Free Iraq

Imad
One telling evidence that the Americans are on a war path (confirming the Why We Fight documentary) is that they APPEAR not to have learned from their recent war crimes in Vietnam, Laos, South America, Afghanistan, to name but a few over the last century, and they (as media, people and government) quickly forget and become mentally immune to absorb their failures in these atrocities; and not to accumulate due knowledge (whatever dollars that it is worth for them) and wisdom of it.

Look at this:

"British Army tactics against insurgents are to be adopted by America following the "catastrophic" failure of its military to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people.
American commanders are planning to alter radically the way they fight future battles after failing to crush the insurgency in Iraq after more than two-and-a-half years of bloody fighting.
The changes have emerged in a 300-page document, entitled United States Counter-Insurgency Doctrine, which is being produced by senior and former members of the United States Army based at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.
The findings directly challenge US military thinking in Iraq, where many British officers have long held the view that the Americans' heavy-handed approach has alienated the Iraqi population.
The central premise of the draft doctrine is that deploying overwhelming firepower will not defeat an insurgency if the enemy hides among the civilian population and the consequence is heavy "collateral damage"."
'Heavy-handed' US to adopt British softly-softly line

And do hand over the war crime mantle to the Americans from the British for their Balfour Declaration (that led to the creation of Israel on Palestinian land), the Kashmir divide, the Irish divide, the Cyprus divide, the Yemen divide and similar Divide and Rule atrocities that have lingered on for decades devastating the affected people, while the British pontificate and now join hands with the Americans.

As I said earlier, only reciprocal force (whichever available) will convince them.
 

Iraqis killed by US troops ‘on rampage’: Khalaf, a 33-year-old security officer guarding oil pipelines, saw a US helicopter land near his home. American soldiers stormed out of the Chinook and advanced on a house owned by Khalaf’s brother Fayez, firing as they went.

Khalaf ran from his own house and hid in a nearby grove of trees. He saw the soldiers enter his brother’s home and then heard the sound of women and children screaming.

“Then there was a lot of machinegun fire,” he said last week. After that there was the most frightening sound of all — silence, followed by explosions as the soldiers left the house.


Iraqis find 30 bodies, most beheaded


Many dead in Baghdad mosque raid


Washington has Found the Solution: "Let's Divide Iraq as We Did in Yugoslavia!" Editor's note:
This article by Michel Collon was first published by Global Research in December 2003. It outlines with foresight the strategy of the US, through covert intelligence operations, of breaking up Iraq into a number of separate states. The unleashing of a civil war with a view to deliberately breaking up Iraq was part of the US war agenda from the outset.


xymphora, From security clearances to state-controlled press: SusanG interviews Daniel Ellsberg for the Daily Kos, and Daniel Ellsberg puts two and two together to draw some logical, if frightening, conclusions concerning American journalism (questions are in bold; the Bernstein article is about CIA control of American journalism in the mid-70’s; ...
[ . . . ]

The obvious difference from the 1970’s is that the part of the American government controlling the press is now the Pentagon and not (only) the CIA. One could, of course, discuss whether Ellsberg’s theory on government control of the New York Times is itself an attempt to hide the fact that Miller and Sulzberger were really acting for Israeli interests, ...


Associated Press serves as a cover-up for U.S. losses: Military affairs expert Jose Rodriguez Beruff from the University of Puerto Rico said that the figures showing more than 4,000 dead indicate that, far from winning the war in Iraq, "what is happening is that the troops are being worn down."

Traditional theorists calculate that for an armed invading force to win a guerrilla war, its casualties should be one to ten of its enemy's. In this case, that would require 40,000 casualties among Iraqi fighters, according to GlobalResearch.ca.

Also according to E&P, Editor & Publisher, the number of U.S. soldiers killed is three times higher than the counts cited by the media, including the AP accounts, which are being circulated among most news agencies.


Kurt Nimmo, Iraq’s Militia Problem: Go Blame Iran: Last June, “several top U.S. officials” accused “Iranian intelligence agents” of fomenting violence in Iraq. One such “official” is Iran-Contra figure, “universal fascist,” and neocon éminence grise Michael Ledeen, a “scholar” at the criminal American Enterprise Institute. “We are drowning in information about Iranian activities in Iraq,” Ledeen told NewsMax. “After the battles of Fallujah and Hilla, we found names of Iranian contacts, locations of safe houses, telephone numbers, and photographs that document Iranian activities.” ...

Get ready for a sustained propaganda campaign against Iran that will rival the one used against Iraq and Saddam Hussein. “Like a roomful of Energizer bunnies,” writes Andrew I. Killgore, the neocons “just keep going and going and going,” marching with determination toward conflict with “axis of evil” Iran, the next target on the neocon hit list. Zalmay Khalilzad is in essence announcing a new sustained propaganda campaign against Iran as the Straussian neocons prepare to sabotage any “talks” with Iran over “how to stabilize neighboring Iraq,” billed as “high-level meetings,” according to the Associated Press, approved by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Of course, these “talks” will fail and fail spectacularly, as the Straussian neocons do not intend to resolve political issues in the Middle East through negotiation.
 

A Citizen Of Mosul, It makes me laugh: There is a proverb in Arabic means "The worse catastrophe is which makes you laugh"
You should read this and laugh.

Someone Should Tell Bush Why We Went to War
 

'Unit's' military expert has fighting words for Bush -
Q: What's your assessment of the war in Iraq?

A: Utter debacle. But it had to be from the very first. The reasons were wrong. The reasons of this administration for taking this nation to war were not what they stated. (Army Gen.) Tommy Franks was brow-beaten and ... pursued warfare that he knew strategically was wrong in the long term. That's why he retired immediately afterward. His own staff could tell him what was going to happen afterward.

We have fomented civil war in Iraq. We have probably fomented internecine war in the Muslim world between the Shias and the Sunnis, and I think Bush may well have started the third world war, all for their own personal policies.

Q: What do you make of the torture debate? Cheney ...

A: (Interrupting) That's Cheney's pursuit. The only reason anyone tortures is because they like to do it.
 

FLASH PRESENTATION (5 min.), CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM: DEATH IN THE DESERT: What happened in the village of Isahaqi, north of Baghdad, on the Ides of March?
 

Thank you, Evelyn, for the Flash presentation. I had already posted the 'rampage' aricle (also posted above by yourself) and then added the presentation.
Your work on this site is admirable. Thank you.

 

VIDEO (48 min.), Iraq's Missing Billions Exposed: How American Contractors With The Help Of U.S. Government Raped Iraq -
Dr Ali Fadhil, a 29 year old Iraqi doctor, investigates what has happened to billions of dollars worth of Iraqi money which was put into the care of the US led coalition to be spent for the benefit of Iraqi people on the reconstruction of their country. He uncovers a shocking story of fraud, incompetence and corruption, unscrupulous foreign contractors who made millions from dodgy contracts, and literally billions of dollars which cannot be properly accounted for.
 

VIDEO (short), Robert Fisk: The five biggest lies about the War on Terror
 

Cheers !!!
Guardian, Iraqi woman's Baghdad blog in the running for £30,000 book prize: An anonymous Iraqi woman has become the first blog author to be in the running for a big literary prize for a book published between hard covers.

Baghdad Burning, by a 26-year-old author who has won an international readership under the pen name Riverbend, is longlisted for the £30,000 Samuel Johnson award. ...

The small literary publisher Marion Boyars brought out Baghdad Burning last year, classifying it under biography and memoir. ... It has already come third in the Lettre Ulysses prize for Reportage, winning £14,000, and was shortlisted for an Index on Censorship freedom of expression award.
 

Baghdad: The Besieged Press
By Orville Schell
It may well be that the besieged American press in Iraq will find that the main story is not about Americans fighting Iraqi insurgents, but Americans standing powerlessly aside in their armed compounds, Green Zone, and military bases, watching as Iraqis kill other Iraqis and the country disintegrates. It would be all too ironic if this were the result of the invasion of March 2003, which was promoted as a critical step in bringing peace to the Middle East.