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[Brooklynian.com | Brooklyn Blog and Message Boards] View topic - Legitimacy of Iraq War Debate (split topic ...: As a person, as a Jew, as an American, I am proud that we took out a brutal thug who was raping and mass murdering his own people and who had bombed Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Israel without provocation. You can worry about why Bush did it, I will be thankful that we did it.

[Jihad Watch] Iranian troops invade Iraq, occupy oil well - Jihad Watch: And to those who argue that such an attack will entrenth the current regime in Iran, I suggest that after a very brief period of rally-round-the-flag indignation, of course whipped up by that regime, its colossal defeat will be apparent, and the fury of the most advanced part of the Iranian nation, at the waste of money, and at the destruction that the Islamic Republic brought on itself, will spell the end of that regime, as the Israeli attack on Entebbe, on July 4, 1976, showed that tje Ugandan dictator (and "King of Scotland") Idn Amin was both vulnerable and largely impotent, and the recognition of this, all over Africa and within Uganda, led inexorably to the subsequent fall of Idi Amin, and his fleeing for a refuge among fellow Muslims in Saudi Arabia.

[RSD Reports] The U.S. And Saudi Arabia Since The 1930s | RSD Reports: In 1950, to try and solve the problem of how to get the Saudi oil to American and Western markets, the U.S. company Bechtel, based in California, built a 1,000-mile pipeline directly from the Saudi oil fields across Jordan and the Golan Heights to Sidon in Lebanon in order to take the oil directly to the Mediterranean by pipeline. That went onstream the following year and continued to function up until the early 1970s.

[Creative-i] Creative-i / Yemen: Pentagon's War On The Arabian Peninsula By ...: The present context is different and a U.S.-backed counterinsurgency war in Yemen will have nothing to do with combating alleged al-Qaeda threats, but will in fact be an integral part of the strategy to expand the Afghan war into yet wider concentric circles taking in South and Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Persian Gulf, Southeast Asia and the Gulf of Aden, the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. The eagerly awaited departure of President George W.

[Global Geopolitics News and Analysis] U.S. Creates Its Antithesis in Iraq : Global Geopolitics News and ...: Within this context it has been noteworthy that the government of al- Maliki and its security officials, when they were questioned by the parliament in closed and public sessions last week, were divided over whom to blame for the bombings: Syria and other “Arab” countries or infiltrators of their security agencies by resistance elements whom they dub as “terrorists,” but they never hinted to the U.S. occupying power as a possible culprit, which maintains the capability to really infiltrate the security shield around the “Green Zone” and could be the major beneficiary of portraying the government as still incapable of maintaining law and order; this possibility was given substance, for example, by the report of The New York Times on December 11 that Blackwater gunmen, ostensibly contracted as security guards in Iraq and Afghanistan, “participated in some of the CIA’s most sensitive activities””clandestine raids with agency officers,” and by CIA Director Leon Panetta’s briefing before Congressional intelligence committees last June about a covert “assassination program” involving Blackwater.

[Pacific Free Press RSS] Antithesis in Iraq: has estimated that there were about 2 million Iraqi refugees in neighboring Jordan and Syria, and some 2.6 million people displaced within Iraq, in addition to millions of unemployed Iraqis -- all constituting more than half of the 27 - million population. The state infrastructure is still not rehabilitated, the central government could not secure its own safety, let alone the safety of the population, in the capital Baghdad, let alone the rest of the country, without the presence of about 115 thousand mainly U.S. troops and around 100 thousand foreign mercenaries, dubbed as security contractors, and where the basic services like water and power are either totally broken down or partially operational, and basics like fuel are in short supply in a country floating on the largest oil reserves in the world, second only to Saudi Arabia.

[RSD Reports] U.S. Foreign Policy Traditions And The Middle East | RSD Reports: Even the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were not preceded by declarations of war, although they clearly involved U.S. security as well as human rights. Does the existence of transnational, non-state terrorist movements imply that the U.S. and its allies are in a permanent state of something like warfare against people who may be lurking in every country on earth?

[Gary Rumor's Anti-Entropic Continuum] Gary Rumor's Anti-Entropic Continuum » Blog Archive » War ...: Instead of communist insurgencies which have lost their main funding source with the collapse of the Soviet Union, we are now seeing a variety of Moslem insurgencies funded by the oil wealth of the leading powers Iran, and Saudi Arabia, led by the fundamentalist theoreticians based in Egypt and supported by the young unemployed Muslim males around the planet. Just as Christians have their tradition of the crusade and the inquisition, the Moslems have their tradition of Jihad.

[FHA Mortgage Blog] What Is The Relationship Between 911 And Saddam? | FHA Mortgage Blog: what President Clinton described as a “despicable and cowardly act,” 17 U.S. sailors were killed, and over 30 others were wounded.” After the liberation of Iraq terrorists struck the Baghdad Hotel on. October 12th.

[The Great Debate] Burning borrowed money in America's wars | Analysis & Opinion ...: When President Barack Obama announced on December 1 that he would be sending an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, swelling the strength of the U.S. forces to more than 100,000, he said: “All told, by the time I took office the cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq approached a trillion dollars. Going forward, I am committed to addressing these costs openly and honestly.”

[Harry's Place] Harry's Place » People are still getting Blair wrong on Iraq: These failures, note not war crimes or whatever manichean guff stoppers prefer, have left deep raw cuts in Iraqi society and a heritage of violence that Iraqis will have to deal with (I hope dearly these have no longer term consequences for Iraqi democracy). This was foreseeable and those who took those choices, who transformed the possibility of a free and peaceful Iraq entering 2004 into a bloody six year mess with untold repercussions in the future, should, at the very least, face scathing and lasting approbation.

[Featured Blog Posts - 12160.org] Carlyle, Kissinger, SAIC and Halliburton: A 9/11 Convergence ...: Mansoor Ijaz is the CEO of Crescent, and is a rare individual in that he claimed to have the ability to persuade several .Ijaz went on to become a Fox News correspondent, and he was a strong promoter of false claims leading up to the Iraq War, including WMDs and ties between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.

[Israpundit] Israpundit » Blog Archive » Obama to Appoint James Baker's Anti ...: Baker repeatedly blamed the government of Yitzhak Shamir, rather than intransigence of the Arab world, for the absence of a negotiated settlement. Appearing before the House Foreign Affairs committee in June 1990, Baker listed the phone number of the White House’s switchboard and angrily retorted, in reference to Israel, “When you are serious about peace, call us!” Baker also denounced Israel’s refusal to deal with alleged Palestinian “moderates,” stating, “with such an approach there would never be a dialogue on peace.” Heedless of the political realities, Baker organized a conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict in July of 1991, citing the participation of Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia as evidence that the Arab world truly desired peace - this even as the Palestinians, with the vocal approval of neighboring Arab states, escalated their intifada to unprecedented levels of violence.

[SWJ Blog] 17 December SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): forces doing the fighting.” Now, Crowder argues, the American military is “in the worst of all possible situations (just as we were in Iraq in 2006 and Vietnam in 1965): we ousted the government; failed in the occupation to impose capacity and sufficient power and authority in local government;

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