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[Redress News] Iran sanctions and worse > Americas > Redress Information & Analysis: Paul says, "…it feels as if we are back in 2002 all over again: the same falsehoods and distortions used to push the United States into a disastrous and unnecessary one trillion-dollar-war on Iraq are being trotted out again to lead us to what will likely be an even more disastrous and costly war on Iran. The parallels are astonishing."

[Pandagon Comments] Pandagon :: Deal-breaker :: August :: 2007: as a mostly harmless 1 term schmuck, I quickly revised my opinion when the WH trotted out the Dept of Homeland Security and Patriot Act. When they used Colin Powell's credibility to sell this war, I saw nothing was off the table when it came to the ends justifying the means for this crowd.

[The Best Defense] Odierno requests more combat forces in Iraq -- beyond the Obama ...: Thefeeling in the corridors of the White House is that the general isasking the right questions, but a bit clumsily, and certainly too earlyfor political comfort, especially in Iraq, which is about to hold anational election. So I suspect the administration's bottom line forOdierno was, Hey, Shreko, put a sock in it until after the Iraqielections, because what we need is a new Iraqi government to be formedso it can quietly begin talking to us about re-visiting some of those2008 SOFA agreements about future troop levels.

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | Tony Blair Defends Iraq Invasion During Heated ...: A lot of people were not fooled, the lies were so blatant and illogical that millions went to the streets in the largest global demonstration ever. Granted that even more people should have been involved, there should have been a total shutdown here in the US, that's probably the only gesture that might have stopped the juggernaut of the military-industrial-political complex.

[Inside Story] Words in a time of war | Inside Story: FOR AMERICAN writer Mark Danner the Bush administration defined itself forever when it responded to the killing of nearly 3000 people on 11 September 2001 by declaring a war on terror “unbounded in space or time.” A year into the Obama administration, the new president is trying to redefine the war on terror, “to shape it and to limit it,” but has had only partial success. Obama promised to close the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay and renounced the torture of terrorism suspects, but Guantanamo is still open and none of the architects of the Bush administration’s torture policy have been brought to account.

[1913 Intel] Iran strikes secret nuclear mining deal with Zimbabwe's Mugabe ...: That was one of the lies made up by our government to justify the invasion of Iraq. Now here we are years later with countless dead Iraqis, thousands of dead and wounded American troops, Iraq in ruins and America bogged down in two unwinnable wars (and they are UNWINNABLE in capital letters).

[Kay Phillips] Brown's predictable and weary defence of the Iraq disaster: Taken with the rising drumbeat from Tel Aviv and Washington, Brown's testimony should be taken as a serious portent of yet more mayhem."

[News] Tony Blair's evidence to the Iraq inquiry: Time to give thanks for ...: was beginning, one of our previous allies suddenly decided that they would try and prevent Great Britain from having such a terrible weapon, prefering to keep it to themselves, no doubt for peaceful purposes (although Japan might have disagreed) We had no money, and no food actually, but we made one ourselves,not without suffering some real hardship in the doing of it, and, sadly for our “ally” so did those wicked Russians, who became so big and powerful that when the Hungarians thought they could rely upon their “ally”

[Money Matters] Money Matters: China And Arab Sovereign Wealth Troubles Our Rulers ...: The burning of Care on the pyre is them: they are the ones who are suffering along with the children of Afghanistan and Iraq. And all things are tied together and form 'history' and we are in historic times: the future will be quite different from today.

[Socio-Economics History Blog] Ron Paul: The US Congress is Actively Pushing for War on Iran ...: Listening to the debate on the Floor on this motion and the underlying bill it feels as if we are back in 2002 all over again: the same falsehoods and distortions used to push the United States into a disastrous and unnecessary one trillion dollar war on Iraq are being trotted out again to lead us to what will likely be an even more disastrous and costly war on Iran. The parallels are astonishing.

[Liberty Grotto Blog] New American on Ron Paul fighting against war with Iran: Paul drew parallels between the current push to isolate Iran and the events that led up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003: “Listening to the debate on the Floor on this motion and the underlying bill it feels as if we are back in 2002 all over again: the same falsehoods and distortions used to push the United States into a disastrous and unnecessary one trillion dollar war on Iraq are being trotted out again to lead us to what will likely be an even more disastrous and costly war on Iran. The parallels are astonishing.”

[TomDispatch - Blog] Tomgram: Nick Turse, America's Secret Air War in Iraq | TomDispatch: Sarah Sewall, who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1993 to 1996 and is now Director for the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard, agrees that air power has a role to play in urban operations, and may even mitigate civilian harm in certain instances. She warns, however, "I have a lot of skepticism about the applicability of air power for all types of problems and particularly for the types of problems that we see commonly, on a day to day basis, in Iraq today." As she told Tomdispatch, "The problem comes when you think it is the functional equivalent of ground forces."

[Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk] Shaken, stirred or served with Twiglets? Tell MGM the recipe for ...: Next, gadgets. Do you want to see Bond killing his enemies by booting them in the mouth, or do you yearn for the days of grenade-pens, invisible cars and space-lasers?

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » What a lucky man he was: And everyone who warned that George W. Bush was too lazy/incurious to be a successful president was just an unhinged partisan.

[The TSA Blog] The TSA Blog: Saturday Morning Strange But True...: I think I subscribe to that philosophy more than "wisdom of crowds" (which has been responsible for such great moments in history as the 17th century tulip mania, the Salem witch trials, the great depression, the idea that there might be WMDs in Iraq, the popularity of "American Idol"...). If you're smart, you're probably smarter than any given group of folks.

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