The RAND corporation, a company that does studies on and for government and society was commissioned by the Army to do a study about the Iraq war. When the study found failure in every organization at every level, the Army buried it- including the declassified version. The reason? According to Lt. Gen. James Lovelace [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’
RAND Corporation Commits Truth, Gets Buried
Posted in Iraq, tagged Bush Administration, Department of Defense, Iraq, RAND Corporation, war on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Waterboarding? Youbetcha
Posted in CIA, torture, tagged Iraq, torture, CIA, Waterboarding, Al-Qaeda, Michael Hayden, Mike McConnell on February 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
CIA Chief Michael Hayden has admitted that the CIA used waterboarding,but only on three people and not at all in the last five years. However, Intelligence Director Mike McConnell says waterboarding still remains in the CIA’s arsenal.
Operations into Iran and Syria Allowed Under 2005 ROE
Posted in Iraq, war, tagged Iran, Iraq, Rules of Engagement, Syria, war, Wikileaks on February 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
According to documents given to the organization Wikileaks, a secure document repository for whistle-blowers, the 2005 ROE for US forces engaged in operations in Iraq were allowed to move into Iran and Syria if in pursuit of former members of Saddam Hussien’s government. That’s not the only thing contained in these ROE we find [...]
Lawlessness is the NeoCon Way
Posted in Bush, Iraq, business, tagged AT&T, Immunity, Iraq, Private military contractors, Senate, Telecommunications, war, wiretapping on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently, not only is the executive branch so powerful and so omniscient it doesn’t exist, those who used to be known as the members of it – President Bush and Dick Cheney have decided that laws are for other people. Two deals the administration is working on would effectively protect corporate America from [...]
US Discovers & Publishes Files of Foreign Fighters In Iraq
Posted in Iraq, arab world, tagged Al-Qaeda, Insurgents, Iraq, Mujahideen Shura Council on January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Foreign Fighters from Saudi Arabia, Syria, and many other countries in the arab world who have come to Iraq to be martyrs, may be closer to capture by US troops after Al-Qaeda’s personnel files have been discovered in Iraq. Not only that, but apparently the bulk of the resistance doesn’t belong to Al-Qaeda.
Turkey: In Iraq and Maybe the EU
Posted in Bush Administration, Iraq, Kurds, PKK, Turkey, military, tagged American Enterprise Institute, EU, Iraq, PKK, Turkey on December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Condoleezza Rice and Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan held talks over the phone last night on the Turkish operations into northern Iraq against the PKK. The Turkish Military carried out a small strike on Monday as well as previous operations against PKK militants in Iraqi Kurdish areas. These raids were apparently aided by [...]
Evidence of Torture and Dissappearances Keeps Coming Out
Posted in Bush, Bush Administration, Cheney, DoJ, Guantanamo Bay, Iran, Iraq, Musharraf, torture, tagged Afghanistan, Bush Administration, CIA, Congress, Iraq, torture, war on terror on December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In what started as a trickle, has rapidly advanced to a rising tide, stories of torture and mass disappearances are flooding the news. The stories read like political fictions but are all too real. Countries involvement in torture is nothing new, in fact America’s involvement in torture is nothing new. But, what [...]
Biden Shoots From The Hip on the CIA
Posted in 2008, CIA, DoJ, Iran, Iraq, Joe Biden, elections, intelligence community, tagged CIA, elections, Iran, Iraq, Joe Biden, NIE on December 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We’re not making an endorsement but there’s a whole lot of sense being made by Joe Biden on Sunday’s This Week. Check out the interview. We’re just glad someone is out committing truth, somewhere –
Turkey: Tensions easing, but still there.
Posted in Kurds, PKK, Turkey, tagged European Union, Iraq, Kurds, PKK, Turkey on December 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve been covering the tensions between Turkey and the PKK in northern Iraq virtually since our inception. Typing Turkey in our search engine will show you that back log. Seems as now is as good of time as any for an update as tensions seem to be easing, and negotiations with [...]
The Newest Lie
Posted in Bush Administration, Iraq, foreign policy, war, war on terror, tagged , Bush, idiots, Iraq, Karl Rove, Lies, war on December 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
5 New Lost Generations
Posted in Bush, Children, Iraq, foreign policy, war, tagged casualties, collateral damage, Iraq, lost generation, politics, war on October 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This war has created its own lost generations, we’ve counted five so far, although it would not be surprising to find more. Two American, two Iraqi, and one more broadly effecting us all.
Nuancing death
Posted in Bush, Bush Administration, Iraq, Pentagon, tagged Bush, Iraq, Iraqi civilians, Pentagon, war on September 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Washington Post is running a story today about what constitutes a sectarian killing. These numbers are, apparently, critical to the Bush administration’s assurances that the war is being won because sectarian deaths are going down, as evidenced by such statistics. The political utility of such nuance is clear, but the reality remains [...]
2 Million Internally Displaced in Iraq
Posted in Bush, Bush Administration, Iraq, war, tagged Blackwater, Bush, Internally Displaced People, Iraq, war on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Internally displaced people in a time of conflict is not new. We see them now all over Africa, especially in Darfur, Congo, as well as throughout all regions of the developing world. The numbers reaching this level in Iraq strikes us as particularly sinister.
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