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[Dandelion Salad] Rachel Maddow: Bush and Cheney justifying Iraq War through torture ...: “…but then last week, a voice from the recent past reemerged, claiming that America can do what we please, preaching unilateralism again, and embracing the arrogance that for too many years alienated our friends and set back efforts to achieve common goals. Former Vice President Cheneys world view, which so dominated the Bush years and which so dishonored our nation, gained a little traction last week enough to persuade me to address it head on here tonight.

[Iraqs Inconvenient Truth :: Iraq War News Updates] Justice :: Life :: Freedom Dollar Matching Challenge « Iraqs ...: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2009 .opposing the International Criminal Court's attempt to prosecute Israeli soldiers for doing their duty in response to terrorist attacks - a case that could very well put U.S. troops at risk as well;

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | Iraq Veteran Finds Sanctuary in Canadian Church: So Rodney spoke with Ric Matthews, pastor of the First United Church in downtown Vancouver, a progressive congregation that opens its doors every night to homeless people who would otherwise be sleeping on the streets. Canadian churches have a long tradition of granting sanctuary to refugees who are rejected by the politicized refugee board but who truly do face persecution in their homelands.

[Iraqs Inconvenient Truth :: Iraq War News Updates] More Of The Best Of Opinion Line 2009 From Kansas « Iraqs ...: Iraqs Inconvenient Truth :: Iraq War News Updates. The Truth Of Iraq And How America And Iraq Are Winning The War In Iraq .

[UnCommon Sense TV Media] UnCommon Sense TV Media » If We Lose Iraq, You're To Blame: No, Wilhelmine Germany in 1917 and 1918, as its military dictators, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and his loyal second, General Erich Ludendorff, pushed Germany toward defeat and revolution in a relentless pursuit of victory in World War I. Having failed with their surge strategy on the Western Front in 1918, they nevertheless succeeded in deploying a stab-in-the-back myth, or Dolchstoßlegende, that shifted blame for defeat from themselves and Rightist politicians to Social Democrats and others allegedly responsible for losing the war by their failure to support the troops at home.

[The Atheist Conservative] The Atheist Conservative: » The spoils of war: Indeed, Iraq’s U.S.-enabled 2004 constitution enshrines Islamic law above all. Little wonder Iraq consistently votes at the United Nations with the OIC and against the United States on this key ideological divide between Islam and the West, most recently in November.

[RealClearPolitics - Articles] RealClearPolitics - Unrest in Iran: The Vindication of George W. Bush: The anti-Iraq War crowd, many of whom suffer from Give-George-W.-Bush-No Credit-for-Anything Disease, says, "No, of course not." How dare anyone even suggest that the former President was correct, if not about the rightfulness of the war itself, then about his argument that a "free and peaceful" Iraq would provide a "dramatic and inspiring example" to the Middle East and the Muslim world. Good Lord!

[Ideaion News Press] Iraq Ready For Some Football | Ideaion News Press: September 11 2001 - NY's World Trade Center and The Pentagon are .What started between 2001-2003 as a war on terror, it soon become a war about oil, a war so bloody, a war so confusing that it affected every .

[Untitled] Who are the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW)? «: hides the fact that our future troops are aggressively recruited from our lowest income neighborhoods. Economically conscripted, the poor and socially vulnerable young are bought with the lies of discipline, education and civilian job training to carry out the wishes of powerful political individuals who are far from war’s true horror.”

[The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely] Iraq & Afghanistan Update/Dec 30 | The Agonist: But the Aynak investment underscores how China’s leaders, flush with money and in control of both the government and major industries, meld strategy, business and statecraft into a seamless whole. In a single move, Beijing strengthened its hold on a vital resource, engineered the single largest investment in Afghan history, promised to create thousands of new Afghan jobs and established itself as the Afghan government’s pre-eminent business partner and single largest source of tax payments.

[ऑनलाइन शिक्षा ब्लॉग] India's Online Teaching Blog | ऑनलाइन शिक्षा ...: Although the political authority of Iraq was transferred to the Interim Iraqi Government on June 28, 2004, two days ahead of the scheduled date i.e., 30th June, 2004 it is yet uncertain whether the USA will give up the lure of the Iraqi oil for which it actually waged the war and whether it will withdraw all its forces from there. Elections to Iraqi parliament were held on January 30, 2005.

[Immelman for Congress] Immelman for Congress » Blog Archive » Iraq-Afghanistan Casualties: and that a coalition of advocates, including Refugees International, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, called on the United States to nearly triple the amount of money it spends on the displaced Iraqis and allow the entry of as many as 105,000 in 2009 —

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » The White House's ...: First, it’s important that the substantive context be clear: For seven years after 9/11, while our national security was overwhelmingly focused on Iraq ”” a country that had no Al Qaeda presence before our invasion ”” Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda’s leadership was able to set up camp in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where they continued to plot attacks against the United States. Meanwhile, Al Qaeda also regenerated in places like Yemen and Somalia, establishing new safe havens that have grown over a period of years.

[NewsReal Blog] From the Pen of David Horowitz: December 30, 2009 | NewsReal Blog: In an interview on March 31, as U.S. troops entered Iraq, Noam Chomsky posed a rhetorical question to himself, “Has Saddam ever posed a threat to the US?” and answered it: “The idea verges on absurdity.” Three months before the Iraq war, Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers on Vietnam and a protester against the impending conflict had been asked: “What threat does Iraq now pose or could pose in the future to essential US objectives in the Middle East or globally?” Ellsberg’s answer: “No threat at all, so long as Saddam is not faced with overthrow or death by attack or invasion.” In other words, Iraq posed no dangers to American security that America itself did not provoke. This is the perfectly circular and self-validating logic of the anti-American cause.

[SY6 Blog] SY6 Blog - The Costs of Coalition Building: Foreign aid, foreign trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) have become weapons of mass persuasion, deployed in the building of both the pro-war, pro-American coalition of the willing and the French-led counter “coalition of the squealing”.

[Cafe Talk Aggregator] White House Slams 'Architect' Cheney's Criticism of Terror ...: Favorite Quotes "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." - Robert Pirsig "If the Goverment is a car setting out to give every one a ride to work, then for 40 years the Republicans have been puncturing the tires, pouring sand in the gas tank, stealing the distributor cap, and, whenever they can get their hands on the wheel, driving it straight into the nearest ditch and then, pointing to the wreckage as the tow truck backs up to it, saying, 'See, this proves that people were meant to walk.' And they do this so that they don't have to chip in on gas." - Lance Mannion "He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity." - Voltaire "As one decidedly hip Boomer once told me: The most sensitive part of the male anatomy is the right rear pocket." - Margaret Bassett "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Ghandi "We lost the fight, we didn't lose the argument" - Noemi Klein

[The Common Ills] More troops deploy to Iraq « The Common Ills: Furthermore, the Nuremberg "crimes against humanity" are the historical and legal precursor to the international crime of genocide as defined by the 1948 Genocide Convention. The theory here was that what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jewish people was so horrific that it required a special international treaty that would codify and universalize the Nuremberg concept of "crimes against humanity." And that treaty ultimately became the 1948 Genocide Convention.

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