Why Doesn’t Hillary Clinton Fire Blackwater?

As a candidate, Clinton pledged to ban Blackwater. She now has the power to do it, but continues to use them “indefinitely”
By Jeremy Scahill
As a candidate for president, Hillary Clinton pledged to ban Blackwater. In February 2008, she announced that she would sign on as the co-sponsor of a little-known bill put forward in the [...]

The Story of My Shoe

By Mutadhar al-Zaidi
In the name of God, the most gracious and most merciful.
Here I am, free. But my country is still a prisoner of war.
Firstly, I give my thanks and my regards to everyone who stood beside me, whether inside my country, in the Islamic world, in the free world. There has been a lot [...]

US troops now a ‘coalition of one’ in Iraq

By Chelsea Carter
BAGHDAD — The war in Iraq was truly an American-only effort Saturday after Britain and Australia, the last of its international partners, pulled out.
Little attention was paid in Iraq to what effectively ended the so-called coalition of the willing, with the U.S. — as the leader of Multi-National Force, Iraq — letting the [...]

Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder

By Jeremy Scahill
A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the [...]

Mike Rivero Comments on Ancient Sites of the Middle East

By Mike Rivero at WhatReallyHappened.com

One of the great crimes committed against the people of Iraq was the looting of the Baghdad Museum and the destruction of many important ancient sites inside Iraq.
I think that destruction of ancient sites is deliberate policy.
Egypt is literally littered with the ruins of the ancient temples and palaces of her [...]

US forces attempt to hijack Iranian oil field

American forces have attempted to take over an Iranian oil field near the country’s western border with Iraq, a security official says.
“US forces backed by tanks entered the Mousian area of the Dehloran County, laying around 100 meters of pipeline in Iranian territory,” the source, talking on condition of anonymity, said Monday.
The source added that [...]

U.S. Troops Kill Two Iraqi Protesters

Interesting that you will not see this on your television news.  Only Iranian protesting is in the all news all the time, time-slot.  You won’t hear about this or any of the one million innocent Iraqi victims on your new tonight…
By Arthur Max
BAGHDAD, Iraq – U.S. troops opened fire at former Iraqi soldiers demonstrating to [...]

Cheney admits there was never any evidence tying Iraq, 9/11

By John Byrne
Oops.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney wants a do-over. After being party to an administration that repeatedly sought to tie the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks with Saddam Hussein, he’s ready to let that assertion go.
In an interview with Fox News’ Greta van Susteren Monday, Cheney said there was no evidence tying Iraq and [...]

Cheney ‘94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire C-SPAN

In this interview from April 15th, 1994 Dick Cheney reveals the reasons why invading Baghdad and toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime wouldn’t be a great idea. He also stipulates that “not very many” American soldiers’ lives were worth losing to take out Saddam during the Gulf War.

Some GIs Forced To Steal Water In Iraq

Stories of short supplies for American forces in Iraq, such as inadequate body armor or unshielded Hummers, have been around since the war began. CBS affiliate KHOU-TV in Houston has discovered that some soldiers were forced to ration water, perhaps as little as 2-3 liters per day, because there was never enough.
It is less than [...]