Free Iraq

I wasn't sure where to click on, but I believe I got the essence of what you were sending. Thank you.

How awful for you to see what has happened to your country. I am so sorry for what mine has done to yours. maddi
 

"One of the great things about America, one of the beauties of our country, is that when we see a young, innocent child blown up by an IED, we cry."

It is comments like this that makes me time after time think there is REALLY something wrong in the US society. So out in la la land and with not what so ever understanding to normal common sense of all humans; its pathetic. But that nation has turned into a closed society and their politicians and media can feed them any crap and no body is able or willing to debate back on the same level.

So what does this guy really mean here? Has anyone asked him? Is he by chance getting rid of the weapon industry in the US?

I remember how sick I used to feel when I had to read Saddam’s speeches in school and listen to them, I have the same feeling when Bush speaks. Many times it feels as if they have the same speech writers.
 

An Iraqi Tear, Iraq: Faults and Bloods: Rice came to Iraq after her admitting that they "the Americans" made thousands of tactical faults in Iraq!! Yet she assured that their "strategy" in Iraq was and still right! . . . So Bush committed the faults but the strategic decision of invading Iraq was right!! Admitting the faults that generated till now more than 200 000 Iraqi civilians victims, 2300 Americans were killed and the whole life and system in Iraq was destroyed.
 

Where Date Palms Grow, The Red and Yellow Bicycle: I may have not mentioned before that I have two sweet Daughters, I’ll name them S. and R. due to security reasons. ... [A] week ago a kid at school was doing some Magic tricks in front of S, he showed the children the disappearing egg trick, S, asked him if he can turn her into a Dog, a teacher overheard this and asked her why she wanted to turn into a Dog? Her answer was “so I can be free to play in the street without anybody hurting me”
 

Iraq's refugee problem surges as violence rages: The number of Iraqis fleeing their homes to escape sectarian violence has doubled in less than a month . . .
 

British RAF doctor guilty of refusing orders to go to Iraq: The medic . . . had argued to a panel of five RAF officers . . . that he thought the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003 was "on a par with Nazi Germany".
 

New Military Offensive Against Rumsfeld: "My sincere view is that the commitment of our forces to this fight was done with a casualness and swagger that are the special province of those who have never had to execute these missions – or bury the results," ...
 

Rumsfeld rebuts critics, backs Iraq policy: Rumsfeld said the criticism doesn't affect his ability to do his job.
 

Basra child mortality 'is rising'
 

Iraq: Death Squads Not Linked to Gov't
 

Shiite exodus from mixed towns: "The government does nothing! What should I say about the government? This is the democracy. This is the freedom. ... The freedom is that you must leave your house."

"Families are living in their cars," ...
 

Nadia (4:16 AM),
Re George and his great American crying routine: I agree with you. He talks a lot of [unmentionable].
 

IRAQ: Amid violence, health workers appeal for blood donations
 

Developments in Iraq on April 13
 

Bush Willing to Release Israeli Spy if Israel Asks [!!!]
 

U.S. Terror Fight / 'Long War' expected to last 20 years
 

Car bomb kills 26 amid Iraq political deadlock
 

xymphora --
-- Israeli advice to Americans on Iraq: The Jerusalem Post helpfully provides some advice to Americans on how they can get out of the Iraq mess by – surprise, surprise – agreeing to the Yinon solution of breaking the country into three chunks. ...

-- He's dead, Jim: The Washington Post has reported that the role of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the Iraqi insurgency has been played up by the Pentagon for propaganda purposes, both in Iraq and in the United States (see also early precursor article here). ...

-- Beware of the Fox: I think it is important to point out the many concrete examples which conclusively prove the Israel Lobby thesis. ...

"In his [Powell’s] own State Department there was a keen awareness of the strength of the Jewish lobbyists. Secretaries of State did not usually meet with lobbyists, but both Jewish officials and Jews that did not officially represent specific groups from Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League to Ronald Lauder, could meet with Powell on short notice…. At the State Department, Foxman had an aura of omnipotence. He was held responsible for the appointment of Indyk as Undersecretary of State under Clinton, and was thought to have played a role in the appointments of Secretaries of State Christopher and Albright. Powell related to Foxman almost as if he were someone to whom he must capitulate. Once Foxman told one of his deputies that Powell was the weak link. When the Secretary of State heard this he began to worry. He knew that in Washington a confrontation with the Jewish lobby would make his life difficult. Once he arranged a meeting with Foxman, but the busy Foxman postponed the meeting three times. When they eventually met, the head of the Anti-Defamation League apologized to the Secretary of State [for the postponements]. ‘You call, we come,’ replied Powell, paraphrasing a well known advertisement for a freight company. That statement had much more meaning than just a humorous polite reply."

So Colin Powell, American Secretary of State, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, multi-decorated American general, cowers in fear before Abe Foxman, a guy so powerful he can get away with postponing a meeting with Powell three times? And you want to try to tell me that the Lobby has no power? Are you on crack?
 

Sonia Nettnin, Palestinian Health Care Conditions Under Occupation
 

Chris Floyd, The Slander That Launched Don Rumsfeld's Career: An anecdote from James Carroll's magnificent new book, House of War (which I'll be reviewing here soon) provides a brief but penetrating glimpse at the gutter politics and moral nullity that have marked the entire career of the Pentagon warlord -- and the rest of his cohorts in the Bush gang. [ . . . ]
 

Andrew Buncombe, The US propaganda machine: Oh, what a lovely war
 

Still on the theme of war, lies, and bastards-in-general -
Sarah Meyer, Iraq's US/UK Permanent Bases : Intentional Obfuscation
 

More . . .
U.S. aircraft carriers head to Caribbean: Venezuelan President Chavez accuses US of planning an invasion
 

Norman Solomon, Mearsheimer, Walt and Corrie; The Lobby and the Bulldozer: Weeks after a British magazine published a long article by two American professors titled "The Israel Lobby," the outrage continued to howl through mainstream U.S. media. [ . . . ]

Few other American academics have been willing to expose themselves to the kind of professional risks that John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt took by releasing their provocative paper. And few other American activists have been willing to expose themselves to the kind of risks that Rachel Corrie took when she sat between a Palestinian home and a Caterpillar bulldozer in Gaza three years ago.

The bulldozer, driven by an Israeli army soldier on assignment to demolish the home, rolled over Corrie, who was 23 years old. She had taken a nonviolent position for human rights; she lost her life as a result. But she was rarely praised in the same U.S. media outlets that had gone into raptures over the image of a solitary unarmed man standing in front of Chinese tanks at the time of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

In sharp contrast to the high-tech killers who run the Israeli military apparatus and the low-tech killers who engage in suicide bombings, Rachel Corrie put her beliefs into practice with militant nonviolence instead of carnage. She exemplified the best of the human spirit in action; she was killed with an American-brand bulldozer in the service of a U.S.-backed government.

As her parents, Cindy and Craig Corrie, said in a statement on her birthday a few weeks after she died: "Rachel wanted to bring attention to the plight of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories, a people she felt were largely invisible to most Americans."

In the United States, the nonstop pro-Israel media siege aims to keep them scarcely visible.
 

Baghdad Worst City in the World (Ah, yes, but all things worthwhile - democracy? - carry a price.)
 

Malcom Lagauche, CURVEBALL AND THE TRUCKS: Never have two old beaten up trucks gained the mythical status of the two Iraqi vehicles used for producing hydrogen. Millions and millions of dollars were spent on propaganda that elevated their status to that of a world-threatening device that could kill millions of people instantly. An unknown Iraqi drunkard had his 15 minutes of fame and improved his financial status immensely because of the trucks. Thousands of Iraqi lives were lost because of the lies used against the trucks. And, here’s the ultimate irony of the two vehicles: In 1987, they were sold to the Iraqi army by the British firm Marconi Command and Control.
 

Truth About Iraqis, US soldiers cry in frenzy as they come under attack: Click on picture, then register, takes a second and get ready to be shocked ...

Will CNN show this?
 

Report: US soldiers 'unlawfully' shot Reuters cameraman: Soundman Waleed Khaled was killed and cameraman Haider Kadhem was wounded on Aug. 28, 2005, as they covered the aftermath of an insurgent attack on Iraqi police in western Baghdad.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says that of the 67 journalists killed in Iraq since the invasion of 2003, 14 have been killed by US troops.
 

Robert Parry, George W. Bush IS a Liar: The White House is back to its argument that George W. Bush was just a victim of bad intelligence when he rushed the nation to war with Iraq in 2003. But the evidence is now overwhelming that Bush is a liar who apparently believes he can get away with saying whatever he wants to the American people without fear of accountability.
 

White House backs Rumsfeld as generals demand he resign