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[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 !

[Iraq News and Information] Negotiations not Always a Silver Bullet : Iraq News and Information: President Bush’s position is that premature withdrawal from Iraq will result in both a catastrophe for the Iraqi people and a major setback in the war against the Islamists. The president believes that defeat in Iraq will give Islamists a home base like they enjoyed in Afghanistan prior to 9/11 from which they can plan and coordinate attacks against the United States.

[GNU/LINUX] Computer games to promote the war change the U.S. military to ...: before the outbreak of the war in Iraq, the U.S. secretly developed specifically for the Marine Corps has a computer game software, which the terrain, streets, buildings, bridges and other markers, are in accordance with the characteristics of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the simulation .Since the outbreak of the Iraq war since 2003, the U.S. military has sent more than 140 have been million troops to Iraq area of operations, which have received combat training in computer games more than 90%.

[World Poverty and Human Rights Online] Governance and Development: Iraq after the US invasion | World ...: One can only imagine what it’s like for the Iraqis, having their government and way of life literally turned upside-down after being freed from the reign of Saddam Hussein and his sons who systematically violated the human rights of Iraqis and those of other countries as well. They did so with utter disregard for human rights, operating a vast enterprise encompassing at its worst mass graves, the use of torture chambers, chemical baths, routine rapes, brutal and arbitrary murder including legitimizing killings and medical amputations as punishment among other crimes (Foreign Affairs, 2003)

[Wake Up America!] No One Cares: “Within a matter of months, and certainly within a year, the United States will have upwards of 220,000 to 250,000 U.S. government-funded personnel occupying Afghanistan, a far cry from the 70,000 U.S. soldiers that those Americans who pay attention understand the United States has in Afghanistan,” Scahill said. “This is a country where the president’s national security adviser, Gen.

[AfterDowningStreet.org] Loose Lips on Iran Can Sink America | AfterDowningStreet.org: Then and today, however, it was not just Tarzans who were spoiling for a fight in the Middle East, but some Janes””in particular, Rep. Jane Harman, a California Democrat who was a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee at the time of the Iraq invasion.

[The Light among the shadows] Why We Won't Leave Afghanistan or Iraq « The Light among the shadows: It’s known and accepted in Washington that, if we were to leave Afghanistan precipitously, the Taliban would take over, al-Qaeda would be back big time in no time, and then more of our giant buildings would obviously bite the dust. And yet, the longer we’ve stayed and the more we’ve surged, the more resurgent the Taliban has become, the more territory this minority insurgency has spread into.

[The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy] Nolo Contendere | The Smirking Chimp: On February 5, 2003, Colin Powell presented Bush's case for war with Iraq to the United Nations Security Council. Subsequent events and exhaustive and unrestricted searches in Iraq proved the speech to be pack of lies.

[Eurasia Review] Iraq: Controlled Devolution Or Uncontrolled Disintegration ...: Barzani’s electoral gains—and because of Iraq’s post-election political stalemate, his ability to be a king-maker in selecting Iraq’s next prime minister—make him and the Kurds more strident in their quest for autonomy, or maybe even independence, and to grab the ethnically-mixed but oil-rich city of Kirkuk. If civil war breaks out, which is entirely possible as, or after, American forces leave the country, it will probably start over this oil-saturated boundary line between Kurdistan and the Sunni Arab portion of Iraq.

[Same Old Change] A Timetable For War | Same Old Change: So what can Obama do to stop this?  There has been some speculation that he might send a private emissary to Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu with the message that the United States does not support an Israeli attack and that Washington will both denounce the action and not back Tel Aviv.  I believe that Obama has already told Netanyahu both privately and through diplomatic channels that the US opposes military action but the Israeli government no doubt regards such a warning as toothless, particularly as both Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton have asserted that Israel has a right to make its own security decisions.  Any move to punish or pressure the Israelis would be blocked by Congress, so the Obama warning can be brushed off.  The only option that I believe would actually work is for Obama to go public preemptively on the issue and proclaim that there is no casus belli with Iran, that any Israeli attack will not be supported by the United States and that furthermore the United States will take the lead in condemning such an act in the United Nations and in all other appropriate international fora.  Is that likely to happen?  I think not.  And that is precisely the reason why I think a new war in the Middle East is inevitable and will take place this year, probably by August.

[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.

[First Thoughts] Iran and the Status of Women » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Qatar, South Korea, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen

[WE ARE NOT YOUR SOLDIERS!] WE ARE NOT YOUR SOLDIERS!» Blog Archive » Report back from Tour in ...: Robin Long, another Iraq Veteran against the war who recently spent a year in prison for refusing to fight in Iraq joined in, saying a few things about his experience – going to Canada, getting deported, getting court martialed.

[NewsReal Blog] From the Writings of David Horowitz: May 5, 2010 | NewsReal Blog: “Where is the acknowledgement that [the 9/11 strike] was not a ”˜cowardly’ attack on ”˜civilization’ or ”˜liberty’ or ”˜humanity’ or ”˜the free world,’” asked Susan Sontag one of America’s leading literary intellectuals in one of its leading intellectual journals, “but an attack on the world’s self-proclaimed super-power, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions?”8 Sontag then proceeded to name such an action: “How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq?”

[buy bvlgari sunglasses] Ground Truth, part one | buy bvlgari sunglasses: It’s about John Murtha’s pending legislation that will set strict rules about troop deployment, forcing George Bush’s hand and, it is hoped, forcing the return home of U.S. troops. Here’s how Mary’s post begins:

[San Francisco Sentinel] San Francisco Sentinel » Blog Archives » THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN ...: Known as “linkage,” this is the one idea that has won the support of a broad consensus of U.S. congressmen, senators, diplomats, former presidents, and their foreign-policy advisers, seconded by journalists, Washington policy analysts, almost every American who has ever watched a Sunday morning news roundtable, and the Obama Administration, from National Security Adviser James Jones to the president himself: “If we can solve the Israeli-Palestinian process,” candidate Obama said on Meet the Press in the spring of 2008, “then that will make it easier for Arab states and the Gulf states to support us when it comes to issues like Iraq and Afghanistan.

[At War] The Iraqi Hunting Club Flourishes - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: Dozens of Iraqi couples lined up outside the Hunting Club for a mass wedding on July 22, 1993, as they did every Thursday in Iraq’s capital. The efficiency wedding idea was the idea of Saddam Hussein’s eldest son, Odai, as an austerity measure in response to three years of U.N sanctions.

[Cedric's Big Mix] What was the winning bid? « Cedric's Big Mix: Calling for an end to the Iraq War is Ron Fisher who is running for Congress in the 8th Congressional District in Virginia. Fisher is a Green.

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