and anyone who still believes Iraq was invaded because of its weapons of mass destruction stockpiles, links to al Queda or humanitarian reason is an idiot.
I’ll start with a post in another string by Walter
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Originally Posted by Walter
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1968
The Baath Party power returns to power after a coup in July. It creates a state apparatus systematically dominated by the Baath party that enables it to remain in power for at least the next thirty years.
The Baath militia, the National Guard, crack down on demonstrations and strikes. In November, two strikers are shot dead at a vegetable oil factory near Baghdad, and three are killed on a demonstration to commemorate the Russian Revolution.
1969
The regime begins rounding up suspected communists. The guerrilla movement is defeated, with many of its members tortured to death. Aziz al-Hajj betrays them by recanting on television,...
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The Iraqi government has criticised US military chief Mike Mullen for warning of "major security losses" if Iraq does not pass a key security deal.... more
Baghdad, Oct 23 (Xinhua) The Iraqi forces Thursday took over security responsibilities of the central Shia province of Babil from US troops. The two sides signed the transfer document in a televised ceremony, attended by senior US and Iraqi officials, including Lieutenant General Lloyd Austin, the number two commander of US forces in Iraq and [...]... more
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Les Stone, Untitled (Iraq), 1991, Digital C-Print, Edition of 5
During the last several decades, critically acclaimed photographer Les Stone has chronicled the human cost of conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Kosovo, Liberia, Cambodia and Haiti, among other war zones. The winner of se... more
Al-Hayat reports in Arabic on the aftermath of the horrific bombings on Thursday at Shiite mosques in Baghdad that left 26 persons dead and dozens wounded. Wa’il Abd al-Latif, an independent member of parliament saw a relationship between the bombings and the sources of the recent political tension that have not been resolved. One of these contentious issues is the security agreement being negotiated by PM al-Maliki with the Bush administration. He said that there is a crisis of con... more
American commanders worry that the Shiite-led government’s push to squeeze Kurdish units out of the Iraqi Army in Mosul could lead to confrontation. ... more
by T. Christian Miller , ProPublica - On any given day in Iraq, about 140,000 Iraqi soldiers are on duty. But some 1,000 are in jail, 2,000 are in the hospital or recuperating from injuries, and around 1,000 are absent without leave—though all are counted as part of the Iraqi army that is supposed to one day replace U.S. soldiers on the battlefield.
Nobody, in fact, is exactly sure how many Iraqis are actually on duty – partly due to problems with a government contract designed... more
Of course the Iraqi government looks the other way, since non-muslims are never innocent victims of jihad, since they are guilty of not accepting the cult islam that pedophile Muhammad invented to satisfy his lust for power, money, and little girls. What a total shock, Christians being killed my muslims, in muslim Iraq. Oh wait, we see the same in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Gaza, Egypt, Algiers, Morocco, anywhere islam has infested the minds of the people.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 28 -- The Iraqi cabinet decided Tuesday to reopen negotiations on a security pact intended to give U.S. forces the legal authority to stay in the country beyond Dec. 31, further delaying an agreement that American officials had hoped to conclude by now.
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Opposition MPs on Tuesday decried the federal government’s delay in filling 58 vacancies at the Immigration and Refugee Board, which the board’s chair has said is responsible for a soaring backlog of refugee claims.
During Tuesday’s question period, Liberal immigration critic Maurizio Bevilacqua said the government’s lag in hiring for the positions has resulted in the tripling of refugee claims yet to be processed.
Immigration Minister Diane Finley responded by saying ... more
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A Canadian man who claims he was discriminated against as a pagan who practices a form of sadomasochism will get to take his complaint to a human rights tribunal. http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/...hNews?i=eQE2VU
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - A dry-cleaning shop owner in Papua New Guinea has found a unique way of encouraging thieves to clean up their behavior: giving them a steam cleaning. http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/...hNews?i=5YZ6QW
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Thousands of protesters forced officials to heavily modify the Olympic torch event in San Francisco on Tuesday, with runners bypassing the planned route.
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