

[Second Opinion] Second Opinion: A good day for democracy in Iraq - A virtual ...: The war in Iraq was ill conceived, ill planned, and needless adventurism, especially when considering the real struggle against international terrorism our nation faced after the 9/11 attacks. The fact that Iraq is having an election and the sectarian violence is only resulting in dozens of deaths each week instead the larger number we were seeing only a year or two ago, is nothing to crow about.

[NY Issues] Baghdad Holds Key As Iraq Awaits Initial Vote Results: Iraq expects the first results of the polls on Tuesday presented as a test for the young democracy, hold down the button with Baghdad as Prime Minister and his secular rivals jockey for pole position. Thirty percent of the votes were counted in the evening, the complex range of Iraqi political blocs its first official indication of how to reduce the second general elections since 2003, fall of Saddam Hussein.

[At War] Iraqi Elections: Live-Blogging Election Day - At War Blog ...: A group of soldiers from Delta Company - part of the Third Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade - gathered at the edge of a landing zone near a joint American-Iraqi base in the center of Baghdad this morning not long after the attacks began. Three armored vehicles lined up, ready to roll out into the city, should the Iraqi security forces request their assistance, reports Tim Arango of The New York Times.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » Iraq War Defense ...: Mr Brown said that every request for money for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and occupation of Iraq was swiftly approved by the Treasury. He shifted the blame on to generals when confronted with complaints from the relatives of soldiers killed by in attacks on Snatch Land Rovers.

[At War] Iraqi Election - Music Videos and Propaganda - At War Blog ...: At a rally Wednesday in central Baghdad for Ayad Allawi and his Iraqiya coalition, the biggest challenger to current Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s coalition, supporters frequently interrupted Mr. Maliki’s speech with refrains from “Triumph Baghdad,” an oft-heard song in Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

RealClearWorld - The Compass Blog: Putting Iraq on a path to democracy and decency is a noble accomplishment of which Americans ”” of all parties ”” should be proud. Even if you think the war wasn’t worth it or that it was unjustified, only the truly blinkered or black-hearted can be vexed by the fact that Saddam Hussein’s regime is gone and the country is on the path to better days.

[Tenth Amendment Center Blog] Safeguard Wisconsin's Guard from needless deployment | Tenth ...: For the first time in recent history, citizens of Wisconsin have the opportunity to help answer the question “Who decides about war?” As part of a national movement of nearly two dozen states, on Tuesday, March 9, at 1 p.m. at the State Capitol in Madison, the Veterans and Military Affairs Committee of the state Assembly plans to hold a public hearing on Assembly Bill 203, the “Safeguard the Guard Act.”

[WorldBBNews] The Wire re-up: season five, episode four - the big lie | WorldBBNews: Without overlaying the timelines of political events with the writing of series five, we can’t know to what extent one informed the other, though it is clear - in the subtext and structure - that Simon was mindful of both recent and contemporaneous events and intended the serial killer plot to warn of exactly the kind of inherent dysfunction in public institutions exposed by Blair and George Bush in 2002-03.

[Pakistanpal's Blog] Muslim Disunity: A Religion Divided Against Itself « Pakistanpal's ...: Considering that a few thousand Sunnis were able to prevent superpower America from successfully occupying Baghdad or much of Iraq, had the Shi’ites joined with the Sunnis against the invaders, the U.S. would have been defeated and driven out. This outcome was not possible, because the Shi’ites wanted to settle the score with the Sunnis, who had ruled them under Saddam Hussein.

[SECTalk Forums] Will Iraq's democracy vindicate Bush? - SECTalk Forums: In 1963, the United States backed a coup against the government of Iraq which was then headed by General Abdel Karim Kassem, who five years earlier had deposed the Western-allied Iraqi monarchy, and later withdrew the anti Soviet Baghdad Pact. The CIA helped the new Ba'ath Party government in ridding the country of suspected leftists and communists.

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[Hot Air » Top Picks] He said what he said about jobs in front of cameras and it is on video all over the net.Now he says it is taken out of context(ever heard that before?)and used for political gain by Republicans.This same guy spent the Bush years hoping everyday would see many American and Iraqi deaths that he could use for political gain.

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[www.questionsandanswersonline.com] What drives the Democrats ? - www.questionsandanswersonline.com: And then there are those who cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the magnitude of the stakes in Iraq or in the larger conflict against radical jihadism. The reality of this struggle ”” that we are in an existential war with a totalitarian enemy that celebrates death and cannot be appeased ”” is too bleak and hopeless.

[Democrats & Liberals] Democrats & Liberals: Iraq-nam Accomplished: In a very important way, Iraq-nam is a lot worse than Vietnam: it is taking our focus away from the fight against Al Qaeda. Not only are we getting Americans killed every day, our armed forces are being stretched so dangerously thin that we do not have enough troops to fight our real enemy: Al Qaeda.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Will Obama Still Be Blaming Bush in 2012? Bet on It: Bush and people took the US economy just when the dot com bubble was bout to burst, when Enron (who had string ties to Gore’s AGW scam) was about to burst in additiocrisis triggered by 9/11 and still managed to get the conomy in order. Then seven years later, with Congres (that is the institution who votes budgets) in democrat hands an economic depressiojn was triggered by the implosion of Faanny Mae and Fredy Mac, two institutions he had tried to reform and was prevented of doing so by the Democrats.

[Politics Daily] U.S. Casualties in Afghan War Soar Toward 15000 Dead and Injured ...: Bush was SMART enough to know that drawing Al Qaeda out of the mountains of Afghanistan and into the deserts of Iraq was the best move. he did more to destroy AQ's power and credibility than any of Obama's drone executions will ever have.

[Top News] Speaker Pelosi fumbles in dealing with the ouster of Chairman ...: After defending Rangel late last week and on two Sunday talk shows, Pelosi reversed course after House Democrats let her know that Rangel had become a major political liability. More than two months after saying she was in “campaign mode,” Pelosi replaced the Rangel problem with another dilemma.

[Theodore's World] Bush Signs Veto With Pen From Father of - PC Free Zone: You can bet a repeat of the Vietnam capitulation in Iraq or Afghanistan will welcome an all out attack from the Islamists at home as well as amongst our allies. Look about and see what appeasement has brought to Israel, Lebanon, France and the Netherlands.

[Davids Medienkritik] Davids Medienkritik: Sueddeutsche Zeitung: Biased Daily Life for ...: In your letter you want me to “admit that the world would be better off if your president had not started that war?” though you obviously feel it is such a questionable statement that you immediately qualify it with, “I am not saying that the Iraqi people were better off under Saddam.” As if the two thoughts somehow worked together on any level. What a feeble attempt to square the circle of the obvious contradiction A little verbal cover for those who want their way but without being held responsible for the consequences.

[Breaking News Updates New Orleans - Times-Picayune - NOLA.com] Senate leader wants 'airing' of Vitter scandal | Breaking News ...: Harry Reid is ineffective as the Senate Majority Leader and he needs to be replaced and retired and I just faxed his bohonkey monkey a 10 page fax telling him this....Get ready Congress for yet another mass mailing compliments of Senator Reid....

[Arkansas Blog] Arkansas Blog: Lincoln attacks Halter: Working Middle Class (broke) -- for the most part they are not broken but those that are broke are in that position because they made very poor financial decisions: bought more house than they could afford, bought new cars or used cars they couldn't afford, bought "stuff" they couldn't afford, didn't do a simply monthly budget and follow it to make sure they didn't spent more than they earned, used credit cards and were then infused with a sense that "money is free", didn't pay cash for things when they bought them and many, many more dumb financial decisions that caused them to be broke. Do people get sick or hurt and lose jobs or get laid off?

[Maser Media Blog] Maser Media Blog » Mass Graves of Children Dug up in Iraq: During the Bush presidency the wacko left (like Susan George and Henry Giroux) said the war was terrorism, and Bush invaded people's privacy with the military industrial complex. Meanwhile, Obama who gets excuses written for him everyday by a complicit leftists media tells us our cell phones are being monitored, and has continued the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and expanded it to Pakistan.

[GOP Leader Blog] Republican Leader John Boehner | Sen. Reid's Government-Run Health ...: There's no way I'm going to work every day to fund abortions. Give me a break. There are reforms out there that will lower the monetary cost of healthcare without raising the sociological costs. I'm supposed to sacrifice my morals to save a ...... Calling abortion murder makes no sense when at the same time you condone the death of another soldier on any battlefield in the world. You will support your war in Iraq, Afghanistan.. You probably even hope for a war with Iran. ...

[OPINION] OPINION Blog | The Dallas Morning News: Zachary, when the Deficit Commission (co-headed by skinflint Alan Simpson) is going to have a simultaneous solution of spending/ entitlement cuts AND increased taxes then "spending should be cut before any thought is given to raising taxes" is not a reasonable opinion, it is a selfish opinion as it is going to saddle our progeny with a fiscal mess. A number of times with various libertarian posters on this blog I have said I am ready to take the bitter medicine of both spending cuts AND new taxes (I am a topy 5 percenter) and not a single libertarian or Tea Party poster has been willing to give an inch.

[Erick's blog] A Real Tea Party Worthy Amendment to the Constitution | Erick's blog: Prior to the New Deal, 10% was the maximum level except during the Civil War and WWI. Once Social Security and Medicare are privatized there is no reason it needs to be more than 10% now.

[Mail Online - Peter Hitchens] Other People's Countries and What We Should do About Them - Mail ...: There are or were of course some good state-schools in this country in the shape of the old post-war grammar schools, though a lot of them were closed down by a rightwing education secretary in the shape of Mrs Thatcher. Apart from them, the Left in this country has never really been strong enough properly to control the British education system, so the best it’s managed to do has been to undermine education altogether and try to smash the system in stead.

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Was the Iraq war illegal?

[Liberal Democrat Voice] “It is not a court of law, the Chilcot Inquiry, it was explicitly set up not to determine whether it was illegal or not so that is going to have to happen elsewhere by the lawyers, by the court, but my view is that I have heard enough now to suggest that this wasn’t taken in line…and worse, more than that, there is clear evidence which has come out in the Chilcot Inquiry that the Attorney General who is supposed to be the guardian of the legality of doing things was flip flopping from one minute to the next, and there is overwhelming evidence and very serious allegations that he was pressured into keeping silent about his own reservations about the illegality of the war by Jack Straw, by Tony Blair and by others.

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[News] Chilcot Inquiry: Gordon Brown supported Iraq War, but Macavity was ...: To further underline the monstrous mendacity of the great grey greasy nostril-mining sociopathic, schizophrenic misfit, DumbDumb has felt incumbent upon himself to leave the bunker to run interference on behalf of McBully, and what a puerile job he makes of it too @ 11.14. You almost start to feel sorry for the sad apparatchik –

[Kahunas News] I funded Iraq war properly, Brown tells Chilcot inquiry | Kahunas News: The prime minister - who had originally been scheduled to give evidence to the inquiry after the general election - told the panel: “I was determined - and I may say it’s one of my regrets I wasn’t able to push the Americans further on this issue - that the planning for reconstruction was essential just at the same time as the planning for war if the diplomatic avenue failed.

[News Portal] I funded Iraq war properly, Brown tells Chilcot inquiry | News Portal: Questioned for more than four hours of by the Chilcot inquiry, the prime minister delivered a calm and measured performance. He began the session by paying tribute to the military personnel who had lost their lives in the conflict and told the panel the “difficult decisions”

[Latest Posts at LabourList.org] Gordon Brown at the Chilcot Inquiry | LabourList.org 2.0 ...: It's interesting, though, that Sir John Chilcot has essentially ruled Brown's appearance as off limits for electioneering. He opened the hearing saying he is "acutely conscious" that we are in the run-up to a general election, that the inquiry wants to "remain outside party politics" and that it has asked all political parties to respect that.

[Whatanews4u.Sports] BBC - World Tonight: Gordon Brown at the Iraq inquiry: As for that contentious legal advice from the attorney-general, who at the last moment assured the Cabinet that going to war in Iraq would be legal, despite his earlier reservations, No, he hadn't known about all the detailed discussions that had preceded it - but it didn't matter, because the final "unequivocal" advice was that the war would be legal.

[Scholars and Rogues] Scholars and Rogues » Gordon Brown at the Chilcot inquiry: While Blair and others appeared embarrassed by the fact that both America and the Iraqi government undertook significant policy and military initiatives without consulting the UK, which did of course have certain legal obligations as an occupying army, Brown appeared blithely unconcerned. More generally, while previous Labour party appearances have been characterized by the almost adversarial and/or confrontational response by the testifiers, Brown seemed to be having a conversation, and a not unpleasant one, with committee members.

[NewsBag] 'Brownwash': PM under fire over Iraq war defence (AFP) | NewsBag: He may have bamboozled the dopey Chilcot Inquiry. But in the court of public opinion, he still has serious .

[News | The Independent UK] News | The Independent UK - Brown on Iraq: I wasn?t at fault: But Brown disingenuously retorted by making reference to plans drawn up by the department to spend an extra £1.3 billion on new equipment that he maintains the department said they could fund with efficiency savings. Brown then went on to say that he doubted that this had been achieved and he even pompously declared that if every Whitehall department operated by the same rules then this would cost the taxpayer an additional £12 billion per annum!

[The Legal Blotter] The Legal Blotter » Blog Archive » UK knew 'no leg to stand on ...: UK knew 'no leg to stand on' legally to go to war in Iraq · legal advice March 6th, 2010. By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent Published: 10:00PM GMT 26 Jan 2010.

[Nick Robinson's Newslog] BBC - Nick Robinson's Newslog: Gordon Brown at the Iraq inquiry: In giving his opinions on the situation in post-invasion Iraq, the PM gave the impression that officials were taken by surprise by the speed of events on the ground and, in any case, didn't have enough influence over the US to ensure that planning for reconstruction was taken seriously. Incredibly, he was speaking as if the UK had no prior experience of these kinds of operations.

[Watchdog Blog] Watchdog Blog » Blog Archive » The American Press, Guilty of ...: This man, the editor of The Press Gazette magazine (read by all British journalists) admits it, when taken to task over the fact that in order for Mr Blair to get ANY empathic coverage over his questioning on Iraq at the Chilcot Inquiry a private supporter paid around $3,000 out of his own pocket to advertise the unfairness of it all. STILL, even advertised on the index page at the Press Gazette’s own website, there was no mention of it by the know-all editor who makes a habit of opining on anything and everything else!

[Hiram's 1555 Blog] Cynthia McKinney Briefing « Hiram's 1555 Blog: McKinney will help introduce and contribute to a people’s juridical process aimed at articulating a new legal protocol to be known as The Calgary Principles. In the tradition of the Nuremberg Principles, the Calgary Principles will address the rampant criminality that tends to immunize from criminal prosecutions those who commit the highest order of international crime. Among those who will also contribute to the proceedings will be Splitting the Sky and Anthony J.

[Headline UK News] Gordon Brown tells Iraq inquiry: I fully backed the war: Written by UK news, breaking UK news, latest UK news, latest UK politics news on March 5th, 2010. Gordon Brown has said that he was "fully in line" with the decision to invade .

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[digoBlog: news on tech & games] digoBlog: news on tech & games » Blog Archive » Rumor ...: Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release .Six Days In Fallujah, a game based on the Iraq War that Konami thought was too "hot" to publish, has according to IGN been completed, and is ready to be .

[Free Games, Video Games, Online Game, Download Game, PC, XBOX, playstation,PSP, Gamecube at Grevs.com] Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release ...: Six Days In Fallujah, a game based on the Iraq War that Konami thought was too hot to publish, has according to IGN been completed, and is ready to be released. I can promise you that game is still coming out and it is finished, .

[Iran Reviews] Iran Reviews: Rumour: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished ...: Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release ...: It also suggests that developer Atomic Games remains operational in some capacity, despite reports that it had closed down following Konami's refusal to .

[Game Prowl] Game Prowl » Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready ...: By Prowl Pro, March 3, 2010 1:58 AM. Six Days In Fallujah, a game based on the Iraq War that Konami thought was too “hot” to publish, has according to IGN been .

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[Entertainment Daily] Buble Leads Juno Awards Nominations: Cameron won the guild prize 12 years ago for "Titanic." Also nominated are Kathryn Bigelow for the Iraq War drama "The Hurt Locker," Lee Daniels for the Harlem teen tale "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," Jason Reitman for the recession-era story "Up in the Air" and Quentin Tarantino for the World War II hit "Inglourious Basterds."

[Dinar Rumor - Iraq Dinar Forum - Find out everything about the Iraqi Dinar here!] Iran wants to double trade with Iraq to $ 8 billion in 2010: The U.S. is trying Nations and the European Union to pressure Iran to suspend its controversial nuclear program which the West suspects is aimed at making bombs. Tehran says its program is for peaceful purposes and that he would not stop.

[Awards Daily's Oscar Countdown] Awards Daily's Oscar Countdown--Watching Oscar 24/7 » Blog Archive ...: Chartier had recently disseminated an email to certain Academy voters and other film industry figures in which he solicited votes for his own picture and disparaged one of the other contending films. Academy rules prohibit “casting a negative or derogatory light on a competing film.” The executive committee of the Academy’s Producers Branch, at a special session late Monday, ruled that the ethical lapse merited the revocation of Chartier’s invitation to the Awards.

[Immelman for Congress] Immelman for Congress » Blog Archive » Iraq Set to Elect Pro-Iran ...: The main Sunni political bloc splintered in 2008, and its chief remaining faction, the Iraqi Islamic Party, is shunned by many mainstream Sunnis because of its hard-line religious ties. As a result, many of Anbar’s voters say they will support coalitions that combine Sunni and Shiite candidates in a nonsectarian platform, like the Iraqiya list headed by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, a moderate Shiite.

[mcclatchydc.com: World] Heavy turnout in Iraq's Kurdistan for contest of new vs. old ...: An alliance of Islamist and communist parties intends to file a complaint with Iraq's election commission over allegedly incumbent-friendly precinct managers, propaganda near voting places and accounts of soldiers trying to cast multiple ballots. Soldiers were given an opportunity to vote early two days before the general election.

[The IUSB Vision Weblog] UC San Diego minority student responsible for hanging a noose in ...: (3) UCSD: Meanwhile, a terrible student media publication (which, after viewing their website consists of all white staff, nudity, staff wrestling each other, and well, not much else), pushes their limits calling black students “ungrateful n——” –

[pa2010.com] Some thoughts on Sestak's poll numbers””and TV | pa2010.com: I wouldn’t place too much trust in HateSestak’s information against Sestak as any reason to vote against him (I truly can’t be bothered with empty allegations). But with that being said, I generally agree that Sestak only has a position of “I’m not Arlen”, and that’s not good enough on it’s own to win an election.

[mcclatchydc.com: World] Hair salons once again the fashion for women in Iraq | McClatchy: During the past few years, Morad confined his work Istanbul in Turkey and to a secure compound that serves Baghdad's elite. He longed to take his skills back out to average Iraqis, but couldn't out of fear that he and his employees would become targets.

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