Iraq Reviews: Burying Iraq

Iraq Reviews > Burying Iraq

[SICKOFITRADLZ] The report informs that in 2004, 90.6 percent of Iraqi women surveyed were "optimistic about the future" and that, in 2007, the number stating they were optimistic fell to 26.9 percent. 88 percent of respondents "expressed a great deal of concern that they or someone living in their households would become a victim of violence." In addition, the number stating that the presence of US forces and British forces were making things worse was 65.3 percent and 67.9 percent "stated that their ability to walk down the street as they please has gotten worse since the U.S. invasion." As the illegal war hits the fifth year mark this year, things are not improving, they are only getting worse.

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[The British National Party News » News Archive] RACISM CUTS BOTH WAYS: Singh Sandhu, Kombra Divakaren, Jan Marthin Pasalbessi, Glynne Agard, Mohammed Asghar, Abdi Dorre, Tariq Javed, Khaliur Rahman, Sarfraz Khan (2000), Gian Singh Nagra, Fetah Marku, Shiblu Rahman, Shaun Rodney, Sharon Bubb, Firsat Dag (2001), Peiman Bahmani, Shah Wahab, Derrick Shaw (2002), Mohammed Isa Hasan Ali, an unnamed Asian man, Paul Rosenberg, Johnny Delaney, Awais Alam, Quadir Ahmed (2003), Kris Donald, Shahid Aziz, Akberali Tayabali Mohamedally, Bapishankar Kathirgamamathan, Kalan Kawa Karim, Lalji Joshi, (2004), Marek Smrs, Kamal Raza Butt, and Anthony Walker (2005).

[T171207count500330's Weblog] KPFA, I’m pissed!: Yesterday, at Inside Iraq, Laith blogged: “Now and while I’m writing these words, the American troops are attacking a part of my neighborhood west Baghdad. At the same time, I got a call from my nephew that some insurgents are attacking her neighborhood south west Baghdad.

[Bookworm Room] McCain and . . . Churchill: Indeed, I indicated a fortnight ago as clearly as I could to the House that the worst possibilities were open; and I made it perfectly clear then that whatever happened in France would make no difference to the resolve of Britain and the British Empire to fight on, ‘if necessary for years, if necessary alone.”

[Member Posts] Why Wesley Clark should NOT be VP (or in the cabinet): Wesley Clark has demosntrated a willingness to revise the evidence to portray something more positively (most notably himself in his book "Waging Modern War". It is this willingness to look at information subjectively that led us into Iraq to begin with and I fear electing leaders who look for data to support what they want rather than looking at what conclusion information leads us to.

[Liberty For All] Iraq: Why we’re split: –The Government is in a chess match with what left and Right agree is a Libertarian initiated and led polemic on civil liberties impacts at home and abroad, and has entered a cycle of defensive, dismissive statements in anticipation of Libertarian arguments that have made the US Government of the Democrats and Republicans a laughingstock; a former editor of the New Republic has gone so far as to say Libertarians are the last and best line of defense for civil liberties–Ashcroft has specifically denounced Libertarians while grudgingly promising more attention to them

[Wednesday-Night] US Presidential Campaign: views and reviews: One is that the Iraq war was a disastrous foreign-policy error from which the country must be extricated expeditiously””a proposition on which they differ only in the details. The other represents less a policy conviction than a profound change in the basic political philosophy of the party ever since its founding in the late 1820’s.

[SOCIALIST UNITY] THE SWP, MARXISTS AND RESPECT by Ger Francis: It is a sociological law that when a centrist zigs it is because the situation called for a zag and with the SWP going all Stalinist third period on us and the right centrists insisting on reformism and popular fronts and dissolution then I think we can safely say that the time is right for making RR a genuine Marxist grouping that is capable of connecting with any emerging vanguard of the working class.

[sunniforum.com] Voting in democratic elections is Kufr: Any Muslim who does not know the reality of Parliament and he votes is sinful because he did seek the divine ruling for his action before committing it, since the Juristic Principle is that every action, verbal or physical, must be based on an Islamic ruling which is derived solely from the Qur’an and Sunnah. Any Muslim who participates in voting for a candidate whether the candidate is Muslim or non-Muslim basing his action on a misled so-called ‘opinion’ from a rationalist or secular clergyman has been misled and the issue must be explained to him/her.

[Mind and Destiny] Rebuttal: The estimate of more than one million violent deaths in Iraq was confirmed five months ago in a poll by the British polling firm Opinion Research Business, which estimated 1,220,580 violent deaths since the invasion. This is consistent with the study conducted by doctors and scientists from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health a year earlier.

[Media Matters for America] "Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser: Maybe because there was scant evidence of an opposition party on Russert's Meet the Press during the run-up to the Iraq war. On his personal blog earlier this year, Media Matters for America Senior Fellow Duncan Black examined five .

[White House 51 :: The candidates videos] Kucinich Campaign update 10-22-07: Meanwhile, The Oxford Research Group, a highly respected British think tank, issued a report that underscores and corroborates all of the major points that Ohio Congressman Kucinich has been making for years regarding the war in Iraq and the disastrous consequences of starting a war with Iran. The report found that, the war on terror is failing, and instead fueling an Increase in support for extremist Islamist movements.

[Michael Leonard Photography Blog] OLD NEWS: BRITISH ARMY TO ASSIST AT CULTURAL SITES IN IRAQ The Art Newspaper can reveal that the British Army is to develop a Cultural Heritage Initiative to assist with archaeological sites and museums in southern Iraq.

[Top News Blog] Libby Hoeler: Wilson (aka "Valerie Plame"), the wife of the war in Iraq Joseph Wilson, critic and a covert CIA agent, the New York Times reporter Judith Miller and other journalists, and later tried to conceal his having done libby. In August, 2005, as evidenced in the grand jury testimony audio played during the trial and in many news accounts reported, Libby testified that he met with Judith Miller, a reporter for The New York Times on July 8, 2003, and discussed Plame with his liam.

[Commandrine's Weblog] Billy West, the voice of every cartoon character you love: BW: What they’re doing slowly is they’re going to have to turn the celebrities and actors into cartoons, slowly but surely, because it’s the look that people are seduced by. It’s almost as if they like watching animation more than they do live action because of all the farms of kids being fostered to love computer-generated images.

[Anselmalois's Weblog] 6/6: Lightning Round: RCP Blog’s Blake Dvorak is surprised by McLaughlin and Associates findings that show Fred Thompson has moved to second among GOPers on the back of moderate GOPer support pulled from Rudy Giuliani: “Considering the kind of Republican Giuliani is and how this race has gone so far, you probably wouldn’t have predicted Giuliani losing the most support among moderate Republicans, especially to Thompson.”