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[20 Times Around the Block] The policy utterly failed as the insurgency was free to make its attacks on unsecured cities, particularly Baghdad, where the Iraqi forces were woefully ill-equipped to handle it. Through means of terror Al Qaeda was able to pit Sunni against Shia, almost obliterating any hope of a unified nation.
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[Just Above Sunset] That Book about What Everyone Really Knew but No One Wanted to Say: The biggest torture-fueled wild-goose chase, of course, is the war in Iraq. Exhibit A, revisited in “The Dark Side,”
[thereadersreader('s) Weblog] not just another anti-war book: The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, used the crisis to further a long held agenda to enhance Presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history, and obliterate Constitutional protections that define the very essence of the American experiment.
[YOU BETTER CLICK HERE] Maureen Farrell: Top 10 ”Conspiracy Theories about George W. Bush: Mickey Herskowitz, Bush\’s ghost writer on A Charge To Keep, says that Governor Bush began talking about invading Iraq in 1999, in part, he believes, due to a Reagan-era credo ascribed to Dick Cheney: \”Start a small war. Pick a country where there is justification you can jump on, go ahead and invade.\”
[Tribe.net: Intelligent Political Discussion] Re: anyone like nader?: “These documents are additional compelling evidence that the intelligence community did not believe there was a cooperative relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda, despite public comments by the highest ranking officials in our government to the contrary.”
[Random House New Releases - Nonfiction] The Dark Side by Jane Mayer: Jane Mayer is the co-author of two bestselling and critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books, LANDSLIDE: THE UNMAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 1984-1988, and STRANGE JUSTICE: THE SELLING OF CLARENCE THOMAS, the latter of which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Mayer was also awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in connection with THE DARK SIDE.
[4international] THE WARNING OF PETER D. ZIMMERMAN MUST NOT BE EVADED: . Bush commented on April 11 that if Iran continues to help militias in Iraq “then well deal with them.” But he also reaffirmed his disinclination for war and preference for diplomatic solutions. “You cant solve these problems unilaterally. Youre going to need a multilateral forum,” he said.
[The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed] Muhammad Sahimi: How To Convince Your Congressperson Not To Attack ...: It actually purchased weapons from Israel during its war with Iraq, and Iranian oil is reaching Israel indirectly. Iranian leaders are also fully aware that any attack on Israel will bring a massive and "obliterating" counterattack by .
[SWJ Blog] 30 June SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup: These have included seizing members of Al Quds, the commando arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation, and the pursuit of “high-value targets” in the Presidents war on terror, who may be captured or killed. But the scale and the scope of the operations in Iran, which involve the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), have now been significantly expanded, according to the current and former officials.
[Regularblackguy's Weblog] Regular Black Guy Post July 21, 2008: Obama conveyed ”¦ that he is committed to supporting Afghanistan and to continue the war against terrorism with vigor,” said Humayun Hamidzada, Karzais spokesman. He said Democrats and Republicans “are friends of Afghanistan and no matter who wins the U.S. elections, Afghanistan will have a very strong partner in the United States.”
[æ´å¦¹å¦¹--æ³°æ ¼ä¸½ä¸Tigress] Why Brides-to-Be Are Starving Themselves Skinny: Oh, and let's not forget the ur-incident in wedding party destruction in Bush's wars. In late December 2001, a B-52 and two B-1B bombers, using precision-guided weapons, essentially wiped out a village in Eastern Afghanistan (and then, in a second strike, took out Afghans digging in the rubble).
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