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Today's post comes on the heels of Monday's Memorial Day observances throughout the state and the rest of the country.
Bush's rebuilding of Iraq deemed an utter failure; $100 billion wasted NEW YORK (Reuters) - An unpublished federal draft report depicts the U.S.-led reconstruction of Iraq as a $100 billion failure doomed by bureaucratic infighting, ignorance of basic elements of Iraqi society and waves of violence there, The New York Times reported in its Sunday ed …
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." Anne Frank
Iraq throws open door to foreign oil firms Iraq threw open the world's third largest oil reserves to foreign firms on Monday, putting British and U.S. companies in poll position five years after U.S.-led troops invaded the country to oust Saddam Hussein.
Curveball, The Intelligence Jackpot, is a Crackpot"He was corrupt," said a family friend who once employed him. "He always lied," said a fellow Burger King worker.
There has been a great deal of discussion lately regarding Benchmarks in connection with the present conflict in Iraq. However else Benchmarks are defined, we must not lose sight of the perspective on this war from Heaven's point of view.
American Imperialism at its FinestSo with all of the "truth" out as to the reasons why we are in Iraq, which is the reality? Did we go to war over bad information? Or are we over there because of a more sinister motivation? Which is it? Gross incompetence? Or colonial imperialism?
The War in Iraq Will End, One Way or AnotherContrary to whatever the Bush Administration believes, it takes an enormous amount of money to fight a war and even more to win it. Mike Whitney gives an excellent opinion on where he thinks the war is headed.
I have been asking these questions since the day before the war, and all I've seen for answers is Republican tail chasing.
Heavy Fighting Breaks Out In 4 Iraqi CitiesBAGHDAD (AFP) - Moqtada al-Sadr's militiamen battled troops in four Iraqi cities on Tuesday, including the capital, as the hardline Shiite cleric threatened a countrywide campaign of civil revolt.
Cerebral Black Hole » Lead Story » Top 10 Iraq War Profiteers.The history of American war profiteering is rife with egregious examples of incompetence, fraud, tax evasion, embezzlement, bribery and misconduct. As war historian Stuart Brandes has suggested, each new war is infected with new forms of war profiteering. Iraq is no exception.
"War is over!' "The Prime Minister of Iraq has asked me to pass on his thanks to you for helping to rebuild the democracy of Iraq." By early next year, our contingent in Southern Iraq will be cut to 2,500 – and may be withdrawn completely in March.
AlterNet: War on Iraq: Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject OccupationWe got saddam, no wmds found. the iraqis dont want us there. The world doesnt want us there. the american people dont want us there. The soldiers. dont want to be there. The only people that agree we should stay..
U.N. says plight of Iraqis worsens - USATODAY.comAn article that states in a new human rights report done by the U.N. mission in Iraq has shown that the country is "rapidly worsening" as the violence escalates.
Clift: Growing hate in IRaq"Do you hate America?" I asked Huda Ahmed, an Iraqi journalist who is a visiting fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation (full disclosure: I serve as a co-chair of the group). "Yes," she said without hesitation.
In my previous post I described a potential military strategy for helping to improve the situation in Iraq.
'Hundreds' killed in Iraq battlesOfficials in Iraq say at least 200 militants were killed on Sunday during clashes with US-backed Iraqi troops ahead of a major Shia Muslim festival.
Wars have been fought for countless years, and innumerable lives have been lost. The style with which warfare has been waged has changed throughout the centuries, but one question still remains, "What are the morals of war?"
Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?Why you're not demonstrating against the Iraq war.
Official Iraq war costs don't tell the whole storyAt Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, swimming pools closed a month early this fall, and shuttle vans were sharply curtailed in an effort to trim spending. At Fort Sam Houston in Texas, unpaid utility bills exceeded $4 million, and the base reduced mail delivery to cut costs.
Real accounts of Iraqi sectarian warfareA few mortar shells have falled in the vicinity of our home in Baghdad. One shell tore through the roof of our relatives' house, a few blocks away from us, into their living room, but nobody was hurt. Another hit our neighbours.
Today the US House of Representatives is debating a resolution (H. Res. 861) that would, among other things, declare that the US will win the War on Terror. Note item 7 of the resolution, taken from the Library of Congress' online search:
Father of Kidnapped & Beheaded Victim: No Good in Al-Zarqawi's DeathThe father of Nicholas Berg, the kidnapped U.S. contractor who was believed to have been beheaded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq, said Thursday that he doesn't see any good coming from al-Zarqawi's death.
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