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[Thomas Paine's Corner] WHERE IS THE GRAND INQUISITOR WHEN YOU NEED HIM?: By virtue of its sheer might and through the masterful propaganda which convinced its citizenry that invading Iraq was necessary to defend the “homeland”, the United States has established such a war of aggression as "acceptable behavior" for a legitimate government. Essentially, Chomsky concludes that the Bush administration, its collaborating wealthy elite and its supportive corporate leviathans imposed their will to expand the American Empire through instilling the fear in other nations that they could be in the cross-hairs of an incredibly powerful military, and by shamelessly telling unprecedented lies to the American people.
[Boingboing.net] Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things: The 55-year-old Libby, a White House power and proponent of the Iraq war, allegedly committed the crimes when questioned by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald before a federal grand jury. During two appearances under oath, Libby was questioned extensively about his contact with several reporters prior to published disclosures about Valerie Plame Wilson, the CIA operative.
[Alternet.org] AlterNet: War on Iraq: The Girl Blogger from Iraq: I’m an example of a modern-day, Iraqi female who is a part of a tribe- I’ve never met our sheikh- I’ve never needed to”¦ I have a university degree, I had a job and I have a family who would sacrifice a lot to protect me”¦ and none of this hinders me from having ambition or a sense of obligation towards law and order. I also want democracy, security, and a civil, healthy society”¦ right along with the strong family bonds I'm accustomed to as an Iraqi.
[Makezine.com] MAKE: Blog: Hacking in Iraq, Interview with Jake Appelbaum: Another interesting hack was sent to me by as I previously described them, "A massively talented hardware hacker." He was in touch with people in the U.S. military dealing with IEDs (Improvised explosive device) that were using radios and cell phones as remote triggers. So he explained to them how to build GSM jammers (to stop the ability for the calling party to connect to the bomb, as the ringer is the detonation device).
[Sabbah.biz] Sabbah’s Blog » Blog Archive » Tit for Tat: Cooked Iraqi for Free ...: Oh yes by the way, public opinion in India is so against the Iraqi war that our tabloids acually carried photos of these dead American bastards on their front pages to knock some sense in these cowboys heads that WAR IS NO GAME. People here don’t like it what these whiteys invade poor third-world type countries see…
[News.bbc.co.uk] BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iraq log: 10 December 2004: My wife cannot control her emotions when she watches the adverts on the TV about the new Iraq, the sight of the Iraqi flag brings her tears every time. She said once: "It is very strange, in the past when they raised the flag at school it did not move me, it was more like a joke standing there watching the flag being raised." I agree that the feeling of belonging to the country is getting back into the Iraqis.
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