WASHINGTON - L-3 Vertex Aerospace, a subsidiary of L-3 Communications Corp., has paid the U.S. $4 million to settle allegations that the company submitted false and inflated claims to the Army for hours worked by the firm’s employees on a contract supporting military operations by the United States in Iraq, the Justice Department announced today.L-3 Vertex Aerospace, based in Madison, Miss., has
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A brilliant satire with a fake website and 1.2m fake copies handed out on the streets.It's the product of The Yes Men, whose job is:Impersonating big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them. Targets are leaders and big corporations who put profits ahead of everything else.Famous past hoaxes include Dow Chemical apologising for the Bhopal, India chemical disaster.
The Yes Men deliver another fake! BBC reports that the interventionist art/activist group distributed 1.2 million free copies of a fake New York Times edition in New York and Los Angeles. The headlines: Iraq War Ends. The date: July 4, 2009. Replacing the NYT’s venerable “All The News That’s Fit To Print”: All The News [...]
The Jewish Daily Forward
May 28, 2004
The simmering debate over the role of Jewish neoconservatives in drawing America into war in Iraq erupted with new fury this week. One of America's most respected ex-generals took to the airwaves to charge on CBS News' "60 Minutes" that the war had been fought for Israel's benefit, just days after a similar charge was leveled on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
In an address at the Wasilla Assembly of God last June, the Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a 'task that is from God': "Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God," she said. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying
Iraqi war veterans are playing important roles at the Democratic party convention here they’ve marched, staged mock foot patrols on downtown Denver sidewalks and met with the former first lady to discuss health care issues for those who served in fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. “The war has really changed this generation,” said David Bellavia, [...]
An older National Guard soldier due to deploy to Iraq told his wife the following: What a huge difference between the fraternization briefings I got when we were shipped to Germany in 1976 (an armored brigade to Fulda on the East-West border) and now. The 1976 briefing was four hours of telling us not to fraternize while assuming we would. The motto then: "Sleep NATO." The same br
Following is a detailed rundown of the 25 companies squeezing the most profit from this controversial conflict. If you have more (I bet you do), list 'em below.
SSHHH. Don’t tell anyone. It’s a secret. The Iraq war has slinked off into a dark corner of the American mind and is hiding. There is one reason and one reason only for this. There isn’t enough bad news to report, so there is no report. Without the media harping on the war day [...]
Soldiers returning home from Iraq are found to be suffering from depression during their first months at home, according to a new study. The number of veterans sustained brain injuries at about 320,000. They are caused by the post traumatic stress disorder and severe Chronic Depression. The soldiers suffer from depression and alcoholism. The symptoms [...]
U.S. Rep. Steve Rothman, D-Fairlawn, a vocal member of the Out of Iraq Caucus, opposed further funding for the war in Iraq if it is not linked to the safe redeployment of U.S. troops out of Iraq. The congressman issued the following statement about his vote:“Tonight, I voted against a $165.4 billion funding bill for the war in Iraq. At a time when Americans are facing rising food costs, higher
WASHINGTON (AP) — A major labor union and the liberal organization MoveOn.org are joining forces to air a provocative new ad portraying John McCain’s Iraq policy as a prolonged presence that would involve a new generation of Americans….
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Presidential wannabe John McCain took Bush’s his economic “plan” to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) on Tuesday. McCain wanted to talk about out-of-control government spending, but it just seemed that something was missing. . . .
What could it be, what could it be? A big government boondoggle sucking billions upon billions out of the American economy. . . oh, yeah, that
U.S. soldiers who fled to Canada to escape the war in Iraq won a symbolic victory in the House of Commons when a majority of MPs voted that the deserters should be allowed to stay permanently in the country.
But the motion, put forward by the NDP, is non-binding on the minority Conservative government. Tory MPs [...]
I had written about the high price the world has to pay for America's foolish war on Iraq. In that article I had speculated whether the price that America and the rest of the world had to pay for a...
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The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Stephen Hawking1.honestly when i read the stereotyped media reports on the violence in Iraq or Afghanistan where the suicide bombing, killing and all sorts of violence is somehow tried to be portrayed as something linked with religious extremism ... i don't get it. with all my somewhat familiarity with islam and i
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For the party of “Bush Lied” about Iraq, it’s stunning that a Democrat House Representative (from my congressional district by the way) admitted that the Democrat party lied about their intention to end the war in Iraq in 2006 to win the election.
You don’t have to take my word for it, here he is on [...]
Former Bush press secretary Scott Mclellan has written a memoir that, among other things, describes the administration as using "propaganda" to sell the war in Iraq. Mclellan is not the first insider to spill the beans about incompetence and deception–he is preceded by former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. John DiIulio, and Richard Clarke, among others, Mclellan also notes that Rove
The Bush initiated invasion of Iraq has been a major factor that has trebled the price of oil, according to a leading expert, costing the world a staggering $6 trillion in higher energy prices alone. Dr. mamlouh Salameh, an adviser to such organizations as the World Bank and tue UN Industrial Development Organization, told the [...]
Former Bush Admin Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith was on The Daily Show to set the record straight on the war. Apparently we were not misled into war. Jon started summer early by firing up the grill and sticking Feith on it. Listen to the defense of a man who was in the room when all the planning went down and decide if you believe him
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican John McCain declared for the first time Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, although he rejected suggestions that his talk of a timetable put him on the same side as Democrats clamoring for full-scale troop withdrawals.
The Republican presidential contender, in a mystical speech that also [...]
AP - Tony Blair considered not running for a third term as British prime minister but his wife and others persuaded him it would be seen as an admission that he had been wrong about the Iraq war, she says in her newly published autobiography.
We’re gonna go ahead and report this story, even though we run the risk of the GOP suing us for “taking McCain’s quotes out of context.” At a town hall meeting today, Senator McCain made a stunning...
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And then of course he retracted the statement… “No, no, I was talking about that we had fought the Gulf War for several reasons,” McCain told reporters. One reason was Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, he said. “But also we didn’t want him to have control over the oil, and that part of the world is critical to us because of our dependency on foreign oil, and it’s more important than any other part of the world,” he said. “The Congressional Record is very clear: I said we went to war in Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction,” he said. It was the second time in two days that McCain had to clarify his comments. On Thursday, he backed off his assertion that pork-barrel spending led to last year’s deadly bridge c
Thousands of dockworkers at West Coast ports stayed off the job on Thursday in what their union said was a call for an end to the war in Iraq. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union said more than 25,000 members in 29 ports stayed off the job. The action came despite an order issued Wednesday by an arbitrator directing the union to tell its members to report for work as usual in response to a request from employers. "Longshore workers are standing down on the job and standing up for America," Bob McEllrath, the union's president, said in a statement. "We're supporting the troops and telling politicians in Washington that it's time to end the war in Iraq." The scene at most West Coast ports was quiet, without any scuffles or confrontations. The cranes used to unload contai
The last couple mornings I’ve tried two different radio stations to wake up to. The first one, Z99, was rambling about Miley Cyrus (the pseudonymously famous daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus, I later learned) who apparently set off some controversy for posing partly nude for a trashy [are there any other kinds?] checkout magazine. She’s [...]
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The Iraq war is being debated on many different levels. One is the idea that it could be the cause of the U.S. economic recession. Politicians and economists are divided on the subject. Most Democrats, including presidential candidate Barack Obama, claim that the Iraq war has had a substantial effect on the U.S. economy and should be examined as one of the primary reasons for the U.S. recession. Most Republicans quickly dismiss the claim as being without merit, but a growing number of Republican s, including Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul, strongly oppose the war based on its economic fallout. But is the Iraq war to blame for our economy’s problems? Let’s look at arguments from both sides of the debate:The Iraq War caused the U.S. economic recessionIn a Washington Post arti
Michael Monsoor, such a strange name for most of us, became famous today attributing to the "Great" Jadish Iraq War. He is treated as "Hero of US". I noted the ceremony this morning. And video clips of the ceremony can be found here. It was very touching. And wow....what a man. It brought tears to [...]
"Army Gen. David H. Petraeus returned to Congress yesterday seeking more time to consolidate security gains in Iraq by halting troop withdrawals this summer, all but guaranteeing that about 140,000 U.S. forces will remain at least through the fall presidential election.
During a day of hearings against the backdrop of a heated campaign for the White House, Petraeus called security in Iraq "
Students owe it to themselves, world to learn about Iraq warBaylor University The Lariat Online, TX - 57 minutes agoA good number of them are still into things like World of Warcraft and Halo, not quite as realistic, but a war nonetheless. We've grown up watching more …
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America's global war on terror which started immediately after the the 9/11 WTO bombings by the Al Qaeda over seven years ago continues. Afghanistan seems to have been stabilised or rather at least...
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The headlines have been in the can for weeks now. Our socialist media has been waiting anxiously for the 4,000 casualty mark to come so they could splash the American death toll across the headlines in an effort to undermine the very troops they feign concern for. This from the AP:
Overall US death [...]
March 24, CNNBAGHDAD, Iraq -- Four U.S. soldiers died in a roadside bombing in Iraq on Sunday, military officials reported, bringing the American toll in the 5-year-old war to the grim milestone of 4,000 deaths. Eight of those killed were civilians working for the Pentagon.The four were killed when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device while patrolling a neighborhood in southern Baghdad, the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq reported Sunday night. A fifth soldier was wounded in the attack, which took place about 10 a.m. (3 a.m. ET).The U.S. milestone comes just days after Americans marked the fifth anniversary of the start of the war.Meanwhile, estimates of the Iraqi death toll range from about 80,000 to the hundreds of thousands, with another 2 million forced to leave
Chicago police say four men and two women entered Holy Name Cathedral during East Mass and spilled fake blood on themselves and parishoners during Iraq War protest.
Of course I, along with all Americans whether in favor or opposed (most of those opposed), honor the sacrifices of those involved and despite the hours I've spent orally and electronically defending its rationality if not its necessity (Here's a post when I was more worried.) and even having participated in its execution, I couldn't muster the motivation to write something on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war.
The main reason is that the question seems settled. Obama and Hillary currently engage in a retreat auction ("I see your six months and raise you two.") in front of Kassocks, but I have a feeling they'll be moderating that view in the general election, and that if either of them do win the election, that person will find an excuse to stay. Meanwhile the candidate who most urges
Initial reports indicate that 32 people were arrested on Wednesday morning as part of protest to mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq.
As initially reported, the protesters blockaded the IRS building as a statement in protest of the use of tax dollars to fund the war. I am not sure how many [...]
On the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion, all three White House hopefuls offered conflicting views on about the Iraq war. Who benefits from Iraq as a campaign issue depends a lot on what happens there over the next 8 months
We’re now five years into the tragedy that is the Iraq War, and the Bush administration, as well as all the cowards who remain callously loyal to the official White House line, are touting its “successes.”
That fact is galling. It reduces five years of lies, death, destruction, protests, vigils, public dissent and public outrage to background noise, as easily dismissed as it is ignored. Frustration is appropriate. Despondency is understandable, but unacceptable.
This week at Take Back America, which concluded today, I had the pleasure of sitting in on a panel discussion between the Reverend Jesse Jackson, former assistant attorney general to LBJ and civil rights leader Roger Wilkins, and MLK historian Taylor Branch. All three men shared experiences from their dogged effor
McCain has placed a large portion of his chips on the Iraq war. Here is his statement on the 5th anniversary of the invasion."Today in Iraq, America and our allies stand on the precipice of winning a major victory against radical Islamic extremism. The security gains over the past year have been dramatic and undeniable. Al Qaeda and Shia extremists — with support from external powers such as Iran — are on the run but not defeated. Tough fighting remains ahead, especially in places like Mosul. Important political gains have also been made, but far more must be done in coming months to cement the gains made in huge cost in American blood and treasure."Americans should be proud that they led the way in removing a vicious, predatory dictator and opening the possibility of a free and stable
3,992 American soldiers dead. The list of names can be found here.Today, on the fifth year anniversary of this war, I feel anyone who supported this war (or continue to do so) should hold their heads down in shame.It was all for nothing. A waste of human life. The blood is on your hands for allowing this to happen, shouting down the opposition with accusations of being unpatriotic while not backing up any argument for going there in the first place.This war has been a failure since day one. The first step to maturity in this nation is to finally admit it before getting more people killed. Then again, those who supported the war have never minded sacrificing the lives of others when they themselves are guaranteed not to be put in harms' way.
Max Hastings, writing in the Canberra Times, compared the attitude of the American people towards the war in Iraq as akin to having “a chronic ailment. It is nasty. They wish it would go away. But it does not inflict the sort of agonizing pain that causes democracies to force urgent action upon their government.” [...]
By SARAH KARUSH, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Police have arrested about a dozen people who crossed a barricade at the entrance of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington at the start of protests marking the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war.
Anti-war protests and vigils are planned across the country.
Dozens of people gathered at the [...]
My country is at war. That seems like a strange statement, especially when this is the fifth year it has been true. In examining my daily life, nobody would guess I was a citizen in a nation at war, and I am hardly unique in this respect. With the exception of those who have close friends or family serving in Iraq, the daily lives of my fellow Americans remain largely unaffected by this war. Is this why we are not out in the streets demanding immediate withdrawal? Or perhaps our inaction reflects the sort of learned helplessness that sets in after years of observing the utter lack of accountability which pervades our government. Our president and his minions do what they want without regard for the law, and our Congress refuses to reign them in at all.I cannot think about America's war in
About a month ago I promised to write a post about the Iraq War on March 19th because it is the 5 year anniversary of that tragic day when we all sat in front of our televisions, watching the greenish night-vision images of the streets of Baghdad, waiting for the military we all finance to start dropping bombs on people who never did a thing to hurt us. I signed up for this blogswarm out of a sense of obligation, because my country started a war 5 long years ago. I have to say something.Right?But the closer this day came, as I tried to think of a powerful message to send out into the blogosphere, the more I realized I'm faking it. The anger, the passion, the outrage, the frustration. It's all still there, but there's nothing else to say about it. It's the same old story that's been told no
Five years ago tomorrow we watched Shock and Awe on our wide screen television sets. It was a war led by false pretenses. It had nothing to do with the events of September 11th, 2001. The populace was misled. It had nothing to do with Weapons of Mass Destruction. The populace was misled. I still wonder what the reason could have been for an invasion. What could this invasion possibly fix? It didn't take long to topple Saddam Hussein. We fixed him all right. One wonders if that is what one nation is supposed to do when the leader of another nation is corrupt? Do you think a military just goes in and fixes it and the problem is solved? What could they have been thinking? Here we are five years later, a million deaths later, billions of dollars later, and the U.S. is stuck.
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This is the second story that I have found this month that writes about the fact that the Iraq war is not being covered in the news now that the situation is improving. You can read my first post on this subject here. The reason that I feel the need to write [...]
A US military study officially acknowledged for the first time yesterday that Saddam Hussein had no direct ties to al-Qaida, undercutting the Bush administration's central case for war with Iraq.
The Pentagon study based on more than 600,000 documents recovered after US and UK troops toppled Hussein in 2003, discovered "no 'smoking gun' (ie, direct connection) between Saddam's Iraq and al-Qaida", its authors wrote.
George Bush and his senior aides have made numerous attempts to link Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda terror in their justification for waging war against Iraq.
Wary of embarrassing press coverage noting that the new study debunks those claims, the US defence department attempted to bury the release of the report yesterday.
The Pentagon cancelled a planned briefing on the study an
Fewer Americans have accurate information regarding the number of casualties suffered in the Iraq war by its fighting men and women. In a recent Pew poll, only 28% said that about 4,000 Americans had died in combat which was a dramatic drop from last August when 54% knew the death rate was about 3,500. In [...]
Thee is increasing evidence of an unforseen consequence for members of the military who are fighting in Iraq. Soldiers and Marines caught in rodside bombings and fiefights are coming home in epidemic numbers with permanent hearing loss and ringing in their ears. Hearing damage has now become the number one disability in the fight against [...]
Back up in this bitch for the evening session of HHR. Yo, got to say HBO on Demand is definitely the shit mane. Been watching those episodes of "The Wire" season 5 the last few days and man I've never been happier. Times are good. If you get a chance, I definitely encourage you to peep. Moving on. On the positive tip, I just wanted to let you all know that Lupe Fiasco, Talib Kweli, and Public
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Unlike the Kerry/Bush 2004 contest, the Obama/McCain match up will offer a clear distinction between an anti-occupation and pro-occupation candidate. Obama took a decidedly unpopular position with this amazingly prescient 2002 speech given in the days leading up to the invasion. Yet subsequent comments on his Iraq position have been distorted by Democratic Primary opponents, and we can expect
GOP presidential frontrunner Sen. John McCain said that he must convince the American public that the U.S. is succeeding in Iraq if he is to become the next president. He first said that if he can't, "then I lose," but backed off that statement."... I don't think there's any doubt that how they judge Iraq will have a direct relation to their judgment of me, my support of the surge," McCain said. "
The long thin line running north from Kuwait City is the Death Highway where Iraqi military vehicles in retreat were attacked. Reports suggested that many civilians were amongs these soldiers.It seems that DU was used within 10 km of Basrah if this map is accurate. The IAEA Kuwait report I refer to earlier states clearly that in their studies they had to rely on information from the Kuwaiti military as to where DU was used. The Americans were not forthcoming in providing information.Reference -p41-46_e.pdfThe map is obtained from The National Gulf War Resource Center at
~Snooper~In a post we made waaaaaaaaaay back on 12/14/2007, we brought our readers the following post: Moonbat Intelligence - The Myth. We discussed the continuing psycho-babble from the idgits still yammering and contorting themselves because the once vaunted myths of the Iraq War have one by one, been placed in the Abyss of Obscurity the moonbats and the Leftinistra kook fringe have dug for themselves. As the writers of Strategy Page so predicted, around this time of year, the moonbats will ooze from under their algae coated mud ponds and slither around on their bellies as the reptiles they are. Juan Cole is one of these. The idgit just doesn't get it.Apparently, the "old myths" didn't hunt anymore so the Leftinistra have invented new ones...simply amazing. We informed our readers many times that the Leftinistra would have to do this very thing...invent new issues because their "issues" and attacks on America went down in flames in 2007...their target of hatred became their co
 I recently came to the realization that I have not written a post about the Iraq war since December 4th, and my Iraq war postings have been seemingly more and more infrequent. Considering the fact that I began this blog to try to awaken people to the Islamo-fascist threat that we face, and most of my early posts were war related before it morphed into more of a conservative political news oriented blog, I began to wonder why.
 The answer is painfully obvious. I search the internet on a daily basis looking for topics to write about and news articles to comment on. I have dedicated my blogging life to finding liberal news items and trying to offer a counter argument to them. In the beginning the Iraq war was in the news daily, and considering that I started this blog with the intention of raising awareness of Islamo-fascism and defending the Iraq war, the Iraq war news, or liberal propaganda as I see it, made for quite a few Iraq war postings almost on a daily basis. That was fine wi
Figures... The same Democrats that just promised Bush he wouldn't get another cent without a plan for withdrawal just approved an even bigger defense budget...
By: Stewart A. Alexander
Socialist Party USA - Nominee for U.S. Vice President,
and candidate for nomination by the Peace and Freedom Party
Stewart A. AlexanderPresident Bush is attempting to pressure Democrats in Washington to give him $196 billion to continue the Iraq War. To enforce his position, the president is threatening mass layoffs of civilian employees at [...]
Many conservatives appear to be looking at how they will be viewed by history and are trying to cleanse their record. One of the most tragic legacies of the Bush administration was the manner in which Republicans chose to use the 9/11 attack to play politics while Democrats were seeking a united front in opposition to terrorism. In exchange for short lived electoral victories, the Republicans were willing to betray the best interests of the nation, including proceeding with a foreign policy which has proven to be disastrous with respect to our national interests.
In recent weeks I’ve noted a number of conservatives attempt to rewrite history. The most recent has been Karl Rove’s denial that the 2002 Iraq War Resolution was a political ploy of the Bush White House. While bloggers have often debunked such claims, it is good to see the mainstream media also publishing the truth, as The Washington Post does today:
Speaking on PBS’s “Charlie Rose” talk show las
President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki signed a deal on Monday arranging for permanent bases and “investment opportunities” for the Bush Administration in Iraq. In return, Nouri al-Maliki and his government will get protection from the United States military against any threats to Maliki’s power (at least until Bush decides to renege on the deal). The Bush Administration is calling this arrangement an “enduring relationship with a democratic Iraq”. While this imperial arrangement is the exact opposite of what the American taxpayers are demanding, this is a victory for the Bush Administration, which has been quite clear that its intention is to keep our military in Iraq. In reality, this deal is a treaty between President Bush and Prime Minister Maliki. However, because President Bush decided not to call it a treaty and instead a “Declaration of Principles for Friendship and Cooperation”, the Bush Administration is going to use those semantics to circu
The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq will end up costing about $1.5 trillion. A staff report from Congress's Joint Economic Committee, titled "The Hidden Costs of the Iraq War," estimates that the Iraq and Afghan wars have cost the average American family more than $20,000.
The report also argues that war funding is diverting billions of dollars away from productive investment, and that the wars are pulling reservists and National Guardsmen away from their jobs, resulting in $1 billion to $2 billion worth of economic disruptions.
The report takes into account the massive healthcare costs for injured veterans, the reduced economic productivity of vets who return home injured, and the massive interest the U.S. will pay on the borrowed money that is funding the war.
Folks, this is one of the many reasons that I am supporting Ron Paul. Dr. Paul never voted for the war (one of the few). Just think what that $20K that EVERY family is spending could have been better used for ... imagine if
The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq will end up costing about $1.5 trillion. A staff report from Congress's Joint Economic Committee, titled "The Hidden Costs of the Iraq War," estimates that the Iraq and Afghan wars have cost the average American family more than $20,000.
The report also argues that war funding is diverting billions of dollars away from productive investment, and that the wars are pulling reservists and National Guardsmen away from their jobs, resulting in $1 billion to $2 billion worth of economic disruptions.
The report takes into account the massive healthcare costs for injured veterans, the reduced economic productivity of vets who return home injured, and the massive interest the U.S. will pay on the borrowed money that is funding the war.
Folks, this is one of the many reasons that I am supporting Ron Paul. Dr. Paul never voted for the war (one of the few). Just think what that $20K that EVERY family is spending could have been better used for ... imagine if
Well those weapons of mass destruction were never found, but the body count just keeps going up in Bush’s war on Iraq.
The pictures are extremely graphic and yes, very sick shit. They are on a seperate page so if you want to see the destruction, click here to see the Iraq war gallery
Opposition to the war in Iraq has reached an all-time high, according to the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll released Thursday morning. Support for the war in Iraq has dropped to 31 percent and the 68 percent who oppose the war is a new record.read more | digg story
They write columns:Advocates of changing the mission say it could leave around 60,000 troops in Iraq indefinitely (although the number could be much higher). The CBO evaluated a scenario that is consistent with this strategy at a cost of another $687 billion through 2017. And, since all of this is deficit spending, CBO projects that American taxpayers will spend an additional $152 billion in interest on this borrowed money by 2017.As a member of Congress for 11 years and of the House Budget Committee for the last three, I can attest that such forecasts invariably underestimate the eventual cost and that the credibility of predictions from administration officials has been consistently unreliable.$687 billion could cover a lot of diabetes prevention programs.
Take a look at this teaser from CBS about the upcoming episode of “60 Minutes.” It looks pretty interesting.
60 Minutes has identified the man whose fabricated story of Iraqi biological weapons drove the U.S. argument for invading Iraq. It has also obtained video of “Curve Ball,” as he was known in intelligence circles, and discovered he was not only a liar, but also a thief and a poor student instead of the chemical engineering whiz he claimed to be.
60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon’s two-year investigation will be broadcast this Sunday, Nov. 4, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Curve Ball is an Iraqi defector named Rafid Ahmed Alwan, who arrived at a German refugee center in 1999. To bolster his asylum case and increase his importance, he told officials he was a star chemical engineer who had been in charge of a facility at Djerf al Nadaf that was making mobile biological weapons.
60 Minutes has learned that Alwan’s university records indicate he did study chemical e
When CPT Director Emeritus Gene Stoltzfus visited Iraq soon after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, he was impressed by the energy and vision of the Iraqi grassroots organizations he met there. “I discovered endless expressions of generosity, hard work, reasonable hopes for community and humor,” he wrote. “I discovered partners--not the kind of partners that far-away funders require that you have; I found real partners who share a vision for our ages. Like people who live with an eye to the future everywhere, they have long practiced reaching across lines into the neighborhoods of others where the stuff of negotiations begins.” Stoltzfus wrote this reflection to address the issue of “foreign fighters” in Iraq. When the U.S. government and media speak of such fighters, they are referring to Al Qaeda operatives or militants from other groups fighting U.S. forces. Stoltzfus noted that the Blackwater mercenary forces, to which the military has contracted out responsibility
On September 15th, members of The Seminal staff attended ANSWER Coalition’s antiwar march in Washington, D.C., dressed in professional attire. Our aim was to reclaim the symbols of power and show that protesters are speaking for ordinary Americans. By dressing professionally, we believed we would appear articulate, serious, and organized.
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The response we received before, during, and after the protest has been astonishing. Our articles were featured twice on the front page of reddit.com and we were invited for an interview on the Bryan Suits Show, a major conservative radio talk show in Seattle. At the protest, we were perceived positively by our fellow protesters. Everyone understood our reasoning, and many supported it. Most importantly, after the event we received emails from activists saying they wanted to join us at the next event we attended.
In response to these expressions of support, we decided to create
The Swamp reports on a significant anniversary coming up for Barack Obama:
Next Tuesday is a high holy day in the calendar for Barack Obama supporters, who will mark the five-year anniversary of the moment their presidential candidate gave his first speech against the war in Iraq.
Obama was just an Illinois state senator that day in 2002, when he went to a rally in Daley Plaza at the invitation of Chicago Democratic doyenne Bettylu Saltzman and called the president’s impending military action “a dumb war.”
Not that many politicians were saying things like that at the time, most notably not the other people who would end up running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008. Now that public and political sentiment has turned on the war, it’s a distinction Obama, today a U.S. senator, mentions rather often.
So it comes as no surprise that the Obama for America campaign will mark next Tuesday’s anniversary with some fanfare, with a set of rallies sch
Japanese law forbids any assistance to America’s war in Iraq which lacks a United Nations resolution. The Japanese Self Defense Force is restricted to providing aid to forces fighting in and around Afghanistan where the UN voted for military operations. A japanese group, Peace Depot, obtained American military documents which indicate ships belonging to the Japanese Self Defense Force in the Indian Ocean provided fuel to the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier which was carrying out bombing missions in Iraq. According to a spokesperson for the group, “This fueling activity clearly violated the(Japanese) antiterrorism law.Z”
Japan’s opposition party gained control of the Upper House of the Diet several months ago and is adamantly against Japanese participation in Iraq. This incident will most probably allow the opposition to end any further aid to the Iraq war which apparently some in the current Japanese government which to provide.
Alan Greenspan thinks so...From the UK Times AMERICA’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil.In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican whose 18-year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve was widely admired, will also deliver a stinging critique of President George W Bush’s economic policies.However, it is his view on the motive for the 2003 Iraq invasion that is likely to provoke the most controversy. “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil,” he says.Greenspan, 81, is understood to believe that Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the security of oil supplies in the Middle East. more**Update**Greenspan later clarified his statement in an interview with the WaPo:Greenspan, who was the country's top voice on monetary policy at the time Bush decided to go to war in Iraq,
Stewart A. Alexander for President
Peace and Freedom Party
August 15, 2007
Stewart A. AlexanderThese days the presidential candidates for the Democratic Party are sounding more like replacement candidates for Bush; on the issue of ending the Iraq War. All the candidates, with the exception of Representative Dennis Kucinich and Governor Bill Richardson, are making open-ended commitments [...]
A US film laying bare the ugly reality of the Iraq war seared the big screen at the Venice film festival on Friday, with director Brian De Palma saying he hoped it would help end America's military occupation. "The pictures are what will stop the war," De Palma told a news conference after the press screening of the movie, "Redacted".read more | digg story
One of the mantras we have been hearing from the Democrat party is that the Iraq war is the same as the Vietnam war. Many Democrats have proclaimed that the Iraq war is George Bush’s Vietnam. Today the president turned the table on the Democrats and compared Iraq to Vietnam.
“One unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like ‘boat people’, ‘re-education camps’ and ‘killing fields’.”
Mr Bush added: “In Vietnam, former allies of the United States and government workers and intellectuals and businessmen were sent off to prison camps, where tens of thousand perished. Hundreds of thousands more fled the country on rickety boats, many of them going to their graves in the South China Sea.”
Needless to say, the Demodrats weren’t too happy with this. This is part of the history of the Vie
di Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
24 luglio 2007
Pezzo in lingua originale: Salvaging the Iraq War
Due posizioni dominano e dividono oggi l'America. Qualcuno sostiene che la guerra è persa, e pertanto occorre lasciare l'Iraq. Altri asseriscono che la guerra può essere vinta, e quindi le truppe non devono ritirarsi.
La soluzione da me proposta raggiunge un compromesso tra le due opzioni ed offre
“President Bush equated the war in Iraq today with the U.S. war for independence. Like those revolutionaries who ‘dropped their pitchforks and picked up their muskets to fight for liberty,’ Bush said, American soldiers were also fighting ‘a new and unprecedented war’ to protect U.S. freedom.”
Quote from LA Times
President Bush’s Orwellian comments makes my head [...]
An Iraq war veteran has received Oakland Community College's Fred M. Mester Excellence in Paralegal Studies Award. Mandeline Dreasky was a member of the 1775th Military Police Company out of Pontiac. She served in Kuwait and Iraq providing convoy escorts. In 2004, she enrolled in a paralegal program, but her studies were interrupted when her husband Sgt. Duane Dreasky suffered serious burn injuries in Iraq. He subsequently spent eight months in hospitals and rehab in Germany and Texas before he died in July 2006. Mandeline later returned to school, where she set an example for others in earning all A's.
Published May 23, 2007 ZOOMA tired and disgusted Iowa soldier fired off an e-mail a few days ago, telling family and friends how things are going in Iraq.A Blackhawk helicopter pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Jim Funk has flown more than 80 combat missions since he arrived there in October.He described his Boone-based unit's successes after 5,000 hours of flying out of LSA Anaconda, a huge American base north of Baghdad. He talked about the tragedies he and his fellow Iowans have witnessed and his worries of becoming complacent as he goes on mission after mission.Morale?"We're treading water," the Ames man told the people closest to him. "We continue to kick butt on missions and take care of each other, even though we know the American public and government DOES NOT stand behind us.Ohhhh, they all say they support us, but how can you support me (the soldier) if you don't support my mission or my objectives. We watch the news over here. Every time we turn it on we see the American publi
