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Archive for the Month of March, 2006.
Viewing Iraq War NEWS articles 1 through 72 of 72.
- Turmoil stoked by staged bombings leads to ethnic cleansing and enslavement - All of this is little more than Straussian neocon nonsense, a feeble-minded attempt to shift blame on Iran in the lead-up to a shock and awe campaign to be unleashed against that country next month or early this summer. - John Negroponte, Henry Kissinger understudy and death squad ambassador to Honduras, has admitted the Straussian neocon and Jabotinsky Likudite plan to break "all Arab states into smaller units" is on schedule... - ...those at the top of the American military-industrial complex—who move seamlessly between the upper echelons of the officer corps, corporate boardrooms and the government—fatten their bank accounts and stock portfolios.
- Watching the news from out of the Middle East, you might be wondering what's going on and why -- and, mostly, when's it going to stop. The simple answer is: it isn't. The world is now in the first stages of a multistep "end game" for global domination by the last remaining superpowers.
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi embodies the Big Lie and the Straussian neocons will continue to “stick to it” because "if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it." - The U.S. Air Force has begun moving heavily armed AC-130 airplanes — the lethal "flying gunships" of the Vietnam War — to a base in Iraq as commanders search for new tools to counter the Iraqi resistance
- The Bush administration has determined that all the new money allocated to rebuilding Iraq should go to prisons. - New video shows US troops laughing at slaughter and carnage
- Pipes’ admission that "civil war" in Iraq is a good thing on several levels gives more credence to the claim that the Straussian neocons basically engineered the current violence through black ops and provocations. - "Police officers answering the phones also say that half the calls are from people who want to insult them..." - The bus driver was following the usual route in the vicinity of the Institute. As the bus reached the area of Square-19, those on board were shocked to find they were surrounded by US tanks...
- Troops finish off Iraqi and laugh
- The US and its allies in Iraq are holding more than 14,000 civilian prisoners—in some cases for years—without charges or trials, while torture and abuse in detention camps are now worse than when the horrors of Abu Ghraib were exposed nearly two years ago.
- After the US's deliberate and unprovoked war on Iraq, "reconstruction" becomes one of the US's moral clichés to justify crimes against the Iraqi people and ongoing Occupation. In reality, the “reconstruction” of Iraq is the continuation of the destruction of Iraq and humiliation of Iraqi society. - What is wrong with this picture?
- Iraqi women rights organization reported today "Women day" that not less than 2000 Iraqi women kidnapped and sold inside Iraq and abroad in the three years of occupation.
- ...it certainly sends an interesting message.
- Cui bono once again comes into play—who benefits from the capture and murder of CPT members? Certainly not the Iraqi resistance. - The execution Thursday of 13 Iraqi political prisoners, including a woman, was a calculated act of state terror against the resistance to the US occupation. The executions, all by hanging, were ordered by interim Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari to underscore his determination to hold onto power amid a political stalemate between rival factions in Baghdad.
- Many Venezuelan women decided to demonstrate and march to the US Embassy on March the 8th, International Women’s Day - He said he had witnessed "dozens of illegal acts" by US troops, claiming they viewed all Iraqis as "untermenschen" - the Nazi term for races regarded as sub-human.
- Top 10 firms profiting from Iraq
- In an effort to stem increasingly vociferous criticism, Bush’s neocon handlers have provided him with a new script, basically the old script with new fantastic accusations. - Why does the Bush Administration refuse to discuss withdrawing occupation forces from Iraq? Why is Halliburton, who landed the no-bid contracts to construct and maintain US military bases in Iraq, posting higher profits than ever before in its 86-year history? Why do these bases in Iraq resemble self-contained cities as much as military outposts? - Iraqi police detained an American private security contractor working at a U.S. military base in northern Iraq for several hours on Tuesday, a U.S. military spokesman said. - by Howard Zinn - On the third anniversary of President Bush's Iraq debacle, it's important to consider why the administration so easily fooled so many people into supporting the war.
- The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's trial has closed off the court to journalists after the former president called on Iraqis "to resist the invaders". - Why is the Left Understating the Carnage? - ...the "Murtha plan" is not a plan for withdrawal at all - Electricity output has dipped to its lowest point in three years in Iraq, where the desert sun is rising toward another broiling summer and U.S. engineers are winding down their rebuilding of the crippled power grid.
- Smothered in a security blanket - Remote reporting and the Green Zone - ...it becomes clear why journalists are now just another casualty of war, the victims of foul crime. Especially when they attempt to report the extent of those foul crimes perpetrated on the civilian population and more so when the perpetrators of these foul crimes are the master architects of dirty war, the US and Britain.
- It appears 'a considerable number of civilian losses' is part and parcel of the 'strongest signal yet' sent to the Iraqi people, who are preparing for the neocon engineered civil war in their country... - "After they left the house they blew it up..." - Are depleted uranium weapons, bunker busters, theft of priceless art, and pedophiliac jailers in Havana's future (and those of Pyongyang, Damascus, Yangon, Harare, Tehran, and Minsk)? - Spending will rise to $9.8 billion a month from the $6.8 billion a month the Pentagon said it spent last year, the research service said.
- In the windowless, jet-black garage-size room, some soldiers beat prisoners with rifle butts, yelled and spit in their faces and, in a nearby area, used detainees for target practice in a game of jailer paintball. Their intention was to extract information to help hunt down Iraq's most-wanted terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to Defense Department personnel who served with the unit or were briefed on its operations. - The Prevarications of Gen. Peter Pace
- ...we have entered the "My Lai phase" of the Iraq war, where the pretensions about democracy and liberation are stripped-away and replaced with the gratuitous butchery of women and children. (Warning: brutal and disturbing images)
- ...every time the "insurgents" blow up a pipeline in Basra, every time Mad Mahmoud in Tehran threatens to cut supply, the price of oil leaps. And Dick and George just love it. - 100,000 March Against the War in Italy - "American law was suspended, Iraqi law was suspended, and Iraq basically became a free fraud zone...In a free fire zone you can shoot at anybody you want. In a free fraud zone you can steal anything you like. And that was what they did." - ...more astute observers have noticed that other parts of the propaganda war, (like references to the "imaginary" al-Zarqawi) have vanished from the newspapers, as government spin-doctors are now devoting all their time to promoting their latest product-line; civil war.
- Operation Swarm of Lies is part of yet another Cheney administration media blitz to put a happy face on this horrendously failed misadventure in Iraq. - Kurdistan is a veritable police state...“Instead of one big Saddam, we have a hundred small Saddams in Kurdistan..."
- Saddam's FM was on CIA payroll - What took place in Tal Afar was a massive, protracted war crime engineered by the White House, executed by the Pentagon, and papered over by the collaborative-press. The rest is just the delusional ravings of a maniac.
- ...when these boy next door psychopathic killers return home and become police officers—veterans receive preferential treatment at police departments around the country—average Americans will be alarmed and outraged when these former soldiers abuse citizens the same way they abused Iraqi civilians. - ...once again, an attempt by defense lawyers to point a finger of responsibility at higher-ranking officers failed in the latest case to persuade a military jury that ultimate responsibility for the abuses lay further up the chain of command.
- The fact is that the neocons who control US strategy have no interest in preventing a civil war but only in inciting one. - The Bush administration kills with impunity. The Bush administration uses the horrific tool of genocide as the lynchpin of their foreign policy. The Bush administration follows in the footsteps of previous imperialists slogging through the blood of hundreds of thousands.
- Even though Canada's former Liberal government downplayed it, small numbers of Canadian military personnel have been serving side by side with their American counterparts in Iraq. And the Canadians have been serving there since day one in the war in Iraq. - There are troubling signs that it was staged. - About 6,000 non-Iraqi security contractors are operating in Iraq. During nine months in 2004-05, contractors reported firing into 61 civilian vehicles; no one was ever prosecuted. Security analysts say it is likely that such incidents are vastly underreported.
- “We owe them for the invasion and for 10 years of sanctions that devastated a society and strengthened a tyrant..." - ...the invasion of Iraq was all about destroying Iraqi society and nationalism. It was a coup de grâce delivered after twelve years of brutal, immoral, sadistic, and medieval sanctions designed to break the Iraqis down. It has everything to do with defeating secular Arab nationalism and in this respect the occupation (and destruction) of Iraq is an Israeli project. - Despite daily reports about mounting anti-occupation attacks in Iraq, Americans hear very little from mainstream media about the most basic facts of what’s going there. - Everyone is at risk from trigger-happy US troops - One of the most tragic consequenes of the Iraq war has been its effect on children. The war continues to claim them among its main victims, while the health of the majority of the population also continues to deteriorate.
- Hundreds of deserters from the US armed forces have crossed into Canada and are now seeking political refugee status there, arguing that violations of the rules of war in Iraq by the US entitle them to asylum - Bases getting bigger, more elaborate
- If you believe the line towed by the corporate media, a line manufactured in the deep recesses of the Pentagon, the United States stumbled into Iraq based on "intelligence failures..." - If, like the Lancet report, we are speaking of all civilian deaths that have resulted from the war, it is, therefore, now accurate to speak in terms of hundreds of thousands rather than tens of thousands.
- Events in Iraq are giving the lie to administration claims that all it wants to do is create a stable, democratic Iraq, and then leave. - A "trigger-happy" U.S. army squad leader shot the foot off an unarmed Iraqi man and soldiers kicked a severed head around like a soccer ball, a U.S. war deserter told an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing Thursday. - ...ask around to find the head of the organized crime ring that has your hostage in custody...
- ...Cheney continues to own stock in Halliburton. Stock that has risen in leaps and bounds since its former CEO moved into the White House and developed the most prolific war profiteering scheme of all time. - An Inventory - The blogosphere nails a California Republican for his view of Iraq. - U.S. raid on Shiite shrine served as a warning
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