Thursday, July 10, 2008
Iraqi P.M. Calls for US Troop Withdrawal Date
Why does Iraqi PM Nuri Kamal al-Maliki want to embolden the terrorists by setting a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops? Who does he think he is: John McCain?
Meanwhile the war spending keeps going while we all go down the tubes....
Labels: Iraq war, John McCain, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, War on Terror
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Dennis Kucinich Introduces Articles of Impeachment against President Bush!
Spotted via Examiner.com
Related:
- "The Iraq war: Did Bush lie? YES: Flawed information and falsehoods carried the day." [Atlanta Journal Constitution]
- "President Bush “convinces himself to believe what suits his needs at the moment,” and has engaged in “self-deception” to justify his political ends, Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary, writes in a critical new memoir about his years in the West Wing." [New York Times]
Labels: Dennis Kucinich, Iraq war, Republican f-ckery, Scott McClellan
Friday, May 23, 2008
New movie: War, Inc. (trailer)
Getting middling reviews but I like where they're coming from politically & philosophically and I f-ck with John Cusack so I'ma show love anyway! More video clips from the movie here.
Online:
John Cusack - MySpace
Labels: Iraq war, John Cusack, Movies
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
General Petraeus says Pause... on withdrawl from Iraq.
Iraq Security Improved, but 'Fragile and Reversible.' [Washington Post]
So much for the surge! McCain, keep hangin' your campaign victory hopes on the success of the Iraq War....
Related:
"The United States is no closer to achieving its goals in Iraq than it was a year ago but a quick military withdrawal could lead to massive chaos and even genocide, according to a report released Sunday by a U.S. think tank." [AP Google article]
Labels: General David Petraeus, GOP incompetence, Iraq war, John McCain
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
The Iraq War: an update....
So the ceasefire and drop in violence is due, not to Iraqi security forces or the intervention of the US, but to a nut-job extremist with a huge militia he can direct at will and an Iranian who is linked to terrorism.
More:
"Rockets have smashed into Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone, a day after radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called a ceasefire with Iraqi and coalition troops." [Voice of America]
We.are.f-cked!
Labels: GOP incompetence, Iraq war
Friday, March 28, 2008
Standard Operating Procedure (movie trailer)
Trailer for the upcoming documentary directed by Errol Morris about the Abu Ghraib prison scanadal. Opens April 25th.
Online:
Standard Operating Procedure - Website
Labels: GOP corruption, Iraq war
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Bush on Iraq: "Lives not lost in vain"
And also:
President Bush: Iraq violence is a 'positive moment.' [The Times of London]
Meanwhile though:
Green Zone Target for Shiite Militias. [AP]
Fresh clashes grip southern Iraq. [BBC News]
CNN World Analysis: Al-Sadr in trouble, Iraq headed for meltdown.
This dude is still deluded five years later!
Labels: George Bush, GOP incompetence, Iraq war
Monday, March 24, 2008
Roadside bomb takes American death toll in Iraq to 4,000
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Bush: Fighting on the Frontline in Afghanistan must be 'Romantic' for Young Soldiers
BTW: Happy Fifth Year Aniversary of the Iraq War. [Guardian Op-Ed by former UN WMD inpsector Hans Blix]
Labels: Afghanistan, George Bush, Iraq war, Republican f-ckery
Monday, March 17, 2008
UN: Drop in Iraq Violence May Not Last
From AP article by Ryan Lenz:
"The influx of thousands of U.S. forces has driven down insurgent attacks in Baghdad, but violence elsewhere in Iraq raises questions about whether killings will continue to drop as American forces begin to leave, the United Nations said Saturday.
As security improved in Baghdad, violent attacks spread last year to other parts of the country, including Diyala Province and Mosul, al-Qaida's last urban stronghold, according to the report from the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq."
Click here for the full article. [via ABC News]
(h/t: Nadreams)
Labels: Iraq war
Senate Committee Seeks Audit of Iraq Oil Money
From The New York Times last week:
"Two senior members of the Senate Armed Services Committee have requested a full accounting of how Iraq is spending its soaring oil revenue, amid starkly conflicting estimates of how much the country has invested in rebuilding its broken infrastructure and providing basic services to its citizens."
Click here for the full article.
Labels: GOP corruption, Iraq war
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida
From an article by Warren P. Strobel:
"An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network."
Not sure if anyone (other than Dick Cheney and a few other right-wing crackpots) is still disputing this point but it's always good to reinforce it. Click here for more.
Labels: GOP corruption, GOP fearmongering, GOP incompetence, Iraq war, War on Terror
The $3 Trillion War!
From a Vanity Fair article by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes:
"On March 19, 2008, the U.S. will have been in Iraq for five years. The Bush administration was wrong about the need for the Iraq war and about the benefits the war would bring to Iraq, to the region, and to America. It has also been wrong about the full cost of the war, and it continues to take steps to conceal that cost.
After wildly lowballing the cost of the Iraq conflict at a mere $50 to $60 billion, the Bush administration has been concealing the full economic toll. The spending on military operations is merely the tip of a vast fiscal iceberg. In an excerpt from their new book, the authors calculate the grim bottom line."
Click here for more.
Related:
amNewYork looks at it another way: "Studies: Iraq Costs US $12B Per Month"
Online:
BUY Stiglitz and Bilmes' The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict book here
.Labels: GOP incompetence, Iraq war
Monday, February 25, 2008
The Surge in Iraq was a Success??!!
Moqtada al-Sadr: the man responsible for the surge 'succeeding'?
I'm watching CNN and just heard that f*ckery floated without challenge while they were talking about John McCain a few moments ago. Agree?
Related:
From a Baltimore Sun article by David Wood:
"The Bush administration has ordered a significant number of troops to stay behind in Iraq as small military withdrawals continue this spring and summer, according to a senior Pentagon officer.
About 140,000 troops will remain on duty in Iraq in July when the last of the five "surge" brigades is withdrawn, Lt. Gen. Carter Ham, director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Pentagon reporters this afternoon.
That's about 8,000 more troops than were fighting in Iraq when President Bush ordered the "surge" of reinforcements 13 months ago."
Click here to read the full article, "140,000 troops to stay in Iraq as withdrawals begin."
And from a Boston Globe article by John Affleck, "Cleric Sadr renews militia's cease-fire":
"Moqtada al-Sadr kept the Iraqi nation on edge for two days, raising the possibility he would not renew a six-month cease-fire of his powerful Mahdi Army and that the country would plunge back into spasms of sectarian killing.
Then, in a dramatic touch, the Shi'ite cleric sent 200 sealed envelopes to be opened at yesterday's prayer services across Iraq. The answer was inside, he promised.
The answer was yes, the cease-fire will continue - a dramatic step likely to hold down American and Iraqi casualties while bolstering Sadr's importance as a political player in the Iraqi scramble for power."
So basically, this surge was only effective because of the whim of this nut job? Nice! [Click here to read the rest of the article.]
Labels: GOP incompetence, Iraq war, War on Terror
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Everlast - "Letters Home from the Garden of Stone" (video)
I missed this one so thanks to Jessica at red TANGENT for the heads up. This is the new single by Everlast (House of Pain, "What It's Like"), the lyrics for which are taken from a soldier's letter written home from Iraq.
Between this and that Will.i.am song that repurposed the text of a Barack Obama speech for its lyrics, is this the dawning of a new politically conscious era or a new form of 'hip hop' that finally realizes the promise of Chuck D's vision of the music as 'Black America's CNN' by literally sampling the news?
Iraqi police say U.S. attack killed citizen guards
Also from the LA Times:
"Three neighborhood security guards were killed and two injured early Friday when U.S. attack helicopters fired at their checkpoint south of Baghdad, Iraqi police said.
It was the latest in a series of complaints about errant strikes, which have stoked tensions between the citizen security groups in central and northern Iraq and their American backers."
Click here for more. I don't get it, don't we want the Iraqis to stand up and take care of their own security so the US can stand down and hopefully get the hell out of there eventually?
Labels: GOP incompetence, Iraq war, War on Terror
Monday, February 11, 2008
Iraq: Still a Friggin' Mess!
The US Army buried a study faulting the Iraq war planning. [NY Times]
More:
The U.S. military is seriously deficient in meeting "the threat of Islamist insurgencies," says a Pentagon-commissioned study released Monday. [CNN.com]
And:
"While nobody contests the US assertion that the security situation has improved a great deal, it is clearly neither perfect, universal nor irreversible." [from "Iraq 'reverse surge' plays on US minds" on BBC News]
We.are.f*cked!
Labels: GOP incompetence, Iraq war, Republican f-ckery, War on Terror
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Official: Two Years of Lies Before the Iraq War
You didn't think I was gonna forget to post this, did ya??
"A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The study concluded that the statements "were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses."
The study was posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism." [Click here for the full article.]
Click here to read the study.
Labels: GOP corruption, Iraq war, Republican f-ckery, War on Terror
Friday, February 01, 2008
Dozens Killed in Worst Baghdad Attack in Months
According to a NY Times story here. And the story just gets worse according to ABC News: "2 mentally retarded female bombers used to strike pet markets in Baghdad."
No wonder it was announced a couple days ago that, "U.S. Commanders in Iraq Favor a Pause in Troop Cuts."
Related:
Time magazine article yesterday: Why the Surge Worked (!) - did John McCain write that article? WTF?!!
Labels: GOP incompetence, Iraq war
Thursday, January 31, 2008
The Cost of War (video)
Video produced by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) showing the cost of waging one day of the Iraq War. Click here for more info.
(h/t: Les)
Labels: American Friends Service Committee, GOP incompetence, Iraq war
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