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The Treachery Behind The Iraq War

14 hours ago ago from Aisha

Dick Cheney (front) George W. Bush (back) So much treachery went into the Bush Administration's Iraq war that it is astonishing. Former President George W. Bush and his Vice President, Dick Cheney, pushed so many terrible boundaries that left the world aghast. New reports have since surfaced that the War in Iraq was planned prior to when the September 11th terrorists attacks occurred, but was used as an excuse to invade the Middle ...

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Don't Forget America's Other War

21 hours ago ago from Pakistan Politics

Fareed Zakaria Remember Iraq? For months our attention has been focused on Afghanistan, and you can be sure that the surge will be covered exhaustively as it unfolds in 2010. But the coming year could be even more pivotal in Iraq. The country will hold elections in March to determine its political future. Months of parliamentary horse trading will likely ensue, which could provoke a return to violence. The United States still has 120,000 ...

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Uncovered: The War On Iraq

20 hours ago ago from Top Documentary Films - Watch Free Documentaries Online

The Bush Administration made up its' mind to go to war on September 11th 2001. From that time on, you were dealing with rationalization and justification for the war. You weren't dealing with real causes for the war or real reasons for the war. There was never a clear and present danger. There was never an imminent threat. Uncovered: The War on Iraq , filmmaker Robert Greenwald chronicles the Bush Administration's determined quest to ...

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Strawberry Fields

18 hours ago ago from Quasi-Control

Last night we watched the movie Across the Universe .  Both Aubrey and I thought it was a fantastic movie. While the quality of the film was very good and it was interesting artistically it had some very strong political message, which Aubrey and I discussed long after the movie ended.  Until recently I had only viewed the movement as a group of promiscuous druggies who just wanted to complain about the government. Sadly I feel that many ...

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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up! (12/21/09)

5 hours ago ago from Doc's Talk

The Editors Whenever you think general incompetence by those who purport to serve by the consent of the governed can’t get any worse, think again: “The ‘Surge’ and ‘Success,’ Part I” (DianaWest.net, 12/18/09) This week's syndicated column is the first in a series on the impact of the Iraq "surge" strategy: The main reason the "surge" in Afghanistan is on is because the conventional wisdom tells us the "surge" in Iraq "worked." The ...

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Iraqi election workers targets for insurgents

17 hours ago ago from Washington Post - World

BAGHDAD -- Insurgents have begun targeting Iraqi election workers in an apparent attempt to derail the March parliamentary vote, Iraqi officials said, prompting electoral authorities to restrict the movement of their employees and shelter some at a hotel in the Green Zone. An election worker was killed in front of his Baghdad home last week, and a worker and the wife and son of another were kidnapped in the past 10 days, according to Faraj ...

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