World-News

By Richard Sanders

Most Canadians still proudly believe that their government refused to join the Iraq War. Nothing could be further from the truth. Here are some of the ways in which we joined the fray.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19380.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/18/7123/

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Britain Releases Iraq WMD Dossier Draft

Britain's Foreign Office on Monday released an early version of a 2002 dossier of prewar intelligence on Iraq that became vital to Tony Blair's case for war.

http://tinyurl.com/2pgzhd

Read the draft here
http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/wmd_jul_2002.pdf


From Information Clearing House

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British Prewar Intelligence "Sexed Up"

Nigel Morris reports for The Independent UK: "Fresh evidence that the Iraq weapons dossier was 'sexed up' emerged as the Government finally published the secret first draft of the document. As expected, the earliest version of the document did not include the now notorious claim that Saddam Hussein could launch weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes of an order to do so."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021908N.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blair
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nigel+Morris

Power failures and maintenance have disrupted running water supplies to almost half of the capital, Baghdad, home to nearly 6 million people.

http://snipurl.com/1ztwn


From Information Clearing House

The United States will probably have more troops in Iraq this summer than it did before pouring in forces last year -- even after a planned drawdown, a U.S. general said on Friday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080216/ts_nm/iraq_usa_troops_dc


From Information Clearing House

John Williams, a former Foreign Office aide, said last night that publication of his document would expose how members of Tony Blair's team were locked in a mindset that made military action inevitable.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19367.htm



Secret draft of Iraq war dossier to be revealed

The secret first draft of the notorious Iraq dossier that helped to take Britain to war is expected to be released tomorrow, in a victory for freedom of information campaigners.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19366.htm



Brown should listen to the military and quit Iraq now

The best way to improve Britain's standing in the Middle East is to admit to a terrible blunder and withdraw.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/oct/03/foreignpolicy.israel


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blair
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Middle+East
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Steele

If Only Saddam Had Injected HGH

By Scott Ritter

That Congress puts the so-called integrity of a game ahead of its own Constitutional mandate of oversight of legitimate governance is a travesty. That this travesty is carried out in the face of a pledge by a Democratic-controlled Congress to effectively and responsibly carry out its duty to investigate how and why our nation went to war with Iraq is not only incomprehensible, but reprehensible.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19369.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Ritter

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/16/7102/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ahmed+Ali
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dahr+Jamail

Andrew Gray of Reuters reports: "The United States will probably have more troops in Iraq this summer than it did before pouring in forces last year - even after a planned drawdown, a US general said on Friday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021608A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/shoptalk_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003711142


Informant: Romi Elnagar

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Counting Iraqi Casualties and a Media Controversy

John Tirman of Editor & Publisher writes: "One puzzling aspect of the news media's coverage of the Iraq war is their squeamish treatment of Iraqi casualties. The scale of fatalities and wounded is a difficult number to calculate, but its importance should be obvious. Yet, apart from some rare and sporadic attention to mortality figures, the topic is virtually absent from the airwaves and news pages of America. This absence leaves the field to gross misunderstandings, ideological agendas, and political vendettas. The upshot is that the American public - and US policy makers, for that matter - are badly informed on a vital dimension of the war effort."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021808F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+casualties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fatalities
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=media+coverage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Tirman