Iraq
Iraqi baseball team gets new gear
Former NY Yankee Joe Pepitone once said "I play better when I look bitchin'. Now, the Iraqi national baseball team has a chance to feel like champions: BAGHDAD — The Iraqi national baseball team's only bat, an aluminum Louisville Slugger, finally can take a rest after four years of daily swings. McClatchy and MSNBC delivered a batch of new equipment Wednesday donated by CTG Athletics, a New York-based sporting goods company.This is outrageous
US Troops Still Dodging Deadly Showers by the Associated Press Military races to inspect more than 90,000 facilities to reduce deadly threat WASHINGTON - The military is racing to inspect more than 90,000 U.S.-run facilities across Iraq to reduce a deadly threat troops face far off the battlefield: electrocution or shock while showering or using appliances. Pfc. Justin Shults shows some of the burn wounds he received after being electrocuted in a shower facility in Iraq, in this photo taken in January in San Antonio, Texas.Commission Gets Grim Report on Wartime Spending
Published on Monday, February 2, 2009 by the Associated Press by Richard Lardner ((sorry, I can't see taking advice on the economy from people who oversaw this mess...)) A new commission examining waste and corruption in wartime contracts got a grim report from government watchdogs who say poor planning, weak oversight and greed combined to soak U.S. taxpayers and undermine American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, says the U.S.Killing Children is Never Legitimate
Published on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 by CommonDreams.org by John Friedrich After spending time with our 2-year old daughter Rosie this morning, I turned on my computer and learned that scores of children in Gaza had been killed by an Israeli airstrike near a U.N. school. An AP photographer described the scene at a nearby hospital: “I saw women and men – parents – slapping their faces in grief, screaming, some of them collapsed to the floor.Bush Tries to Whitewash History; Portrays Himself as a Victim (public)
By Matthew Yglesias, The American Prospect December 17, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/111104/ It's tiresome to need to point this out at this late date but, yes, George W. Bush and his administration misled the country while making the case for war with Iraq and, remarkably, are still trying to mislead people about it. In a Dec.Dick Cheney's Fantasy World (public)
by The Guardian/UK 12/17/08 Despite the facts, the vice-president still insists that Saddam Hussein could have produced weapons of mass destruction by Scott Ritter ((Scott Ritter was a Marine Corps intelligence officer from 1984 to 1991 and a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998.)) In yet another attempt at revisionist history by the outgoing Bush administration, vice-president Dick Cheney, in an exclusive interview with ABC News, took exception [1] to former presidential adviser Karl Rove's contention that the US would not have gone to war [2] if available intelligence before the invasion had shown Iraq [3] not to possess weapons of mass destruction. Cheney noted that the only thing the US got wrong on Iraq was that there were no stockpiles of WMD at the time of the 2003 invasion. "What they found was that Saddam Hussein still had the capability to produce weapons of mass destruction.US: Blackwater used grenades on unarmed Iraqis ([public)
By LARA JAKES JORDAN and MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON – Blackwater Worldwide security guards opened machine gun fire on innocent, surrendering Iraqis and launched a grenade into a girls' school during a gruesome Baghdad shooting last year, prosecutors said Monday in announcing manslaughter charges against five guards. A sixth guard involved in the attack cut a plea deal with prosecutors, turned on his former colleagues, and admitting killing at least one Iraqi in the 2007 shooting in Baghdad's Nisoor Square. Seventeen Iraqis were killed in the assault, which roiled U.S.I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq
By Matthew Alexander/Washington Post Sunday, November 30, 2008; B01 I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. My team of interrogators had successfully hunted down one of the most notorious mass murderers of our generation, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and the mastermind of the campaign of suicide bombings that had helped plunge Iraq into civil war.An Open Letter to Cindy McCain From a Gold Star Mom ((public))
by Diane Santoriello at Commondreams.org I am really upset over your statement about how you felt about Sen. Obama's refusal to vote for war funding. Usually, I am loath to criticize any blue or gold star parent for their political views, but I must speak to your incendiary comments.Top Brands
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