Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’
The Americans Aren’t (Really) Withdrawing Troops from Iraq
A Withdrawal in Name Only From Foreign Policy in Focus | Erik Leaver and Daniel Atzmon | June 24, 2009 On November 17, 2008, when Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker signed an agreement for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, citizens from both countries applauded. While many were disappointed about the [...]
US Lawmakers Call For Supporting Terrorists In Iran
From Anti-War.com | by Charles Davis, July 03, 2009 The Obama administration should be doing more to support Iranian resistance groups — including the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK), a "cult-like" terrorist organization that has engaged in suicide attacks against their own countrymen, according to the U.S. State Department — in an [...]
Iraq WAS invaded for its oilfields
Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion Friday 03 July 2009 by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain "a prisoner of its energy dilemma" as long as Saddam [...]
Documents Show Iraqi Dictator’s Fears
By SCOTT SHANE Published in the New York Times: July 2, 2009 WASHINGTON — In a series of interrogations before his execution, Saddam Hussein told an F.B.I. agent that on the eve of the 2003 American invasion, Iraq was trapped between United Nations orders to demonstrate that it had disarmed and a fear that appearing too weak would invite [...]
Save your homeland, Leave Iraq – Remembering Saddam’s 2006 Letter to the American People
As the Americans prepare to “leave” – in a manner of speaking -- Iraq, in order to replicate in Afghanistan and Pakistan the mess they made of Iraq, it is instructive to re-read Saddam's letter to the American people , the final lines of which are reproduced below: Final lines (“Save your homeland, , and leave Iraq. Peace! God is [...]
Japanese Video Documents Health Impact of Depleted Uranium Use in Iraq
There is widespread contamination with cancer-causing depleted uranium munitions in Afghanistan and Iraq causing dramatically rising birth deformities. This video was censored on you tube...Lets see how long it will stay up this time... (more...)
Critical Notes on Obama’s Cairo Speech: Imperialism with a Human Face
In pleasant contrast to his predecessor, Barack Obama is a cultured, sensitive, educated, well-mannered man and these personal qualities were on ample display and much appreciated in Cairo on Thursday. But the Muslim world on whom the government of the United States has declared a unilateral, indiscriminate, unconventional war of collective [...]
L’Express on Obama’s Cairo Speech
Rough translation from the French: Jewish associations divided after Obama's speech By Jim Jarrassé, published on 04/06/2009 18:40 If pacifists applaud the "rebalancing of the U.S. position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," the CRIF is more measured. A Palestinian state and the freezing of Israeli settlements. This is essentially what [...]
Iraqis Killed by Saddam, 300,000; by USA, 1,030,000
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Pearl Harbour Deaths, 2,370; Hiroshima, 170,000
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