Sunday, March 12, 2006
MORE MYTHS & MIS-INFORMATION
I heard that most of the insurgent violence in Iraq was personally directed by a Jordanian, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Rumours of his presence led to the US bombings of Fallujah, Ramadi, Mosul, Samarra, and a village in Kurdistan, but each time he had "narrowly escaped". Apparently, he's been seen...
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Wednesday, March 8, 2006
DEATHS, WALLS, AND MORE "DISASSEMBLING"
In the first year after the "transfer of sovereignty" it turned out there had been 484 car bombs, killing at least 2,221 people and wounding at least 5,574. In the same period, 890 US soldiers were killed, and the average number of insurgency attacks had risen to 70 a day. On the anniversary of the...
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Thursday, March 2, 2006
LOW MORALE, BAD FOOD AND A NEWS LOCK-DOWN
In 2005, a US marine, a guy who was present when Saddam Hussein was captured in 2003, said the entire story was fiction. Saddam was caught the day before in a small house, and then placed in an abandoned well, which was invented as the 'spider hole' where he was hiding. In 2004, during the attack on...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
GETTING BEHIND THE PR OF WAR
Let's go back to 2001, briefly. On September 21st of that year, the PDB (President's Daily Brief), prepared by the CIA, reported that there was no evidence that Saddam Hussein was connected to the September 11th attacks. Condoleezza Rice said, "The fact of the matter is that when we were attacked on...
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Monday, February 13, 2006
NUMBER TWOS, AND THE PRESIDENTIAL PEACE OF MIND
Congressman Walter Jones, Republican from North Carolina and the man who renamed French fries 'freedom fries', has now started calling for the withdrawal of US Troops. He said, "The American people are getting to a point here; how much more can we take?" Congressman Mike Pence, republican from...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2006
BODY COUNTS AND - GASP! - REPUBLICAN HONESTY!!
Last May there were three suicide bombings every day in Iraq. A journalist asked Bush if he thought the insurgents is getting harder to defeat now militarily. He replied, "No, I don't think so. I think they're being defeated. That's why they continue to fight." A human rights worker said, "In...
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Wednesday, February 1, 2006
"WINNING OR LOSING IS NOT THE ISSUE", APPARENTLY!
In April last year there were 67 suicide bombings. Colonel Pat Lang, former chief of Mideast operations at the Defense Intelligence Agency, said, "It's just political rhetoric to say we are not in a civil war. We've been in a civil war for a long time." By the same time, over 1,600 American soldiers...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
General John Abizaid predicted that Iraqi forces would be leading the fight against the insurgents in most of the country by the end of 2005. General George Casey, commander of the Multinational Forces in Iraq, said, "We should be able to take some fairly substantial reductions in the size of our...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
The army released a 1,200 page document detailing the torture of Iraqi prisoners at a single military intelligence base during a few months in 2003. In response, Lieutenant Colonel Jeremy Martin said, "The army is a learning organisation. If we have some shortfalls, we try to correct them. We've...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Robots, Videos, and Rumsfeld's Own 'Intelligence Agency'
African-Americans normally form 23% of active-duty troops, but recruitment of African-Americans has fallen by 41% since 2000. A US Military Image Study prepared for the army recommended that, "for the army to achieve its mission goals with Future Force Soldiers, it must overhaul its image as well as...
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