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[Dissident Voice] Dissident Voice : Combating the Disinformation, Psyops, and Cover ...: Later, al-Sahhaf claimed that the Iraqi Republican Guard had slaughtered U.S. troops and was in control of the entire airport. His claims, according to one intelligence officer, were true, but were countered by a US military-media campaign of evasions and distortions which switched the subject from the airport to Private Jessica Lynch and ridiculed al-Sahhaf as “Baghdad Bob.”

[Therearenosunglasses's Weblog] Combating the Disinformation, Psyops, and Cover-ups of the US ...: When Iraq Veterans Against the War failed to support him, it was because an IVAW administrator, Amanda Braxton, a lifelong civilian, had been buffaloed by the best swiftboating attack since the presidential election of 2004. It was led by men whose records in special operations, propaganda and Republican war rallying made them seem more like mercenaries than media.

[DhafirTrial] DhafirTrial » The Evil of Sanctions: According to the BBC, the Oil for Food program “was a $60bn (£32bn) scheme which was supposed to allow Iraq to buy food, medicine, and other humanitarian supplies with the proceeds of regulated oil sales, without breaking the sanctions imposed on it after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.” Actually, it was a license for fraud and embezzlement and proved most lucrative to all sorts of lowlifes who profited from a government plan that purported to alleviate misery.

[Montana Kaimin News] montanakaimin.com - News: You don't have to condone an action like that to address its motives, which is key to any .Turning to the apparent success in Anbar province and a few other Sunni areas, this is not the positive situation it is purported to be.

[FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right] FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Is Health Care Reform the ...: Let’s say at the end of that debate, 33 percent of Americans thought it was a good idea to invade Iraq, 46 percent thought it was a bad idea and the rest weren’t sure. Then let’s say that there were a bunch of elections in places like New Jersey and Virginia in the middle of this debate and George Bush’s party lost them all badly.

[Nick Robinson's Newslog] BBC - Nick Robinson's Newslog: Inside the Iraq inquiry II: I watched the whole of the Blair questioning, and I thought that he answered all the questions put to him in a straight forward manner and as I recall the events with truth and sincerity, I first watched the massive turnout opposing Blair all two hundred of them,carrying the same absurd name calling banners that some of the lesser educated use on these blogs, one clown interviewed couldn't get the smile of his face or stop giggling more interested in being on the tele than the reason he purported to be there for, behind him a bunch of lads who had obviously scived off from school fo a laugh they also were grinning all over there faces and were certainly not of a age to remember anything of the war in Iraq, the rest were mostly made up of Moslems.

[Flopping Aces] The Iraq War Inquisition Begins in Britain: And so long as we are hunting for liars in this area, let me suggest that we begin with the Democrats now proclaiming that they were duped, and that we then broaden out to all those who in their desperation to delegitimize the larger policy being tested in Iraq””the policy of making the Middle East safe for America by making it safe for democracy””have consistently used distortion, misrepresentation, and selective perception to vilify as immoral a bold and noble enterprise and to brand as an ignominious defeat what is proving itself more and more every day to be a victory of American arms and a vindication of American ideals.

[Raw Story] Soldier reportedly holds daughter's head underwater for failing to ...: Given his age I would say he has been in Iraq or Afghanistan, perhaps multiple tours and still in thanks to the back-door draft "Stop Loss." Every single statistic generated by the war criminals Bush/Cheney was a lie, from casualty numbers (not counting the dead unless they died on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan) to the number of criminals given "Moral Waivers" and recruited from prisons.

[Publishers Weekly - Reviews News] Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 4/23/2007 - 2007-04-20 06:00:00 ...: weapons inspector Ritter (War on Iraq) is that rarity, a peacenik who’s also a gung-ho ex-Marine besotted with the leatherneck’s romanticized warrior ethos. In this eccentric manifesto, he critiques the antiwar movement in the light of military-philosophical chestnuts gleaned from Sun-Tzu, Marine Corps “maneuver warfare” principles and aerial combat guru John Boyd’s “OODA-loop” theory.

[FAMOUS PEOPLE NEWS.COM] Agbaso's one-hour reign as Imo governor « FAMOUS PEOPLE NEWS.COM: Nigeria: Visa Scam - EFCC Arraigns Five Suspects January 21, 2010. The economic and financial crimes commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned five young men who area of specialization is to dupe United Kingdom visa applicant before a Lagos High Court.

[The AV Club - Film] Going Na'vi: Why Avatar's politics are more revolutionary than its ...: Given the astronomical expectations for James Cameron’s Avatar—his first narrative feature in a dozen years, and the launching pad for a purportedly game-changing approach to the use of 3D and performance capture technology—it’s not surprising that the movie has split critics and viewers into two unequal but similarly passionate camps. On the one, more populous, side, are those who feel that Cameron has revolutionized the art form, creating a visionary work that will forever alter the medium.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: With outragous tax breaks and government give aways just to keep a few jobs in the local area most of us used to believe it was a trade off that was in the best interests of Americans and American jobs. Of course we have all learned the hard way that even if we do buy our jobs from the MultiNationals they will outsource/offshore them as soon as they can to ensure the top brass can add to their fleet of yachts or private jets.

[The Race for Iran] EXPLAINING THE CONCEPT OF “LIES” TO JEFFREY GOLDBERG (AND LEE ...: The Iran expert on Secretary Powell’s Policy Planning Staff at the time–Hillary Mann Leverett–thought that, and sent a detailed memo to Secretary Powell, through the Director of Policy Planning, Richard Haass, to that effect. (We will return to this memo and Powell’s reaction to it in a moment.) Within the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, the senior career diplomat responsible for Iran (and the only serving U.S. diplomat other than Hillary who had regularly negotiated with Iranian counterparts over Afghanistan), then Deputy Assistant Secretary Ryan Crocker, was not working on Iran at that point, as he had left Washington for Kuwait and Baghdad following the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

[race42008.com] race42008.com » Blog Archive » Enough: This site is well-known to have strong opinions on Palin and her qualifications, but for the future, let’s encourage the media, Palin, Palinites and Palin-haters to rise above the tit-for-tat media sound bytes that have left so many Americans embittered about this country’s future. Policy positions, platforms, leadership and America’s future should be what we, and the voters, are about, not continuing the reality TV show nature of Palin-related politics.

[Antiwar.com Original] The Kamm Scam: Fake 'Journalist' Defends a Forgery by Justin ...: either produced by the Americans, who still think nuclear weapons are a secret and are afraid to release facts of how these weapons actually operate (either in encyclopedia articles or in their occasional forgery) or by some Iranians, who may be trying to join the circus and show us that they are as silly as their American (and British) accusers.

[Mises Economics Blog] The War is Lost - Jeffrey Tucker - Mises Economics Blog: C'mmon, only thing New Yoork Times wants to do is to lessen the burden on their guy, who won the Nobel Prize for peace and now it would be quite inconvenient if he would have to do some unpopular things, like surge, similar to that successfully implemented in Iraq, and to attract bad will that way from European communists who adore him and who gave him a Nobel Prize.

[Liberal Values] » John Edwards and Rielle Hunter, the Movie Liberal Values: Young says that his belief in Edwards ran so deep that he agreed to take the fall for the candidate, inviting the pregnant Hunter to live with him, his wife, Cheri, and their three children. Later, after Hunter delivered the baby, Young and his family moved to a different home in California.

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