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Category: War in Iraq

  • Tell Your House Rep: ‘Pull Funding for the War'

    Got 2 minutes? Go to house.gov and find your house rep. Call them and say: I support pulling funding for the war in Iraq. Hang up. Everyone will be scared of the sacred ‘You don’t support the troops.’ or even better ‘Why do you hate the troops?’ or even better ‘Why do you hate America?’ […]

  • Search Google News for ‘Saddam' and ‘CIA'

    And you’ll see a complete blackout of any coverage of Saddam Hussein’s execution mentioning his connections to the CIA. Saddam was not convicted of genocide. Saddam invaded Iran with the encouragement of the United States in 1980. Saddam used chemical weapons in Iran and in his gassing of the Kurds in Halabja. Saddam’s chemical weapons […]

  • Americans: The Sorest Losers of All

    Mark Morford: It’s still our most favorite idea, the thing our own childlike president loves to talk most about, burned into our national consciousness like a bad tattoo: We always win. We’re the good guys. We’re the chosen ones. We’re the goddamn cavalry, flying the flag of truth, wrapped in strip malls and Ford pickups […]

  • The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: McKinney Introduces Articles of Impeachment in the House

    From David Swanson Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has introduced articles of impeachment against George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice. In doing so, she alone has spoken for the 51 percent of Americans who Newsweek says want Bush impeached. Read McKinney’s remarks.  McKinney charges that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld manipulated intelligence and lied to justify war, […]

  • Iraq War Could Cost $1 Trillion

    Another gem from the Iraq Study Group report (order yours yet?) The Iraq Study Group report included many other notable facts and recommendations: the US embassy in Baghdad has only six fluent [Arabic] speakers out of a staff of one thousand; The US government has significantly underreported the number of attacks in Iraq; and that […]

  • Pentagon Underreports Violence in Iraq: It is 10 Times Worse

    Panel: U.S. underreported Iraq violence The panel pointed to one day last July when U.S. officials reported 93 attacks or significant acts of violence. “Yet a careful review of the reports for that single day brought to light 1,100 acts of violence,” it said.

  • Center for Constitutional Rights Files Briefing to Investigate Donald Rumsfeld for War Crimes

    Rummy better stay stateside: The complaint is being filed under the Code of Crimes against International Law (CCIL), enacted by Germany in compliance with the Rome Statute creating the International Criminal Court in 2002, which Germany ratified. The CCIL provides for “universal jurisdiction” for war crimes, crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity. It enables […]

  • WaPo: Post-Election Call Up of Remaining Reserves and National Guard

    (via Digg) Don’t call it a draft, yetn Plans are secretly underway for a suprise new call up of National Guard and Reserves to be announced sometime after the election.The Washington Post has now reported that plamning that is now classified, being kept secret from voters and military families until the election is over, could […]

  • Merry Vote-mas!

    I’m pretty stunned that the Senate is as close as it is. I thought for sure the GOP would be able to scare everyone into thinking that men kissing was more important than national security or the war. And with Rumsfeld quitting finally (or being allowed to quit) we can now turn to Robert Gates: […]

  • An Iraqi in Baghdad on the Saddam Verdict

    Iraqi blogger Riverbend gives her thoughts: Iraq has not been this bad in decades. The occupation is a failure. The various pro-American, pro-Iranian Iraqi governments are failures. The new Iraqi army is a deadly joke. Is it really time to turn Saddam into a martyr? … It’s not about the man- presidents come and go, […]