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Updates on War in Iraq
New Developments on the war in Iraq:
Oil Fields ablaze in southern Iraq.
Turkey opens airspace to U.S..
US Forces 3rd Infantry Fire Heavy Artillery at Southern Iraq.
The schedule has been accelerated due to infrastructure destruction.
CT: Explosions and heavy anti aircraft fire heard in Baghdad.
We'll continue to update as new information warrants.
Both sides have been accused of war crimes in the first gulf war. Neither side was innocent. Have a read here.
I remember reading just recently that one or more US soldiers have stepped forward recently claiming that they had participated in igniting oil wells under orders during the first gulf war. I wish I had a link to this story (which may be a total fabrication, who knows). If anyone else has a link to a reliable source on this, it would make interesting reading.
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The new US war on Iraq has begun: arguably the greatest moral tragedy of a generation, an unprecedented failure of diplomacy and international order, and a profound crime against the principles of democracy. Tens of thousands of people may lose their lives as a result of US attacks. Hardly any of them will be Americans; most of them will be civilians. They will add to the already huge death toll of Iraqis killed by a decade of sanctions and years of missile attacks raining down from American planes patrolling the no-fly zones with ever-expanding target lists and rules of engagement." People in many areas of the world - perhaps especially in the Occupied Territories, but also in Europe and North America have new reasons to fear terrorism, as a result of this great act of American aggression. The Bush administration pushed relentlessly towards this war with a long series of incredible lies about virtually every aspect of the current conflict--US intentions, international law, weapons inspections, Iraq's likely military status and the amount of international support for Bush administration aims. Applauded by American corporate interests and cheered on by media institutions, the Bush administrations unilateral drive to war has been actively opposed by most of the worlds people, governments and international institutions. Nobody on Earth will wake up safer tomorrow than they did today.
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Whant to be informed? CNN?? hahahaha
http://www.indymedia.org/
http://news.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/
US is going against the UN.
This criminal act is riscing the peace in the whole world!
The nation that has the most mass destruction weapons is the US. Some of them are Pentagon eager to try in Iraq.
Please try to stop this madness!
Per
I'm sorry to hear that you're not proud of your own nation. We are.
I'm surprised you think we're NOT going to defend the innocent Iraqi people. We are the good guys.
Come back in a few years and we'll talk, observing the differences in the world (and Iraq in particular) between now and then.
As for your cowardly comment about us taking bullets in the head I simply say, bring it on.
Make good on your word or be punished; now he is being punished.
So what you're saying is that if you break your word you should be killed?
What on earth is *wrong* with you?
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What are you talking about? Easier to blame those 'Yankee devils' for their problems?
Don't think we are innocent in any of this. Don't think that the oil link between Iraq and our current president isn't a valid one. Don't think for a second that Iraq is less of a threat to the region they are in than Israel.
Of course the US does what is in its best interests. The people of the Middle East hate the US almost exclusively for one reason: we support Israel and whatever the hell they want to do.
Israel has broken over 60 UN resolutions. Iraq? Less than 8, that I count. Yet the world must stop Iraq because they aren't following the UN's resolutions. Riiiiiight. I cannot believe those in the US believe all the BS fed to them by the President and his cronies.
Anyone here have that link to the finding that the report that Iraq had a nuclear program was actually based on a college student's paper, and not on intelligence reports?
They stuck me in an institution, said it was the only solution, to...protect me from the enemy, myself
The US already controls Saudi Arabia however. The monarchy there is essentially just a puppet dictatorship supported by US troops in exchange for oil.
And America wonders why everyone hates them...
Jeremy
So... you, as an avowed conservative, are saying that Clinton was doing the right thing in 1998?
Well then, by transitive property, that means all the Repugs who were making fun of Clinton and bashing those actions back then (Think Rush Limbaugh for one) were on the wrong side of the coin. So does that make you and the rest of your conservative brothers two-faced? I think so!!!
You'll happily bash and ridicule a liberal, but your conservative god GWB can't be touched. Fucking hypocrites and liars... every one of you.
You probably prefer Windows over Linux as well. My god you ARE an asshole aren't you?
I think it's time for a MODBOMB!!!!
Un-news
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How is the US less dependent on oil? That's utterly ridicuolous. Defence spending has gone down? Good. So why do you want it to go back up again when there's still no health care for poor people in the US?
Obviously the French have interests in Iraqi oil, practically all the industrialised nations (certainly the ones that are vocal in this matter) do. They haven't copyrighted 25% of Iraqi oil, you can't do that with oil. French companies have deals with Iraq but like all the deals they come under the UN oil for food programme.
Prehaps pretzel-eating-war-monkey would rather he could control all of the oil. They won't let him drill in those damn national parks so what else is a guy to do.
And perhaps Chirac (that's the French president) opposes because, like Bush, he knows that doing so makes victory at the next election much more likely for him.
P.S. Pretzels are German and democracy is French! (sorry)
PRESIDENT BUSH AGREES TO MORE INSPECTORS IN IRAQ
(AP) Washington DC Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:45 PM
President George Bush has announced that the US will not attack Iraq. The President announced that he is agreeing to deploying additional inspectors throughout Iraq.
The US will send 250,000 additional inspectors:
24,000 members of the 1st Infantry Division
15,000 members of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
15,000 members of the 82d Airborne Division
More than 5,000 members of the 4th armored division with their "M1-A1 all-terrain vehicles"
Additional US Army personnel, as needed for inspections
A variety of US Air Force personnel for aerial recon missions and other "surveillance" activities
A significant number of United States Marines to aid with inspections
United States Coast Guard personnel to inspect coastlines
An undisclosed number of Rangers, Green Berets, Navy SEALs, Recon Marines, Delta Force, and other Special Operations personnel to inspect Iraqi "hideaways"
Special air deliveries to aid the inspections will be made by aircraft from the USS Constellation, USS George Washington, USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Enterprise.
The President said: "With these additional inspectors, the inspections should be completed in a few weeks."
At least in his last presidential election he had 100 percent of the vote. That's more than twice of what George W. got!