| View articles by: All | Topic | Document Type | Author | Date |
Records 1 to 15 of 218
| Next | Last |
Breaking News: Colin Powell believes U.S. is losing Iraq war
Rod Nordland Salon and Newsweek October 31, 2004
According to Salon magaziine, "Secretary of State Colin Powell has privately confided to friends in recent weeks that the Iraqi insurgents are winning the war, according to Newsweek."
Father Writes Newspaper About Son Killed in Action during Iraq War
JON WERSHOW Gainesville Sun (Florida) October 31, 2004
Jon Wershow writes, "My son, Jeffrey Mattison Wershow, died in Bagdad, Iraq, on July 6, 2003. He proudly went to Iraq as a member of the Florida National Guard in which he enlisted after a three-year stint with the 82nd Airborne Division.... [However,] My son is dead because our president misled us into a war in the Middle East." The words of a grieving father writing about his son killed in action speaks truth to power.
Reminder: In February 2001 Powell Said Iraq was not a threat
Russ Kick The Memory Hole October 31, 2004
In response to a request from a supporter, Veterans for Common Sense re-posts this stark reminder from February 2001. In the video tape file at "The Memory Hole," U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Iraq "has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors."
VCS Weekly Update: Torture Lawsuit; Iraq War Vets and Trauma
Veterans for Common Sense October 31, 2004
The government responded to a joint ACLU / Veterans for Common Sense lawsuit this week by releasing 6,000 pages of documents related to prisoner abuse at abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan. The documents were released after a year-long Freedom of Information Request was blocked and denied by government agencies, until the courts ordered them to produce the documents.
Iraq War Soldier's Letter to the Editor: A Matter of Survival
GEORGE SPRAGUE Concord Monitor Online (New Hampshire) October 30, 2004
The letter to the editor shown below from a U.S. soldier deployed to Iraq is very blunt. George Sprague lies in Hillsboro, New Hampshire. He is a member of a National Guard unit serving at Camp Anaconda, a large logistical support area about 45 miles north of Baghdad.
Guantanamo Stonewall
Los Angeles Times Editorial Board Los Angeles Times October 30, 2004
These are very serious words from a very well respected newspaper: "As the administration continues to stonewall judges doing what the founding fathers intended — ensuring that the president doesn't overstep his authority [regarding the legal rights of prisoners of war] — it is not a stretch to say that Americans are witnessing the makings of a constitutional crisis."
Exploding Scandal: Third and Fourth Iraqi Ammo Dumps Looted After U.S. Invasion
Associated Press CBS News October 30, 2004
First there was al Qaqaa, then there was Ukhaider. Now there are a third and fourth abandoned, unguarded, and looted Iraq ammunition dumps at Muthanna and Baqouba. These major mistakes involve poor planning and shortage of U.S. troops. Are there more serious and significant mistakes remaining undisclosed potentially endangering our soldiers on the ground in occupied Iraq?
Expanding Scandal: A Second Unguarded Ammo Dump was Looted in Iraq
MIKE FRANCIS The Oregonian October 30, 2004
The scandal of the looted Iraqi arms bunker expands. According to the article below, international aid workers notified the top U.S. general in Iraq of the significant danger of unguarded munitions depots. An aide to Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez told the aid workers the U.S. military did not have enough troops to seal off the facility in Ukhaider, which included more than 60 bunkers packed with munitions. The al Qaqaa and Ukhaider "mistakes" involve multiple sites and many hundreds of tons of explosives now most likely being used by nationalists and insurgents to kill and maim U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
Why Bush will restart the draft if re-elected
Tom Harkin Minnesota Daily October 30, 2004
According to Senator Tom Harkin, "A major terrorist attack could easily serve as the pretext for setting the draft in motion."
EIGHT MARINES KILLED, NINE WOUNDED IN AL ANBAR PROVINCE
UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND October 30, 2004
In a terse 44-word press statement, the U.S. Department of Defense announced eight more U.S. Marines were killed in action in Iraq, raising the death toll to 1,120. Following the DoD announcement is a New York Times news article providing details about the incident.
Update: Journalist Saw Iraqi Insurgents Loot Al Qaqaa Arms Depot
Katrin Bennhold International Herald Tribune October 30, 2004
According to the International Herald Tribune, a "French journalist who visited the Qaqaa munitions depot south of Baghdad in November last year said she witnessed Islamic insurgents looting vast supplies of explosives more than six months after the demise of Saddam Hussein's regime."
A Soldier Speaks: Robert Sarra
Lakshmi Chaudhry AlterNet.org October 29, 2004
A death in Iraq transforms a nine-year Marine veteran from a soldier into an anti-war activist.
Medical Study: 100,000 Excess Deaths Since U.S. Invasion of Iraq in 2003
Les Roberts The Lancet (United Kingdom) October 29, 2004
According to the medical journal The Lancet, "Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths, or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Violence accounted for most of the excess deaths and air strikes from coalition forces accounted for most violent deaths. We have shown that collection of public-health information is possible even during periods of extreme violence. Our results need further verification and should lead to changes to reduce non-combatant deaths from air strikes."
Mistakes Include More Than Looting Explosives from Al Qaqaa
Paul Krugman New York Times October 29, 2004
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman provides a list of recent large-scale mistakes by the current administration that go far beyond the looting of explosives from the unguarded Al Qaqaa, Iraq arms depot. There's more: letting Osama bin Laden get away; letting Abu Musab al-Zarqawi get away; the quagmire in Iraq with the $225 billion price tag; and the new Iraqi military infiltrated with insurgents. And the current administration calls this a "remarkable success story."
Iraq: Coalition Ignored Warnings on Weapons Stocks
Human Rights Watch October 29, 2004
Human Rights Watch repeatedly gave U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq detailed information about massive stockpiles of unsecured explosives and munitions located throughout the country, but coalition forces took little or no action to secure the stockpiles.
Records 1 to 15 of 218
| Next | Last |