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[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Green Zone Advances Liberal Narrative of Iraq War: The United States, with a coalition of willing nations, went to war in Iraq to remove Saddam, and the United States did so based on the 22 stated reasons for war in the congressional authorization to use force that leading Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, supported. Saddam was in violation of 17 U.N.

[Everyone's Blog Posts - 12160.org] EXCLUSIVE: Larry Franklin, Defense analyst in spy case was double ...: Franklin said the FBI first pressed him about working undercover in an investigation into alleged Israeli spying in the United States in May 2004, after he had become a subject of investigation into whether he provided sensitive information to reporters at CBS News on Iraqi exile leader Ahmed Chalabi's relations with Iran.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Lewis On Sixty Minutes: Washington got away with the Iraq war, torture, warrantless wiretapping and politicizing every department of the federal government, so why would anyone get upset over the looting of hundreds of billions and crashing the economy? .... In the civil lawsuit filed Wednesday, Blumenthal alleges Moody's and S&P knowingly assigned false ratings to complex investments that helped push the country into recession.” http://www.google.com/hostedne.....QD9EBTBT80 ...

[Crooks and Liars] PBS Frontline: The Definitive Account of "Bush's War" | Crooks and ...: Having no idea what to do in Iraq once it became clear that a civil war was underway, the Bush White House simply tried a bit of this and a bit of that, and when nothing worked, someone was singled out to be a scapegoat for failures so .

[Documentary Films .NET] Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers | Documentary Films .NET: No matter what a person thinks about the men and women seeking a small part of the fortune and the risks they take, it is difficult not to look for new and better curse words for these folks. Combine that with the 600% growth the company has enjoyed and the fact that the U.S. government awarded them with a $73 million contract from FEMA for Katrina “relief” and the question of just who is running the government becomes increasingly salient.

[Everyone's Blog Posts - 12160.org] EXCLUSIVE: Larry Franklin, Defense analyst in spy case was double ...: Bush administration and acknowledged he was talking to the news media and AIPAC officials because he was concerned about the administration's plan to go to war with Iraq without a policy for containing Iran.

[BBC NEWS | Peston's Picks] BBC - Peston's Picks: BAE: 'a knowing and wilful misleading of the ...: So how can it be proper conduct for the U.S. Government to arrange major re-construction contracts, telecommunications contracts and the sale of 500 new training, transport and fighter aircraft to the Iraqi government from largely American suppliers, under the military umbrella of the Multinational Security Transition Command - Iraq (an American quango now known as United States Forces- Iraq)?

[Radicalislamvsworld's Blog] HISTORY - Time line [some] Important Dates in radical 'ISLAM VS WORLD': This clash within Islamic countries between Islamist religious forces and modernizers like Kemal Atatuerk in Turkey, Habib Burgiba in Tunisia, Gemal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarek in Egypt, the deposed Reza Shah Pahlavi in Iran, and even Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Islamist religious forces is long, deep and powerful. The modernizers in these countries have usually come from military rather than civilian backgrounds, and by transforming one of the few intact institutions of the old regime - namely the military bureaucracy - into an instrument of political power and hegemony, they have consolidated their authority, often with limited popular support and democratic institutions.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Will Obama Still Be Blaming Bush in 2012? Bet on It: And, despite the erosion in public support for Obama, a majority still says that he understands their needs and problems better than congressional Republicans. A majority also credit Obama ”” more than Republicans ”” with making an effort at bipartisanship, and they back the White House’s policies on a variety of issues, including allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military and repealing the Bush tax cuts.”

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