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[Diane Vera] Iraq - review of history of pre-war UN weapons inspections in 2002 ...: One official tells The Washington Post that if Iraqis “don’t produce those people, I would say that’s a demonstration of noncompliance and noncooperation.” The Washington Post reports that the inspections agencies, some allied governments, and UN officials are not pleased with the idea. They warn “that attempts to short-circuit the inspection process with a quickly conceived operation that could involve hundreds of Iraqis and their families could endanger lives while undermining both the inspections themselves and ongoing US intelligence operations in Iraq.” [New York Times, 12/6/2002;
[Whistleblower Support Blog] KBR Sloppy Work Endangers US Soldiers: Lawmakers and government investigators say it is now clear that the Bush administration outsourced so much work to KBR and other contractors in Iraq that the agencies charged with oversight have been overwhelmed. The Defense Contracting Management Agency has more than 9,000 employees, but it has only 60 contract officers in Iraq and 30 in Afghanistan to supervise nearly 18,000 KBR employees in Iraq and 4,400 in Afghanistan handling base maintenance.
[Whistleblower Support] KBR Sloppy Work Endangers US Soldiers: In 2006, John McLain was working as a KBR electrician at the United States regional embassy compound in Hilla, south of Baghdad, when he made a disturbing discovery. A KBR quality control inspector had recently cited employees there for failing to file quarterly ground resistance testing logs - reports on whether the wiring in the upgraded embassy building was properly grounded and safe.
[PROBABLE CAUSE] War Profiteering: In February, Federal prosecutors in Rock Island, Illinois indicted four former supervisors from KBR, the largest private contractor for the Pentagon in Iraq, along with a decorated Army officer and five executives from KBR subcontractors based in the U.S. or the Middle East. Those defendants and two other KBR employees have pled guilty in Virginia.
[RealClearPolitics - Articles - Hillary Clinton] Clinton's Iraq Speech at GWU: We'll empower local leaders and use U.S. and international influence to press the Iraqis to reach political reconciliation, and I will call on the United Nations to strengthen its role in promoting this reconciliation. Not having been a party to the mistakes of the path five years, the U.N., which has already provided valuable technical assistance in Iraq, is far more likely to be viewed as a neutral, honest broker than the United States, especially when it acts on behalf of a broad coalition of concerned states and the international community.
[The Indypendent] Iraq’s Wrecked Enviroment: When the Bush administration (parts one and two) and its congressional allies sent troops to Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein’s regime, they not only ordered these men and women to commit crimes against humanity, they also commanded them to perpetrate crimes against nature. Former Chief United Nations Weapons Inspector Hans Blix, prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, said the environmental consequences of the Iraq war could be more ominous than the issue of war and peace itself.
[The Moderate Voice] Hillary Clinton Speaks on her Plan to End the Iraq War Responsibly: Here at home I’ve attended countless meetings and committee hearings where I have challenged high-ranking Pentagon officials and military leaders investigating the situation in Iraq, probing the facts presented, and demanding real answers to tough questions. And I am honored that more than 30 of America’s most esteemed former admirals and generals, including two former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and five retired officers of the four-star rank have endorsed my candidacy.
[Butt darling] Neocon McCain: In the spring of 2002, when the Bush administration was still formally committed to reinvigorating the inspections process in Iraq, McCain was planted firmly on the administration's right flank, offering a strident call for regime .
[Ask Vic Fabe] A Casual Argument - The War in Iraq: There are lots of countries that produce and export weapons of mass destruction or at least the material needed to produce WMD, but why only strike Iraq? North Korea for example, has always been stubborn about its nuclear facilities that U.S. government says have been used to produce WMD, the government tried to make them bow before them, but they failed.
[theurbanhermit] 3410: Elizabeth Whiteside, a psychiatric outpatient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who was waiting for the Army to decide whether to court-martial her for endangering another soldier and turning a gun on herself last year in Iraq, attempted to kill herself Monday evening. In so doing, the 25-year-old Army reservist joined a record number of soldiers who have committed or tried to commit suicide after serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.
[Change & Experience: The Hillary Blog] Hillary Clinton Delivers Remarks on Ending the War in Iraq: We’ll empower local leaders and use U.S. and international influence to press the Iraqis to reach political reconciliation, and I will call on the United Nations to strengthen its role in promoting this reconciliation. Not having been a party to the mistakes of the path five years, the U.N., which has already provided valuable technical assistance in Iraq, is far more likely to be viewed as a neutral, honest broker than the United States, especially when it acts on behalf of a broad coalition of concerned states and the international community.
[The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG] The War: Five Years on - Was Sean Right?: Whatever the side benefits of these campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq (and there have been benefits as I’ve been to both countries and seen it for myself) have been for Afghan and Iraqi citizens, the fact remains that it seems a huge amount of people have convinced themselves now that it doesn’t really matter if they were misled or not, in the reason given for going into both those countries in the first place.
[Devinsadie's Weblog] 21 Lofty SWJ Op-Ed Call-up: The Kurds save up the printed matter relating to a synchronous Iraq in fit their purposes as regards the control, only not a whit gross believes as representing a coadjutor that the Kurds self-mastery consummately da capo obtain .
[THE "G" BLOG @WordPress.com] Iran War: American Military Versus Israel Firsters: After a vacuous general discussion of civilian-military relations in the lead-up to the Zion-Con designed Iraq War, Hoffman then tries to paint the military critics of Zion-Con Donald Rumsfeld as attacking an innovative defender of civilian supremacy over the military - even as he embraced wholesale torture techniques and violated every principle of the Geneva Convention of War and US Military Code of Conduct toward prisoners and civilians. Hoffman turns up the Zion-Con venom against military officers who dared to question Rumsfeld’s application of Israel’s illegal and totalitarian technique of colonial warfare in Iraq.
[LIVE TIM BLAIR NEWS-SPORTS BLOG & PHOTOS SEATTLE, WASHINGTON USA RIGHT NOW] facts.hillaryhub.com: President Clinton: 'I don’t agree with what was done when it was done.' On CNN, Clinton said, “The question is, what's now best for the American people, for the war on terror, and for the people of Iraq, and the stability of the Middle East? We don't want to set a fixed timetable, if that led to chaos, the establishment of permanent terrorist operations in the Sunni section of Iraq, and long-term greater instability in the Middle East.
[HADRIANAPOLIS-balikesirin BLOG arÅŸivi] The Burden: Even now, as President Bush appears to be maneuvering the country toward war with Iraq, the deepest implication of what is happening has not been fully faced: that Iraq is an imperial operation that would commit a reluctant republic to .
[theurbanhermit] 3380: Thousands of troops are coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan with war-related anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress. But many hesitate to get psychiatric care because they fear that could cost them their security clearances, harm their careers, and embarrass them before commanders and comrades.
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