How Many Servicemen are really 'MIA or AWOL' and how many are buried in secret graves?
rudkla - 14. Okt, 10:30
Iraq War - Irak Krieg
Samstag, 14. Oktober 2006
Sgt. Ricky Clousing gets 3 months for Iraq war resistance
rudkla - 14. Okt, 09:25
Freitag, 13. Oktober 2006
A Soldier Hoped to Do Good, But Was Changed by War
Sgt. Ricky Clousing went to war in Iraq because, he said, he believed he would simultaneously be serving his nation and serving God. He was sentenced to 11 months in confinement yesterday, for going AWOL after becoming disilllusioned with the war in Iraq.
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101306P.shtml
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101306P.shtml
rudkla - 13. Okt, 22:58
British General: Troops Must Pull out of Iraq or Risk Serious Consequences
In a blistering attack on Tony Blair's foreign policy, General Sir Richard Dannatt, head of the British Army, said that Britain must withdraw from Iraq "soon" or risk serious consequences. The continuing military presence in Iraq has jeopardized British security and interests around the world.
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101306N.shtml
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101306N.shtml
rudkla - 13. Okt, 22:56
The solution for Iraq: Toss the state
Center for a Stateless Society
by Roderick Long
10/10/06
When the United States invaded Iraq, it did so with the proclaimed goal of delivering the Iraqi people from dictatorship and helping them achieve a democratic society. Now the dictator is gone, but instead of democracy, Iraq has civil war. What went wrong?
https://c4ss.org/content/14
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Roderick Long
10/10/06
When the United States invaded Iraq, it did so with the proclaimed goal of delivering the Iraqi people from dictatorship and helping them achieve a democratic society. Now the dictator is gone, but instead of democracy, Iraq has civil war. What went wrong?
https://c4ss.org/content/14
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 13. Okt, 16:43
Iraq: The hidden horror
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
10/13/06
The U.S. military has steadfastly refused to maintain Iraqi body counts: for obvious reasons, they'd rather we didn't know how many Iraqi souls have been permanently 'liberated' from their bodies. More importantly, they'd rather the Iraqis didn't know. Independent sources of such information invariably depend on reported deaths: the Iraqi media, Western news accounts, and figures from the UN and other humanitarian agencies. Yet this kind of passive approach is not sufficient in wartime: the chaos makes it more than probable that a great deal of the killing goes unreported. It therefore makes perfect sense that the Johns Hopkins survey -- which involved researchers personally interviewing a total of 1,849 Iraqi households, most of whom produced death certificates -- would be far higher. That it is 10 times higher is not all that surprising -- although quite sobering when one realizes the total represents 2.5 percent of Iraq's population...
https://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9854
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Justin Raimondo
10/13/06
The U.S. military has steadfastly refused to maintain Iraqi body counts: for obvious reasons, they'd rather we didn't know how many Iraqi souls have been permanently 'liberated' from their bodies. More importantly, they'd rather the Iraqis didn't know. Independent sources of such information invariably depend on reported deaths: the Iraqi media, Western news accounts, and figures from the UN and other humanitarian agencies. Yet this kind of passive approach is not sufficient in wartime: the chaos makes it more than probable that a great deal of the killing goes unreported. It therefore makes perfect sense that the Johns Hopkins survey -- which involved researchers personally interviewing a total of 1,849 Iraqi households, most of whom produced death certificates -- would be far higher. That it is 10 times higher is not all that surprising -- although quite sobering when one realizes the total represents 2.5 percent of Iraq's population...
https://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9854
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 13. Okt, 16:41
UK Army head said to seek Iraq pullout
New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung
10/12/06
Britain's new army chief called for a withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, warning that the military's presence there only exacerbates security problems, according to an interview published Thursday. Gen. Richard Dannatt described British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Iraq policies as 'naive,' declaring that while Iraqis might have welcomed coalition forces following the ouster of Saddam Hussein, the good will has since evaporated after years of violence...
https://tinyurl.com/yxkl3j
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
10/12/06
Britain's new army chief called for a withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, warning that the military's presence there only exacerbates security problems, according to an interview published Thursday. Gen. Richard Dannatt described British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Iraq policies as 'naive,' declaring that while Iraqis might have welcomed coalition forces following the ouster of Saddam Hussein, the good will has since evaporated after years of violence...
https://tinyurl.com/yxkl3j
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 13. Okt, 16:38
General: Iraq attacks on occupiers up sharply
San Jose Mercury News
10/13/06
Armed attacks on U.S. soldiers and Iraqis in Baghdad have increased by 43 percent since midsummer, despite an ongoing American-led campaign to secure individual neighborhoods, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said Thursday. Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV said violence was down by 11 percent in neighborhoods where the sweeps had been focused. But that decline was more than offset by more attacks elsewhere, and Caldwell said the military was expecting the level of violence to keep rising during the remaining weeks of the Muslim month of Ramadan...
https://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/15743539.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
10/13/06
Armed attacks on U.S. soldiers and Iraqis in Baghdad have increased by 43 percent since midsummer, despite an ongoing American-led campaign to secure individual neighborhoods, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said Thursday. Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV said violence was down by 11 percent in neighborhoods where the sweeps had been focused. But that decline was more than offset by more attacks elsewhere, and Caldwell said the military was expecting the level of violence to keep rising during the remaining weeks of the Muslim month of Ramadan...
https://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/15743539.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 13. Okt, 16:33
The Pundit Path for Death in Iraq
https://www.commondreams.org/views06/1012-30.htm
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The Pundit Path for Death in Iraq
Norman Solomon writes: "While we stare at numbers that do nothing to convey the suffering and anguish of the war in Iraq, we might want to ask: How could we correlate the horrific realities with the evasive discussions that proliferated in US news media during the lead-up to the invasion?"
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101306C.shtml
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The Pundit Path for Death in Iraq
Norman Solomon writes: "While we stare at numbers that do nothing to convey the suffering and anguish of the war in Iraq, we might want to ask: How could we correlate the horrific realities with the evasive discussions that proliferated in US news media during the lead-up to the invasion?"
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101306C.shtml
rudkla - 13. Okt, 14:22
