Saddam Hussein's Iraq had been a thorn in the eye of the United States since the days of Bill Clinton. The U.S. Administration advocated regime change prior to George W. Bush's arrival on the...
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Torture and killing of innocent Iraqi gays and lesbians has reached a critical state, and Iraqi militia have found an efficient way to target innocent gays - the Internet -, with no intervention from the Iraqi or...
The new CIA director, Leon Panetta, has just informed the US Congress he cancelled a secret operation to assassinate al-Qaida leaders. Panetta said the campaign was authorized soon after 9/11 by the Bush White House, but had not yet become operational in 2009. I respect...
Newly released documents indicate that Saddam Hussein may have feared Iran more than he feared the United States. Saddam Hussein's fear of an Iranian invasion was what led Saddam Hussein to falsely claim that Iraq possessed WMDs. According to the documents, Saddam...
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By Bob McCarty at BobMcCarty.com Published under the GQ headline, “AND HE WILL BE JUDGED,” Robert Draper’s lengthy feature article about Donald Rumsfeld is chock full of criticism about the former secretary...
Recently converted Catholic, Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of the United kingdom told BBC radio recently his religious beliefs helped him with the mental decision of invading Iraq and puting UK lives in...
I've never understood how anyone could sell or give their child away. How anyone could prostitute their child or sell a child for the means of prostitution. What I can't understand is when the Iraqi...
This will probably happen, if not this year then almost surely within five years. If the US withdraws there will be no force strong enough to hold Iraq together,"The country's biggest Shiite party is hoping for a...
" By Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway, The Daily Beast. "Ongoing combat in Iraq is illegal under US law. As of January 1, Congress’ authorization of the war expired. " The Bush administration’s...
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The Iraqi flag once more flies over Baghdad a symbol that should indicate that the slow return of self determination to the Iraqi Government is picking up pace. Gordon Brown has already pledged that British...
In a run up to formal handover US officials withdrew on Wednesday from the vast Saddam Hussein-era palace they occupied in Baghdad in 2003, a sign of the historic change of power when their troops come under...
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For the first time since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, Iraq is now able to ship oil to energy eager Jordan at a discount price. "Jordan expects about 10,000 barrels of Iraqi oil to be trucked everyday to the...
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Iraq gets a new top dog today as the commander of US forces in Iraq, General David Petraeus, hands over control of American military operations to General Raymond Odierno. Petraeus becomes the new chief...
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Almost every rational person in the world knows full well that we cannot possibly allow Iran to proceed to development of a working nuclear weapon, although we are agonizing over what must be done to stop...
opinion by joellerose | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 162 views | 2 recommendations | 4 comments
As the American Patriot Act reduces chaces of leaning the truth about Iraq war/invasion, British Freedom of Information Act may allow Chris Ames, an investigative journalist, disclose hidden truth. ...
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