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Where Iraqi Spending Priorities Lie
Please keep this in perspective: Iraq does not provide potable water for the majourity of its citizens, there are still 4 million Iraqis displaced because of ethnic cleansing (termed “civil war” by the US), cholera has become a majour concern … Continue reading
Iraq Report: the al Anbar Handover
Sergeant Jesse E. Leach carries Lance Corporal Juan Valdez-Castillo after he was shot by a sniper during a patrol in Anbar Province, Iraq on October 31, 2006. (Photo: Joao Silva for The New York Times)The Fake U.S. Victory in IraqBy … Continue reading
Same Path of Intervention and Domination in Iraq
Raed Jarrar in the T-shirt that got him barred from a flight until it was coveredUS-Iraqi agreement: leakedBy Raed Jarrar / September 1, 2008 I read about a leaked copy of the US-Iraqi agreement a few days ago when a … Continue reading
Iraqi-US SOFA* Talks in Jeopardy
Shiite Muslims march in Najaf on Aug. 21 to denounce the presence of U.S. troops and talks with Washington. Photo: Qassem Zein / AFP/Getty ImagesAgreement on U.S. withdrawal from Iraq said to be in peril as Maliki ousts negotiatorsBy Ned … Continue reading
We Are Iraqis and No One Cares About Our Safety
Iraqi checkpoint at nightThe Late IraqBy Anwar Ali / August 30, 2008 It was only my second time out of Iraq traveling to a foreign country. It was night and from above Turkey we could see lights, like millions of … Continue reading
Suing to End Twenty-First Century Slavery
This story yields speculation of another relatively predictable outcome: the acquital of KBR of any wrongdoing (see our post, Because the Empire is never, Ever Wrong – this is really all the same story, differing details). As Juan Cole points … Continue reading
Gov. Palin on Iraq : Hard to Tell What She Thinks
Team McCain. Photo by Mark Lyons/EPA.‘I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq’By Mark Benjamin / August 29, 2008 Presumably, John McCain would only select a candidate for vice president who … Continue reading
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Junior’s Endless Litany of Broken Promises
Iraqi child runs for water when the truck appearsAfter 5 years of war, Iraqis desperate for waterBy Missy Ryan and Sattar Rahim / August 24, 2008 BAGHDAD, Aug 24 (Reuters) – At a communal water station in a Baghdad slum, … Continue reading
Iraq Lies: Will Anyone Ever Be Held to Account?
White Paper Justifying Iraq War Written Three Months before Intel Report Arrivedby Michael Collins / August 25, 2008 The National Security Archive released a report Friday Aug. 22, 2008 that sheds even more light on the premeditated lying and deception … Continue reading
Anyone Who Feels Disappointed Will Go Back
UNDER PRESSURE: Two Sunni Arab fighters in the Sons of Iraq look on this year during a military operation involving American and Iraqi forces south of Baghdad. The U.S. plans for the group to be “out of business” by June. … Continue reading
Perspectives on the Iraqi Oil Industry
Political rifts slow recovery of Iraqi oilBy Carola Hoyos, Roula Khalaf and Ed Crooks (in London) / August 21, 2008 Political gridlock has overtaken security risk as the primary hurdle facing the rehabilitation of Iraq’s oil industry, according to oil … Continue reading
Iraq Report: Still Very Tense in Kirkuk
The aftermath of a suicide attack on Kurdish demonstrators three weeks ago.Photo: Benjamin Lowy/VII NetworkKurdish Control of Kirkuk Creates a Powder KegBy Richard A. Oppel Jr. / August 18, 2008 KIRKUK, Iraq — The phone rang, and it was answered … Continue reading
