BUSH REWRITING HIS HISTORY
"... inside the White House in the final days of the Bush administration... the round-the-clock renovation is continuing at a frantic pace, the scraping, scrubbing, whitewashing and painting of the George W. Bush legacy... as the clock ticks toward midnight, illegal wiretaps, waterboarding, Guantanamo Bay, secret prisons, Abu Ghraib, the stripping of Geneva Convention rights and illegal detentions are all worth it because Americans have been spared another terror attack for 7 1/2 years... It is in many ways a brazen rewriting of history while the history is still unfolding..."
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/557210
Monday, December 22, 2008
U.S. TO EVADE AGREEMENT BY REDEFINING ROLES
"... Even though the agreement with the Iraqi government calls for all American combat troops to be out of the cities by the end of June, military planners are now quietly acknowledging that many will stay behind as renamed “trainers” and “advisers” in what are effectively combat roles. In other words, they will still be engaged in combat, just called something else..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/washington/22combat.html?_r=2&ref=world
"... Even though the agreement with the Iraqi government calls for all American combat troops to be out of the cities by the end of June, military planners are now quietly acknowledging that many will stay behind as renamed “trainers” and “advisers” in what are effectively combat roles. In other words, they will still be engaged in combat, just called something else..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/washington/22combat.html?_r=2&ref=world
Friday, December 19, 2008
U.S. MILITARY TO DEFY WITHDRAWAL AGREEMENT
"U.S. military leaders and Pentagon officials have made it clear through public statements and deliberately leaked stories in recent weeks that they plan to violate a central provision of the U.S.-Iraq withdrawal agreement requiring the complete withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops from Iraqi cities by mid-2009 by reclassifying combat troops as support troops. By redesignating tens of thousands of combat troops as support troops, those officials apparently hope to make it difficult, if not impossible, for Obama to insist on getting all combat troops of the country by mid-2010... Gates, Mullen and the military commanders are already making behind the scenes to get Obama to acquiesce in the subversion of the intent of the U.S.-Iraq agreement..."
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45167
"U.S. military leaders and Pentagon officials have made it clear through public statements and deliberately leaked stories in recent weeks that they plan to violate a central provision of the U.S.-Iraq withdrawal agreement requiring the complete withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops from Iraqi cities by mid-2009 by reclassifying combat troops as support troops. By redesignating tens of thousands of combat troops as support troops, those officials apparently hope to make it difficult, if not impossible, for Obama to insist on getting all combat troops of the country by mid-2010... Gates, Mullen and the military commanders are already making behind the scenes to get Obama to acquiesce in the subversion of the intent of the U.S.-Iraq agreement..."
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45167
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
HISTORIC IMAGES THAT WILL DEFINE THE IRAQ WAR
"... From now on three historic images will forever sum up the Bush administration-generated Iraqi tragedy: Bush's “Mission Accomplished” stunt off San Diego harbor; the “black scarecrow” figure tortured at Abu Ghraib; and Iraq's leather-soled kiss to the man who destroyed the country..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JL18Ak02.html
"... From now on three historic images will forever sum up the Bush administration-generated Iraqi tragedy: Bush's “Mission Accomplished” stunt off San Diego harbor; the “black scarecrow” figure tortured at Abu Ghraib; and Iraq's leather-soled kiss to the man who destroyed the country..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JL18Ak02.html
SHOE THROWER BEATEN
"Muntadhar al-Zaidi will go down in Arab folklore as the man who dared to throw his shoes at George Bush but his immediate problem is how to recover from the reprisals he suffered after his bold gesture. His older brother, Dargham, has told reporters Muntadhar suffered a broken hand, broken ribs and internal bleeding, as well as an eye injury, and is in hospital... (was it by) Iraqi security men or Bush's bodyguards from the US Secret Service?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/16/bush-shoe-zaidi
"Muntadhar al-Zaidi will go down in Arab folklore as the man who dared to throw his shoes at George Bush but his immediate problem is how to recover from the reprisals he suffered after his bold gesture. His older brother, Dargham, has told reporters Muntadhar suffered a broken hand, broken ribs and internal bleeding, as well as an eye injury, and is in hospital... (was it by) Iraqi security men or Bush's bodyguards from the US Secret Service?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/16/bush-shoe-zaidi
SHOES THROWN AT BUSH
"... An Iraqi reporter... Muntadar al-Zeidi leapt from his chair as Bush and al-Maliki were about to shake hands Sunday and hurled his shoes at the president, who was about 20 feet away."This is a farewell kiss, you dog," he yelled in Arabic. "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28232519/
"... An Iraqi reporter... Muntadar al-Zeidi leapt from his chair as Bush and al-Maliki were about to shake hands Sunday and hurled his shoes at the president, who was about 20 feet away."This is a farewell kiss, you dog," he yelled in Arabic. "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28232519/