Andymatic

Category: War in Iraq

  • Amy Goodman: Ask the IRS for a War Tax Refund

    Via Alternet: The Internal Revenue Service is giving a rebate this year on a telephone war tax. This is one of those line items at the bottom of your phone bill. The tax was instituted in 1898 to help the United States pay for the Spanish-American War. Individuals and businesses have one chance to obtain […]

  • Military Analysts: Terrorists Unlikely to Follow Troops Home from Iraq

    U.S. military, intelligence and diplomatic experts in Bush’s own government say the violence in Iraq is primarily a struggle for power between Shiite and Sunni Muslim Iraqis seeking to dominate their society, not a crusade by radical Sunni jihadists bent on carrying the battle to the United States. While acknowledging that terrorists could commit a […]

  • John McCain: It's Funny When I Lie About Iraq

    “Of course I’m gonna misspeak,” McCain said. “I’ve done it on numerous occasions. And I probably will in the future. I regret that when I divert attention to something that I’ve said from my message. But that’s just life. And I’m happy, frankly, with the way I operate. Otherwise it’d be a lot less fun.” […]

  • Mitt Romney Has a Secret Plan to End the War – Just Like Nixon

    Speaking on ABC’s Good Morning America, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) said that he supports setting a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq — but only if it’s a secret time line. Richard Nixon “campaigned in 1968 by saying he had a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam.” His Defense Secretary Melvin Laird later […]

  • Eliminating the Economic Incentive for Peace

    Naomi Klein on the Davos Dilemma: Thomas Friedman told us less than a decade ago that no two countries with a McDonald’s have ever gone to war. Now, we go to war with McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Burger King, in tow. … What we are losing is the incentive, the economic incentive, for peace, the economic […]

  • Pentagon Wakes Up, Uses Phrase ‘Civil War'

    That only took 3,000 dead soldiers and hundreds of thousands of less important brown-skinned non-Christians: The U.S. military for the first time Wednesday said in a new report that some of the violence in Iraq can be described as a civil war. In its bleakest assessment of the war to date, a quarterly Pentagon report […]

  • CBS Blocks Broadcast of Baghdad Report

    CBS won’t air their correspondent Laura Logan’s report since it diverges from the official narrative of Iraq: The segment in question — “Battle for Haifa Street” — is a piece of first-rate journalism but one that appears only on the CBS News website — and has never been broadcast. It is a gritty, realistic look […]

  • Blitzer Gives Cheney's Heart a Stress Test

    Yeek. Blitzer still held back a bit too much.

  • Newsweek Int'l Editor Attended Secret Pre-War Meeting

    In State of Denial, Bob Woodward delivers this sparkling scoop: Fareed Zakaria attended a secret gathering convened by Paul Wolfowitz in late 2001. The task at hand, according to a fellow participant, was to draft “a forceful summary of the best pro-war arguments” which became a blueprint for the Bush Administration’s PR campaign. Although he […]

  • US Storms Iran Consulate in Iraq

    US forces have stormed a building in the northern Iraqi town of Irbil and seized six people said to be Iranians, prompting a diplomatic incident. Iranian and Iraqi officials said the building was an Iranian consulate and the detainees its employees.