Tag: iraq war
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new hearings on old military lies part one
from raw story: “Does the U.S. military exaggerate stories, or alter or enhance them?” ABC’s Diane Sawyer asks rhetorically in this video clip, as Congress prepares to hold hearings today on misleading information from the battlefield. ABC senior correspondent Jake Tapper says the Pentagon “spun heroic myths,” such as the ordeal of Pvt. Jessica Lynch,…
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hired guns in iraq killing for amusement
from propaganda matrix/washington post: On the afternoon of July 8, 2006, four private security guards rolled out of Baghdad’s Green Zone in an armored SUV. The team leader, Jacob C. Washbourne, rode in the front passenger seat. He seemed in a good mood. His vacation started the next day. “I want to kill somebody today,”…
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‘sorry we shot your kid, but here’s $500’
from information liberation/editor & publisher: For the entire war in Iraq, the press has been kept largely in the dark concerning the number of civilians killed by our forces, and what happened in the aftermath. Now several hundred files posted online reveal some of the true horror while raising questions about lack of compensation… Last…
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US army desperately seeking joshua key
from quillblog: The Globe and Mail reports that the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Command has been trying to find and question Joshua Key, a deserter who took refuge in Canada and recently published an account of his tour of duty in Iraq called The Deserter’s Tale (House of Anansi Press) co-written with Canadian author Lawrence…
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portland peace march attracts more than 10,000
from oregonian: The crowd at today’s anti-war demonstration easily numbered in the thousands. Organizers said there might have been as many as 15,000 people who participated in the march. Police did not give an estimate. Two informal head counts by The Oregonian as protestors passed Southwest Broadway and Madison Street put the number between 10,000…
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tens of thousands protest at the pentagon
from afp/raw story: Tens of thousands of protesters marched to the Pentagon’s doorstep Saturday demanding “US out of Iraq Now,” ahead of the fourth anniversary of the US invasion. Demonstrators from across the United States gathered in a cold winter day to descend on the US Defense Department offices and decry the conflict that has…
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baudrillard, french intellectual critic of 9/11 & war, dies
from times online: Jean Baudrillard, the French philosopher and intellectual, famous for his controversial theories about the artificial nature of reality and his fierce criticism of consumer culture, has died in Paris. He was 77. Baudrillard, one of Europe’s leading postmodernist thinkers, was perhaps best known for espousing the concept of “hyperreality” and “simulation” –…
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Auditors: Billions Squandered In Iraq
from ap/yahoo: About $10 billion has been squandered by the U.S. government on Iraq reconstruction aid because of contractor overcharges and unsupported expenses, and federal investigators warned Thursday that significantly more taxpayer money is at risk. The three top auditors overseeing work in Iraq told a House committee their review of $57 billion in Iraq…
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news on the march
it’s bush vs america – and bush winsfrom jerusalem post: What’s going on in Washington now is unbelievable – Bush is getting away with it… Nobody’s stopping him, nobody’s going to… You watch these clowns in Congress, these eunuchs who don’t have the balls to even pass what a Bush ally laughed off as a…
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‘dubious’ douglas feith intel fueled push for war
from washington post: Intelligence provided by former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith to buttress the White House case for invading Iraq included “reporting of dubious quality or reliability” that supported the political views of senior administration officials rather than the conclusions of the intelligence community, according to a report by the Pentagon’s inspector general.…
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news on the march
clinton sucks up to aipac with talk of iran warfrom raw story: At a speech Friday to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Friday, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) said “no option can be taken off the table” when dealing with Iran… Clinton tempered her remarks by saying she’s advocated engagement with “our enemies and Israel’s…
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double the troops in the surge?
from defense tech: President Bush and his new military chiefs have been saying for nearly a month that they would “surge” an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq, in a last, grand push to quell the violence in Baghdad and in Anbar Province. But a new study by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says the real…
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tens of thousands protest war in DC
from ap/my way: Protesters energized by fresh congressional skepticism about the Iraq war demanded a withdrawal of U.S. troops in a demonstration Saturday that drew tens of thousands and brought Jane Fonda back to the streets. A sampling of celebrities, a half dozen members of Congress and busloads of demonstrators from distant states joined in…
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US unwittingly evolved superpathogen
from raw story: A drug-resistant bacteria that is infecting wounded US soldiers in Iraq – and has spread to civilian hospitals in parts of Europe – accidentally evolved in US military hospitals in Iraq, Wired Magazine will report in a massive expose on Monday, RAW STORY has learned. The full story is now available here.…
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kissinger calls for a ‘new world order,’ again
from raw story/blacklisted news: Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, an iconic conservative who continues to command the attention of the White House, praises President Bush’s moves in Iraq and says that leaving the war-torn nation is not possible under present conditions. Kissinger has penned an editorial in which he states that Bush’s “bold decision…