War in Iraq

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,359

Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday

. 6, 2009, at least 4,359 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Film: A New Attack on the Iraq War Film

New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

“The Messenger” portrays conflict on the home front: the struggles of those who tell the next of kin their loved ones are dead.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,359 Friday, according to Associated Press count

Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday

The British military has reported 179 deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latvia and Georgia, three each; Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand and Romania, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan and South Korea, one death each.

"ExxonMobil Wins Iraq War"

Running 'Cause I Can't Fly (Free subscription) | yesterday

U.S. set to leave Iraq, continue war efforts in Afghanistan, Pakistan

Soc 202 - Current Events (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Matthew Henderson 11/06/2009 The wars in Iraq and AfPak, or Afghanistan/Pakistan, are completely different. The U.S. and president Obama are poised to exit Iraq by December 31st 2011. This does not mean in any way that we will be getting out of the middle-east. Obama is in the process of determining how big of a surge to put into AfPak now that we are finally exiting Iraq. It is looking like we will...

Iraq War Mission Accomplished

Martin Eisenstadt's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

As an early advocate for war against Iraq and an original member of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI), I’d be the first to admit that President Bush may have unveiled the “Mission Accomplished” banner a bit prematurely. There was still a lot of work to be done. But now that work is [...]

How the Iraq War Destroyed the US Economy

The Existentialist Cowboy (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Wars reduce the GDP, destroy jobs, reduce productivity, and increase the trade deficit! If wars are 'bad' for the economy, then how are they sold so easily? The quick response: they are sold with focus group tested bullshit! There's a 'living' in killing, we are told! There is a more opulent living in the commission mass murder which requires the construction...

Was the Iraq War Unnecessary?

Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

When George W. Bush took office in 2001, the war with Iraq was already in progress, because Saddam Hussein was ignoring 17 U. N. Resolutions from the 1991 Gulf War. This lack of cooperation meant that the war in which the U.S. and coalition forces had engaged to liberate Kuwait was not concluded.

PROFILE: US military gunman, a Muslim, opposed Iraq war

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Washington - The US Army psychiatrist who killed 12 people in a shooting rampage on a Texas military base is a devout Muslim who opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to media reports Friday. The shootings on Thursday at Fort Hood, Texa...

Did The Fort Hood Shooter Sign This Anti-Iraq-War Petition? [Breaking]

Valleywag (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

As a kind of addendum to the Nidal Hasan documents trawl of last night, here's an anti-war petition [PDF] signed by someone named... Nidal Hasan. The evidence this is him is circumstantial: the...

Iraq war veteran's wife spared deportation

L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Frances Barrios, who was brought to the U.S. illegally as a child, receives humanitarian parole and can stay in Los Angeles and apply for a green card. Her husband suffers from post-traumatic stress. The U.S. government has cleared a pathway to citizenship for the illegal immigrant wife of an Iraq war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress, the family's attorney said Thursday.

Loach goes to war, BFI wants sex and 1 Day in Birmingham | Trailer Trash

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

> > Loach and Menges go to war Ken Loach is making his first film about the Iraq war. Teaming up again with revered cameraman Chris Menges – for the first time on a feature since Kes , in 1969 – Loach is drawing to a close on his shoot of Route Irish in both Liverpool and Jordan. The film is about two security contractors in Iraq in love with the same girl back home. When one of...

General McChrystal Asks For 80,000 More Troops To Make Afghanistan “Low Risk,” Obama Sending 34,000

Say Anything (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Which illustrates perfectly, I think, exactly the sort of finger-in-the-wind politician Obama is. He doesn’t want to just give General McChrystal the troops he needs to succeed because that might upset his rabidly anti-war base. But he can’t just leave the General to twist in the wind either, so he’s got to do something. So instead of a decision one way on Iraq - win or go home -...

Senate Prepares To Back Another Obama War Supplemental For Afghanistan Escalation

DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | yesterday

The faces are all that's Changed... and Hope? Forget that "For too long, our budget process in Washington has been an exercise in deception; a series of accounting tricks to hide the expense of our spending and the shortfalls in our revenue and hope that the American people won't notice. Budgeting certain expenditures for just one year, when we know we'll incur them every year for five or 10;...

"Vote for us, we'll make things worse!"

Labourlist (Free subscription) | yesterday

By David Beeson There is a fresh new breeze blowing through politics today. David Cameron and the Tories are going to renew politics in this country and for that we should be deeply grateful to them. Cameron has shown himself to be keen to learn from the errors of the past and avoid making them himself. He saw, for instance, the euphoria that greeted Tony Blair’s election back in 1997. It actually...

Author Naomi Klein addresses global financial ills

kellya | 19/02/2009

Naomi Klein doesn't believe in calling the Bush administration incompetent for its widely unpopular policies on the war in Iraq. Instead, she argues that the Iraq model of reconstruction has been "incredibly profitable." "They're only incompetent if you believe that their goal is to better the lives of everyone on Earth," the journalist and international bestselling author told a crowd of about 150