Iraq War, Six Year Anniversary

Mother Jones' ongoing coverage of the Iraq War.

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The Iraq War for Dummies

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Torture Hits Home

Mission Creep

The Torture Playlist

The U.S. Military's Assassination Problem

Uprooted: Iraq's Refugee Crisis

The Final Act of Abu Ghraib

Exclusive: Who's Behind Abu Ghraib?

Am I a Torturer?

Out Now, Ask Questions Later? Six Challenges for Antiwar Activists

Exiting Iraq: Now or Never?

How to Stay in Iraq for 1,000 Years

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U.S. in Iraq: Returning to the Scene of the Crime

The Iraq Math War

Replaying the Iraq War's Greatest Hits, Five Years On

The Iraq War, Brought to You by Your Friends at Lockheed Martin

Is the Economy a Casualty of War?

The Real Cost of the Iraq War

Washington Marchers Demand Congress Stop the War

From Kurdistan to K Street

At Ease: Army Recruitment

Army Digs Deep to Get Strong

An Army of One Thing After Another

Paul Fusco: The Story Behind the Wounded Vets Photos

Photo Wars

Security Contractors: Riding Shotgun With Our Shadow Army in Iraq

Is KBR Defenseless?

Contractors Gone Wild

Disabled Iraq Vets Shortchanged, Already


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Breaking Ranks

Iraq War a "Major Debacle," Says Pentagon Institute

Caring for Veterans on the Cheap

Al Qaeda in Iraq's Deadly Diaspora

The Logistics of Moving the Military Out of Iraq

Four Post-Occupation Scenarios: Iraq's Sectarian Breakdown

Civil War: Inevitable or Not?

The Coming Iraqi Exodus: Why the U.S. Won't Help Iraqis Who Helped Us

Permanent Presence: You Can't Go Home Again

Al Qaeda in Iraq: How Dangerous Is It?

Family Snapshot: Statistics for the Average Iraqi Family

Lexicon of Iraq War Lingo: Fightin' Words

Tracing the Trail of Torture

Interrogating Donald Rumsfeld

Operation Stop Talking

White House Admits It Is Missing Email Backup Tapes From Start of Iraq War

Putting A GI Back Together Again

The War in Iraq and Its Impact on the War on Terrorism

The Iraq Effect, Sources: War in Iraq and Its Impact on the War on Terrorism

On 5th Anniversary of Iraq Museum's Looting, New Attention to Antiquities Trafficking

New Officers' Survey: US Military Stretched, Unable to Fight Another Major War

Surging Toward Civil War

McCain in NH: Would Be "Fine" To Keep Troops in Iraq for "A Hundred Years"

Who Will Throw the Book at the Bushies?

For the Press, No Iraq Introspection

Virtual Peacenik

Warriors Against War

War Visible

Weakened Warriors: When the Military Gets Combat Fatigue

Photo Essay: Anti-War Protestors

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johnhkennedy

9-11 needed to be avenged, but Bush had another agenda

There was no doubt that 9-11, like Pearl Harbor, needed to be avenged,
but Bush had another agenda.

Bush, Cheney, and appointees lied about WMD, aluminum tubes, and Niger Uranium to con Congress into approving an invasion of Iraq, a country that did not have anything to do with 9-11.

In WW-II, in 4 years, FDR put 13,000,000 men in the fight, beat 3 dictatorships, their leaders dead at the end.

After 7 years of War On Terror, neither Bush nor Cheney could find Osama Bin Laden, our US reputation is in the gutter, we're still at war, over 4,200 US Soldiers are dead, over 30,000 maimed for the Bush-Cheney arrogance and lies. They ordered Torture, a violation of Federal Law.

If we as a people hope to force our public officials to obey our laws and our Constitution,
the time is Now
and the way to do it is
to prosecute members of the Bush administration
who violated Federal Laws,
including the law against Torturing prisoners.

The reason that we continue to have unnecessary wars of choice is
that our Congress makes excuses for lawbreaking officials instead of impeaching or prosecuting them.

Unless Obama's statement that “no one is above the law” is a lie,
Obama must appoint a Special Prosecutor for Bush, Cheney and the appointee lawyers that advocated Torture, violated many Federal Laws, our Constitution & the Geneva Convention on Torture.

Sign The Petition To Prosecute them

http://ANGRYVoters.org

Over 63,000 have signed

Join Them!

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Where's the oil?

I was told we went in there to get their oil. Are we being lied to again? Those damn republican and damn values! Why can't they learn how to deceive and cheat on taxes and take what's not theirs like our democrat buddies. Good thing we have Obama. He'll go to Iraq and tell them they should distribute the wealth (oil).

Damn Bush and his high morals.

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Deficits: Outsourced Wars with NO Supervision , Fraud and Waste

In my opinion and as so many are saying :

1) The US deficit this year of 2009 is the result of the last 8 years of incompetence , of the Iraq/Afghanistan War and our constant dependency on foreign oil and gas , among other facts : The Iraq /Afghanistan War was outsourced with NO oversight and lots of duplication, fraud, abuse, theft and waste, and now the USA faces 10 % of Veterans with huge emotional and mental issues ( Tim McVeigh comes to mind ) that will create a huge social and security problem, and the same neocons that pushed for these Wars ( Shumer,Feinstein,Frank,Summers, Emanuel,Wolfowitz,Perle,Feith,Lieberman ,Bolten,Abrams,Libby, etc. ) knew this very well when they promoted these Wars every day on TV,Radio and Newspapers in 2002 and 2003 , they knew very well and many people are asking for Indictments.

2) America must develop a full Solar,Wind and Wave ,Geothermal and Synthetic - Bio Fuels Energy Industry right now , a whole new generation of Americans working on these new Energy sources, a whole new Culture,right now....while we wait for fusion energy to ignite...we must get out of the Middle East with Energy Independence.

3) How sad to see all the Congress fighting against each other while the country needs crews right now installing solar systems and wind and wave turbines, while the country needs new super-batteries for cars and trucks and new synthetic -bio fuels to get the Commercial and Military Aviation out of their mess, how sad and criminal ! .... so, who are the real traitors and terrorists ?

about the G-20 Meeting next month :

4) The G-20 must make clear that a global approach to Solar,Wind and Wave,Geothermal and Synthetic-bio fuels ( as well as clean coal,gas,nuclear and oil) is vital, specially for small and medium businesses,for family operations, for the small company in the garage inventing the new polymer battery or water fuel-cell, we need a massive investment, a " blanket the planet " approach, but where is the leadership ? where is the vision ?
who is not corrupted by Oil and Neocon Money ? who ?

5) What is also clear is that wood biomass and cellulosic ethanol , based on trees, will just turn the planet into a parking lot, it's the dumbest thing ever !!! a 70 megawatt "biomass-pulpwood" plant ( huge for this type but small for practical effects or when compared to a big solar-wind-geothermal-batteries-fuelcells combined farm ) burns thousands of trees equivalent a day, why ? this is absurd and criminal ! and the same goes for cellulosic-ethanol plants, they just destroy one forest-equivalent of wood every day, criminal!

The G-20 must find a formula to sell to the 350 million middle class consumers in India ( 100 ) and China ( 250 ) while re-starting the Export - Import machine, with small and medium companies support and small farms and small banks in the mix too, that formula is the trick, who will find it ? and the glue is the solar,wind and wave energy, the new smart grid and the total internet and mobile smart phone link, with micro-loans and cheap crank-solar-laptops everywhere , with solar panels and concentrators to get fresh water for all everywhere and with the new antibiotics ,clinics and schools everywhere, so where are the leaders ? ...and without C.D.O.'s ( collateralized-debt-obligations ) or S.I.V's ( structured - investment-vehicles) ,without all the swaps , derivatives and pseudo -insurance financial products to fool the investors on dark markets, over -the-counter and off-shore tax-exempt shelters...no more bad tricks, only good ones....where are the leaders in Brussels and in Washington D.C., where ?

About the Toxic Assets:

The Hedge-Funds will find a way to clear 2 trillion dollars from this next Toxic-Assets Bail-Out, and while the Media blames the Obama-Biden Administration , distract all , and push their Geithner-Bernanke-Summers-Schumer-Orszag-Frank-Emanuel-Volcker-
Lieberman-Feinstein-Boxer-Bloomberg-Kagan group to power in 2010 with the excuse that the Obama-Biden Adm. is a disaster that just gave the Hedge-Funds a 2 trillion dollar free gift, they will blame Obama-Biden for their own theft and fraud , and since 40 % of the People only watches Fox - Rush and their pack, they may even get away with it, what a criminal shame....when are Obama and Biden see the light ? when ? ..... CEASAR, MEET BRUTUS !

One solution is to park these Toxic Assets in a Special Bank until they get up again, 2 to 3 years and done by Congress , there is no need to give to the Hedge- Funds any money,just by taking away these toxic assets, the stock of most Banks will go up 25 % in hours !, and after all,most of these Hedge-Funds are the biggest stockholders in most of the Military-Intelligence-Security Contractors in the War, enough ! .....but of course, Congress, will do the worst choice, the most corrupt and the most expensive, right ?

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