Absolutely Nothing: A Veteran’s Savage Indictment of the Iraq War | Americans Against the Tea Party
http://aattp.org/absolutely-nothing-a-veterans-savage-indictment-of-the-iraq-war/
First, I’m going to need somebody to explain to me exactly what it was that we were fighting for.
Absolutely Nothing: A Veteran’s Savage Indictment of the Iraq War | Americans Against the Tea Party
http://aattp.org/absolutely-nothing-a-veterans-savage-indictment-of-the-iraq-war
First, I’m going to need somebody to explain to me exactly what it was that we were fighting for.
Daily Kos: John Boehner: War drawdown savings can't go to job creation
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/17/1037479/-John-Boehner:-War-drawdown-savings-cant-go-to-job-creation
Item number 3,785 in the Republicans-really-don't-care-about-the-deficit file is this from Speaker John Boehner rejecting yet another offer of concessions from Democrats in the Super Congress negotiations.
Jon Stewart Lashes Out at Republicans for Opposing Iraq Withdrawal [Video]
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/DqvHqdmc66k/jon-stewart-lashes-out-at-republicans-for-opposing-iraq-withdrawal
Awlaki's 16-year-old son killed by US drone
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/21/awlakis.html
What the fuck???
An End to Endless War in Sight?
http://www.metafilter.com/108618/An-End-to-Endless-War-in-Sight
Obama Orders Stephen's Haircut - Ray Odierno | June 8, 2009 | ColbertNation.com
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/229768/june-08-2009/obama-orders-stephen-s-haircut---ray-odierno?om_i=_BKLoONB7uIIi1K&om_u=BNRHjP
"Under direct orders from Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama, General Ray Odierno shaves Stephen's head. (05:15)"
Dan Simmons - Author's Official Web Site
http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm
"Athens failed in Syracuse – and doomed their democracy – not because they fought in the wrong place and at the wrong time, but because they weren’t ruthless enough."
President Bush regrets his legacy as man who wanted war - Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4107327.ece
"President Bush has admitted to The Times that his gun-slinging rhetoric made the world believe that he was a “guy really anxious for war” in Iraq. He said that his aim now was to leave his successor a legacy of international diplomacy for tackling Ir
Charlie's Diary: Alternative boondoggles
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/05/alternative_boondoggles.html
"Either way, the direct costs of the Iraq war exceed the maximum cost estimate for a manned Mars expedition, infrastructure and all, by 20%"
Brits deny releasing 'giant man-eating' badgers that target Iraqis - On Deadline - USATODAY.com
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/07/brits-deny-rele.html
"We have not released giant badgers in Basra, and nor have we been collecting eggs and releasing serpents into the Shatt al-Arab river"
The Raw Story | CNN's Cafferty: Bush putting the poor out in the cold to fund war
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Bush_to_CUT_30_Million_Households_1023.html
"No money for kids' health insurance, no money to help poor families pay their heating bills but President Bush wants $190 billion additional for 2008 for his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan"
A troubling turn in American history - The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/10/08/a_troubling_turn_in_american_history
"These developments would be disturbing enough, but what they point to is an interruption in this nation's most important public tradition - the movement from recognition of a problem to its attempted resolution."
I survived Blackwater - Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-gans6oct06,0,1155563.story?coll=la-opinion-center
"As we do the work of bridge building and improving our host citizens' lives, if the people providing our transportation and security are antagonizing, angering and even killing the people we are putatively trying to help, our entire mission is undermined
The Dilbert Blog: A Feeling I'm Being Had
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/09/a-feeling-im-be.html
The Dilbert Blog: Sorry I Confused You
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/09/sorry-i-confuse.html#comments
"In reading the comments to my post yesterday, I see that many of you were confused about my positions. Evidently all of you are brilliant, so I assume the problem is on my end. With your indulgence, allow me to clarify."
Hacker's project sends media-filled hard drives to troops - Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/22/hackers-project-sends-media-filled-hard-drives-to-troops
"A network engineer going by the hacker handle 'Deviant Ollam' has taken it upon himself to send care packages of a different sort to troops serving overseas, with him ditching the usual goods in favor of hard drives filled with movies, music and other co
It is the death of history - Independent Online Edition Robert Fisk
http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2970762.ece
"Humankind is losing its history for the pleasure of private collectors living safely in their luxurious houses and ordering specific objects for their collection."
Let's stop channeling angry Muslims. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2169020/fr/rss
"It's impossible to satisfy "Rage Boy" and his ilk. It's stupid to try."
The Blog | Ben Schwartz: Rudy, America's Victim | The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-schwartz/rudy-americas-victim_b_48917.html
"We've already got one that doesn't feel he needs to understand the region, whose response is fear-based politics and vengeance-based foreign policy, and we don't need another. "
Bush gets ready for Iraq U-turn by Brown | International News | News | Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/20/wirq20.xml
"Gordon Brown is prepared to risk the future of the "special relationship" with the United States by reversing Tony Blair's support for the Iraq war, President George W Bush has been warned."
Occupation: The Inconvenient Truth About Iraq — Rockridge Institute
http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/lakoff/occupation/view
"In an occupation, not a war, should the president still have war powers?"
The Raw Story | Bush chuckles at Iraq success: 'Either we'll succeed, or we won't succeed'
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/President_Bush_Defines_Iraq_Success_in_0502.html
"How do you define an acceptable level of violence? I mean, how can that possibly be defined?"
Quiet Bush Aide Seeks Iraq Czar, Creating a Stir - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/washington/30hadley.html?ei=5090&emc=rss&en=eab635b14d667a9a&ex=1335585600&partner=rssuserland
"the idea that the national security adviser is subcontracting responsibility for the nation’s most pressing foreign policy crisis — and must recruit someone of stature to get the attention of the cabinet — is provoking criticism of Mr. Hadley himse
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 04/19/2007 | Training Iraqi troops no longer driving force in U.S. policy
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17104704.htm
"Military planners have abandoned the idea that standing up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces. "
Daily Kos: The Cost of Escalation
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/3/141647/1890
"Bush is sending sick and injured troops back to Iraq, and now he's sending troops that haven't received requisite leave."
AP Wire | 02/12/2007 | Dixie Chicks to country: nah-nah
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/music/16678203.htm
""That's interesting," Maines said. "Well, to quote the great `Simpsons': heh-heh.""
Equipment For Added Troops Is Lacking - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901584.html
"Boosting U.S. troop levels in Iraq by 21,500 would create major logistical hurdles for the Army and Marine Corps, which are short thousands of vehicles, armor kits and other equipment needed to supply the extra forces, U.S. officials said."
Was 9/11 really that bad? - Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-bell28jan28,0,7267967.story
"a messy, difficult, long-term struggle against exceptionally dangerous criminals who actually like nothing better than being put on the same level of historical importance as Hitler — can you imagine a better recruiting tool?"
YouTube - Humvee Traffic Driving in Baghdad
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yco1deXOzN8
I understand why they drive this way, but man... wouldn't it piss you off if someone were doing this in your streets? "Watch and see how the American soldiers have to drive through Iraqi streets to limit risks of attacks."
YouTube - Biden - Name One Single Time Cheney's Been Correct
http://www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=&v=zfSid8cW2iI
Maybe this can be a new contest - name one single time Cheney's been correct! I'm sure there's at least one single time.
Game Boy damaged in Gulf War on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhoran/45214051
Looks positively Lovecraftian. "This GameBoy was damaged when barracks were bombed during the 1990-1991 Gulf War. It still works!"
Bush Silences a Dangerous Witness - Consortiumnews.com
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/123006.html
"Like a blue-blood version of a Mob family with global reach, the Bushes have eliminated one more key witness to the important historical events that led the U.S. military into a bloody stalemate in Iraq and pushed the Middle East to the brink of calamity
WP: U.S. not winning war in Iraq, Bush says - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16275638
"President Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq and said he plans to expand the overall size of the "stressed" U.S. armed forces to meet the challenges of a long-term global struggle against
Star-Telegram | 12/18/2006 | Desperation in the White House
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/opinion/16255290.htm
"Cheney understood all of it, and he bears much of the responsibility for what's gone on in Washington and in Iraq for the last six years. Keep a sharp eye on him. Desperate men do desperate things."
AlterNet: War on Iraq: How to Make Hundreds of Thousands of Dead Iraqis Disappear
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/43224
"The Lancet study that estimated 655,000 Iraqis killed since the US invasion of 2003 was based on some of the most solid research methods possible, but that didn't stop the American press from trying to say it wasn't so."
Bush keeps revising war justification - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061014/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_iraq
Charlie's Diary: Playing the Genocide Card
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2006/10/genocide.html
"The Lancet isn't just any medical journal ... It is not noted for publishing random speculation, agitprop, and crank letters — it's the top journal of record in its field."
Need to Know - PostGlobal
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/needtoknow/2006/10/bush_made_a_big_mistake.html
"the Bush administration sees diplomacy as something to be engaged in with another country as a reward for that country's good behavior. They seem not to see diplomacy as a tool to be used with antagonistic countries or parties"
Think Progress ‽ Transcript: Rumsfeld Called Out On Lies About WMD
http://thinkprogress.org/rumsfeld-called-tscript
"So I would like to ask you to be up front with the American people, why did you lie to get us into a war that was not necessary, that has caused these kinds of casualties? why?"
YouTube - Ray McGovern 0wns Donald Rumsfeld
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=&v=MInHphR4zBg
"The audience member then read Rumsfeld's quote back to him, leaving the defense secretary speechless."
Now the Iraq war hinges on a sex scandal - Sunday Times - Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2393411,00.html
"The war, in other words, is in the balance in this election. And yet the outcome may well be decided on the basis of someone’s online sex life."
BBC NEWS | Americas | Iraq war justifications laid bare
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5329350.stm
"The Senate Intelligence Committee has found no evidence of links between the regime of Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda."
Crooks and Liars ‽ Keith Olbermann takes a “look back” at Bush’s first months in office leading up to 9/11
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/27/keith-olbermann-takes-a-look-back-at-bushs-first-months-in-office-leading-up-to-911
"Our goal in this report is to rise to Mr. Clinton’s challenge, and assess the record of Mr. Bush’s efforts against al Qaeda in his first eight months in office."
The Raw Story | 2001 memo to Rice contradicts statements about Clinton, Pakistan
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/2001_memo_to_Rice_contradicts_statements_0926.html
"A memo received by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shortly after becoming National Security Advisor in 2001 directly contradicts statements she made to reporters yesterday, RAW STORY has learned."
E. J. Dionne Jr. - No Silent Majority for Bush - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/25/AR2006092500878.html
"In 2006 it's the administration trying to keep Iraq out of the campaign and to move the public conversation to anything else as an alternative to an accounting for its war decisions that so many middle-of-the-road Americans now regret."
Army Warns Rumsfeld It's Billions Short - Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-military25sep25,0,5555967.story
"It's kind of like the old rancher saying: 'I'm going to size the herd to the amount of hay that I have"
Best-Connected Were Sent to Rebuild Iraq - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600193_pf.html
"O'Beirne's staff posed blunt questions to some candidates about domestic politics: Did you vote for George W. Bush in 2000? Do you support the way the president is fighting the war on terror?"
Crooks and Liars - Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Bush: Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have. May this country forgive you
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/11/keith-olbermanns-special-commnet-on-bush-who-has-left-this-hole-in-the-ground-we-have-not-forgotten-mr-president-you-have-may-this-country-forgive-you
"Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have."
Crooks and Liars - Matt Lauer goes after Bush over secret prisons and torture
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/11/matt-lauer-goes-after-bush-over-secret-prisons-and-torture
"Matt Lauer went after Bush over his secret prisons and the use of torture on the captured terrorists via The Today Show this morning. He was uncommonly strong and didn’t back down when Bush gave his pet answer."
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bush: Saddam not responsible for 9/11
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,,1870427,00.html
"The admission that Saddam had no connection to the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon was a departure for a president who is famously averse to any expression of regret."
Crooks and Liars ‽ Ann Coulter gets her freak on
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/08/24/ann-coulter-gets-her-freak-on
"Whenever Ann is faced with the reality that Osama hasn’t been caught yet by this administration–well–Poor Ann. Kirsten Powers actually responds to Coulter’s ridiculous line that Afghanistan is going swimmingly and brings up the fact that Osama is
Kung Fu Monkey: "Wait, Aren't You Scared?"
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/08/wait-arent-you-scared.html
"Quick, do whatever we tell you, and believe whatever we tell you, or YOU WILL BE KILLED BY BROWN PEOPLE!! PUT DOWN THAT SIPPY CUP!!"
Stop using this lame evasion, Condi. By Fred Kaplan
http://www.slate.com/id/2147398?nav=ais
"Scholars who enter the chambers of power should use their training as a tool to help them make decisions. Condi Rice is using hers as a chant to wish away the consequences."
Think Progress ‽ Rumsfeld: ‘I Have Never Painted A Rosy Picture’ About Iraq
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/03/rumsfeld-iraq-rosy
"Here’s just a few of the “overly optimistic” comments made by Rumsfeld (and no, we did not have a “dickens of a time” finding them)"
Just a Bump in the Beltway: Losing the Right
http://www.node707.com/archives/008275.shtml
"That's the record. That's the policy. A total failure."
CNN.com - The end of cowboy diplomacy - Jul 9, 2006
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/09/coverstory.tm.tm
"Around the world, both the U.S.'s friends and its adversaries are taking note -- and in many cases, taking advantage -- of the strains on the superpower."
FRONTLINE: the dark side: watch online | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/view
"Amid revelations about faulty prewar intelligence and a scandal surrounding the indictment of the vice president's chief of staff and presidential adviser, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to investigate the internal war that
Analysis: Euphoria gone for Bush and Blair - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060526/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_blair_analysis
"Bush's approval ratings hover in the low 30s. Blair's are even deeper in the basement, at about 26 percent. Both men are approaching lame duck status, as well."
Bush, Blair Concede Missteps on Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501316.html
"While Bush increasingly has begun to acknowledge missteps in handling the war, his comments last night -- together with Blair's -- represent his most explicit acknowledgment that the administration underestimated the difficulty of the central project of
Wired News: What If They Gave a War...?
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70980-0.html?tw=rss.index
"In short, where the hell is everybody?"
firedoglake: 02/26/2006 - 03/04/2006 - The President Either Knew and Lied...Or He Doesn't Bother Doing His Job
http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2006_02_26_firedoglake_archive.html#114133299338283535
"I've wracked my brain this afternoon to come up with another alternative -- but no matter how I twist it around in my brain, it comes back to "he knew and lied" or "he doesn't bother doing his job."
Daily Kos: "Jesus would lose the war on terror."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/3/145418/6340
"It was a very unpleasant look at the twisted, ugly innards of the soul of the Republican party. Suddenly I knew what it must be like to be Ann Coulter's gynecologist."
Bush's Can't-Lose Reversal - Wednesday's speech will set the agenda for withdrawal from Iraq. By Fred Kaplan
http://www.slate.com/id/2131125
"More to the point, does the president have a plan for all this? (The point is far from facetious; it's tragically clear, after all, that he didn't have a plan for how to fight the war if it extended beyond the collapse of Saddam.)"
US use of white phosphorus in Iraq might constitute a war crime - Wikinews
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/US_use_of_phosphor_in_Iraq_might_be_a_warcrime
"The denial of use followed by the admission will simply convince the doubters that there was something to hide."
Bill Clinton Calls Iraq 'Big Mistake' - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051116/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_clinton
"Clinton cited the lack of planning for what would happen after Saddam Hussein was overthrown."
KR Washington Bureau | 11/16/2005 | In challenging war's critics, administration tinkers with truth
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/13185357.htm
"Bush, Cheney, and other senior officials have added several other arguments in recent days that distort the factual record."
Bush Rewrites History To Criticize His Anti-war Critics - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20051114/cm_thenation/336405
"...as he paid tribute to veterans of this war and others, he did not accept responsibility for sending American troops into battle for a cause that did not exist."
Revision Thing (Harpers.org)
http://harpers.org/RevisionThing.html
"A history of the Iraq war, told entirely in lies"
Foreign Policy: The Blame Game
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?fpsrc=ealert051031&story_id=3266
"This is President Bush’s war, and America’s failure will be his legacy."
Daily Kos: 7 soldiers in Iraq killed in Iraq TODAY. Feel safer?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/31/113120/03
"The best way to honor the sacrifices of our troops and their families is to demand action and accountability from our leaders."
JohnKerry.com - Kerry speaks from his heart and conscience on Iraq
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2005_10_26.html
"An open-ended declaration to stay ‘as long as it takes’ lets Iraqi factions maneuver for their own political advantage by making us stay as long as they want, and it becomes an excuse for billions of American tax dollars to be sent to Iraq..."
The Blog | Arianna Huffington: Plamegate: Worse than Watergate | The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/plamegate-worse-than-wat_b_9522.html
"No one died as a result of Watergate, but 2,000 American soldiers have now been killed and thousands more wounded to rid the world of an imminent threat that wasn't."
CNN.com - U.S. military death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000 - Oct 25, 2005
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/25/iraq.main/index.html
"The war in Iraq saw two milestones Tuesday that reflect the country's path toward democracy and its human toll as officials said the referendum on a draft constitution passed and the number of U.S. military deaths reached 2,000."
Cheney Plan Exempts CIA From Bill Barring Abuse of Detainees
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/24/AR2005102402051.html?nav=rss_politics
"This is the first time they've said explicitly that the intelligence community should be allowed to treat prisoners inhumanely"
Film rolls as troops burn dead - World - smh.com.au
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/film-rolls-as-troops-burn-dead/2005/10/18/1129401256154.html
"The incident is reminiscent of the psychological techniques used in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison."
Daily Kos: Gephardt admits mistake
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/17/125119/29
"It was a mistake ... I was wrong."
Invasion of the Isolationists - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/opinion/31fukuyama.html
"We do not know what outcome we will face in Iraq. We do know that four years after 9/11, our whole foreign policy seems destined to rise or fall on the outcome of a war only marginally related to the source of what befell us on that day. There was nothin
Bush: Vacation Ruined By 'Stupid Dead Soldier' | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40081
"It is the president's opinion, and that of the entire administration, that the best way to honor the brave sacrifices of our fallen soldiers is by enjoying a relaxing vacation and not thinking about their deaths."
Senator Will Ask Rumsfeld to Testify to Panel on Iraq - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/29/politics/29congress.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1125348997-aWI/HGn3XOkR1kmpzjwCIw&pagewanted=print
"The idea that we would be sending American servicemen over to Iraq on the basis of the Iraqis developing a new constitution is just so remote, so distant and so fallacious"
National Post - Bush says anti-war protests threaten to weaken the United States
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=581719e6-4f85-48bb-a52c-615ef31355e7
"President George W. Bush said Tuesday that anti-war protesters such as Cindy Sheehan, who want U.S. troops brought home immediately, are "advocating a policy that would weaken the United States.""
U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081300853_pf.html
"Getting out is going to be a more important consideration than the original goals were. They were unrealistic."
The Onion | Suicide Bomber Killed En Route By Car Bomb
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4131&n=2
"Terrorist cells in Baghdad are in mourning for suicide bomber Ahmed al-Khalaf, 19, who was killed by a car bomb Monday, 200 yards from an Iraqi police station, his intended target."
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | US 'backed illegal Iraqi oil deals'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1485546,00.html
"The United States administration turned a blind eye to extensive sanctions-busting in the prewar sale of Iraqi oil, according to a new Senate investigation." Any voters' remorse yet? Anyone else convinced they're crooks?
meta-roj blog: what you just bought for iraq
http://www.rojisan.com/blog/2005/07/what_you_just_bought_for_iraq.html
"and while we've got your attention, let's consider what else $5 billion might be doing..."
Who's in the Army Now? - Why we can't send more troops to Iraq. By Fred Kaplan
http://slate.msn.com/id/2121793
"Whatever the answers, there is a potentially calamitous mismatch between the Bush administration's avowed intentions and its tangible means. They can print or borrow money to float the national debt. They can't clone or borrow soldiers to float an imperi
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraq envoy accuses US of killing
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4643481.stm
"Iraq's ambassador to the UN has demanded an inquiry into what he said was the "cold-blooded murder" of his young unarmed relative by US marines."
NPR : Durbin: Bush Restates Reasons for Iraq Conflict
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?sourceCode=RSS&storyId=4722499
"Iraq was not a haven for international terrorism before we invaded it."
The Speech the President Should Give - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/opinion/28kerry.html?oref=login&pagewanted=print
"Our troops deserve better: they deserve leadership equal to their sacrifice." People keep asking for specifics from Democrats - well, here are some.
Think Progress » In 1999, Bush Demanded A Timetable
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/06/28/in-1999-bush-demanded-a-timetable
"Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
The Capital Times - Dave Zweifel: We've seen enough to impeach Bush
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/index.php?ntid=44161&ntpid=0
"Lying presidents need to be impeached. That's what the Republicans in Congress told us only a few years ago."
Obsidian Wings: More Things We Throw Away
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2005/06/more_things_we_.html
"I care about Amnesty International. And as I've said, I would not have used That Word. But I care about my country more."
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | 'Freedom fries' lawmaker's U-turn
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4086380.stm
"A pro-Iraq war US congressman who campaigned for French fries to be renamed "freedom fries" is now calling for US troops to return home from Iraq."
Poll Finds Dimmer View of Iraq War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/07/AR2005060700296.html
"For the first time since the war in Iraq began, more than half of the American public believes the fight there has not made the United States safer, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll." Any voters' remorse, maybe?
The 'I' word - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Op-ed - News
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/05/31/the_i_word?mode=PF
"THE IMPEACHMENT of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, should be part of mainstream political discourse."
The Raw Story | Rep. calls for deeper inquiry into secret Iraq attack plan
http://www.rawstory.com/aexternal/conyers_iraq_letter_502
'Unfortunately, the mainstream media in the United States was too busy with wall-to-wall coverage of a "runaway bride" to cover a bombshell report out of the British newspapers'
Impeachment Time: "Facts Were Fixed."
http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/05/05/ana05013.html
"Now, we have the stone, cold evidence of bending intelligence to sell us on death by the thousands, and neither a Republican Congress nor what is laughably called US journalism thought it worth a second look."
Top News Article | Reuters.com | Supreme Court Rejects Appeal by 1991 POWs in Iraq
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8284450&type=topNews
"Seventeen American prisoners of war in the 1991 Gulf War failed on Monday to get the U.S. Supreme Court to review of a ruling that threw out a nearly $1 billion judgment against Iraq, Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi Intelligence Service."
Warrenellis.com » Key Iraqi WMD Source Was Crazy Drunken Crapsack
http://www.warrenellis.com/index.php?p=564
"An alcoholic cousin of an aide to Ahmed Chalabi has emerged as the key source in the US rationale for going to war in Iraq." Oh god, it's so funny it makes me want to cry.
Iraq Winners Allied With Iran Are the Opposite of U.S. Vision (washingtonpost.com)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21679-2005Feb13.html?sub=AR
"Most of the neoconservative assumptions about what would happen have proven false."
LRB | Eliot Weinberger : What I Heard about Iraq
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n03/wein01_.html
A history of the last few years in quotes.
Body and Soul: We are not alone
http://bodyandsoul.typepad.com/blog/2005/01/we_are_not_alon.html
"...it just happened to match what Americans were doing at Abu Ghraib." Sheer coincidence and simultaneous invention.
CNN.com - Cheney blames 'miscalculation' for slow Iraq recovery - Jan 20, 2005
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/20/inaugural.cheney.ap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories
"...because he didn't realize the lasting devastation wrought by Saddam Hussein on his people after the first Gulf War." In other words, blame Saddam, blame the Iraqi people, blame anyone but us!
Daily Kos :: Ridge: U.S. Should Not Rule Out Torture
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/16/164538/572
"The outgoing head of the US Department of Homeland Security has said torture may be used in certain cases in order to prevent a major loss of life."
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US 'erodes' global human rights
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4171177.stm
"A leading human rights group has criticised the US over the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal and the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay"
Just a Bump in the Beltway: The Myth of the Small Farmer
http://www.node707.com/archives/002808.shtml
"The legislation, which the groups claim has been carefully orchestrated by the U.S., renders the ancient art of seed saving illegal."
The Poor Man: Compare and Contrast
http://www.thepoorman.net/archives/003654.html
"Rathergate vs. Saddam's WMD - A Quantitative Comparison"
World News Article | Reuters.co.uk
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=652858&type=worldNews
"Departing from fiery Islamic slogans, Iraqi guerrillas have launched a propaganda campaign with an English-language video urging U.S. troops to lay down their weapons and seek refuge in mosques and homes."
The New York Times International Middle East Search for Illicit Weapons in Iraq Ends
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/international/middleeast/12cnd-wmd.html?ei=5094&en=06ca5921af8b3a05&ex=1105592400&hp=&partner=homepage
"The White House confirmed today that the search in Iraq for the banned weapons it had cited as justifying the war that ousted Saddam Hussein has been quietly ended after nearly two years, with no evidence of their existence."
Just a Bump in the Beltway: Does He Really Believe This Stuff?
http://www.node707.com/archives/002773.shtml
"The president's still got a paper bag over his head..."
Yahoo! News - Saddam gave up all Iraqi WMD after 1991 Gulf War, says former nuclear chief
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/iraq_weapons_britain
"Everything was destroyed, such that the programme couldn't be restarted at the time at all, and it never restarted," Jaffar said
They Knew...
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802
"Despite the whitewash, we now know that the Bush administration was warned before the war that its Iraq claims were weak"
Iraq on verge of implode
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/184709_fisk04.html
"Indeed, watching any Western television station in Baghdad these days is like tuning in to Planet Mars."
MSNBC - Grim Numbers
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5217874/site/newsweek
"A U.S.-sponsored poll shows Iraqis have lost confidence in the occupying authorities--and that the majority of Iraqis want Coalition troops out of the country ‘immediately’"
Daily Kos || Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/6/7/171126/6705
'Isn't reason number 3,334 for this war "freedom"? So give it to the Iraqis already.'
Yahoo! News - Maligned Detroit Attracts Newcomers Again
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/detroit_devotees
Cool. Anyone want to trade me for a place in San Francisco, New York, Boston, or Toronto? Got a great "gritty" view, here in Detroit.
Exit Strategy - How to leave Iraq in three simple steps.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2100933
"Therefore, trust us, people of Iraq, have faith, we assure you: As long as you continue trying to kill us, we will never abandon you."
The sham handover
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/5/26/115437/072
"Fact is, nothing much will change." Well, duh.
'I will always hate you people'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1223358,00.html
"Family's fury at mystery death"
Rumsfeld bans camera phones in Iraq
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/23/1085250873479.html
The truth parodies itself. Is there any light in which this could be seen as a positive thing?
Uncovering The Secret World Of Copper Green
http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2004/5/15/183126/749
"Bottom line, any officials who said after March 9 that there were no torture rooms and rape cells in Iraq are either incompetent fools or pathological liars. Either way, they have absolutely no business leading America."
Hawks Eating Crow
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040607&s=alterman
"And how pathetic is it that the only cable network really grappling with the media's failure is Comedy Central?"
Chris Nolan - Politics from Left to Right: Make You Wanna Holler
http://www.chrisnolan.com/archives/000393.html
"Osama Bin Laden is having a pretty good month. He’s a good ways toward showing his supporters that the best-armed, wealthiest, the most politically and economically powerful nation in the world can be reduced to his level."
Salon.com News | How Ahmed Chalabi conned the neocons
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/05/04/chalabi/index_np.html
"It was Chalabi who provided crucial intelligence on Iraqi weaponry to justify the invasion, almost all of which turned out to be false, and laid out a rosy scenario about the country's readiness for an American strike against Saddam that led the nation's