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The firefighting system in the massive $736 million embassy complex in Baghdad has potential safety problems that top U.S. officials dismissed in their rush to declare construction largely completed by the end of last year, according to internal State Department documents, e-mails and interviews.
Some officials assert that in the push to complete the long-delayed [...]

Posted by bosskitty January 13th, 2008 | Category: Baghdad, Baghdad Embassy, Contractors, Corporate corruption, Fire, Justice Department, Outsource, Oversight, US State Department, War Contractors, War Cost, candidates, cover up, profiteers | Comments (3)

Well, here’s another well kept secret about Bush’s favorite mercenary death squad. Apparently in 2005, Blackwater dropped CS gas, a riot-control substance, from a helicopter. They also released it from an armored vehicle on U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians at the checkpoint to the Green Zone. Blackwater, being the steroid boneheads that they are, said [...]

Posted by nytexan January 10th, 2008 | Category: Baghdad, Blackwater, CS gas, Green Zone, Iraq, Mercenaries, Politics, Soldiers, State Department, War Crimes, military | Comments (9)

Bush, Petraeus and Crocker can  spew their lies about success in Iraq and that conditions improving. How can you have a country on the correct track to peace and unity, if you can not even get the freaking infrastructure working? The fact that Iraqi’s do not have clean water and sanitation is just another example [...]

Posted by nytexan September 26th, 2007 | Category: Baghdad, Bush, Crocker, Iraq, Oxfam, Petraeus, cholera | Leave a comment

Some in Baghdad are watching the testimony of General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker and here’s what they have to say.
BAGHDAD (Agence France-Presse) — A group of Iraqis watching the stuttering start of proceedings before the U.S. Congress yesterday, which could influence whether U.S. troops remain in their country, said they were unimpressed.
Student Abdelbaqi al-Shimmari scoffed [...]

Posted by nytexan September 11th, 2007 | Category: Baghdad, Congress, Crocker, Iraq, Petraeus, Politics | Leave a comment

Al Jazeera in depth research into Iraq’s many armies: Four years ago the fighting in Iraq was just beginning. The armed group al-Qaeda in Iraq did not even exist and Sunni and Shia groups were working together against the US-led forces.
Three years ago, sectarian divisions escalated into a battle some believe [...]

Posted by bosskitty September 8th, 2007 | Category: Al Qaeda, Anbar, Anti-War, Baghdad, Bechtel, Black Ops, Blackwater, Bush, Casualties, Civilian Army, Collateral, Corporate Corruption, DOD, Deception, Excuses, Executive Branch, Halliburton, Holy War, House Armed Services Committee, Hypocracy, Iraq, Islamic Jihad, Joint Chiefs, Moqtada al-Sadr, Nuri al-Maliki, Occupation Army, Outsource, Oversight, Pace, Pentagon Corruption, Politics, Private Armies, Propaganda, Shadow Government, Shi'a, Shiite, Sunni, Tax Dollars, The Divider, The Liar, Time Bomb, War Contractors, War Cost, battlefield, conspiracy, cover up, covert, destruction, displaced persons, escalation, genocide, incompetence, profiteers, refugees, resonsibility, taxpayers | Comments (13)

Documents Show Troops Disregarding Rules
by Ryan Lenz
New documents released Tuesday regarding crimes committed by U.S. soldiers against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan detail a troubling pattern of troops failing to understand and follow the rules that govern interrogations and deadly actions.
“The simple fact of the matter is interrogation is supposed to be stressful or you [...]

Posted by bosskitty September 5th, 2007 | Category: ACLU, Abu Ghraib, Accountability, Baghdad, Casualties, Collateral, Cowboys and Indians, Education, Excuses, Gangs, Hypocracy, Ignorance, Iraq, Law, Legacy, Mercenaries, Occupation Army, Outsource, PTSD, Pentagon Corruption, Private Armies, Propaganda, Rumsfeld, Scandal, Soldiers, Tax Dollars, The Liar, War Cost, War Crimes, abuse, arrogance, battlefield, betrayal, cover up, crimes, department of defense, deployment, disinformation, documents, escalation, ethics, humanitarian, incompetence, innocents, lies, mental health, military, profiteers, resonsibility, training, troops | Leave a comment

John McCain doesn’t need to be running for president; he needs to running for the Iraq War spin doctor. While in Iowa, McCain actually stated that “the surge” is working and Bush was safe there and it was a “free fire zone”. Well of course Bush was safe and in a free fire zone, he [...]

Posted by nytexan September 4th, 2007 | Category: Baghdad, Bush, Iraq, National, Politics, Republican, War, military | Leave a comment

Will President Bush bomb Iran?
In a nondescript room, two blocks from the American Capitol building, a group of Bush administration staffers is gathered to consider the gravest threat their government has faced this century: the testing of a nuclear weapon by Iran.
Nightmare scenario

The [...]

Posted by bosskitty September 1st, 2007 | Category: Ahmadinejad, America, Arab Nations, Armageddon, Ayatollah Khamenei, Baghdad, Black Ops, Bomb, Border Patrol, Border Wall, British, Bush, Canada, Cheney, Collateral, Corruption, Crawford, DOD, Deception, Donald Rumsfeld, Elections, Executive Branch, Executive Orders, Foriegn Policy, Global Power, Horror Flick, Hypocracy, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamic Jihad, Israel, Joint Chiefs, Karl Rove, NATO, North Korea, Nuclear, Oil, Orwellian, PNAC, Petraeus, President, Propaganda, Russian, Soldiers, Tax Dollars, Tehran, The Divider, The Liar, Time Bomb, WMD, War, War Cost, War Crimes, War Games, War on Terror, World Order, arrogance, betrayal, conspiracy, cover up, covert, criminal, department of defense, dictatorship, disinformation, executive privilege, illegal arms, intelligence, lies, mind control, plutonium, profiteers, troops, veterans | Comments (3)

A second key British general has criticised US post-war policy in Iraq.
Maj Gen Tim Cross, who was the most senior UK officer involved in post-war planning, told the Sunday Mirror US policy was “fatally flawed“. His comments came after Gen Sir Mike Jackson, head of the Army during the invasion, told the [...]

Posted by bosskitty September 1st, 2007 | Category: Afghanistan, Baghdad, British, Bush, Casualties, Cheney, Collateral, Corruption, Deception, Donald Rumsfeld, Foriegn Policy, Global Power, Hypocracy, Iran, Iraq, Maj Gen Cross, Occupation Army, Orwellian, Pentagon Corruption, Propaganda, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Sir Mike Jackson, Soldiers, Taliban, The Divider, The Liar, War Cost, War Crimes, War on Terror, alliance, arrogance, disinformation, escalation, illegal arms, marketing, profiteers, resonsibility, surge | Leave a comment