Feith in the Situation Room: Three Lies Former No. 3 at the Pentagon under Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, has been found guilty by the Inspector General of “inappropriate” behavior in setting up a rogue unit inside the Pentagon to cherry pick intelligence so as to get up a war. Of course, the […]
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Arab World
Helicopter Crash Killed 7 Us Gis On
Crash Kills 7 GIs Arab Demonstration in Kirkuk A helicopter crash killed 7 US GIs on Wednesday. AP interviewed an Iraqi farmer in the area who said he heard a missile being fired before the crash, and a radical Muslim group took responsibility. Only an investigation will settle if it was a shoot-down, but the […]
Is Tokyo Going Wobbly On Iraq Shengetsu
Is Tokyo Going Wobbly on Iraq? The Shengetsu Newsletter follows: ‘ Newsletter No. 508 News-Analysis February 6, 2007 IS TOKYO “GOING WOBBLY” ON IRAQ? Just two weeks after Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma described the US invasion of Iraq “based on an assumption that weapons of mass destruction existed” in Iraq a mistake, comes a new […]
1000 Killed In Iraq In Past Week
1,000 Killed in Iraq in Past Week;Parliamentarians call for Expulsion of Arabs, Iranians The Reuters headline says it all: ‘Iraq: Children living without limbs lack support.’. Al-Hayat [Life] reports in Arabic that a tit for tat debate broke out in the Iraqi parliament on Sunday. Shiite delegates from the United Iraqi Alliance demanded the expulsion […]
Shamss Parody Of Bush Video Clip As
Shams’s Parody of Bush: Video Clip as Resistance When I hear Bush and Cheney keep talking about “getting the job done” in Iraq, the thing that most amazes me is that they don’t know they are laughingstocks in the region. It isn’t just that they are widely hated, or distrusted, or viewed as failures. It […]
U.S. Releases First Of Seized Iraqi Papers
Reprinted for research purposes. washingtonpost.com > World > Middle East U.S. Releases First Of Seized Iraqi Papers By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, March 17, 2006 Responding to pressure from Congress, Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte yesterday released the first handful of Iraqi documents out of more than 2 million captured […]
Saddam Was Trying To Capture Zarqawi
Saddam Was Trying to Capture Zarqawi The Bush administration repeatedly made the presence in Iraq of Abu Musab Zarqawi a pretext for invading the country and overthrowing Saddam Hussein. They implied that he was a client of Saddam and that Saddam had arranged for hospital care for him. Newly released documents from the captured Iraqi […]
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Holds Iraq Hearings I didn’t post much on Tuesday because I was testifying in Washington at the Senate Foreign relations commitee hearing on Iraq. The Senate CFR began three days of hearings on Iraq on Tuesday. I’m told it wasn’t on C-Span, which is a great shame (maybe it will be […]
Rumsfeld on the Future of Iraq
From Juan Cole’s private archives. From ???@??? Tue Jan 21 02:57:47 2003 To: infoco@yahoogroups.com From: Juan Cole Delivered-To: mailing list infoco@yahoogroups.com Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 02:56:21 -0500 Subject: [infoco] Rumsfeld on the future of Iraq Reply-To: infoco-owner@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld today sketched out his vision […]
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