In his Aug. 30 speech overwhelmingly focusing on his World War II analogy, Bush did let slip this one telling line at North Island Naval Air Station: “If Zarqawi and bin Laden gain control of Iraq, they would create a… Read moreBush admits: It’s the oil, stupid!
A soundman working for Reuters TV was shot dead Aug. 28 in Baghdad, and a cameraman with him was wounded and then detained by US soldiers. An Iraqi police report, read to Reuters by an Interior Ministry official, said the… Read moreIraq: US troops kill Reuters soundman
From The Independent, via TruthOut, Aug. 29: Iraqi Activist Taken Up by Bush Recants Her Views She was the Iraqi activist who became a symbol of the possibility of a brighter future for Iraq. Back in February, with blue ink… Read moreIraq: women’s rights activist charges betrayal
Expounding its ideology in a lengthy manifesto, the group “al Qaeda in Iraq” says the insurgency is stronger than the US admits and vows to “destroy the American empire.” The group says in an e-book which surfaced on the Internet… Read moreAl-Qaeda in Iraq vows to “destroy the American empire”
Henry Kissinger, a key architect of the US war in Vietnam told CNN‘s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer” Aug. 28 that he has “a very uneasy feeling” that some of the same factors that damaged support for the war in… Read moreIraq: Kissinger “uneasy,” has Vietnam deja vu
AP Aug. 24 reports that Iraq’s southern marshlands—drained by Saddam Hussein—are showing signs of rebirth; former residents are returning, and hunting and fishing are reviving. A new U.N. report sums up the progress, saying satellite imagery shows the marshes have… Read moreIraq marshlands: tentative recovery
With the following pithy statement, the two monoliths of the anti-war movement in the US have agreed to cooperate on a joint demonstration in Washington next month: The two major antiwar coalitions that have initiated and organized for a massive… Read moreJoint anti-war rally called for Sept. 24; Iraq’s secular left betrayed
Cindy Sheehan‘s brave protest encampment down the road from the Bush ranch in Crawford, TX, where the commander-in-chief is vacationing as the corpses pile up in Iraq, has succeeded in grabbing national attention in a way that countless of unimaginative… Read moreCindy Sheehan: Mother Courage or “extremist”?
An Aug. 16 AFP account, online at TruthOut, reports the claims of former Iraqi prisoners claim on that evening’s BBC Newsnight that British troops abused and humiliated them in the aftermath of the US-led invasion in March 2003. Two brothers,… Read moreIraq detainees charge Brits with torture
The Abu Dubai-based Information & Technology Publishing‘s online magazine offers an Aug. 14 story by Rhys Jones, “Wronging Iraq’s rights,” that paints a dire picture of the kind of oppressive theocracy that could be enshrined by the new constitution. The… Read moreIraq: new constitution threatens women
The Committee to Defend Women’s Rights in the Middle East offers this commentary from Yanar Mohammed of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI): Yanar Mohammed: Condemn a constitution of de-humanizing women An era of post-occupation atrocities unfolded to… Read moreYanar Mohammed speaks on Iraq’s pending constitution
Saudi religious leaders, tribal chiefs and government officials gathered in Riyadh to formally declare their loyalty to the new monarch King Abdullah, on the heels of foreign dignitaries including French President Jacques Chirac, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, and Britain’s… Read moreKing Abdullah: family tie to Iraq
