Mumtaz Iqbal
Most wars have heroes, victims and villains. Not the Iraq War. It has no heroes, only victims and villains. The war’s fifth anniversary on 19 March 2008 is a good time to examine who these are.
VICTIMS
They are numerous and of all shades.
The foremost are Iraqis. Estimates of Iraqi dead vary from 89,000 (Iraq [...]
This goes beyond hollow laughter. Since when did armies go around ‘re-liberating’
After his latest shenanigans, I’ve come to the conclusion that George Bush is the first US president to march backwards. First we had weapons of mass destruction. Then, when they proved to be a myth, Bush told us we had stopped Saddam’s “programmes” for [...]
By: Shawn Gude - The Daily Iowan
Antiwar sentiments and military criticism flowed freely at a UI Antiwar Committee event with four military veterans on Wednesday night.
Iraq war veteran Andy Duffy summed up his feelings at the end of his speech, delivering a crowd-pleasing, antiwar statement.
“I want you guys to realize that this war isn’t just [...]
It’s been almost three years since the scandal at Abu Ghraib brought to light undeniable evidence that the United States Army had been involved in the routine mistreatment of prisoners and “detainees,” yet still only a handful of soldiers have been prosecuted - none above the level of staff sergeant. One of those court-martialed soldiers [...]
By ERICA GOODE
BAGHDAD — As many as 20 mortar shells were fired Sunday at the heavily fortified Green Zone, one of the fiercest and most sustained attacks on the area in the last year.
The shelling sent thick plumes of dark gray smoke over central Baghdad and ignited a spectacular fire on the banks of [...]
By Julian Delasantellis
Five years now the bright nights of shock and awe have turned into the never ending days of blinding sorrow and affliction, but there is one thing that even the fiercest critics of the war, of which I include myself, must now admit. The hoary shibboleth that states that Americans care little [...]
By Richard Cohen
Tuesday, March 25, 2008; A15
You know him well. His nickname was Gilligan, and he was a prisoner at Abu Ghraib, Saddam Hussein’s vast prison transformed into a vast American one and then transformed again by the Bush administration into a vast national disgrace. Gilligan was deprived of sleep, forced to stand on a [...]
Monday-Wednesday, March 24-26, 2008
The scandal of Iraqi POW abuse after the illegal March 2003 invasion had the world in an uproar. However, there is a precedent that went unnoticed and underreported of brutal treatment of Iraqi POWs — the 1991 abuse of Iraqi POWs during and after Operation Desert Storm.
In June 1991, while the editor [...]
By Dahr Jamail, April 2008 Issue
Jason Moon suffers from persistent insomnia as he wrestles with memories of his time in Iraq. “While on our initial convoy into Iraq in early June 2003, we were given a direct order that if any children or civilians got in front of the vehicles in our convoy, we were [...]
By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com
Posted on March 17, 2008, Printed on March 19, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/79872/
Imagine, for a moment, that you live in a small town somewhere near the Southern California coast. You’re going about your daily life, trying to scrape by in hard times, when the missile hits. It might have come from the Iranian unmanned [...]
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
BAIJI, Iraq — The Baiji refinery, with its distillation towers rising against the Hamrin Mountains, may be the most important industrial site in the Sunni Arab-dominated regions of Iraq. On a good day, 500 tanker trucks will leave the refinery filled with fuel with a street value of $10 million.
The [...]
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