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BAGHDAD – The U.S. formally transferred control of the Green Zone to Iraqi authorities Thursday in a pair of ceremonies that also handed back Saddam Hussein's former palace. Iraq's prime minister said he will propose making Jan. 1 a holiday marking the restoration of sovereignty. Under the new security agreement between Washington and Baghdad to replace a U.N. mandate for foreign troops in Iraq,

Sadr City was considered one of the most desperate and dangerous parts of Iraq. And that's when Saddam Hussein was in power. Years of neglect by the Iraqi dictator created a haven for militias and terrorist organizations that operated unfettered. The situation was exacerbated after the start of the war and insurgents used it as a home operating base.U.S. Army engineers have turned their attention

(NYGOV) After visiting with members of the armed forces in Iraq, Governor Paterson and U.S. Representatives Steve Israel (D-NY) and Anthony Weiner (D-NY) toured Afghanistan Tuesday as they completed their visit with American troops stationed in both countries.In Afghanistan, the delegation met with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and nearly 200 New York troops. Governor Paterson awarded Purple

A U.S. military official announced the other day that the number of daily attacks in Iraq have dropped nearly 95% since last year. A year ago, Iraq suffered approximately 180 attacks per day. Today, that number is down to about 10. Has this even been reported in the news? The mainstream media surely doesn't care to report this information, most likely because it thrives on negative news. But God f

Il giornalista Muntadhar Al Zeidi rischia da 5 a 15 anni di reclusioneL'accusa è di "aggressione contro capo di Stato straniero durante una visita ufficiale" Iraq, istruttoria finita: il 31 dicembre il processo per le scarpe contro Bush

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I’m so happy! My mother just got home from Iraq! I haven’t seen her in months! The cats are all over her, trying to get their scent on her again. I got home last night, and what did I do with my time? Homework! I had to finish a ton of Anatomy before this morning. I [...]

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This is all over the Internet and we are all loving it! President Bush was the target of the shoes of an angry Iraqi reporter. The culture in Iraq says that throwing shoes at someone shows contempt for that person. Despite the insult, Bush went on to tout the good he has brought and Iraq. He claimed only a small minority are angry or want attention. Hmmmm...

An Iraqi journalist threw 2 shoes at President George Bush during a press conference in Iraq.In the middle of the news conference with Mr Maliki, Iraqi television journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi stood up and shouted "this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog," before hurling a shoe at Mr Bush which narrowly missed him.Showing the soles of shoes to someone is a sign of contempt in Arab culture

In the fictitious series of "The popularity of president George W. Bush" historians can add another graphical milestone. During his last visit to Baghdad a reporter threw his shoes at Bush, missing the ducking commander in chief by only a hair's width. Calling Bush a dog the reporter expressed his disgust with the person responsible for 100,000s dead civilians with two of the most serious insults

BAGHDAD (Dec. 14) - On an Iraq trip shrouded in secrecy and marred by dissent, President George W. Bush on Sunday hailed progress in the war that defines his presidency and got a size-10 reminder of his unpopularity when a man hurled two shoes at him during a news conference. Bush joked himself about it later by saying it was a size 10, someone could have gotten hurt from this but watch the vide

The terrible events of last Thursday, when the target was a ‘Kurdish‘ restaurant on the way between Kerkuk and ca. 60 people died in a suicide attack, reveal that there is a silent opposition among the so-called ‘Kurds‘ and that their plans are to first support the creation of an independent ‘Kurdistan‘ (in order to [...]

The government of Iraq is urging the new Obama administration to attempt a new approach and enter into discussions with both Iran and Syria. Ali al-Dabbagh, spokesman for the Iraq government said: “I call on the new administration to open dialogue with Iran to resolve the exceptional problems which are affecting stability in the region.” [...]

The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated recent communiqués from two major Sunni insurgent groups active in Iraq, voicing their solidarity with and support for the Mujahideen Army in their ongoing war of words with the leader of Al-Qaida in Iraq Abu Hamza al-Muhajir . On November 6, the Saad Bin Abu Waqas Brigades (SBAW) issued a statement warning, “the brothers from [Al-Qaida] have,

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department on Wednesday said it had approved the sale to Iraq of weapons valued at up to $6 billion, including 400 Stryker wheeled vehicles, military radios, training aircraft, 20 coastal patrol boats and 140 M1A1 Abrams tanks.

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

Good News in Iraq:NOVEMBER ATTACKS IN IRAQ LOWEST Since 2003 It's Good News When Even Good News isn't News AnymoreOutside of a few high-profile bombings targeted at public confidence, attacks in November fell to their lowest monthly level since the Iraq war began.Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin, the No. 2 U.S. commander here, blamed al-Qaida in Iraq for a spate of bombings that has killed nearly 50 people i

by Army Staff Sgt. Jim GreenhillNational Guard BureauBombs, violence and death were part of Titus Abure’s boyhood. He fled the Republic of the Sudan as a 16-year-old refugee. His father died in Sudan’s civil war. So this Army National Guard specialist says an Iraq deployment isn’t much of a hardship. “I love it,” he said here in October. “I contributed to the success of the mission

The Iraqi government that U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has called Iraq`s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and confirmed his commitment to responsible withdrawal for U.S. troops from Iraq. In a statement issued by Maliki`s office, Obama pledged to Maliki in his call late on Wednesday that his country will "respect the sovereignty of Iraq and integration of its land, along with working together to

At least 15 people were killed and 147 hurt by two suicide vehicle bombs in the former rebel bastion of Fallujah on Thursday, an interior ministry official said. Earlier, a defence ministry official said at least 10 people were killed in the bombings, which he said targeted Ira More..qi police posts.Read the rest of this entry »

Iraq has bought 30,000 tonnes of Vietnamese rice via a tender for shipment early next year, a trade source said on Tuesday. Iraq bought the long grain, 5 per cent broken rice from a European trading firm at $411 per tonne, free-on-board basis, for shipment in January and February, said the trader who was close to the deal. Iraq's Grain Board was close to buying up to 300,000 tonnes of mostly

Breaking News Newsletter Breaking News November 26, 2008 05:22 Marine killed in Iraq A 26-year-old Marine who lived in Anderson Township has become the latest local casualty of the war.

Here is an uncommon argument in favor of the Iraq war presented in the most cannot be ignored, matter of fact terms. Avoided are any ideological and ethical nuances, as University of Chicago professor Eric Posner shows us that life has improved for many ordinary Iraqi’s since Saddams regime was toppled. According to Posner, many more would have died if Hussein had stayed in power.... conditions

Just over five years ago, Richard Perle (the neo-con sometimes referred to as “The Prince of Darkness”) boldly predicted that “a year from now, I’ll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush“.  Perle must be pretty surprised to read in his morning paper that, instead of naming a square after President Bush, Iraq

WASHINGTON: President-elect Barack Obama vowed to pull troops out of Iraq, crush Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and shut down the Guantanamo Bay camp as part of a dramatic foreign policy break with George Bush.Repairing the stricken US economy will be priority number one, even at the cost of still-bigger budget deficits, Obama said in his first major post-election interview broadcast on CBS program "60 M

The Iraq Cabinet gave its approval to a security pact negotiated by its government with the Bush administration. Iraq has attempted to gain complete sovereignty but was forced to accept the presence of American troops for until 2012. The US government gave assurances to Iraq that in-coming president Barack Obama would abide by the agreement. The [...]

President elect Barack Obama told a 60 Minute audience he will close down the infamous Guantanamo prison and make certain America ceases using any form of torture in the interrogation or treatment of prisoners. He referred to the blot on American principles that was implemented by the trio of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld as a thing of the [...]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's cabinet approved a pact on Sunday that will let U.S. troops stay in the country until 2011, setting a final date to end a military presence that began with the 2003 invasion that toppled. The Iraqi Congress has to approve the pact, and the US has to pledge not to attack Syria or Iran from within Iraq's borders. read more digg story [[ This is a content summary only. V

There's been a recent upsurge of bombing attacks on police patrols and civilians. But it's difficult to gauge how serious the upsurge may be, because U.S. and Iraqi sources give widely differing reports of the casualties. It is likely to be linked to the pact between the US & Iraq.The pact was just approved today by Iraq's Cabinet. read more | digg story [[ This is a content summary only. Vi

Found out about the “good news” from Chekhov’s Mistress who in turn got it from Pierre Joris. Check it out at ■ Posted in Ephemera   Tagged: Add new tag, Hoax, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq War Ends, Media, New York Times, News, Nytimes-Se, US Imperialism, War   

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.

Two Christian sisters were shot dead and their mother stabbed by a Muslim mob just one day after it was reported that Iraqi Christians were returning to their homes in Mosul after fleeing Muslim persecution about one month ago.

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 September 29, 2008, issue of The New Yorker features a compelling photo essay titled PORTFOLIO BY PLATON: SERVICE.The essay was introduced by the following paragraph:This summer, the photographer Platon took pictures of hundreds of men and women who volunteered to serve in the military and were sent to Iraq or Afghanistan. He followed them on their journey through training and deployment, afte

On March 19, 2003, the United States invaded Iraq, with 94% of the American public in full support of the mission. Three weeks after that, on April 11, 2003, I personally attended a lecture by 1972 presidential candidate, George McGovern. His talk was titled, “The Wrong War, In the Wrong Place, At the Wrong Time.” In two hours of speaking time, McGovern predicted, with near-perfect accuracy, e

So… Before George W. Bush and Company did all the hard work in Iraq, Obama wanted to pull out. Is he changing his mind now that he is getting real briefings on Iraq? Here is a video from Fox News: addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ffreedomthirst.com%2F2008%2F11%2F11%2Fis-barack-changing-his-mind-on-iraq-already%2F'; addthis_title = 'Is+Barack+Changin

I was reviewing some of my older material about “environmental issues’’ and I came across an article from the May 2007 issue of Forbes Japan. In order to maintain a certain level of knowledge it’s good to review previous studies. Real Japanese 昨シーズンの冬は豪雪被害が相次いだが、今季はうって変わって観測史上まれに見る暖冬となった。　しか

This photo of one of the many protests against the Iraq War was taken a while ago, on March 19, 2005 (in London where organizers claim over 150,000 participant) to mark the second anniversary of start of the Iraq War. On that day and on the 2oth, several protests were held across the world : according to a survey (mainly of the reports of organizers), it has been claimed that, across the world, ov

Insurgent Deaths by Apache 30mm and HellfireThe Israelis should follow this model in Gaza all night long.A Neocon Express Post

The United States had communicated in this thursday (6) the first-minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, that they accept diverse changes proposals for Bagdá, last week, for the closing of a pact of security of long stated period between the two countries, thus removing obstacles for the concretion of the agreement.The emendations presented for U.S.A. do not modify the main aspects of the last versio

Now is your chance to be like Dr. Evil and own one of the most incredible super yachts ever. For the measly amount of $30 million you could be the proud owner of a yacht that once belonged to Saddam Hussein.The 270 foot yacht is right out of a 007 movie. It features golden faucets, helicopter landing deck, bullet-proof atrium and a secret passageway with escape pod. If you feel so inclined there i

One of the most iconic photos of the war in Iran features a marine, face blackened, blood running down from his ear, with a cigarette hanging from his mouth, staring blankly at the sunset at the end of a battle.The picture sparked both admiration and anger. Admiration came from the warmongers seeking to glorfy the Iraq war, such as CBS anchor man Dan Miller:"For me, this one's personal. This is a

A recent you tube video we posted focussed on soldiers smoking in Vietnam - through a gun. Soldiers continue to smoke today, it seems, with a recent study suggesting that stressed out soldiers in Iraq are twice as likely to smoke as civilians. A massive 64% of soldiers ised tobacco in some form, with 52% of them smoking cigarettes and the remainder using other forms of tobacco.Half of these said t

The October Surprise! FEEL FREE TO BE STUPID AMERICA! YOU HAVE BEEN FOR AT LEAST A DECADE. TODD PALIN WANTS TO SECEDE BUT A HALF-AUNT WITH VISA PROBLEMS SINKS A NATIONAL CHANGE. BE RACIST AND SAY THAT HE HAS THE WRONG SKIN COLOR AND MUST BE POWELL TO VINDICATE HIMSELF OF THAT. IF HE HAS NOT LIED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT A WAR LIKE POWELL THEN HE IS NOT AMERICAN ENOUGH TO OVERCOME HIS

Imas Choirun Nisa Fujiati(Amman) – Iraq merencanakan akan memompa minyak lebih banyak ditahun mendatang, dikatakan pejabat Iraq Kamis kemarin di ibukota Jordan, Amman.Iraq diharapkan untuk menaikan pengeluaran harian minyak dengan 200.000 barel tahun depan ketika minyak baru dioperasikan, dikatakan Menteri Perminyakan Iraq, Hussain al-Shahristani.Berdasarkan Shahristani, pengeluaran harian minya

BBC News October 30, 2008 US General David Petraeus has taken control of US military operations throughout the Middle East and much of Asia as head of US Central Command. His responsibilities include Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. At a change-of-command ceremony at Central Command headquarters, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said he was “precisely the man we need”. Previously

Powerful little video barred from youtube - a shame voting wont change anything but:"You are turning your people, your nation into monsters. We really feel sorry for Americans and how the world looks at them now, but it’s all in your hands.End this war. Enough!" CENSORED:LA LONGE NUIT - THE LONG NIGHT – LA LARGA NOCHE - 1 by FerBrooks read more digg story [[ This is a content summary onl

... As the 2008 election approaches, Americans have a civic duty to reassess the war in Iraq ...The past six years have seen a plethora of book titles devoted to the Iraq war debate. While for the most part they painted a negative picture early on some, but not all recent titles draw the opposite conclusion. I was recently introduced to one such title, A Better Country: Why America was Right to C

While both US presidential candidates are fond of using the same talking point about the fact that $10 billion per month is being spent in Iraq, no one seems to have asked the logical follow up question: On what?Michael Schwartz, writing for the Asia Times takes a look at what that money isn't being spent on in his article, 'Wrecked Iraq'. He also debunks the myth that the Iraqi government has fre

Mass Actions on the 6th Anniversary of the Iraq War -- March 21, 2009 Bring All the Troops Home Now -- End All Colonial Occupations! Fund People's Needs, Not Militarism & Bank Bailouts! Marking the sixth anniversary of the criminal invasion of Iraq, thousands will take to the streets of Washington D.C. and other cities across the U.S. and around the world in March 2009 to say, &

Classico convoglio di pattugliamento americano, i soldati dentro i loro mezzi corazzati si fanno un giretto per il centro abitato controllando la situazione. Ad un certo punto l’imprevisto: da un angolo spunta fuori una ragazza completamente nuda, avvolta solamente da una bandiera americana. I soldati sono giustamente molto diffidenti, nel 90% dei casi quando dei [...]

Despite the claims that we have been “stealing” oil from Iraq, they are posting a $60-70 Billion surplus, most from oil sales and what not. Good for them.       

Tarin Hills, Erbil, IraqA first-of-its-kind, fully integrated modern community in Erbil. Tarin Hills is the first fully self-contained master planned community to be developed across 170 million sq. ft. of land. A conglomeration of residential, retail, commercial, hospitality, entertainment, health and sports components interwoven within the picturesque terrain of Erbil in Kurdistan region of Iraq

This story was found on CNN.com. An animal rescue group on Sunday picked up a U.S. soldier’s adopted dog from Iraq, ending the soldier’s weeks-long struggle to send the animal to her Minnesota home. Operation Baghdad Pups, which said the U.S. military prevented its first attempt to take Ratchet the dog on October 1, picked up the [...]

Parece ser que los americanos intentan vendernos por todos los medios (y con todos sus medios) la cara amarga de Iraq, ese devastado y asolado por la pobreza y los atentados suicidas el cual tienen que sacar adelante los salvadores Yankies. Pero lejos de esa imagen tan catastrofista que nos quieren vender; existe un Irak [...]

I'm tired of right wing idiots claiming the Iraq surge was a huge success. 13 months after the surge, we still have 144,000 soldiers in Iraq, and we are still spending $341 million per day. That's $1721 per person, per day, or $3983 every second. Yet somehow the surge was a "giant success." It might have cut down on violence in one city in Iraq, but it hasn't helped anything in the grand scheme of

From Iraq to Samoa, the gang's all here.

An Iraq Veteran has a personal message for Barack Obama. in other news i am going on vacation until after the election so i will not be posting anymore guides until then.

Here is a video showing the bailout at the Wall Street and it will cost the taxpayers the amount of almost $1 trillion. It is almost the same cost incurred during the Iraq war. Further, as mentioned... Please visit the site to continue reading...

The Washington Times has an article today that states "Obama Tried To Sway Iraqis On Bush Deal"  which describes how Obama tried to undermine the President and cut his own deal with the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

So charges the Washington Times.At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders in private conversations that the president shouldn't be allowed to enact the deal without congressional approval. Mr. Obama's conversations with the Iraqi leaders, confir

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I asked Big Tobacco to write a guest post about whether he would be able to attend Jewish New Year services at his FOB (Forward Operating Base) in Iraq. He got inspired and wrote this very compelling response. We agreed that he and I would both put this post on our individual blogs before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.Here is Big Tobacco’s Day of Atonement blog post:I will not smoke today.S

See Update 10/9/08 Whether I support the war in Iraq or not is immaterial. What I do support are our troops, our men and women in the military fighting and often giving their very lives. I support them and respect them. No, they’re not all worthy of that respect but in general, I [...]

In this very touching video, a military father returns home from Iraq and surprises his young son at school.It kind of makes you wonder why they have to go away in the first place.Here is the clip:

Secrets of Iraq's death chamber Robert Fisk – The Independent October 7, 2008 Like all wars, the dark, untold stories of the Iraqi conflict drain from its shattered landscape like the filthy waters of the Tigris. And still the revelations come.The Independent has learnt that secret executions are being carried out in the prisons run by Nouri al-Maliki's "democratic" government.The hang

George Bush brought “democracy” to Iraq, but the former governor of Texas also brought his home state’s approach to dealing with criminals– kill them. The British newspaper, the Independent, reports secret executions are being carried out in Iraq prisons. According to Robert Fisk: “the hangings are carried out regularly–from a wooden gallows in a small, [...]

Via msnbc.com: Two U.S. helicopters collided while landing at a base in Baghdad on Saturday, killing one Iraqi soldier and injuring two American troops and two other Iraqis, the military said. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

A look at the difference between the image of Iraq that is portrayed by the media and reality.

As desperation over inevitable defeat sets in for muslim terror group al Qaeda, they have resorted to using women and children to carry out their suicide bombing campaign. They are known to drug the women, and to use homeless and mentally handicapped children.

While National Guard (NG) troops are serving longer deployments than ever before, there is still little research examining the effects of these deployments affect compared to active military troops. In the September 2008 issue of Anxiety,Stress and Coping, a study...

CHICAGO – In his short career as a writer and director, Neil Burger has taken on the John F. Kennedy assassination in “Interview with the Assassin” and the mysteries of magic in “The Illusionist,” which starred Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Jessica Biel. With his new film “The Lucky Ones,” Burger tackles the dichotomy between the fighting soldiers in Iraq and a country that can’

La mejorada situación de seguridad y libertad no se ha extendido a la población homosexual, que está siendo objeto de una campaña de limpieza por su homosexualidad, según puede observarse.Peter Tatchell, un activista de derechos humanos y miembro del grupo de derechos homosexuales Out Rage!, ha escrito en The Guardian sobre los asesinatos aparentemente sancionados, de la población homosexual

Peter Galbraith, Iraq expert and Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, has this interesting article offering a contrarian view of The Surge. Here’s an exerpt (the whole thing is good): We hear again and again from Washington that we have turned a corner in Iraq and are on the path to [...]

Will Presidential Election Be Determined On Integrity?Obama Fails Commander In Chief Questions Though Sen. Barack Obama pushed back on Republican presidential nominee's assertion during the debate that the country's top military official categorized his Iraq withdrawal plan as "dangerous", during a July interview Admiral Michael Mullen warned that the consequences of removing all U.S. troops by 20

The 10,000th mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle is scheduled to be delivered to troops supporting Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom Sept. 25 by Air Mobility Command Airmen.MRAPs were introduced in 2007, and AMC Airmen have been working around-the-clock planning, coordinating and executing air transport missions to rush the lifesaving vehicles to Iraq and Afghanistan. Using a variety of a

From Peter Tatchell's CIF article:Even children suspected of being gay are abducted and later found shot in the head.But what can I do? Answer: Donate for safe houses.Jacqui Smith (and Gordon Brown) would tell these people to 'be discreet'.

Via Juan Cole, we learn that just like American aid to Pakistan funds Taliban activities in Afghanistan, US aid to Iraq has been funding Al Qaeda: A former Iraqi official estimated yesterday that more than $13 billion meant for reconstruction projects in Iraq was wasted or stolen through elaborate fraud schemes. Salam Adhoob, a former chief investigator for Iraq’s Commission on Public Integr

When research commenced for this paper on the tenth of April, 2006, the number of deaths occurring as a result of the war in Iraq had risen to estimates of more than 130,000.

Echoes of Iraq in Bush handling of mortgage crisis Fairly or not, some critics say they can't help but see similarities between the Bush administration's hurried approach to the financial market crisis and its headlong plunge into the Iraq war. "You can draw some valid parallels between the prosecution of the war under the Bush regime and the way the financial sector has operated in recent

Spanish high street brand Mango announced that it will open a store in war-torn Iraq. According to WWD, the company asked Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad to create a special collection that respects the region’s covered-up style, which may include head scarves and veils. A Mango shop in Kuwait The store will be located in the Kurdish [...]

A September 9, 2008 AP article reveals that there have been at least 18 electrocutions in Iraq involving U.S. soldiers or civilian contractors. A May 28, 2008 CNN article on one such incident placed the number of soliders electrocuted at only 12.   As if soldiers and contractors didn’t have enough to worry about concerning the obvious dangers in [...]

The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated two recent statements issued respectively by the Ansar al-Islam Organization in Iraq (formerly known as the Ansar al-Sunnah Army) and a breakaway faction which refers to itself as the “Shariah Committee of the Ansar al-Sunnah Army .” In response to allegations from Ansar al-Islam accusing their dissident brothers of conspiring with the Am

Other than the existence of American troops and the lack of a Saddam Hussein, what is so different about the new Iraq? People were happy when the Iraqis went to vote. Isn't that just swell. Somehow that led many to believe that Iraq was a democracy. Only the ignorant believe that voting is all that is needed to found a democracy. What happened to freedom of speech and the press? What happened to

by Rep Ron Paul On September 10, 2002  I asked 35 questions regarding war with Iraq. The war resolution passed on October 16, 2002.  Now today, as some of my colleagues try to reestablish credentials regarding spending restraint, I want to call attention to my 18th question from six years ago: “Are we willing to bear the [...]

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science EditorSeptember 22, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to a report published on Friday.The images support the view of international refugee organizations and I

An Iraqi Army Soldier and a Sons of Iraq member stand watch side by side in the Taji Qada, northwest of Baghdad, March 2, 2008. Photo by 2nd Stryker Brigade 25th Infantry Division. CAMP TAJI — The government of Iraq (GoI) has pledged millions of dollars to begin paying the ‘Sons of Iraq’ (SoI), the highly-successful, volunteer groups of citizens w

Eight members of a family were killed early Friday when a US helicopter mistakenly bombed a house in Iraq’s Salahudin province, officials said.

Amir Taheri recently wrote in the NY Post about how Barack Obama interfered in politics surrounding Iraq. Here's another article Taheri wrote, presented on Front Page Magazine, where he provides some info on the subject.

Seven U.S. soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in southern Iraq on Thursday, the U.S. military said.A military spokesman said it appeared mechanical failure was the cause of the crash of the CH-47 Chinook transport helicopter.

A note from Radarsite: The following is a comment received on our Obama in Iraq Scandal article. There is, I believe, no need for further comment. - rg ---------------------------------------------------------------- I don't understand. I don't understand why no one is holding Sen. Obama accountable. My brother has been in Iraq for 17 months. 17 months he hasn't seen his 2 little girls, his