War crimes: providing the means
2009-07-10 16:50:00 ?People or companies that conduct (international) trade... in weapons or raw materials used for their production, should be warned that ? if they do not exercise increased vigilance ? they can become involved in most serious criminal offences. It should be made clear to them that they will face prosecution and long-term prison sentences...?Court of Appeal The Hague, Judgment, 9 May 2007 Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands upheld the conviction of a Dutch businessman, Frans van Anraat, for being an accessory to war crimes committed by the Iraqi regime in the 1980s. It thereby confirmed in most regards a 2007 judgment by the Court of Appeal in The Hague, which had found Van Anraat guilty of being an accessory to a violation of the laws and customs of war for having 'intentionally provided the opportunity and means' for attacks with mustard gas carried out in 1987 and 1988. Between 1980 and 1988, Van Anraat had supplied Saddam Hussein's regime with at least 1...
How We Located Saddam Hussein, KSM and Zarqawi
2009-06-05 20:29:00 I’ll give you a hint. It wasn’t because we waterboarded someone. As this article points out, it was because of traditional interrogation methods: His larger argument is that methods like waterboarding are wholly unnecessary ? traditional interrogation methods, a combination of guile and graft, are the best way to break down even the most ...
Obama in Baghdad, tells troops Iraq must take over
2009-04-07 20:40:00 Obama in Baghdad, tells troops Iraq must take over BAGHDAD (AP) - Cheered wildly by U.S. troops, President Barack Obama flew unannounced into Iraq on Tuesday and promptly declared it was time for Iraqis to “take responsibility for their country” after America’s commitment of six years and thousands of lives. “You have given Iraq the opportunity ...
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Iraq to reopen museum looted in US invasion chaos
2009-02-23 19:52:00 Iraq to reopen museum looted in US invasion chaos BAGHDAD ? Iraq’s restored National Museum is reopening Tuesday, nearly six years after looters carried away antiquities and treasures as U.S. troops stood by in the chaos of Saddam Hussein’s fall from power. The museum, rededicated Monday, was among hundreds of institutions ? universities, hospitals, cultural offices ? ...
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Bush defends presidency in final news conference
2009-01-12 22:19:00 Bush defends presidency in final news conference WASHINGTON (AP) - By turns wistful, aggressive and joking in the final news conference of his presidency, President George W. Bush vigorously defended his record Monday but also offered an extraordinary listing of his mistakes - including his optimistic Iraq speech before a giant “Mission Accomplished” banner in ...
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Panel: Congress was misled on Iraq uranium issue
2008-12-19 04:24:00 Panel: Congress was misled on Iraq uranium issue WASHINGTON (AP) - Former White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales misled Congress when he claimed the CIA in 2002 approved information that ended up in the 2003 State of the Union speech about Iraq’s alleged effort to buy uranium for its nuclear weapons program, a House committee said Thursday. ...
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Bush defends his record of using military might
2008-12-09 21:02:00 Bush defends his record of using military might WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) - President George W. Bush on Tuesday defended his doctrine of pre-emptive war and warned that the United States must remain willing to ?to take the fight to our enemies across the world.? Down to his waning days in office, Bush is trying to ...
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Bush uses final 50 days in office to tout legacy
2008-12-02 02:55:00 Bush uses final 50 days in office to tout legacy WASHINGTON (AP) - President George W. Bush says history will judge him, but he is getting his own crack first. Bush is using his final 50 days in office to tout his legacy, hoping to leave a lasting impression of overshadowed progress. On Monday, World ...
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Fate Of King Joseph Lieberman?s Future As Homeland Security and Governmenta
2008-11-17 04:37:00 THIS Blogger Says “AMEN!”, And Flush That HSA Beaurocracy Of Lame Duck (Soon To Be) FORMER President Bush He Heads Down The Toilet ASAP As Well… Sorry, King Joe — it’s not looking too good for you right at this very moment (Source: Think Progress) as the Dems... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
At least 31 dead, 71 hurt in Baghdad blasts
2008-11-10 18:22:00 At least 31 dead, 71 hurt in Baghdad blasts BAGHDAD (AP) ? A suicide bomber struck Monday in a crowd that had gathered where an explosion moments earlier damaged a bus full of schoolgirls, with both blasts killing at least 31 people and wounding 71 others, officials said. Also Monday, a woman suicide bomber attacked a security ...
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Ex-presidents are as bad as Bush
2008-06-05 06:26:00 photo credit: Michael Heilemann To listen to the experts moaning on about America’s mistakes in Iraq you’d think their previous record in the Middle East had been a triumph. What short memories people have: Jimmy Carter, for instance, now writes books condemning Americas foreign policies, yet he was the president who bungled the Iranian hostage crisis ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ex-presidents are as bad as Bush", url: "http://learnsigma.com/ex-presi-dents-are-as-bad-as-bush/" });
Afif taqsim kurd
2008-06-02 14:50:00 Image by looking4poetry via FlickrAfif taqsim kurdby ploukkkun mot divin ! est un description celle du maquam Le maqâm ? en arabe ????, en turc makam ? est à la fois un système musical général et ses applications particulières. Il existe plus de 120 modes appelés "Maquamat" (pluriel de "maqam"). Le terme et le concept sont communs aux musiques persane, arabe et turque. Dans la musique persane, le maqâm ou magham est caractérisé par trois notes : la note témoin (shâhed) base de la progression mélodique, la note variable (moteqayyer) dont la hauteur varie au cours du mouvement et la note d'arrêt sur laquelle se fonde toute interruption de la musique. La note d'arrêt final est suivie d'un motif (foroud) servant à revenir à l'intonation initiale. Quelques exemples de « maquam » sont données ici pour exemple : * Maqam RAST Ce mot vient de Perse, il signifie aligné, en arabe. La gamme RAST est considérée comme la gamme de base dans la musique arabe. * Maqam BAYATI Cette gamme est très...
Laughter, Tears As ?Bush Administration? Wraps
2008-05-11 16:45:00 Washington, D.C. — Between takes, the usual clowning and good-natured sexual harassment on set of The Bush Administration is tinged with melancholy. Because the cast knows that today, the landmark sitcom wraps production on its 8th and final season. The series finale, set to air in January 2009, marks the end of an era. ...
Saddam?s Prison Diaries Show He Was Afraid Of Catching AIDS
2008-05-05 23:36:00 The Pentagon has released excerpts of Saddam Hussein’s diary that he wrote in daily while being held in an American detention facility in Iraq. According to his writings, Saddam feared catching AIDS when he discovered that his U.S. military guards sometimes used his clothes line to dry their clothes. When Saddam found out his U.S. military guards ...
By: The Hot Joints
Ex-Saddam Aide Tariq Aziz Goes On Trial
2008-04-29 22:20:00 Anyone who’s watched news coverage about Iraq over the last 25 years or so has probably seen Tariq Aziz. He was a part of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle from the first day the dictator took power. However, unlike ‘Chemical Ali’ and the rest of Saddam’s henchman, Aziz was never a strong man for the regime. He ...
By: The Hot Joints
Recorded Death On Japanese Radio
2008-04-17 19:17:00 The sound of a man being hanged to death will echo around Japan on May 6th. Nippon Cultural Broadcasting (NCB) has planned the radio broadcast of a death row prisoner's final moments as part of a special show about capital punishment. The recording was made in 1955, but the death penalty remains legal in Japan to this day.
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HOLY SMOKES BATMAN!! NeoCon Douglas Feith: Iraq Attack Was Preemptive!!
2008-04-07 18:00:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 9:00 AM MST Insider: Iraq Attack Was Preemptive Pentagon Insider Tells 60 Minutes U.S. Attack On Iraq Was Anticipatory Self-Defense; Not 9/11 Retaliation April 6, 2008 (CBS) The name Douglas Feith may not mean much to most Americans, but to students of the Iraq War and historians already studying it, he is one of the main ...
By: Suzie-Q
Jim McDermott: "We Don't Mind Being Used" by Saddam Hussein
2008-03-27 17:41:00 Looks like one of the Representatives from my home state is a fucking idiot: Thompson and McDermott would have us believe that they visited a sworn enemy of the United States -- one who had tried to assassinate a former president and declared that the "Mother of all Battles" had never ended -- without doing even the most basic research about who was funding their trip? That's hard to believe. And Bonior, who was from Michigan and had taken money from al Khafaji before, had no idea that he was backed by Saddam Hussein? When I spent a week reporting in Michigan for a story on Iraqi exiles, virtually every Iraqi I spoke to told me about al Khafaji and his dirty money. Is is possible that nobody ever mentioned this to Bonior, who recently chaired John Edwards' presidential campaign, before he traveled to Iraq with al Khafaji? Again, hard to believe. In any case, they knew well that they would be used as propaganda tools before they left. This is how we put it in a piece on the trip b...
Guess Who Went On A Saddam Hussein Financed Trip?
2008-03-27 14:20:00 And guess when it was (AP thru SF Gate) Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The three anti-war Democrats made the trip in October 2002, while the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action ...
By: Pirate's Cove
Pentagon finds no link between al Qaeda & Saddam Hussein...then tries to hi
2008-03-27 00:00:00 This story came out last week and is truly a pathetic attempt at censorship by our government: The Bush Administration apparently does not want a U.S. military study that found no direct connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda to get any attention. This morning, the Pentagon cancelled plans to send out a press release announcing the report's release and will no longer make the report available online. The report was to be posted on the Joint Forces Command website this afternoon, followed by a background briefing with the authors. No more. The report will be made available only to those who ask for it, and it will be sent via U.S. mail from Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia. It won't be emailed to reporters and it won't be posted online. One Pentagon spokesman's excuse for not putting it up on the website, as originally planned, was that initial press reports made it too "politically sensitive." Well, no duh! And yet the report, who's executive summary can be...
War In Iraq Now Entered Its Sixth Year?
2008-03-21 20:15:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 12:15 PM MST Iraq begins sixth year of chaos, bloodshed Published: Thursday March 20, 2008 The US-led war on Iraq ...
By: Suzie-Q
Vote Democrat!
2008-03-18 05:18:00 I am a senior citizen. During the Clinton Administration I had a good job. Since President Bush took office, I have watched my entire life change for the worse because of his policies. I lost my job. I lost my home. I lost my health insurance. I lost my two sons in that terrible War ...
By: ZA Vibes
What if I told you that 10 months before 9/11, Saddam Hussein did something
2008-03-14 04:49:00 In November of 2000, Hussein switched to selling oil in Euros, when normally all OPEC nations sell their oil in US Dollars. Why? As Ron Paul explains the US added a secret agreement to the overall OPEC Agreement where OPEC nations promised to sell oil in US dollars, and no other currency. This effectively ...
Chemical Ali execution approved: Ali Hassan Majid, Saddam Hussein?s cousin
2008-02-29 14:13:00 Ali Hassan Majid who is better known as Chemical Ali is to be executed, as the Presidency Council has approved the execution of Saddam Hussein cousin. Ali will be hanged, however a date has not yet been set for the execution. Ali Hassan Majid was convicted of genocide as well as a list of other crimes ...
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What WMDs???
2008-02-01 21:59:00 As most people with half a brain believed that Saddam Hussein had WMDs. But we came to find out he never had the stock piles of WMDs laying around like we thought. Every intelligent agency in the world, if you...
By: Stix Blog
Interrogating Saddam Hussein
2008-01-28 05:02:00 This is the right way to interrogate a high level detainee? After his capture, Saddam met every day with one man, an American he knew as “Mr. George.” George is FBI agent George Piro, who was the front man for a team of FBI and CIA analysts who were trying to answer some of the great ...
Iraq Adopts New National Flag
2008-01-23 00:11:00 In an effort to remove the last remaining traces of Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime, the Iraqi Parliament today adopted a new national flag. The new flag will keep the same colors, but will no longer feature the three stars that symbolized the Baathist ideals of unity, freedom, and socialism, and Saddam Hussein?s handwritten calligraphy of the ...
By: The Hot Joints
Few Iraqi?s Mark Anniversary Of Saddam Execution
2007-12-31 16:25:00 Small groups of mourners have gathered at the grave of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to mark the first anniversary of his execution. Saddam loyalists visited his grave in Ouja, the deposed dictator’s birthplace. Walls in the nearby city of Tikrit were marked by fresh graffiti honoring the dead leader. The U.S. military says it has not ...
By: The Hot Joints
Celebrating the Birth of the King of Kings in Saddam Hussein's Palace
2007-12-26 04:10:00 CHRISTMAS AT CAMP VICTORYBill Hess is a reporter with the Sierra Vista Herald/Review and is currently in Iraq reporting ...
David Andelman, "A Shattered Peace" author, Forbes.com executive editor: Mr
2007-11-16 04:17:00 David Andelman and I have been connected via the internet for the last few years. I frequently receive emails from people who remember me from CBS News or The New York Times, who want to reconnect via Facebook or network through LinkedIn. Unfortunately, I never worked for CBS News or The New York Times.And on his end, I suspect David Andelman receives late-night emails intended for me from overdue bill collectors and people who want him to teach them how to become sports agents, based on a story I wrote for Gallery magazine in 1994.We have both, I believe, handled the mistaken identity issue with good humor, eventually referring to each other as ?cousin.? Today, I even introduced David to my daughter as ?Uncle? David.David is a veteran foreign affairs correspondent whose assignments took him to more than fifty countries, as Paris correspondent for CBS News and as the Southeast Asia and Eastern European bureau chief for The New York Times. He also spent time at the New York Daily New...
By: Mr. Media
David Andelman, "A Shattered Peace" author, Forbes.com executive editor: Mr
2007-11-15 18:52:00 (Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN/MR. MEDIA: Could a different result in Versailles have really changed the world?s make-up today for the better?DAVID ANDELMAN: I think it could have. I think definitely. There?s no question. I think it?s very unlikely that if Saddam would?ve come to power in Iraq, if things had been done differently then, I think that?MR. MEDIA: No Hitler?D. ANDELMAN: Oh no. I think if they hadn?t tried to destroy Germany, Hitler might never have come to power. I think that?s entirely possible. There were people like John Maynard Keynes, a very young economist in those days. He had a solution that would?ve worked in terms of reparations, in terms of the kind of payments that Germany was going to have to make and so on. He wrote a book called The Economic Consequences of the Peace after he walked out in disgust from the deliberations in Paris in 1919. If his concepts and if the concepts of others like him who wanted to see a strong but free Germany in the middle of Euro...
By: Mr. Media
Book: Saddam Hussein Faked Having WMDs to Trick Iran
2007-11-13 18:58:00 Saddam Hussein: Cried when FBI interrogator went home Living in a hush-hush prison cell inside Baghdad International Airport after his capture in a Tikrit spider hole, ex-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was a study in megalomania for the FBI agents tasked to interrogate the despot. He was obsessive about cleanliness, constantly washing his hands with baby wipes - just like those used by most American G.I.s - and even used them to polish the fruit his military captors delivered. Though jailed and facing...(read more)
New Book Says Saddam Admitted His WMD?s Were A Bluff
2007-11-13 16:33:00 A new book tells among other things the story of the FBI agent who spent seven hours a day everyday for a year with Saddam Hussein after his capture. They drank coffee, smoked cigars, and talked about everything. FBI Special Agent George Piro says Saddam even cried on their last meeting before his execution. Saddam admitted ...
By: The Hot Joints
Saddam Hussein obsessed with baby wipes
2007-10-29 23:42:00 George Piro, an FBI agent who gained the trust of Saddam Hussein shortly before his execution, says the former Iraqi dictator was obsessed with baby wipes. Piro says Hussein was a germaphobe with a compulsion to wash his hands. A new book, “The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack”, by ...
By: The Jellyfisher
The Mystery of Saddam Hussein?s Hair dye
2007-10-16 01:38:00 When Saddam was pulled out of his spider-hole, his hair and beard were grey and straggley. Not a photo that would make it in Vogue or GQ. But later, at his trial, Saddam was back to his usual sartorial elegance, his hair neatly combed and no longer showing a touch of grey. Was it real, or Miss Clairol? ...
Saddam Hussein?s Valubles Up For Auction
2007-10-09 14:30:00 Saddam Hussein was one for expensive watches, pens and sunglasses. Now, some of those bling accessories are being sold by Hussein?s former right-hand man, Haitham Wihaib, in a bid to raise £350,000 for Iraqi schools. The list of gifts that the tyrant gave him includes: Custom-made gold and Diamond Rolex A Cartier pen Holy Koran Smoking Pipe Specially-made shisha Walking cane ...
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Saddam Hussein Was Prepared To Go Into Exile?
2007-09-29 04:01:00 Saddam Hussein was prepared to take $1 billion and go into exile before the Iraq war, according to a transcript of talks between U.S. President George W. Bush and an ally, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Wednesday. During a meeting at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, on February 22, 2003, Bush told former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar that Saddam could also be assassinated, according to the transcript published in El Pais in Spanish. The Egyptians are speaking to Saddam Hussein. It seems he's indicated he would be prepared to go into exile if he's allowed to take $1 billion and all the information he wants about weapons of mass destruction," Bush was quoted as saying at the meeting one month before the U.S.-led invasion. Asked by Aznar whether Saddam could really leave, Bush replied: "Yes, that possibility exists. Or he might even be assassinated."Spokesperson Dana Perino was asked about the transcript published this week by the Spanish newspaper El Pais. It purports ...
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Bush: Mandela è morto e l?ha ucciso Saddam Hussein, se lo dice lui?
2007-09-28 00:00:00 [tags]Bush,Mandela,cazzate[/tag-s]Condividi questo post!
Saddam asked Bush for $1bn to go into exile
2007-09-27 17:45:00 Saddam Hussein offered to step down and go into exile one month before the invasion of Iraq, it was claimed last night. Fearing defeat, Saddam was prepared to go peacefully in return for £500million ($1billion). The extraordinary offer was revealed yesterday in a transcript of talks in February 2003 between George Bush and the then Spanish Prime ...
By: The Hot Joints
Bush Says Mandela is Dead in Iraq War by Saddam Hussein
2007-09-22 21:02:00 Reports of MY Demise were Greatly Exaggerated, says Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela has been reassuring his supporters that he is not dead. Nelson Mandela, who became South Africa's first Black President, after apartheid, is certainly still alive.He is having to make public appearances and assuage fears of people who thought he had been killed after the statement, US President George Bush made during a press conference. President Bush who sometimes seems like he is doing so well communicating his message, then makes the silliest mistakes. He makes his arguments, we saw him just recently in his address the The Nation, in prime time recently. He has a solid delivery. However, they keep getting caught up in silly trivial blunders, like Austria vs. Australia, APEC vs. OPEC, and now Nelson Mandela, DEAD v. ALIVE !Not to mention an un-ending release of every lost Osama Bin Laden video footage, or audio recording, that they still had in achieve! check out my Osama Bin Laden Beard Analys...
By: Hot Conflict
TEXAS:Wyatt,is accused of funneling millions of dollars in illegal surcharg
2007-09-21 19:12:00 Wyatt was "willing" to pay oil surcharge, witness... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: ENERGY BLOG
Another Trial for Iraq?s `Chemical Ali?
2007-08-21 22:34:00 BAGHDAD -The postwar Iraqi tribunal trying former Saddam Hussein aides opened its third proceeding Tuesday, putting the ex-defense minister known as “Chemical Ali” and 14 other men on trial for the regime’s brutal crushing of a 1991 rebellion by Shiite Muslims. In some of the day’s most dramatic testimony, a witness recalled the random shooting deaths ...
By: The Hot Joints
Saddam Hussein?s cousin and 14 other former regime officials on trial in Ba
2007-08-21 19:04:00 The cousin of the infamous Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, and 14 other former Iraqi government officials went on trial today in Bagdad, Iraq. The group is on trial for crimes against humanity for their role in the brutal suppression of a Shia revolt in 1991. In an earlier trial of a former Iraqi official, Ali Hassan al-Majid, ...
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Larry Thomas, "Seinfeld" "Postal" actor/Soup Nazi: Mr. Media Interview, Pt.
2007-07-28 23:46:00 (Return to Part 1)(Return to Part 2)ANDELMAN: Larry, actors on long-running TV series often fear, and rightly so, being forever labeled by a character. You achieved video immortality in just one episode. And I might add that most people think you?re actually on more than one episode, the finale aside. Is it a pro or a con that you did this?THOMAS: I?d have to say it?s a pro for me, but the con part of it is not what you?d think. The pro part of it is that, number one, at that point in my career, after 15 or 18 years of trying to get acting work and not being able to interest anybody in the world of big-time, what we call big-time film, TV, after that, everyone wanted to see me. Mike Myers wanted me to do a cameo in the first Austin Powers movie. It was a little bit limiting what they wanted me to audition for, mostly guys with dialects and kind of crazy, funny guys.But to be honest, I was suddenly auditioning for major television and built up quite a resume of guest spots on major T...
By: Mr. Media
Disney to Recast A Christmas Carol
2007-07-11 08:33:00 Well, it seems that Disney does read TOAS and has taken our view point into account. After considering their plans to remake “A Christmas Carol” with Jim Carrey playing Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, Disney has decided to pull the plug on the casting of Jim Carrey. In a statement, ...
By: Turd on a Stick
United States and Saddam Hussein - Bloodbath in West Asia
2007-07-03 20:32:00 In 1958, the Anglo-US oil interests and their domination of West Asian (Middle East) Gulf was gravely threatened when Col. Abd Al Karim Qasim (Kaseem), removed the Iraqi monarch and declared an independent Republic of Iraq which was neutral to the US-USSR Cold War. Qasim, who went on to become the Prime Minister of Iraq, ...
By: Aby The Liberal
IRAQ: Iraqis now have a dream called electricity [ma.gnolia]
2007-06-27 16:33:00 Tags: Ahmad Ali, Baghdad, electricity supply, IPS, Iraq, Jamal Rfai, Middle East, Saddam Hussein, Salim Abdul-Sattar, Umayma Salim
By: ENERGY BLOG
IRAQ: India oil companies to clear Iraq's new law for exploration
2007-05-25 14:46:00 Visiting Iraqi oil Minister Friday said the oil fields awarded by the previous Saddam Hussein... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: ENERGY BLOG
One Iraq Option Only: Victory
2007-05-05 03:14:00 By Michael JohnsDisturbingly, there is an emerging consensus among the Democrat-led United States Congressional leadership that the war in Iraq is "lost." The most recent example that this thesis has worked its way into official party talking points was offered by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat, who pointedly stated last month that "...this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything...."Setting the obvious contrarian politics aside, could there be a more defeatist, demoralizing and undermining statement at this time?With approximately 3,000 lives--some of America's finest men and women--now having been sacrificed for the purpose of this mission in Iraq and another quarter million currently deployed there in harm's way, calling the Iraq War "lost" is about the greatest disservice a public official can offer both those fighting today and the legacy of the 3,000 fallen. Does this Congress really need to be reminded: Their mission is a hugely lauda...
By: Michael Johns
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