Free Iraq

I doubt we in Ohio will ever see any of these suits or kids' clothing.
What, might I ask, is the point of talking about all this industry if we haven't ended the War ON Iraq and pulled out troops on a regular and sane basisThe ?
This cart before the horse kind of thinking is INSANE.
 

What a load of stinking rubbish.
 

Death toll in Iraq blasts rises to 250: Rescuers used bare hands and shovels Wednesday to claw through clay houses shattered by an onslaught of suicide bombings that killed at least 250 and possibly as many as 500 members of an ancient religious sect in the deadliest attack of the Iraq war.

The U.S. military blamed al-Qaida in Iraq . . .

(Meanwhile, bring out the Christmas baubles. Buy Iraqi. Kill Iraq. Who are these the bloody PR fools? The day leather jackets come streaming out of Mosul factories will be the same day Lazarus truly rises from the dead.)
 

Video (32 min.), Deir Yassin Remembered: Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish State; it had a peaceful reputation. But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was slated for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish defense force, the Haganah, authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to perform the takeover.

In all over 100 men, women, and children were systematically murdered. Fifty-three orphaned children were literally dumped along the wall of the Old City, where they were found by Miss Hind Husseini and brought behind the American Colony Hotel to her home, which was to become the Dar El-Tifl El-Arabi orphanage.
 

Lucy, Charlie Brown, and the football
 

"No American President Can Stand Up to Israel"
 

Giuliani says he opposes creation of a Palestinian state at this time (or at any other time.)
 

PALESTINIAN TREES ARE NEW 'TARGET' OF THE OCCUPATION
 

A History of Iraq

2nd Edition
Charles Tripp
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

* Lecturers can request examination copies for course consideration.

In response to current events, Charles Tripp has updated his incisive book A History of Iraq to include developments as recent as mid-2002. Since its establishment by the British in the 1920s, Iraq has witnessed the rise and fall of successive authoritarian regimes, competing ruthlessly for power and resources. This struggle culminated in the dictatorship of Saddam Husain, who still maintains his grip over a fragmented and increasingly isolated society. Tripp's book traces Iraq's political history from its nineteenth-century roots in the Ottoman empire, to the development of the state, its transformation from monarchy to republic and the rise of the Ba'th party and the ascendancy and current rule of Saddam Husain. This is a story of social conflict, of power struggles between rival clans, of hostility and wars with neighboring states, as well as of their aftermath, and Iraq's deteriorating relations with the West. A History of Iraq offers incisive analysis of the making of a modern state and how it creates its own distinctive politics. Charles Tripp is Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the General Editor of the Cambridge Middle East Studies Series and author of A History of Iraq (3rd Edition, CUP, 2007) and Islam and the Moral Economy: the challenge of capitalism (CUP, 2006).
 

http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/print.asp?isbn=9780521529006&print=y
 

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Private contractors outnumber U.S. troops in Iraq
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-private4jul04,0,5808980.story?coll=la-home-center
 

The Bipartisan Guarantee of More War in Iraq: We invaded your country. We occupied your country. We wrote your constitution, in which the arbitrary decrees of our colonial viceroy were imposed as fundamental law. We looted your money. We armed your sectarians. And we are going to keep a large number of troops in your country, come what may. But we aren't going to baby-sit you anymore. No, if you don't get your act together -- and sign the goddamned Oil Law already -- we are just going to withdraw to our permanent bases and watch you kill each other. -- That is the sum total of the leading Democratic candidate's position on Iraq.

Thus turning over ostensible authority to a "sovereign" Iraqi government was another masterstroke by the Bushists, a truly audacious scam. While still occupying the country and controlling its affairs, the United States has divested itself of the legal responsibilities of an occupying power. The leaders of both parties in Washington are now busy washing their hands of the blood they have shed, putting the onus on the occupied, co-opted and controlled nation to "put its own house in order." But of course, the Iraqis don't own their house anymore; the largest and most powerful armed force in the world is squatting there, and will keep squatting there for years to come, if the "serious" leaders of both parties have their way.
 

Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or Is It More?
 

Death toll from Iraq bombings jumps to 400 ( . . . and so on.)
 

US anti-war group ordered to take down Iraq demo posters
 

Suicide Rate in Army at a 26-Year High
 

Petraeus’ September Report Will Be Written By The White House (Where else?)
 

U.S. finalizes deal on unprecedented military aid to Israel
 

(More on kick-starting Iraq's 'economy', . . . and so on)
Sex for survival: When Rana Jalil, 38, lost her husband in an explosion in Baghdad last year, she could never have imagined becoming a prostitute in order to feed her children.
 

US army's rising suicide rate 'not due to war'
(See above, August 16, 2007 10:20 AM)
 

U.S. Falters In Bid to Boost Iraqi Business