IRAQ: Women forced to give up their jobs, marriages
rudkla - 31. Mai, 10:39
Iraq War - Irak Krieg
Donnerstag, 31. Mai 2007
Goldsmith 'told Army to ignore Rights Act' in Iraq
Leaked emails between London and military chiefs in Iraq suggest Lord Goldsmith advised a "pragmatic" approach to handling prisoners rather than adherence to the "higher standards" of human rights.
https://snipurl.com/1mr5q
Human rights in Iraq: a case to answer
Revealed: How Lord Goldsmith advised Army chiefs to deny detainees 'full' legal protection.
https://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2591496.ece
From Information Clearing House
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Goldsmith
https://snipurl.com/1mr5q
Human rights in Iraq: a case to answer
Revealed: How Lord Goldsmith advised Army chiefs to deny detainees 'full' legal protection.
https://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2591496.ece
From Information Clearing House
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Goldsmith
rudkla - 31. Mai, 10:33
The Iraq war is Brown's war, a war he could have stopped
Brown showed a distinct lack of courage in failing to stand up to Blair. Now he must quickly summon the courage to withdraw.
https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2090983,00.html
From Information Clearing House
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gordon+Brown
https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2090983,00.html
From Information Clearing House
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gordon+Brown
rudkla - 31. Mai, 10:31
Bush envisions U.S. presence in Iraq like S.Korea
The United States has had thousands of U.S. troops in South Korea to guard against a North Korean invasion for 50 years.
https://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N30416213.htm
Korea 'may have lessons for US'
THE half-century US military presence in South Korea may be a model for a future in which US forces play a support role in Iraq rather than a frontline combat role, the White House said.
https://snipurl.com/1mwak
From Information Clearing House
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Bush sees South Korea model for Iraq
Palm Beach Post
05/31/07
President Bush envisions a long-term U.S. troop presence in Iraq similar to the one in South Korea where American forces have helped keep an uneasy peace for more than 50 years, the White House said Wednesday. The comparison was offered as the Pentagon announced the completion of the troop buildup ordered by Bush in January. The last of about 21,500 combat troops to arrive were an Army brigade in Baghdad and a Marine unit heading into the Anbar province in western Iraq...
https://tinyurl.com/yr248o
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Ideas Cannot be Killed
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17794.htm
https://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N30416213.htm
Korea 'may have lessons for US'
THE half-century US military presence in South Korea may be a model for a future in which US forces play a support role in Iraq rather than a frontline combat role, the White House said.
https://snipurl.com/1mwak
From Information Clearing House
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Bush sees South Korea model for Iraq
Palm Beach Post
05/31/07
President Bush envisions a long-term U.S. troop presence in Iraq similar to the one in South Korea where American forces have helped keep an uneasy peace for more than 50 years, the White House said Wednesday. The comparison was offered as the Pentagon announced the completion of the troop buildup ordered by Bush in January. The last of about 21,500 combat troops to arrive were an Army brigade in Baghdad and a Marine unit heading into the Anbar province in western Iraq...
https://tinyurl.com/yr248o
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Ideas Cannot be Killed
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17794.htm
rudkla - 31. Mai, 10:28
Marine feels killing 'right thing'
Marine Describes Haditha Death Scene
https://enews.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20070530/465cf6c0_3ca6_1552620070530-1617393597
Informant: Frank Gonzalez
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Marine feels killing 'right thing'
An officer who saw the corpses of Iraqi women and children sprawled across a bed in a home said in recorded testimony that he believed that "my Marines were doing the right thing" when they killed them.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17802.htm
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haditha
https://enews.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20070530/465cf6c0_3ca6_1552620070530-1617393597
Informant: Frank Gonzalez
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Marine feels killing 'right thing'
An officer who saw the corpses of Iraqi women and children sprawled across a bed in a home said in recorded testimony that he believed that "my Marines were doing the right thing" when they killed them.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17802.htm
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haditha
rudkla - 31. Mai, 10:08
Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2007
Dying for an Iraq That Isn't
Harold Meyerson writes, "Of all the absurdities attending our unending war in Iraq, the greatest is this: We are fighting to defend that which is not there."
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007F.shtml
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harold+Meyerson
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007F.shtml
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harold+Meyerson
rudkla - 30. Mai, 23:09
Netroots Furious at Dems Over Iraq Vote
Furious that Congressional Democratic leaders did not fight harder to pass a supplemental spending bill with a timeline to end the war in Iraq and tougher benchmarks, liberal online activists have ripped party leaders and threatened to halt contributions to Democratic lawmakers.
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007E.shtml
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=supplemental+spending+bill
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007E.shtml
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=supplemental+spending+bill
rudkla - 30. Mai, 23:08
Bush's Iraq Talking Points
Robert Parry writes, "It's an old military adage that bad intel can get soldiers killed, but it now turns out that false talking points may be even more lethal, a lesson that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney continue to teach the world as the death toll mounts in Iraq."
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007B.shtml
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Parry
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007B.shtml
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Parry
rudkla - 30. Mai, 23:01
Long Tours Extend Heartaches for Military Moms
US Army Captain Wendy Bernard, in the middle of a one-year deployment in Iraq, came home for two weeks' leave in the summer of 2004 to find that her year-old daughter, Clark, wouldn't speak to her after six months of separation. Extended deployments and abbreviated family leaves are among the difficulties probed by a May 11 Congressional report by the Joint Economic Committee concerning the difficulties of deployed mothers - who typically are young parents with lower incomes.
https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052907WB.shtml
https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052907WB.shtml
rudkla - 30. Mai, 11:55
