Iraq Reviews > Cranmer: Gordon Brown's 'inquiry' into the Iraq war.

[Cranmer] I suspect most people have now lost interest in Iraq, save that there is a festering belief that Blair lied to the people (and to the Commons) and they want him to be exposed. Unless the inquiry shows that to be true it will be considered a whitewash and just another cynical ploy by Brown to deflect his critics'

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[Stop the War Coalition site feed] stopwar.org.uk: The families of British soldiers who were killed and injured in Iraq have already made clear their condemnation of an inquiry held in secret. Philip Cooper, whose son Jamie was the youngest soldier seriously injured in Iraq, said: "Ministers should not treat us like mushrooms - kept in the dark and fed on shit."

[Slugger O'Toole] Slugger O'Toole: As such when the turnout rises as it will at the next Westminster election, it may well be the DUP who benefit more than the UUP (or indeed the TUV). Clearly the DUP would be very foolish to count on such an effect saving them but equally the UUP would be even more foolish if they assumed that anything other than this will occur.

[AlterNet.org] Brilliant Soldiers' Dissent | World | AlterNet: They're jockeying for political advantage, knowing that drawing out the war hurts the Republicans. It is a deeply cynical ploy that works only because with our all-volunteer military, most Americans don't have to face the choice of sacrificing themselves or their loved ones in a futile and losing war.

[Positive Liberty] Positive Liberty » Iraq War - Unconstitutional, Unnecessary ...: They, along with the administration, played up the case for war unquestionably and rode the wave of war fever in the wake of September 11 in a manner not so recklessly deployed since the Spanish-American War. The evidence for a casus belli was always tenuous, and there were many people - including lifetime military, diplomatic, and intelligence professionals - who spoke out against the war.

[AlterNet.org] A Wave of Sexual Terrorism In Iraq | World | AlterNet: If that author and like minded people truly cared about women they would have been writing similar articles back when Saddam was systematically raping the women of Iraq by the tens of thousands via numerous institutional rape rooms spread throughout the country rather than now, when rouge US soldiers are accused of rape and even if found guilty do not represent the men of the United States military who are 99.9% great Americans who have been forced to serve in a questionable war.

[Green Hell Blog] CAFE Obama: Proposed mileage standards would kill more Americans ...: sure I have a solution I am not Steve but I have one , I know it will not fly with the left but here it is , Drill here now and pay less also instead of throwing money down a black hole invest in at least 5 new refineries and watch as the people come up to the counter and order more wide screen TV’s, computers fur coats and entertainment and new cars .Lower the cost of energy and people will have confidence but it has to be a meaningful cost reduction for it to work it can not be a temporary thing.

[Winds of Change.NET] The Blind Left - Winds of Change.NET: Whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in the area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the world economy. I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

[AlterNet.org] The Bush Administration Plans to Blame You for Iraq | World | AlterNet: Yet, if the history of the original version of this myth is any guide, the opposite is true. They are timely precisely because the Dolchstoßlegende was not a post-war concoction, but an explanation cunningly, even cynically, hatched by Rightists in Germany before the failure of the desperate, final "victory offensive" of 1918 became fully apparent.

[Archaeoastronomy] Creating Prehistory by Adam Stout « Archaeoastronomy: It’s hard to say because if you want to publish on war when the USA isn’t either contemplating invading somewhere or else actually invading somewhere you have a very small window to aim for. One difference between us is, perhaps, that I think the interest in war reflected public opinion rather than led it.

[neo-neocon] neo-neocon » Blog Archive » Deficit wars and common sense: While GWB was no conservative and spent far too much taxpayer money on dubious government programs including Medicare drug legislation, I recall he had an initiative to address social security reform and the democrats stone walled his efforts. Most vivid is the shot of the Democrats at the state of the union address.

[James Cridland's blog] The quality pitfalls of user-generated content - blog - James Cridland: Basically, most of us producing websites shouldn’t be trying to replicate what Flickr and YouTube, but should be linking to the best examples/groups/communities on those sites, and running our own UGC projects which are much more highly targeted.

[Emptywheel] Emptywheel » Dick Cheney, Torture, Iraq, and Valerie Plame: The disinformation campaign to manipulate public opinion in favor of the invasion, the torture program, and the illegal exposure of a clandestine CIA agent””my wife, Valerie Plame Wilson””were linked events. In their desperate effort to gather material to whip up public support, Cheney and others resorted to torture, well known in the intelligence craft to elicit inherently unreliable information.

[Aloha Palestine] “The only question that remains to be answered is whether those ...: Kit Bond (R-Mo.), House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and the Bush administration reached an accord late last week to break a weeks-long stalemate over balancing electronic surveillance with the right to privacy for American citizens, according to several people familiar with the talks.”

[Puma PAC] The Wing Clipping of America: Specter’s switch to D may obviously be a cynical and selfish ploy to hang on to his Senate seat for as long as possible but it also illuminates a real shift of the political tectonic plates since obama took office 100

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: Regarding the former President Clinton, who you so snidely refer to as "Billy Jeff", the people who were responsible for the first WTC bombing are now securely incarcerated in US prisons; too bad we can't say the same for the person responsible for the 2nd WTC attack (Osama bin Laden), who was allowed to escape from the Tora Bora area of Afghanistan by Bush (a longtime friend of the bin Laden family).

[Political Animal] The Washington Monthly: They fear any sort of change, and pine for the "good old days." They suspect and fear people of different races, religions, ethnicities, sexual orientation, and they react by hating immigrants, gays, Muslims, blacks, Hispanics, "foreigners," powerful women, and Europeans. They fear new ideas, social change, new technologies, foreign languages and cultures, and they react by distrusting, despising, and ridiculing them as radical, foreign, or liberal.

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