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 Sep 21, 8:25am  (4 reviews) iraq http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?optio...- In the background War Crimes Conferencing is continuing. Watch the videos of those conferences and spread the Good News!
- slatereport: Chomsky on Iraq: responsibilities
- Aug 26, 2:56am (1 review) politics, iraq, bush, war-crimes http://slatereport.blogspot.com/2008/08/...
- Was it worth it?
Noam Chomsky gives his verdict on the legacy of the Iraq war, as part of our series of viewpoints from social and political voices.
Watch Noam Chomsky give his verdict:
http://slatereport.blogspot.com/2008/08/chomsky-on-iraq-responsibilities.html
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- slatereport: Lies After Lies After Lies....McCain caught with his pants...
- Aug 24, 3:03pm (1 review) politics, iraq, war, mccain http://slatereport.blogspot.com/2008/08/...
- McCain caught with his pants down in lie after lie. Please do your part and pass this on for everyone to see.
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- Just Foreign Policy - Iraqi Death Estimate
- Aug 21, 3:20am
 (18 reviews) iraq http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/ir... 
U.S. Confirmed Deaths
Reported Deaths: 4145
Confirmed Deaths: 4144
Cost of U.S. War and Occupation of Iraq $546,728,806,669
- Iraq Coalition Casualties
- Aug 21, 3:18am (72 reviews) iraq http://icasualties.org/oif/
- JURIST - Paper Chase: DOJ preparing to charge Blackwater guards in Iraq...
- Aug 19, 4:24pm (1 review) iraq http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/20...
- SlateReport: The U.S. is making plans to stay in Iraq!
- Aug 10, 3:59pm (1 review) politics, iraq, war http://slatereport.blogspot.com/2008/08/...
- I thought this was the case. Many believed this for sometime now. The U.S. is making no plans to leave Iraq.
The other day I received an email from some piss ant who never lifted a finger for this country and he said, "love it or leave it". You know, I wish I could. I'd tell our political leaders just what they can do with it too.
- Soldier in photo dies after PTSD struggle - Army News, opinions, editorials...
- Jul 4, 9:18pm (3 reviews) politics, iraq, death http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/07/mi...
- Pfc. Joe Dwyer carried a young Iraqi boy who was injured during a heavy battle between the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry Regiment and Iraqi forces near the village of Al Faysaliyah, Iraq, on March 25, 2003.
On June 28, Dwyer, 31, died of an accidental overdose in his home in Pinehurst, N.C., after years of struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. During that time, his marriage fell apart as he spiraled into substance abuse and depression. He found himself constantly struggling with law, even as friends, Veterans Affairs personnel and the Army tried to help him.
Joe thanks for being there when that young boy needed you. Rest in peace, you deserve it.
- U.S. had hand in Iraq oil deals / Advisers assisted Baghdad ministry in...
- Jun 30, 2:31pm (1 review) politics, iraq, oil http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...
- U.S. had hand in Iraq oil deals
Advisers assisted Baghdad ministry in writing contracts
A group of U.S. advisers led by a small State Department team played an integral part in drawing up contracts between the Iraqi government and five major Western oil companies to develop some of the largest fields in Iraq, U.S. officials say.
The disclosure, coming on the eve of the contracts' announcement, is the first confirmation of such direct Bush administration involvement and is sure to stoke criticism of the deals.
In their role as advisers to the Oil Ministry, U.S. government lawyers and private sector consultants provided template contracts and detailed suggestions on drafting the contracts, advisers and a senior State Department official said.
It is unclear how much influence their work had on the Oil Ministry's decisions. The advisers, who along with the diplomatic official spoke only on condition of anonymity, say that their involvement was only to help an understaffed Iraqi ministry with technical and legal details of the contracts and that they in no way helped to choose which companies got the deals. Repeated messages left with the Oil Ministry's press office were not returned.
At a time of spiraling oil prices, the no-bid contracts, which are expected to be awarded today to Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, Total and Chevron, as well as several smaller oil companies, are coming as a rare prize to the industry in a country with some of the world's largest untapped fields and potential for vast profits.
The deals have been criticized by opponents of the Iraq war, who accuse the White House of working behind the scenes to ensure Western access to Iraqi oil fields even as most other oil-exporting countries have been sharply limiting the roles of international oil companies in development.
Though enriched by high prices, the companies are starved for new fields. The U.S. government, too, has eagerly encouraged investment anywhere in the world that could bring new oil online to alleviate the exceptionally tight global supply, which is a cause of high prices.
Iraq is particularly attractive in that light because in addition to its vast reserves, it also has the potential to bring new sources of oil to the market relatively cheaply. This potential is closer to being realized as sabotage on oil export pipelines has declined with improved security. U.S. military officials say the pipelines now have excess capacity, waiting for output to increase at the fields.
But any perception of U.S. meddling in Iraq's oil policies threatens to further inflame opinion against the United States, particularly in Arab nations that are skeptical of American intentions in Iraq, which has the third-largest oil reserves in the world.
"We pretend it is not a centerpiece of our motivation, yet we keep confirming that it is," Frederick Barton, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said in a telephone interview. "And we undermine our own veracity by citing issues like sovereignty, when we have our hands right in the middle of it."
U.S. officials are directly advising Iraq on a host of issues, from electricity to education. But they have avoided the limelight when questions turn to how Iraq should manage its vast oil endowment, insisting that it is a decision that must be left to the Iraqi government. The State Department advisers on the Western contracts say they purposely avoid trying to shape Iraqi policy.
"They have not negotiated with the international oil companies since the 1970s," said the senior State Department official, who was speaking about Iraqi oil offi
- A Special Thank You To George W Bush
- Jun 8, 1:49pm (32 reviews) iraq http://www.rense.com/general82/gw.htm
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