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What the U.S. does in Iraq every day

Posted on Wednesday, 7 April, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

Wikileaks with the help of YouTube

Wikilieaks released the above classified military footage on April 5, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site.  Amongst the small group of what looks to be civilians killed and injred were two children and two Reuters journalists.

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Tony Blair: ‘I can’t believe I just got away with that!’

Posted on Monday, 1 February, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

Blair as devil

Tony Blair takes a photo of himself in front of the human rights travesty he helped create.

Tony sends George a text from Iraq: “LO George. jst writiN U frm Iraq whr wer dstroiN evrtng n cite 4 oil, cash & contRL. thx putting me n yor posse.”

A while ago a mobile phone video emerged showing some Kurdish village where this horde was stoning a girl to death because she married the wrong guy. It sparked international outrage as it should have. This photo reminds of of that for some reason.

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Iraq War Veteran: No one outside a few billionaires gain from War and Occupation

Posted on Sunday, 31 January, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

“Our real enemies are not those living in a distant land whose names or policies we don’t understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it’s profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it’s profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it’s profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when it’s profitable. Our enemies are not several hundred thousands away. They are right here in front of us.” — Mike Prysner

This guy should have been invited to speak at the Iraq Inquiry opposite Tony Blair. Thanks IVAW.

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Two days left to ask Blair why he helped kill so many Iraqis

Posted on Wednesday, 27 January, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

To god-fearing homicidal maniacs taking a stroll.

Ah, the good ol'e days.

I’m old enough to remember the televised Iran/Contra hearings long, long ago in the United States. Now in the United Kingdom the Iraq Inquiry seems a little like Déjà vu minus Oliver North’s hot secretary.

If the former is to offer any spoilers on the latter: Nothing much will come of it. Still, it’s interesting how the UK is at least willing to explore the illegality of the the invasion of Iraq while President Obama has more or less offered unqualified amnesty to the previous White House wrecking crew that set about demolishing Iraq without any legal or logical security rationale what so ever. So it goes.

As Bush’s prayer buddy Tony Blair is to give his account in the next couple of days, 38 Degrees is asking people in the UK to press Sir John Chilcot to not go light on the New Labour patriarch.

What question would you like Tony Blair to answer? Visit the 38 Degrees website to sign their petition and let the Iraq Inquiry know what you want him to answer.

Here are the questions 38 Degrees have put forth, with my own amendments in red.

  • Being that the reasons given for the invasion were widely known at the time to be based on missing or questionable evidence and misleading statements, what were you offered from the White House When did you first promised George Bush you’d back an invasion?
  • Since there was no evidence of a stockpile and quite a bit of publicly available evidence that there wasn’t one before you made your decison, When did you really realise Saddam Hussein probably didn’t have WMD?
  • To what extent Did you cover up advice that the war might would be illegal?
  • Given that there was no legal basis for the war, Why did you decide to ignore the anti-war protests by the British people?
  • Given the highly corrupt and illegal nature of what you’ve done, why shouldn’t you be in prison right now?

Yeah, they probably won’t get asked, much less with my amendments. Maybe Cherie can make a documentary about it some day. I can likely guess what the real answer would be regarding to the protests: why would you pay attention to protesters when you’re not in any danger of losing their support at the polls?

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George Bush gets a proper send off from Iraq

Posted on Monday, 15 December, 2008 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

I could watch the first few seconds of this clip in a loop for hours. The only thing that could have improved it would be if the guy actually nailed him with one of his shoes. Though, had he pegged him, I’d be writing right now that it would have been better if he had brought soccer shoes with metal cleats instead. You can’t have everything, I guess. Still, he delivered George the news about what people in Iraq actually think of him. It’s an appropriate send off, and fairly polite considering what the U.S. has thrown at Iraq over time.

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5 Years Too Many

Posted on Monday, 24 March, 2008 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

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In a little over a month, the U.S. will have been occupying Iraq for 5 years. It’s hard to believe.
Even when looking at the awful numbers — more than 1 million Iraqis and nearly 4,000 U.S. servicepeople killed, 2 million Iraqis living as refugees in other countries, with another 2.5 million displaced within Iraq, more than 1 trillion dollars spent — I find it difficult to grasp what 5 years really means. What is the full sum of the destruction and suffering that has taken place? And what does it mean for the future of our country and our world?

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