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SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS 22 IN IRAQ
A suicide car bomber struck the center of a major Shiite city in southern Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 22 people and wounding dozens as the streets were packed with shoppers and people on their way to work,...
TOP SENATOR: CENSURE BUSH FOR IRAQ WAR LIES
Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold said Sunday he wants Congress to censure President Bush for his management of the Iraq war and his "assault" against the Constitution. (LINK)...
IRAQ SURGE HAS NO EFFECT ON CAR BOMB RATE
Despite the high priority set by U.S.-led coalition forces to stem car bombings, the tactic remains one of the main killers of civilians in Iraq, according to figures compiled by McClatchy Newspapers. The tactic took on a horrifying new...
IRAQ "SURGE" TO END IN SEPTEMBER, SEZ TOP REPUBLICAN
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on CBS's Face The Nation on Sunday that he expects the US "surge" in Iraq to come to an end in September, a sentiment that deviates greatly from the official White House and military...
GENERAL: TOP OFFICIALS INVOLVED IN ABU GHRAIB COVER UP
Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba said that he felt mocked and shunned by top Pentagon officials, including then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, after filing an exhaustive report on the now-notorious Abu Ghraib abuse that sparked international outrage and led...
FOX NEWS IGNORES IRAQ WAR TO HELP GOP
Fox spent half as much time covering the Iraq war than MSNBC during the first three months of the year, and considerably less than CNN, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The difference was more stark during...
KANSAS CHAOS HURT BY IRAQ DEPLOYMENT
LINK: "Critics of the Iraq war said on Tuesday the Bush administration's failure to replenish vital National Guard equipment sent to Iraq caused Kansas to fall short in responding to last week's tornado disaster, and other states were equally...
IRAN SLAMS US OCCUPATION OF IRAQ
LINK: Iran has strongly criticised US policy in Iraq, blaming the American presence there for sectarian violence. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was speaking in Egypt on the second day of a summit of world and regional powers, called to...
IRAN WILL CRASH IRAQI SUMMIT TO THROW WEIGHT AROUND
LINK: Iran will attend a conference of key powers including the United States this week that will focus on stabilizing Iraq, a meeting Baghdad said might be a turning point for regional cooperation in easing the violence. Iraq's Foreign...
ARMY OFFICER: GENERALS FAILED TO PREPARE FOR IRAQ WAR
LINK: An active duty U.S. Army officer has taken the unusual step of openly criticizing the way generals have handled the Iraq war, accusing them of failing to prepare their forces for an insurgency and misleading Congress about the...
AMERICA THINKS BUSH IS NUTS ON IRAQ
LINK: As the Democrat-controlled Congress and the White House clash over an Iraq spending bill, with President Bush vowing to veto it because it contains withdrawal deadlines, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that a solid majority of...
JIM WEBB SLAMS JOHN MCCAIN FOR PATRIOTISM SMEAR
Senator Jim Webb, former Secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan spoke out against Senator John McCain and his attacks on Democrats: "I'm disappointed in John McCain. I've known him for many years. The day before we begin the...
BOMB BLASTS ROCK IRAQ AGAIN
"Bombings in Baghdad and Karbala killed at least 56 people and wounded 78 more Saturday morning, police and medical officials said. A car bomb blast in a crowded shopping area of central Karbala, a holy Shiite city about 70 miles...
BUSH LYING ON IRAQ TERROR THREAT
"“The president is using a primitive, inarticulate argument that leaves him open to criticism and caricature,” said James Jay Carafano, a homeland security and counterterrorism expert for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative policy organization. “It’s a poor choice of...
IRAQIS TELL USA TO GET OUT
"The rally was called for by powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who commands an enormous following among Iraq's majority Shiites and has close allies in the Shiite-dominated government. A day earlier, the renegade cleric issued a statement ordering his militiamen...
PEACE MOM CINDY SHEEHAN TO HAUNT BUSH AGAIN
"Cindy Sheehan, who became the nation's most visible Iraq war protester when she camped out near President Bush's ranch in the summer of 2005, returned here Friday to, she said, get "in his face" again. Bush is spending the...
DESPERATE & DELUSIONAL, JOHN MCCAIN DEFENDS IRAQ WAR AGAIN
"With the Virginia Military Institute as a backdrop, McCain plans to argue in a speech on Wednesday that victory in Iraq is essential to American security and that President Bush's war machine is finally getting on track after four...
CLAIM: BOTCHED SECRET U.S. MISSION LED TO IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS
"A failed American attempt to abduct two senior Iranian security officers on an official visit to northern Iraq was the starting pistol for a crisis that 10 weeks later led to Iranians seizing 15 British sailors and Marines. Early on...
ONLY 29% THINK IRAQ "SURGE" IS WORKING
"A new Gallup poll shows that only 29 percent of Americans believe the Iraq escalation is making the situation better. Another 43 percent say the escalation is "not making much difference," and 22 percent say it is making the situation...
DEMS IN SENATE WIN VOTE TO GET OUT OF IRAQ
"Defying a veto threat, the Democratic-controlled Senate narrowly signaled support Tuesday for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by next March." [LINK]...
IRAN GRABS BRITISH SAILORS
"Iranian naval vessels on Friday seized 15 British sailors and marines who had boarded a merchant ship in Iraqi waters of the Persian Gulf as part of efforts to protect the Iraqi coastline and its oil terminals, U.S. and British...
NANCY PELOSI ON VERGE OF BIG IRAQ WAR WIN
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is headed for a big victory in the vote in the House Friday on $124 billion in funds for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan." [LINK]...
IRAQ WAR BREAKS U.S. MILITARY
"Four years after the invasion of Iraq, the high and growing demand for U.S. troops there and in Afghanistan has left ground forces in the United States short of the training, personnel and equipment that would be vital to fight...
CHRISTIANS SPEAK OUT VS. IRAQ WAR
"Thousands of Christians prayed for peace at an anti-war service at the Washington National Cathedral, kicking off a weekend of protests around the United States to mark the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq." [LINK]...
IS IRAQ "SURGE" WORKING?
"For now, at least, the early successes trumpeted by Defense Secretary Bob Gates and other administration officials have some merit to them. But there's also a phony-war feel to them. Over the next few weeks, it'll become clearer as to...
MATT DRUDGE SPREADS IRAQ WAR LIES, MAINSTREAM PRESS FOLLOWS ALONG
"Matt Drudge is running what purports to be just such a story on the top left of his incredibly influentual Web site right now as I write this. The headline reads: "Baghdad security crackdown seriously curbs killings of US soldiers..."...
MCCAIN: TROOPS "WASTED" IN IRAQ WAR
"The Democratic National Committee called on John McCain to apologize to American troops and their families who've served in Iraq for telling David Letterman on the Late Show last night that "American lives" are being "wasted" there. [CBS Late Show,...
AMERICANS WANT OUT OF IRAQ, NO SURGE
"With Congress preparing for renewed debate over President Bush's Iraq policies, a majority of Americans now support setting a deadline for withdrawing U.S. forces from the war-torn nation and support putting new conditions on the military that could limit the...
SOLDIERS ASK CONGRESS: PLEASE STOP IRAQ WAR
"A new opposition to the war in Iraq comes from some men and women in uniform. Hundreds of soldiers have publicly asked Congress to stop the war. Lara Logan has this "60 Minutes" report." [LINK]...
NATIONAL DISGRACE: IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN VETS GOING HOMELESS
"Young, alienated and often living on their own for the first time, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans increasingly are coming home to find that they don't have one. Already, nearly 200,000 veterans - many from the Vietnam War - sleep on...
RIGHT WING USING PHONY POLL TO SPIN WAR SUPPORT
"The New York Post and Fox News touted a poll that found that "57 percent of Americans supported 'finishing the job in Iraq' -- keeping U.S. troops there until the Iraqis can provide security on their own." But neither the...
DIRTY CHEMICAL BOMB EXPLODED IN IRAQ
"Insurgents exploded a truck carrying chlorine gas canisters Wednesday - the second such "dirty" chemical attack in two days - while a U.S. official said ground fire apparently forced the downing of a Black Hawk helicopter. All nine aboard the...
CHENEY: MCCAIN IS MY BITCH
"Karl: "You probably heard John McCain again come out and say that your friend Donald Rumsfeld is perhaps the worst secretary of defense ever. What do you make of that?" Cheney: "I just fundamentally disagree with John. John said some...
WACKY CHENEY: BRITISH WITHDRAWAL MEANS IRAQ IS GOING WELL
""Well, I look at it and see it is actually an affirmation that there are parts of Iraq where things are going pretty well," Cheney told ABC News' Jonathan Karl. "In fact, I talked to a friend just the other...
BRITS LEAVING IRAQ, U.S. STRANDED
Tony Blair expected to announce British timeline for withdrawl from Iraq. [LINK]...
MORE WAR HORROR: IRAQI POLICE ACCUSED OF RAPE
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered an investigation Monday into allegations by a Sunni Arab woman that she was raped by three members of the Shiite-dominated police force after she was detained over the weekend. A top police official disputed the...
TREASON: REPUBLICANS START CAMPAIGN TO BLAME IRAQ WAR ON DEMOCRATS
"After four years of disastrous ineptitude during which Reynolds et al happily watched the Bush administration destroy America's standing in the world and wage the most incompetent conflict since the War of 1812, they've decided that opposition to the trivial...
AFTER BUSH BOTCHED IRAQ WAR, AL QAEDA RESURGENT
"Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up a band of training camps in the tribal regions near the Afghan border, according...
MURTHA PLANS TO STOP IRAQ SURGE
"Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record), D-Pa., said he would seek to tie future deployments in Iraq to troops meeting high standards of training and getting enough rest between combat tours. Murtha said he believes the Army may have...
BUSH: I'M HELL-BENT ON PUSHING IRAQ SURGE
"Pressing his case for a massive infusion of American troops in Iraq, President Bush in his first news conference of the year Wednesday warned of “disastrous consequences” that would follow in the event of a U.S. military withdrawal."...
MOVEON SLAMS MCCAIN OVER IRAQ WAR ESCALATION
"On Tuesday, MoveOn will begin airing a new television commercial in New Hampshire and Iowa criticizing Republican Sen. John McCain, a 2008 presidential hopeful, for "leading the charge" to send more American troops to "a failed war," a MoveOn official...
SUNNIS RAGE AT SADDAM HANGING
"Enraged crowds protested the hanging of Saddam Hussein across Iraq's Sunni heartland Monday, as a mob in Samara broke the locks off a bomb-damaged Shiite shrine and marched through carrying a mock coffin and photo of the dictator. The...
NEW YEAR FINDS 3,000 U.S. DEAD IN IRAQ
"The death of a Texas soldier, announced Sunday by the Pentagon, raised the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq to at least 3,000 since the war began, according to an Associated Press count. The grim milestone was crossed on...
VIDEO SHOWS HANGING OF SADDAM HUSSEIN
Video censored in the mainstream media surfaces on the internet, video shows Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein being hung and cursed by executioner......
SADDAM HUSSEIN EXECUTED IN IRAQ
"Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been executed, according to two Arabic language media outlets. Hussein was hanged before dawn on Saturday in Iraq, at about 6 a.m. (10 p.m. Friday ET), the U.S.-backed Al-Hurra television reported. Al-Arabiya reported that...
CIVIL WAR: JOINT CHIEFS SAY BUSH "SURGE" PLAN A RECIPE FOR DISASTER
"The Bush administration is split over the idea of a surge in troops to Iraq, with White House officials aggressively promoting the concept over the unanimous disagreement of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to U.S. officials familiar with the...
POWELL SLAMS BUSH TROOP "SURGE"
"Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said he did not support surging tens of thousands more troops in Iraq, a plan that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) supports and that President Bush is expected to carry out. "I have not seen...
MAD GEORGE: BUSH PLOTS ESCALATION OF IRAQ WAR
"President Bush is weighing whether to make a deeper American commitment in Iraq despite growing public unhappiness with the war, according to senior U.S. officials and former officials familiar with Bush's high-level review. The proposed changes, with a few exceptions,...
FAILED BUSH POLICY SMACKED DOWN BY IRAQ REPORT
"Democrats on Wednesday praised a bipartisan report on Iraq as a step forward, with key senators calling it a rebuke of White House policy. The newly released report says the United States must change its Iraq strategy to tackle a...
10 TROOPS DIE IN IRAQ IN ONE DAY
"Ten U.S. troops were killed Wednesday in four incidents across Iraq, the U.S. military said. Specifics of the incidents were not immediately released. Earlier in the day, the military said that another U.S. soldier was killed in combat Sunday. The...
TRIPLE CAR BOMB HITS IRAQ
"Three powerful car bombs exploded one right after the other in central Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 51 people, an Iraqi Interior ministry official said. Another 90 people were wounded, he said, in the 4 p.m. (8 a.m. ET)...
BUSH MEETING WITH IRAQI PM POSTPONED
"The first meeting in a scheduled two-day summit between President Bush and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq was canceled at the last minute today, against the backdrop of threats by a radical Shiite cleric to boycott the Maliki government...
NBC ADMITS THE TRUTH: IRAQ IS IN CIVIL WAR"
"NBC News is now defining the conflict in Iraq as a "civil war." On the Today Show, Matt Lauer said: "For months now the White House has rejected claims that the situation in Iraq has deteriorated into a civil war....
IRAQ MEETING UP WITH IRAN
"The search for solutions in Iraq moved to the international stage Monday as Iraqi President Jalal Talabani left on a trip to Iran and President Bush began a trip that will take him to the Middle East to meet with...
IRAQ CIVIL WAR HEATS UP
"Gunmen bent on revenge burned mosques and homes in a Sunni enclave of Baghdad on Friday as Iraq's leaders pleaded for calm, a day after the worst bomb attack since the U.S. invasion. Some 30 people were killed, police said,...
3,709 IRAQIS DEAD IN OCTOBER, SEZ U.N.
"Insurgent attacks in Iraq killed 3,709 civilians last month, making October the deadliest month since the war began in 2003, according to U.N. figures. The U.N. Assistance Mission in Iraq, which issues bimonthly human rights reports on the war-torn country,...
VIDEO: SOLDIERS IN IRAQ CRUELLY TAUNT CHILD
Video shows U.S. soldiers in Iraq taunting small Iraqi child who desperately wants fresh water to drink......
OBAMA RELEASES PLAN FOR IRAQ
"Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, who is contemplating a run for the presidency, on Monday called for a "gradual and substantial" reduction of U.S. forces from Iraq that would begin in four to six months." AP...
DEMOCRAT RANGEL: BRING BACK THE DRAFT
"A senior House Democrat said Sunday he will introduce legislation to reinstate the military draft, asserting that current troop levels are insufficient to sustain possible challenges against Iran, North Korea and Iraq. "There's no question in my mind that this...
PENTAGON SEES THREE OPTIONS FOR IRAQ
"The Pentagon's closely guarded review of how to improve the situation in Iraq has outlined three basic options: Send in more troops, shrink the force but stay longer, or pull out, according to senior defense officials. Insiders have dubbed the...
TONY BLAIR: IRAQ WAR IS A "DISASTER"
"British Prime Minister Tony Blair provoked a storm Saturday after apparently admitting that the invasion of Iraq by the United States and Britain was "a disaster." Blair gave the surprise assessment of his decision to go to war in an...
U.S. TROOPS SEARCH FOR HOSTAGES IN IRAQ
"Five civilian security contractors, including four Americans and one Austrian, were being held hostage Friday morning after gunmen masquerading as policemen stopped their convoy and abducted them in southern Iraq, a U.S. Embassy official in Baghdad said. The convoy of...
MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID: I'LL KNOCK SOME SENSE INTO BUSH ON IRAQ
"Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), who was elected Senate majority leader yesterday, said last night that President Bush still has not grasped the urgent need to change course in Iraq. Reid vowed to press quickly for phased troop withdrawals, a...
150 KIDNAPPED IN IRAQ
"Gunmen clad in Iraqi National Police uniforms kidnapped between 100 and 150 people at a government research institute in Baghdad Tuesday in what may be the largest ever mass kidnapping in the war-torn city. Iraqi state TV reported a small...
Death To Saddam
"Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced Sunday to hang for crimes against humanity in the 1982 killings of 148 people in a single Shiite town, as the ousted leader, trembling and defiant, shouted "God is great!""...
LIAR: BUSH CLAIMS MEMORY LOSS ON "STAY THE COURSE"
In shock performance on morning chat show, President Bush claimed he never said "stay the course". The record shows this as a blatant lie by the 43rd president. Think Progress...
BUSH MEETS WITH SECURITY TEAM OVER IRAQ NIGHTMARE
"President Bush reviewed Iraq strategy on Saturday with top generals for a second day in a row amid increasing election-season pressure to make dramatic changes to address deteriorating conditions. Before a midmorning bike ride, the president consulted for 90 minutes...
OUR BOYS SLAUGHTERED IN IRAQ AS EIGHT LIE DEAD ON FOREIGN SOIL
"Eight United States soldiers were killed Monday in Baghdad, the United States military said, the most in the capital in a day since July 2005. Four of the soldiers died in a roadside bomb attack; the four others were killed...
DEM HARRY REID SLAPS BACK AT BUSH "CUT AND RUN" SMEAR
Harry Reid: ""If George Bush is so confident that his national security policies are working, he should release the entire National Intelligence Estimate on terrorism and let the American people decide for themselves. The fact that he won't speaks volumes...
SMEAR: BUSH CLAIMS DEMS ARE "CUT AND RUN"
"President Bush counterpunched at Democrats on Thursday, saying their criticism of the war in Iraq has turned their party into one of "cut-and-run" obstructionists. At a GOP fundraiser, Bush accused Democrats of using a new intelligence estimate that ties the...
BUSH LYING ON IRAQ, SITUATION MUCH WORSE, SECRET DOCS TELL WHOLE STORY
"Veteran Washington reporter Bob Woodward tells Mike Wallace that the Bush administration has not told the truth regarding the level of violence, especially against U.S. troops, in Iraq. He also reveals key intelligence that predicts the insurgency will grow worse...
IRAQIS APPROVE OF ATTACKS ON U.S. SOLDIERS, WANT AMERICA OUT
"The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland has conducted a poll on the war in Iraq. Here are a few of the poll's findings: * Six in 10 Iraqis approve of attacks on U.S.-led forces,...
WHITE HOUSE: WE WON'T RELEASE SECRET NIE TERROR DOCS
"The White House refused Wednesday to release the rest of a secret intelligence assessment that depicts a growing terrorist threat, as the Bush administration tried to quell election-season criticism that its anti-terror policies are seriously off track." AP...
IN BLOW TO BUSH SPIN, NIE SECRET DOCS CONFIRM: IRAQ FUELING TERROR
"The Bush administration today released excerpts of a leaked U.S. intelligence report that concludes the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq has fueled Islamic extremism and contributed to the spread of terrorist cells. It also finds that terrorist groups around...
DEMS TO BUSH: RELEASE SECRET IRAQ REPORT
"There's a second damning Iraq report floating around the intelligence community. At least, that's according to Rep. Jane Harman (CA), the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee. At an event this morning, Harman disclosed the existence of a classified...
RUMSFELD MUST BE REPLACED
"Retired military officers on Monday bluntly accused Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld of bungling the war in Iraq, saying U.S. troops were sent to fight without the best equipment and that critical facts were hidden from the public. "I believe...
DEMS WERE RIGHT: IRAQ WAR CAUSING TERROR INCREASE
""Unfortunately this report is just confirmation that the Bush administration's stay-the-course approach to the Iraq war has not just made the war more difficult and more deadly for our troops, but has also made the war on terror more dangerous...
IRAQI SAVAGES SHOW SO-CALLED VID OF DEAD US SOLDIERS
"An al-Qaeda-linked group posted a Web video Saturday purporting to show the bodies of two American soldiers being dragged behind a truck, then set on fire in apparent retaliation for the alleged rape-slaying of a young Iraqi woman by U.S....
SECRET REPORT: IRAQ WAR SPARKS TERROR WAVE
"A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept....
37 DIE IN ANOTHER IRAQ EXPLOSION
"A bomb claimed by a little-known Sunni Arab extremist group killed at least 37 Shiites and wounded another 40 in Baghdad on Saturday as they stocked up fuel for Ramadan, just days after the U.S. military warned sectarian violence...
IRAQ: A TORTURER'S PARADISE
"Torture in Iraq may be worse now than it was under Saddam Hussein, with militias, terrorist groups and government forces disregarding rules on the humane treatment of prisoners, the U.N. anti-torture chief said Thursday." AP...
IRAQI KIDS ENLISTED TO FIGHT U.S. TROOPS
"Shiite militias are encouraging children - some as young as 6 or 7 - to hurl stones and gasoline bombs at U.S. convoys, hoping to lure American troops into ambushes or provoke them into shooting back, U.S. soldiers say. Gangs...
US TROOPS TO STAY STUCK IN IRAQI CIVIL WAR
"The U.S. military is unlikely to reduce forces in Iraq before next spring because the current contingent of more than 140,000 troops is battling sectarian violence that could prove "fatal" to the country if not arrested, the top American commander...
IRAQ A DAY IN AND DAY OUT NIGHTMARE
"Even the Baghdad morgue is not safe. On Monday morning, an Iraqi NBC producer, his face hidden for his protection, and his camera crew were caught in crossfire at the morgue. On one side, Shiites from the Ministry of...
SUICIDE BOMBS BLAST KIRKUK IN IRAQ
"A wave of seven suicide car bombs and explosions rocked the oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Sunday, killing at least 27 people and wounding 97 others, police said. The restive northern city -- considered a likely flash point for sectarian...
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