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Left Turn with Cecily Friday: DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was an "idiot decision" and Iraqi troops now need to secure Baghdad to ensure the country's future, Vice-President Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Thursday. (via Cosmos)
Citizens for Legitimate Government - Index: We also see a joint patrol of US and Iraqi troops in Baghdad, where our camera captures the pretty brutal treatment meted out by the newly trained Iraqi soldiers to three suspected insurgents caught in a car, all to the accompaniment of laughter, whoops and egging on from the US soldiers who watch from their Humvee. We now know that the incident is regarded as sufficiently serious for the US sergeant who was present to be suspended pending further investigation. (via Cosmos)
Citizens For Legitimate Government: U.S. invasion was "idiot decision"-Iraq vice president 25 Jan 2007 The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was an "idiot decision" and Iraqi troops now need to secure Baghdad to ensure the country's future, Vice-President Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Thursday. "Iraq was put under occupation, which was an idiot decision," Mahdi said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. (via Cosmos)
Say Anything: North Dakota's Most Popular Political Blog: The defeaning drumbeats of defeat coming from the MSM has even shaken some erstwhile stalwart Republicans here in the U.S. But Afghanistan is the good war on terror, as opposed to the Halliburton quagmire of lies that is Iraq - and so it is disheartening to see coalition partners backing away from this far less controversial conflict. Are these francophonic jitters going to lead to wider fissures in the coalition, that eventually dooms Afghanis to another dark age under the Taliban? (via Cosmos)
PLANET OF THE CHIMPS: Roberts and a handful of other strategically-placed Washington players stymied all questions into pre-war intelligence on Iraq and post-invasion cover-ups, including the outing of a CIA covert agent, by using targeted leaks and artfully deflecting blame from the White House. (via Cosmos)
Vox Verax: DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was an "idiot decision" and Iraqi troops now need to secure Baghdad to ensure the country's future, Vice-President Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Thursday. (via Cosmos)
CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS: Bush plans to send another 21,500 troops to Iraq, a move widely criticised in the United States. On Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted against the decision, which is due to go before the Senate next week. (via Cosmos)
Tailrank - Top News for Today: WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide told prosecutors that his boss said President Bush authorized the leak of sensitive intelligence information about Iraq, according to court papers filed by prosecutors in the CIA leak case. Lewis Libby testified to the grand jury investigating . (via Cosmos)
[Riverbendblog.blogspot.com] Baghdad Burning: Meanwhile, the US was bombing the Iraqi army as it was pulling out of Kuwait and the Tawabin were killing off some of the Iraqi troops who had abandoned their tanks and artillery and were coming back on foot through the south. Many of those troops, and the civilians killed during the attacks, looting, and burning, were buried in some of the mass graves we conveniently blame solely on Saddam and the Republican Guard- but no one bothers to mention this anymore because it’s easier to blame the dictator.
[Geeinbaghdad.blogspot.com] G.: During the War, specifically on the last week I was arrested by members of the “Special Security Apparatus” because I looked suspicious and I was carrying a back-pack containing a camera a Swiss army knife”¦..etc, two weeks after that I was arrested by “al-Hussien force” -a vigilante Shia militia in Karbala 150 km to the south of Baghdad. After another week I was arrested by the “Pieshmergha” -the Kurdish militia- this time because I tried to photograph one of their men in the middle of a street in Baghdad.
[Healingiraq.blogspot.com] Healing Iraq: Meanwhile, the rising young Shi’ite cleric Yassir Al-Habib, like most of his Islamic counterparts, is just learning how to soar himself to stardom and popularity: by calling for more death and mayhem. Our friend laments the fact that the government has failed to protect the Askari shrine and the cellar of the Imam Al-Mahdi, which he believes is of higher standing with Allah than Jerusalem.
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