USA Invasion Of Iraq: War – March 19, 2003 | Nine Years Later President Obama Ends the Iraq War (VIDEOS)

3CHICSPOLITICO Posted on March 19, 2012by Ametia NINE years ago today, March 19, 2003, President George W. Bush and the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA declared “WAR on Terror” and invaded Iraq. December 18, 2011 President Obama speaks in Fort Bragg about the last troops getting out of Iraq. 3 Chics wanted to HIGHLIGHT this significant [...]

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Curveball doubts were shared with CIA, says ex-German foreign minister

Joschka Fischer accuses former CIA chief George Tenet over his knowledge of Iraqi defector’s sketchy background Helen Pidd in Berlin guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 February 2011 14.08 GMT Germany‘s former foreign minister Joschka Fischer has accused the former head of the CIA George Tenet of making implausible claims about the handling of the Curveball case by [...]

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One November’s Dead: The American War Dead Disappear into the Darkness

by Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, Dec 7, 2010 America’s heroes?  Not so much.  Not anymore.  Not when they’re dead, anyway. Remember as the invasion of Iraq was about to begin, when the Bush administration decided to seriously enforce a Pentagon ban, in existence since the first Gulf War, on media coverage and images of the American [...]

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There Are No Heroes in Illegal and Immoral Wars

by Robert Jensen, CommonDreams.org, August 23, 2010 When the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division rolled out of Iraq last week, the colonel commanding the brigade told a reporter that his soldiers were “leaving as heroes.” While we can understand the pride of professional soldiers and the emotion behind that statement, it’s time for Americans [...]

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Death of Dr David Kelly: The damning new evidence that points to a cover-up by Tony Blair’s government

by Miles Goslett and Stephen Frost, Daily Mail/UK, June 26, 2010 The official story of Dr David Kelly is that he took his own life in an Oxfordshire wood by overdosing on painkillers and cutting his left wrist with a pruning knife. He was said to be devastated after being unmasked as the source of [...]

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British soldiers viewed all Iraqis as ‘scum’, Baha Mousa inquiry hears

Intelligence officer says officers did not know rules on treatment of prisoners and one tried to mount ‘arse-covering exercise’ after Baha Mousa’s death Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian/UK, April 27, 2010 Baha Mousa, a Basra hotel worker, was beaten to death in 2003 while in the custody of 1 Battalion Queen’s Lancashire Regiment. Photograph: Liberty/PA An [...]

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7th anniversary of war in Iraq slips by unnoticed? Well…Almost

             MSNBC:   Little fanfare for 7th anniversary of war in Iraq

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Clare Short: Tony Blair lied and misled parliament in build-up to Iraq war

• Blair ‘lied’ over war preparations • Attorney general ‘misled’ government • Brown ‘marginalised and unhappy’ Clare Short at the Iraq war inquiry – as it happened James Sturcke, The Guardian/UK, Feb 2, 2010 Clare Short arriving to give evidence at the Iraq inquiry. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Clare Short, the former international development secretary, [...]

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Storm of protest as Blair slinks into Iraq inquiry

By Paddy McGuffin, Morning Star Online,  January 29, 2010 A sea of placards filled Parliament Square on Friday morning “Blair lied, thousands died.” That was the chant which reverberated around Parliament Square on Friday as former prime minister Tony Blair gave evidence to the Iraq inquiry. Even from the safety of the Queen Elizabeth II [...]

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People power demands: ‘get tough on Tony Blair’

By Andrew Grice, Political Editor | Independent | Monday, 4 January 2010 An internet-based “people power” campaign is asking its 60,000 members to draw up the “tough questions” that Tony Blair must be asked when he is questioned by the Iraq inquiry this year. 38 Degrees, a group set up last year in memory of [...]

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