MAIDHC O’CATHAIL: Who’s to blame for the Iraq war?

ShareA not-so-trivial quiz
By Maidhc O’Cathail for the Islam Times
Maidhc Ó Cathail presents a detailed 20 question quiz with answers at the end. This quiz clarifies many points about the Iraq War.
This month marks the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Despite the passage of time, there is still much confusion, some of it deliberate, [...]

U.S. Prepares to Leave Iraq, Future Uncertain

Even as American combat forces leave, the United States will have to expend more treasure, time and maybe even blood to secure the gains of the last three years.

Chalabi Met Iran Quds Brigade Comm; Voting Begins in Iraq; Sadr’s warrant an Error

ShareUpdate: Deadly Attacks Mar Early Voting in Iraqi Elections
Lots of news from Iraq.
From Juan Cole:
Chalabi met Iran Quds Brigade commander; Voting begins in Iraq; Sadr’s warrant an Error
Al-Sharq al-Awsat says that it has gotten hold of an American intelligence document detailing undue Iranian influence in Iraq and in the Iraqi elections. The document says that Ahmad [...]

Iraq on the Brink

ShareMaybe we should pour in a few more $ trillion, cut taxes on the rich, and pay everyone in Iraq $ millions more not to kill each other. Then we can invade another country.
From Juan Cole:
3 Bombings in Baquba Kill 30; Arrest Warrant for Sadr
On Wednesday morning, three suicide bombers attacked the HQ of the provincialgovernment, [...]

GORDON DUFF: GEORGE “W” BUSH, IRANS SECRET WEAPON IN IRAQ

ShareGeorge Bush and Ahmad Chalabi Turn Iraq Over to Iran
5000 American Dead Betrayed
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
The word is finally out.  The American invasion of Iraq, all the lies, the crooked politicians, the imaginary “mobile bio-weapons labs” and infamous, “Mr. Mission Accomplished,” George “Dubja” Bush and company were only up to one thing, sucking [...]

War: Military Suicides and Civilian Casualties

ShareWhatever the delusions of war planners, the costs come home and disperse. We’re waging wars on different continents, but deadly echoes reverberate here. As Lt. Gen Gregory Newbold wrote in April 2006 of the Iraq War, the decision to invade “was done with a casualness and swagger that are the special province of those who have [...]

Major Iraqi Parties Scream Massive Ballot Fraud

ShareThe results of the 2003 invasion of Iraq: Over 4,300 American troops, over 30,000 wounded, 100,000s traumatized, 100,000s of Iraqis killed, $3 trillion looted, Iran strengthened, the world in chaos, all for the lies of the chicken-hawks who betrayed the troops and the American people so that Iraq can engage in massive fraud just like the [...]

Sen. Dorgan Blasts KBR: Bonus Denial Just a “First Step”

ShareAn angry U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) blasted contractor KBR today for its electrical work that has become infamous at U.S. military bases in Iraq.
Dorgan called for “accountability,” saying $25 million in lost bonuses for the contractor is not sufficient for the widespread shoddy work that resulted in a Green Beret Army soldier being electrocuted, among numerous other incidents. “Not [...]

Film Review: Severe Clear: a Marines’ uncensored view on the liberation of Iraq

ShareWhen promoters of the film Severe Clear sent a screener copy to Veterans Today for review and comment, I volunteered to take this film review on although I am not a war movie watcher nor trust anything that just might have Pentagon endorsement or funding. I was to be surprised in many ways.
PARENTAL ADVISORY: Oh, [...]

Questions on Rule of Law Raised by Iraqi Leader’s Use of Army – New York Times

ShareA story entitled Questions on Rule of Law Raised by Iraqi Leader’s Use of Army in today’s New York Times tells us that after almost nine years of war in Iraq, our new client government is so weak that the head of government uses the Army at his whim to influence elections. 
Americans were killed, maimed [...]

Why all the lies?

ShareThe BBC News is running an expose on Britain’s former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and his “testimony” to an investigative panel setup in Parliament on the causes of British involvement in the Iraq War. 
The article, entitled Blix: Straw ‘gave incorrect answers’ to Iraq inquiry, tells us that the U.N.’s man on the scene at that time, Hans [...]

UK’s Tony Blair: More Fool than Liar in Iraq Invasion

Tony Blair’s greatest weakness was not so much that he adjusted facts to support his policies, but that he had so little grasp of the facts in the first place.

Blair: I believed 45-minute weapons claim ‘beyond doubt’ – CNN News

ShareIn a piece with an embedded video on CNN News online this morning entitled Blair: I believed 45-minute weapons claim ‘beyond doubt’ we learn that Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain has just told a British inquiry body looking  into the war in Iraq that he totally believed that Iraq had weapons of mass [...]

Washington Post offices damaged in Baghdad bombings

ShareIn today’s Washington Post we read a piece entitled Bombs hit 3 Baghdad hotels, kill at least 16 and we find that one of the hotels that was bombed is in the vicinity of the offices of the Washington Post in Iraq.  Three employees were injured.
Here is an excerpt:
“BAGHDAD — Three hotels in downtown Baghdad were bombed Monday, officials [...]

State Dept: “no confidence in the accuracy of payments of more than $1 billion to DynCorp’’ – Boston Globe

ShareThe Boston Globe is reporting this morning in a piece entitled State Dept. miscues in Iraq costly that Dyn Corps. of Falls Church Virginia, just five miles from where I am typing this article right now, may have ripped off the government for over a billion dollars.  We will never know.
That is how these contracting [...]

Marines End Role in Iraq; Biden in Baghdad

By Adam Schreck — The U.S. Marine Corps wrapped nearly seven years in Iraq on Saturday, handing over duties to the Army and signaling the beginning of an accelerated withdrawal of American troops as the U.S. turns its focus away from the waning Iraqi war to a growing one in Afghanistan.

Vice President Joe Biden in Iraq to Meet with Iraqi Leaders and Visit U.S. Troops

ShareAs part of his regular engagement with Iraq, Vice President Biden has arrived in Baghdad to meet with Iraqi leaders; receive updates from U.S. military and civilian leaders; and visit U.S. troops. During his trip, he will meet with Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Speaker of the Council of Representatives Ayad al-Samarrai [...]

Home Fires: In Balad, Smoke and Fire

Stories of soldiers, veterans and widows who attribute cancers and life-threatening illnesses to exposure to the burn pit are coming to light, as are more numerous reports of unexplained shortness of breath, asthma-like symptoms, respiratory issues and other problems.

NEW JEFF GATES VIDEO: Israel’s Role in Terrorism

Jeff Gates outlines how Israel, using game theory, has manipulated America, inflicting damage no enemy could, while acting as our closest ally. Through the careful application of complex game theory, terrorist acts have been planned based on superbly crafted plans meant to use public fear, outrage and the predictability of America to serve the interests of Israel while bringing about the systematic downfall of the United States.

See No Evil, Obama’s Love Affair with America’s Right

America elected Barak Obama for one reason only. We had spent years with a government found to have become utterly corrupt, a pack of criminal gangsters no better than Pinochet in Chile or Pol Pot in Cambodia. We were going to go in, put Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Rice, Ashcroft, Gonzales along with 2 dozen top military leaders and more senior members of Congress in prison. When we were done, we would go thru the oil companies, banks, defense giants, insurance companies and more, doing the same. We hoped that when we were finally done, whoever was left would know that they were part of a government by and for the people, not employees of a criminal conpiracy.

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