Iraq Reviews > Iraq Today: War News for Saturday, May 08, 2010

[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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[My Catbird Seat] Ron Paul warns U.S. is following Iraq script in march toward war ...: Listening to the debate on the Floor on this motion and the underlying bill it feels as if we are back in 2002 all over again: the same falsehoods and distortions used to push the United States into a disastrous and unnecessary one trillion dollar war on Iraq are being trotted out again to lead us to what will likely be an even more disastrous and costly war on Iran. The parallels are astonishing.

[Iraq News and Information] Hope This Middle East War is a Bad Dream : Iraq News and Information: In addition, American’s had grown weary of spending all of the country’s treasure in support of the administration of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. His unstable, dysfunctional government was never very effective in creating a governing consensus among the various ethnic factions in Iraq.

[BLEEDtheSOUL] Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel: “The War in Iraq” - BLEEDtheSOUL: everyone, *or at least the more articulate and level headed* make an effort to call venturas publicst here; You can reach Jesse’s publicist, Jen Hobbs @ Skyhorse Publishing by email or phone: jhobbs@skyhorsepublishing.com or (212)643-6816.

[News From Antiwar.com] Rival Iraq Shi'ite Blocs Agree to Form Govt -- News from Antiwar.com: in Saturday Night Live used to say isn't that special,United State's intervention 8,000 miles away from the U.S. in Iraq is a good idea,but Iran which has Zero mile distance from Iraq should not intervin in Iraq's poitics !

[Making a Mockery] NYT still engaging in Iraq War-style fear mongering - John Knefel ...: GAH.  Has nothing changed since the run up to the Iraq war?  No.  Nothing has.  The press still worship those in power and are desperate to be on the receiving end of their whispers.  They need access because they consider it their job to scream administration talking points into their filthy megaphone.  Reporters can’t be stenographers if they’re not in the room, after all.

[Cosmetic Surgery | Plastic Surgery | Cosmetic Plastic Surgery Procedures] Mexico's War More Deadly Than Iraq | Cosmetic Surgery | Plastic ...: State Dept recently issued Mexico alert said “Recent Mexican army and police force conflicts with heavily-armed narcotics cartels have escalated to levels equivalent to military small-unit combat and have included use of machine guns and fragmentation grenades.  Â  Confrontations have taken place in numerous towns and cities in northern Mexico, including Tijuana in the Mexican state of Baja California, and Chihuahua City and Ciudad Juarez in the state of Chihuahua.

[Iraq News and Information] Does the Air Force have Jobs where you don't get sent to Iraq ...: Do not believe anything the recruiter tells you, he is there to recruit not tell you like it is. My advise is to hire a lawyer to negotiate a deal if you enlist as you are signing a contract for your life for a specific time, he will get you the maximum benefit of joining and perhaps put a clause in that you cannot be deployed beyond US borders, if the recruiter is willing to do this you will have no problem then.

[Dangerous Intersection] Where are the photos of good things supposedly happening in Iraq ...: Also keep in mind that the commander in Chief of our military won the Nobel Peace Prize and then escalated the Afghanistan War, and won’t provide us photos and videos of all of the good things allegedly going on over there. He won’t honor the promises he made in the Presidential campaign.

[Dailycensored.com] Dailycensored.comGhosts of War Crimes Past, Present and Future ...: • Prof. Niloufer Bhagwat, recipient of the Philip Jessup Award of the American Society of International Law at Washington, vice president of the Indian Association of Lawyers (New Delhi) representing the International Association of Democratic Lawyers in international commissions;

[Israpundit] Israpundit » Blog Archive » What's Wrong-and Dangerously So-With ...: “If Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Al-Qods force can heat things up now with U.S. troops present, what do you think they will do once we have gone?…Not only have we not won, we have rendered ourselves incapable of acting against the agent that is most desirous of ruining our position across the region. In short, we have deterred ourselves on behalf of our enemy, the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

[Cuthulan's Blog] Darwin Award for Soldiers and Israel ,Will Natural Selection End ...: Later conflict with Saddam let to the first and second Gulf Wars, and to thirteen years of severe U.S.-imposed economic sanctions on Iraq between the two wars, which taken together completely obliterated the Iraqi economy. An estimated one million people were killed in the two Gulf wars, and the United Nations estimates that the economic sanctions, in combination with the destruction of the social and economic infrastructure in the First Gulf War, killed another million Iraqis.

[The Blog Conglomerate] Obama Crushing Hillary and McCain in New National Polls - Top News ...: At an anti-war rally, he risked his political career to state his opposition of invading Iraq, an unpopular view at that time. He stated that war against Iraq would require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, .

Newshoggers.com: Maplecroft research group, Iraq is the most vulnerable country in the world to terrorism.The years of U.S. occupation in Iraq created not only a rallying call for violent Islamic extremists but also an environment for them to develop, test, and perfect various tactics and techniques. These tactics and techniques are now shared, both in person and via the Internet, with extremists all over the region and the world, including those fighting U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

[Milblogging.com : The World's Largest Index of Military Blogs (Milblogs)] Milblogging.com : The World's Largest Index of Military Blogs ...: To military bloggers and conservative hawks, Michael Yon was a super hero ”” a fearless Green-Beret-turned-citizen-journalist who spent years on the frontlines of Iraq and Afghanistan when most big media outlets kept their reporters at home. But now, those same military bloggers are turning their sights on Yon, after he began savaging America’s top general in Afghanistan and warning that the American war effort is all but doomed.

[Dirk Bradshaw Blog] Karl Rove's Book Tour Clash | Dirk Bradshaw Blog: @cdj8825 :If u left wing asses would get on board w us real Americans,the world would see us as the United Sates of WW’S.We wouldve been out of Iraq/afghanistan 2 years tops.You give our enemies rights?They hate u and me ,dont u get it?Lets take care of business and the troops can come home.

[Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Iraq's top vote-getter returns to country, asserts his right to ...: Al-Sadr calls vote on which Iraqi leader to backBAGHDAD ”” Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is calling on his supporters and other Iraqis to vote in a referendum this weekend to decide which political leader he should support for prime minister. Al-Sadr's hardline, religious Shiite party, which won 39 of the 325 parliamentary seats in the March 7 election, has emerged as a key powerbroker whose support will prove crucial in determining which of the two leading blocs will form the next government.

Mudville Gazette: Petraeus, commander of U.S. Central Command, gives the keynote speech for the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research annual dinner and gala May 6, 2010, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Petraeus was recognized with the Irving Kristol award, the institute's top honor, which recognized intellectual and practical contributions to government policy, social welfare or political understanding.

[Street Visuals] Look Out, Obama Seems to Be Planning for a Lot More War ...: As the QDR notes: "The United States is a global power with global responsibilities. Including operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, approximately 400000 US military personnel are .

[Chrisy58's Weblog] Massacres Expose Another Reason to End Iraq and Afghanistan Wars ...: The recent exposés from Iraq and Afghanistan–with their shocking images, appalling laughter, and video-game ethos–would have shocked the conscience of the nation in an earlier era. After all, when what happened at My Lai was exposed during the Vietnam War, it shocked millions of people who hadn’t been thinking very much about the war.

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