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[Ten Percent] Seventh Anniversary Of The Iraq Invasion « Ten Percent: Regarding Iraq, the last Security Council resolution essentially said, 'Look, send the weapons inspectors out to Iraq, have them come back and tell us what they've found ”” then we'll figure out what we're going to do. There are people who deny the Holocaust, there are people who deny the death toll in Iraq, they are of the same ilk, quit whining and own your historical antecedence, you want good war, you have to hide bodies, real fucking simple.

Mudville Gazette: In this light, the two-word prescription for Iraq that Secretary of State Colin Powell has so far repeated -- "reinvigorate sanctions" -- is more ambitious than it sounds, while the hugely aggressive plan endorsed two years ago by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his likely deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, which involved recognizing an alternative Iraqi government and providing it military cover to set up a headquarters in southern Iraq, sounds just as ambitious as it is. Both ideas would require radical reversals by unhappy allies such as Turkey and Jordan, and Secretary Powell would have to win over non-allies such as Syria and Russia too.

[SamSederShow.com - unbought, unbossed] waste | SamSederShow.com: The proposal, offered by Monaco and co-sponsored by the United States, failed by a margin of 20 in favor and 68 against, with 30 abstaining. The vote came just hours after the 175 countries assembled at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) rejected a U.S. proposal to limit the hunting of polar bears.

[Chasing Evil] Chasing Evil: Karl Rove, Still Lying on TV About Iraq: weapons inspectors were reporting back from Iraq, the White House was seeking a second Security Council vote that would have officially sanctioned military action. That effort was unsuccessful, and the U.S./U.K.

[richardhowe.com] richardhowe.com » 'The War Place': Section 9: Peter Jennings of ABC-TV says “We don’t know if the ”˜mother of all battles’ is about to begin, but Saddam Hussein now finds himself in the mother of all corners.” The U.S.S.R.’s Foreign Minister says the Iraqi minister agreed to some of the conditions in President Bush’s ultimatum. Everyone is waiting for an authoritative statement about this from the U.N.

[Intifada Palestine] Who To Blame For the Iraq War? | Intifada Palestine: A November 20, 2001 Wall Street Journal op-ed argued that the US should continue to target regimes that sponsor terrorism, claiming, “Iraq is the obvious candidate, having not only helped al Qaeda, but attacked Americans directly (including an assassination attempt against the first President Bush) and developed weapons of mass destruction.” Who is the professor of strategic studies at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University who made these spurious claims?

[Politics Daily] Iraq War Debate: Surge Success, Intelligence Mistakes, Civilian ...: Our review found that after the publication of the October 2002 NIE but before Secretary of State Colin Powell's February 2003 address to the United Nations, intelligence officials within the CIA failed to convey to policymakers new information casting serious doubt on the reliability of a human intelligence source known as 'Curveball.' This occurred despite the pivotal role Curveball's information played in the Intelligence Community's assessment of Iraq's biological weapons programs, and in spite of Secretary Powell's efforts to strip every dubious piece of information out of his proposed speech. In this instance, once again, the Intelligence Community failed to give policymakers a full understanding of the frailties of the intelligence on which they were relying.

[Redress News] Who's to blame for the Iraq war? > Iraq > Redress Information ...: A 20 November 2001 Wall Street Journal op-ed argued that the US should continue to target regimes that sponsor terrorism, claiming, “Iraq is the obvious candidate, having not only helped al-Qaeda, but attacked Americans directly (including an assassination attempt against the first President Bush) and developed weapons of mass destruction”. Who is the professor of strategic studies at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, who made these spurious claims?

[Dirk Bradshaw Blog] Who think that Ron Paul is the only Republican presidential ...: If you look at the UN security council’s ability to do their job, you will see that they could not stop a country like the USA to invade another country like Iraq. The UN is supposed to stop big countries from bullying weak countries.

[Israpundit] Israpundit » Blog Archive » Palestinians are getting stronger with ...: The government, particularly in light of this crisis with the Obama administration, is likely to cave in to Washington’s demands and make a series of goodwill gestures to Abbas in the form of the lifting of more roadblocks - close to 30 have already been lifted - as well as releasing Fatah prisoners.

[Ephems of BLB » Ephems] Ephems of BLB » Blog Archive » Gordon Brown at the Iraq Inquiry ...: by the hole it had dug for itself over Iraq, while Le Monde said that Mr Blair had once again “decided to dump on France the main bulk of the responsibility for his own diplomatic failure”. In a stinging editorial, France’s newspaper of record said Mr Blair’s efforts to win a majority for a second resolution had failed and that “contrary to the internationalist principles he has avowed since the start”, the war would now begin without specific UN authorisation.

[Feed for Arabist.net] Iran sanctions: lessons learned from Iraq - Blog - The Arabist: I'm not convinced that sanctions would really stop Iran's nuclear program (some argue that they might accelerate it), but even worse is the idea that they would push people to join the Green Movement. We know from the Iraq experience that sanctions hurt more than helped any resistance to the Saddam regime, and gave it extra tools to pacify the population. 

[Israpundit] Israpundit » Blog Archive » Capitulate or else: I further queried this officer as to whether he had ever heard Petraeus express the view imputed to him by Mark Perry ”” namely that Israel’s West Bank settlements are the biggest obstacle to a peace accord and that the lack of a peace accord is responsible for killing American soldiers. This officer told me that he had heard Petraeus say “the lack of progress in the Peace Process, for whatever reason, creates challenges in Centcom’s AOR [Area of Responsibility], especially for the more moderate governmental leaders,” and that’s a concern ”” one of many ”” but he did not suggest that Petraeus was mainly blaming Israel and its settlements for the lack of progress.

[World Blog] Iraq's politics: an explosive chess game - World Blog - msnbc.com: for their "freedom"- pure BS dude) remain will Iraq align themselves with Iran, can they increase oil production quickly, how do the Kurds get compensated for the northern fields?, will the centralized government take more than they give to the Kurds?, how powerful are the Shiites in the South? and what do specifically want?, a coualition with their tranian family and tribal members?

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