Iraq Reviews > Iraq Today: War News for Saturday, February 21, 2009

[Iraq Today] He made this transparently clear by adding a signing statement to the defense appropriation bill, indicating that he would not be bound by the law’s prohibition against expending funds: “(1) To establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq,” or “(2) To exercise United States control of the oil resources of Iraq.”

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[The Seferm Post] Sadr Renews Idea Of Local Alliances With Iraq PM | The Seferm Post: Amir Taher, who headed the Sadrist list in January 31 provincial elections, told AFP of an accord with the State of Law Coalition backed by Maliki to form strong alliances in the provinces, with negotiations due to start on Saturday.

[www.iraq-war.ru (en) RSS feed for articles and news] US Campus Sit-in against Israeli Occupation: Interview with Three ...: Ryan: Although many of the schools have slightly different demands, the movement seeks to take direct action to express our solidarity with the people of Gaza, highlight our countries’ and universities’ complicity in the atrocities in the Gaza strip, and make our universities’ relationship to Gaza one of supporting people and peace, not war. Members of UR-SDS also hope our action will help inspire other occupations or sit-ins in the United States, given that our culpability as Americans is dramatically larger than even the British in blocking peace and supporting oppression of the Palestinians.

[Enduring America] Secret Britain-Iran Talks in 2005 on Iraq, Tehran Nuclear ...: The claim is made by Sir John Sawers (pictured), who was Britain’s top political representative in Iraq and is now currently Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations. He claims, “The Iranians wanted to strike a deal whereby they stopped killing our forces in iraq in return for them being allowed to carry on with their nuclear programme.”

[davegreco.com] davegreco.com » Blog Archive » Zalmay Khalilzad: He immigrated to the United States as a high school exchange student with AFS Intercultural Programs, but attained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Khalilzad received his Ph.D at the University of Chicago, where he studied closely with strategic thinker Albert Wohlstetter, a prominent nuclear deterrence thinker and an opponent to the disarmament treaties, who provided Zalmay with contacts in the government and with RAND.

[The Common Ills] Iraq snapshot « The Common Ills: To that end, Iraq Veterans Against the War will be joining a national coalition which is being mobilized to march on the Pentagon, March 21st, to demand the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and further our mission and goals in solidarity with the national anti-war movement. This demonstration will be the first opportunity to show President Obama and the new administration that our struggle was not only against the Bush administration - and that we will not sit around and hope that troops are removed under his rule, but that we will demand they be removed immediately. 

[OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion] OpEdNews » Sign the Letter to The Anti-War Movement: fought in our names, and act like American lives are more important than anyone else's lives. Or we can show the people living in the Middle East, and the world, that in the U.S. there is a difference between the people and their government, and that the people are taking responsibility to end an unjust war and the war crimes that have been carried out in our name.

[Pakistan News] Iraq’s 1.6 million displaced need urgent help: agency | Pakistan News: “The future of Iraq depends on the resolution of the displacement crisis,” he added.The displacement ”” sparked by a wave of violence following the bombing of a Shiite holy shrine in Samarra, north of Baghdad, in February 2006 ”” has now .Four Iraqis and US soldier killed in Iraq attacks BAGHDAD, Iraq: At least four Iraqis died in attacks around...

[Informed Comment] Informed Comment: Netanyahu: Train Wreck for Israel, Middle East ...: Fifty years from now, the turn of Israel to the hard right will be looked back upon as the beginning of the end of Israel, the time when the crucial decisions were made that rendered it impossible for the Israelis to stay in the Middle East in the face of the increasing popular anger Netanyahu will have provoked in 1.5 billion Muslims.

[Bumble Bee Soft Blog] North Korea accuses U.S. of war-mongering (Reuters) | Bumble Bee ...: Reuters - North Korea kept up its tough rhetoric on Saturday against the United States and the South on Saturday, accusing Washington of preparing for war on the Korean peninsula.

[Cedric's Big Mix] "Iraq snapshot" (The Common Ills) « Cedric's Big Mix: So when Samira Ahmed Jassim al-Azzawi is arrested by police on January 21st and February 3rd -- 13 days later .From Saturday to Sunday evening, the same group had grown from 2000 to 20000 and was still growing the next day.

[Tompkins County Against War & Occupation] Peter DeMott, Presente!: We, the undersigned, condemn Israel’s appalling treatment of Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Gaza correspondent and author of the magazine’s regular feature, “Gaza on the Ground.” The 24-year-old Palestinian journalist was brutally assaulted by Israeli Shin Bet security officials at the Allenby Bridge border crossing on his way home to Gaza on June 26. He had just received the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, which he shared with independent American journalist Dahr Jamail.

[AM 1090's Weblog] Democracy NOW! Headlines « AM 1090’s Weblog: And then, so I””in the buildup to the war in Iraq, you know, my personal experience of having been in the Vietnam was very motivational for me in that it inspired me and kind of morally compelled me to speak out in a nonviolent way to say, ”˜No, this war must not happen, and I’m willing to put my body in the way of the war and its actualization in any nonviolent way that I can.”

[Robert Steven Duncan] Robert Steven Duncan: The Long Retreat Out Of Afghanistan - And ...: Buchanan “The situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating,” said President Obama, as he announced deployment of 17000 more U.S. troops. “I’m absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of .

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