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The U.S. Paying More Than 80,000 In Iraq A Salary Not To Kill Or Blow Things Up

While both Bush and McCain continue to claim that the troop "surge" was somehow responsible for the roughly 80% drop in violence in Iraq, the real truth is that the U.S. is paying over 80,000 Sunni militia fighters associated with the Sahwa Councils in Iraq a salary of $10 a day not to kill Shiites or blow them up with car bombs and instead target supporters of Al Qaeda.

Posted on September 12, 2008 1:03 PM

Iraqi Athletes Banned From Beijing Olympics

A sad situation has developed for the five athletes of Iraq who hoped to participate in next month's Olympic games in Beijing as the International Olympic Committee has voted to ban all athletes from Iraq because the government of Iraq...

Posted on July 25, 2008 2:27 PM

Bush Lied

So says former White House press secretary Scott McClellan, the mouthpiece who helped Bush lie to the American people. The take-away from the eight years of conservatives in positions of power -- Republicans cannot be trusted in the White House.

Posted on May 28, 2008 11:00 AM

Bush's Iraq War Costs Up To $511,046,890,000+ Dollars

The war in Iraq and the national reconstruction costs that Bush promised would be paid for by Iraqi oil revenues to renew the country have instead cost American taxpayers $511,046,890,000+ dollars at the time of this writing, and are increasing...

Posted on April 14, 2008 10:00 AM

Civilian Deaths In Iraq Up 33%

Wizbang Blue's Paul Hooson asks: Does the American public really want to buy a used war from John McCain? No doubt candidate John McCain will be running for president on some "surge is working" myth platform. However it was not that long ago that the same John McCain took a photo-opt trip to an Iraqi market and claimed how "safe" it now was in Iraq to shop, not bothering to mention that nearly 100 American Apache helicopters and about 2,000 soldiers had helped to secure the area just enough for McCain to get a few pictures for political propaganda purposes.

Posted on March 6, 2008 7:15 AM

Is The Iraq War Causing The Recession?

With so many bad economic dominoes falling into place creating a perfect storm of problems for the American economy, ranging from sharply higher energy prices, inflation, an economic and real estate slowdown and a sinking American dollar, you cannot help but blame the failed 'war for oil' in Iraq as being the cornerstone that helped to trigger this latest downfall for the American economy.

Posted on February 28, 2008 1:00 PM

More Madness in our 51st State

Isn't it great that our troops are smack dab in the middle of this insanity: Iraqi soldiers and police fought running battles with gunmen from a Shi'ite cult in two southern cities on Friday in which dozens of people...

Posted on January 19, 2008 12:00 PM

Iraq Rejects Permanent US Bases

This is great news, reported by Reuters: Iraq will never allow the United States to have permanent military bases on its soil, the government's national security adviser said. "We need the United States in our war against terrorism, we need...

Posted on December 11, 2007 2:11 PM

Wildly Misplaced Priorities

Bush has just vetoed another spending bill that would have provided funding for health and education programs: President Bush vetoed legislation Tuesday funding federal health and education programs, marking the latest turn in an ongoing budget fight with the...

Posted on November 14, 2007 6:00 AM

Iran Staunches Flow of Weapons into Iraq

One of the central causus belli that neoconservatives embittered by the disaster in Iraq are using to justify an attack on Iran is the flow into Iraq of explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) of Iranian manufacture. Now, it appears that this...

Posted on November 3, 2007 6:00 AM

Olbermann Rips Bush for the Pimping of Petraeus

Raw Story has a must-see commentary from Keith Olbermann about how President Bush has pimped out General Petraeus to be the front-man for this sorry debacle in Iraq that he is forcing on the American people against their will: "Deliberately,...

Posted on September 21, 2007 1:53 PM

Republican Greed and Abuse of Power

Courageous Americans are speaking up to stop the Republicans in 2008 -- despite an increase in the usual GOP tactic of labeling critics as a traitor or "un-patriotic." It takes a patriot to stand up to the government and speak...

Posted on September 16, 2007 10:40 AM

$100 Billion More Down the Sinkhole

What sinkhole you ask? The one in Mesopotamia of course. According to an Op-Ed in the LA Times that's what eleven more months of this stupid "surge" are going to cost you and me: The president will ask the...

Posted on September 13, 2007 1:00 AM

Petraeus Testified and Nobody Listened

I'll admit I haven't watched much of General Petraeus' testimony because I'm more interested in following what is happening in Iraq. McClatchy has a detailed story that should thoroughly debunk whatever cooked statistics Petraeus is throwing out up on Capitol...

Posted on September 10, 2007 7:00 PM

Fewer Troops and More Cash for Iraq

The Sunday Times has the story on how US forces are using cold hard cash to gain the upper hand on the Saudi jihadists (aka "Al Qaeda in Iraq") in Anbar province: America forces are paying Sunni insurgents hundreds of...

Posted on September 9, 2007 6:00 PM

Shiite Manifest Destiny in Iraq

The results of the "surge" are in and it looks like the Shiites have won as reported by Newsweek: "If you look at pre-February 2006, there were only a couple of areas in the city that were unambiguously Shia," says...

Posted on September 4, 2007 12:00 PM

Sectarian Cleansing and the Surge

Here are some cold hard facts about the situation in Iraq that war supporters will be quick to ignore as reported by the New York Times: The number of Iraqis fleeing their homes has soared since the American troop increase...

Posted on August 24, 2007 2:30 PM

Bush's Absurd New Rationale for Keeping Troops in Iraq

The New York Times has some excerpts from a speech that Bush plans to give tomorrow at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention: Bush: "There are many differences between the wars we fought in the Far East and the war...

Posted on August 22, 2007 6:00 AM

In Iraq if you Can't Beat Them Recruit Them

As the Washington Post reports, the US military has given up on the goal of defeating the Sunni insurgent groups in Iraq. Instead, we are giving them money, weapons and support in exchange for ratting out the foreign army of...

Posted on August 5, 2007 11:00 AM

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