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[BIGON Sandbank] David Miliband 'did not lose sleep' over Iraq backing | BIGON Sandbank: Mr Miliband, who was a junior minister at the time of the invasion, said: "The authority of the UN, I think, would have been severely dented if the hypothetical case that you are putting - that we had marched to the top of the hill of pressure and then walked down again without disarming Saddam - then I think that would have been really quite damaging for any of the multilateral aims that we have that need to be pursued through the UN.

[Politics] Iraqis may prove war was a mistake worth making | Washington Examiner: Iraq has seen 9400 men in uniform killed since the U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein's regime. That's not even half of a 10th of a percent of the nation's population of almost 24 million.

[Business Xanadu] Who agrees with my opinion School Business on the Iraq war?: It made sense to kill Saddam Hussein really, get some person who objects to the US cause, set up a permanent strategic location to do military operations in the middle east, against Iran, China, Syria, Egypt and India. The whole war is coated in this feel good we care about these people crap.

[Tony Blair] Iraq Inquiry: Miliband to “pejorative” Lyne - “UN”¦ feeble follow ...: SIR RODERIC LYNE: Now, he had the intent, he was presumed to have some material, his capability had been hugely constrained since 1991 by a range of measures, not just by trade sanctions, but, much more importantly perhaps, by an arms embargo, by deterrence, by No Fly Zones, by a Naval embargo.  Was military action, in March 2003, the only way of continuing to contain this intent, this threatened this desire of Saddam Hussein, to become once again a potential aggressor?

[J. Neil Schulman] J. Neil Schulman on War « J. Neil Schulman: With Iraq I believed the WMD threat was real, and as I’ve stated elsewhere I believe the disinformation that led to this threat appearing credible came from Saddam Hussein’s attempt to bluff Iran, which as we know is well along the way to having its own A-bombs. Saddam Hussein was an evil dictator and, again, it did not take much of a casus belli to want to see Iraqis —

[The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy] Sorry, Rove, Bush Did Lie About Iraq | The Smirking Chimp: Nevertheless, Bush followed up his false pre-war claims about Iraq's WMD with a post-invasion insistence that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had barred U.N. inspectors from his country, a decision that Bush said left him no choice but to invade.

[Second Opinion] Second Opinion: A good day for democracy in Iraq - A virtual ...: The war in Iraq was ill conceived, ill planned, and needless adventurism, especially when considering the real struggle against international terrorism our nation faced after the 9/11 attacks. The fact that Iraq is having an election and the sectarian violence is only resulting in dozens of deaths each week instead the larger number we were seeing only a year or two ago, is nothing to crow about.

[NY Issues] Baghdad Holds Key As Iraq Awaits Initial Vote Results: Iraq expects the first results of the polls on Tuesday presented as a test for the young democracy, hold down the button with Baghdad as Prime Minister and his secular rivals jockey for pole position. Thirty percent of the votes were counted in the evening, the complex range of Iraqi political blocs its first official indication of how to reduce the second general elections since 2003, fall of Saddam Hussein.

[At War] Iraqi Elections: Live-Blogging Election Day - At War Blog ...: A group of soldiers from Delta Company - part of the Third Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade - gathered at the edge of a landing zone near a joint American-Iraqi base in the center of Baghdad this morning not long after the attacks began. Three armored vehicles lined up, ready to roll out into the city, should the Iraqi security forces request their assistance, reports Tim Arango of The New York Times.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » Iraq War Defense ...: Mr Brown said that every request for money for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and occupation of Iraq was swiftly approved by the Treasury. He shifted the blame on to generals when confronted with complaints from the relatives of soldiers killed by in attacks on Snatch Land Rovers.

[At War] Iraqi Election - Music Videos and Propaganda - At War Blog ...: At a rally Wednesday in central Baghdad for Ayad Allawi and his Iraqiya coalition, the biggest challenger to current Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s coalition, supporters frequently interrupted Mr. Maliki’s speech with refrains from “Triumph Baghdad,” an oft-heard song in Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » Sunday, Bloody ...: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is fighting for his political future against a coalition led by mainly Shiite religious groups ”” the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council and a party headed by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. He also faces a challenge from secular alliance led by Ayad Allawi, a former prime minister and secular Shiite, who has teamed up with a number of Sunnis in a bid to claim the government.

RealClearWorld - The Compass Blog: Putting Iraq on a path to democracy and decency is a noble accomplishment of which Americans ”” of all parties ”” should be proud. Even if you think the war wasn’t worth it or that it was unjustified, only the truly blinkered or black-hearted can be vexed by the fact that Saddam Hussein’s regime is gone and the country is on the path to better days.

[Tenth Amendment Center Blog] Safeguard Wisconsin's Guard from needless deployment | Tenth ...: For the first time in recent history, citizens of Wisconsin have the opportunity to help answer the question “Who decides about war?” As part of a national movement of nearly two dozen states, on Tuesday, March 9, at 1 p.m. at the State Capitol in Madison, the Veterans and Military Affairs Committee of the state Assembly plans to hold a public hearing on Assembly Bill 203, the “Safeguard the Guard Act.”

[WorldBBNews] The Wire re-up: season five, episode four - the big lie | WorldBBNews: Without overlaying the timelines of political events with the writing of series five, we can’t know to what extent one informed the other, though it is clear - in the subtext and structure - that Simon was mindful of both recent and contemporaneous events and intended the serial killer plot to warn of exactly the kind of inherent dysfunction in public institutions exposed by Blair and George Bush in 2002-03.

[Pakistanpal's Blog] Muslim Disunity: A Religion Divided Against Itself « Pakistanpal's ...: Considering that a few thousand Sunnis were able to prevent superpower America from successfully occupying Baghdad or much of Iraq, had the Shi’ites joined with the Sunnis against the invaders, the U.S. would have been defeated and driven out. This outcome was not possible, because the Shi’ites wanted to settle the score with the Sunnis, who had ruled them under Saddam Hussein.

[SECTalk Forums] Will Iraq's democracy vindicate Bush? - SECTalk Forums: In 1963, the United States backed a coup against the government of Iraq which was then headed by General Abdel Karim Kassem, who five years earlier had deposed the Western-allied Iraqi monarchy, and later withdrew the anti Soviet Baghdad Pact. The CIA helped the new Ba'ath Party government in ridding the country of suspected leftists and communists.

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