World-News

Christopher Manion on a Catholic view of the war
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2178&Itemid=48


Informant: Lew Rockwell



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bring+the+Troops+Home

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/10/6287/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Basra
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Yifat+Susskind

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/10/6295/



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

17fach erhöhtes Risiko durch Gewalt zu sterben http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27034/1.html

James Risen, of The New York Times, reports: "The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Iraqi civilians and United States military personnel. Suddenly, on that May day in 2005, the copter dropped CS gas, a riot-control substance the American military in Iraq can use only under the strictest conditions and with the approval of top military commanders. An armored vehicle on the ground also released the gas, temporarily blinding drivers, passers-by and at least 10 American soldiers operating the checkpoint."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011008L.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Risen

In These Times
by Allen McDuffee

01/09/08

Improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, have killed 1,678 U.S. military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan since July 2003, according to Georgia-based Iraq Coalition Casualty Count. The death toll could have been much higher without the help of 5,000 IED-detecting robots that, according to CBS News, have found 10,000 roadside bombs in Afghanistan and Iraq. But the next step in the evolution of wartime robots looks to go from saving lives to taking them. The U.S. Army soon plans to deploy armed robots with firepower into the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Designed by Foster-Miller, these robots, known as SWORDS (Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detections Systems), are operated and fired by remote control... [editor’s note: But is it “RoboCop” … or “Terminator?” - SAT]

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3463/robocop_in_iraq/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

In Politics.gather.com, Congressman Robert Wexler writes: "A new troubling myth has taken hold in Washington and it is critical that the record is set straight. According to the mainstream media, Republicans, and unfortunately even some Democrats, the President's surge in Iraq has been a resounding success. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010908S.shtml



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

Straight Talk

By Layla Anwar

Americans still pretend they brought Democracy to Iraq. Keep on deluding yourselves folks. Had I been in charge of your education, I would grant you free PHD's in Deceit, Duplicity and Denial.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19033.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Layla+Anwar

By DAHR JAMAIL

The snow job by the corporate media on the issue of sectarianism in Iraq has ensured that the public buys into the line that the Sunni and Shia will dice one another up into little pieces if the occupation ends.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19034.htm



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

By Khaleej Times

The World Health Organization said Wednesday a large-scale household survey showed an estimated 151,000 Iraqis were violently killed since the US-led invasion of their country in March 2003 to the middle of 2006.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19035.htm



Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq 1,164,650
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html



Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq 3,921
http://icasualties.org/oif/



The War in Iraq Costs
$484,313,951,412
See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182


From Information Clearing House