World-News

''America attacked Afghanistan as a direct result of Sep 11 bombings. However, the war on Iraq was the biggest mistake we could make and are still hurt because of it.''

http://is.gd/n0Np6q



Auditors say billions likely wasted in Iraq work

After years of following the paper trail of $51 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars provided to rebuild a broken Iraq, the U.S. government can say with certainty that too much was wasted. But it can t say how much.

http://is.gd/pwZqmk



Iraq war reconstruction: $6 billion to $8 billion wasted, US official says

The official in charge of monitoring America's $51 billion effort to reconstruct Iraq has estimated that $6 billion to $8 billion of that amount was lost to waste, fraud and abuse.

http://is.gd/2hd6mN


From Information Clearing House



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..und soll kompensieren, was durch Iran-Sanktionen ausfällt.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/152120

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By Robert Fisk

''There is no real country anymore.'' We have lost our sense of something that belongs to us, our homeland. We have lost our national identity as Iraqis.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31163.htm



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By Jonathan Owen

Defector tells how US officials 'sexed up' his fictions to make the case for 2003 invasion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30953.htm



Thomas Friedman s ''Festival of Lies''

By Lawrence Davidson

There are lies aplenty when it comes to U.S. actions in the Middle East. However, they are not lies we tell to others but rather to ourselves. And from that, nothing good can come.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30956.htm



''Curveball'' Reiterates Confession About Iraq War Lies

''We went to war in Iraq on a lie. And that lie was your lie,'' the interviewer said to Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed ''Curveball.'' Al-Janabi replied simply: ''Yes.''

http://bit.ly/HEi8Wl



Manipulating Public Perceptions: The Toppling Of Saddam Hussein

By MICHAEL OMER-MAN

The dramatic scene of knocking down one of hundreds of statues of the dictator, turned out to be not much more than an opportune media event.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31023.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all

Independent [UK]

04/01/12

A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq, starting a nine-year war costing more than 100,000 lives and hundreds of billions of pounds, will come clean in his first British television interview tomorrow. 'Curveball,' the Iraqi defector who fabricated claims about Iraq s weapons of mass destruction, smiles as he confirms how he made the whole thing up. It was a confidence trick that changed the course of history, with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi s lies used to justify the Iraq war...

http://ind.pn/HKvqkQ


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Value of Tom Friedman and America s Imperial Decline
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/25-4



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Dirk Adriaensens, Truthout: ''To date, no US official has been held accountable for US policies leading to abuse in Iraq, or for the lies that started the war. Despite the decreased US presence in Iraq, the country has been permanently affected and accountability should be high on the agenda of Pillay s office.''

http://www.truth-out.org/never-ending-and-never-prosecuted-humanitarian-disaster-iraq/1330109137



Broken Promises: America s Forgotten Iraqi Allies Face Death and a Long Road Home

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: ''Hope for US-affiliated Iraqis like Ali came in 2008, when a bipartisan effort in Congress created a special visa program to allow interpreters and other professionals who are in danger because they worked for the US, especially those under threat of assassination, to immigrate to America. But last year, the Obama administration added new layers of security clearance to the program, exacerbating a growing backlog of applications and leaving former employees like Ali waiting in refugee limbo.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8258-broken-promises-americas-forgotten-iraqi-allies-face-death-and-a-long-road-home



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Even as embassy population is reduced, America is projecting power by adding CIA personnel and Special Operations.

http://bsun.md/ypvMOs


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/14-0



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/30-1

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US military toxins: The gift that keeps on killing

In These Times
by Terry J. Allen

02/01/12

Hey, Iraq, don t say we never gave you anything. In addition to hundreds of thousands dead and untold injured, the United States is leaving behind enough toxic waste sites to kill your rats...

http://bit.ly/xPDX88


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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'I Only Wish I Had Killed More'

By Laurence Vance

Savage, despicable evil. That s what we were fighting in Iraq. That s why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy ''savages.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30429.htm



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By CBS/AP

A Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi women and children pleaded guilty Monday to dereliction of duty in a deal that will mean a maximum of three months confinement.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30339.htm



Critics Say Haditha Sends Message That U.S. Won t Punish War Crimes

By Scott Gold and Carol J. Williams

''Its' going to be hard to explain to the world that at the end of the day this fellow will serve three months and that the charges have been so significantly reduced.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30340.htm



Iraqis condemn U.S. Haditha sentence as insult

A three-month jail sentence for a U.S. Marine sergeant accused of leading a massacre of 24 civilians in Haditha is ''an insult to all Iraqis,'' a relative of one of the victims said Tuesday.

http://cour.at/wEN5y1



In Iraqi town of Haditha, disbelief at light sentence for Marine who led raid that killed 24

Residents expressed disbelief and sadness that the Marine sergeant who told his troops to ''shoot first, ask questions later'' reached a deal with prosecutors to avoid jail time.

http://wapo.st/wmO9K9



US Media Iraq Reporting: See No Evil

The Iraq war may be over, at least for US troops, but the cover-up of the atrocities committed there by American forces goes on, even in retrospectives about the war.

http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/1019



U.S. Soldier 'soaked in victims' blood'

A US soldier accused of one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars was captured on surveillance video running out of the darkness with the blood of his victims smeared on his face and soaked into his clothes, a prosecutor said.

http://is.gd/cW3d75


From Information Clearing House

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Iraq in retrospect

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

02/01/12

So what did we get in return for the thousands of lives lost and billions spent 'liberating' Iraq? We got a veritable dictatorship that routinely suppresses dissent, murders journalists, and is so infused with corruption that Iraqis routinely argue which government agency is the most venal...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/01/31/iraq-in-retrospect/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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