April 10, 2008
How do you get to 100 years in Iraq?
Six months at a time.
“Endless war on the installment plan” from Move-On
The torture memo, signed (PDF)
One of the regrettable byproducts of the YouTube election is grownups exploiting little kids for political gain and subjecting us to it
Ohhh-Bama Classic Thong - made in the USA
Grow-a-brain, the no. 1 Google result for Condoleezza Rice for vice-president...
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March 19, 2008
War crimes
Read the first few pages of "The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict", before you buy, and weep. Criticism, anybody?
"Dear Sir" - A letter to the draft board
How's my favorite little Jew today?
Bankrupting Daddy's piggy bank. (From Bart Cop)
The Reporting Team That Got Iraq Right
Alfred E. Neuman stands by his president
War crimes. (Warning! Graphic photos)
(I'm afraid that something bad might be happening in the future, regarding the war)
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today – Brian Kane Online. Submit yours for consideration.
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March 01, 2008
Iraqi Weather
Re-post: How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish
How Can We Make The War In Iraq More Eco-Friendly
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February 13, 2008
Life goes on in Sadr City
Poverty in Sadr City (YT). What were those people doing 6 years ago? What did their town look like then?
"We think Ambassador Crocker and his team are doing a very good job under extremely challenging circumstances. We have great confidence in their ability to carry out their mission". Departure Assessment of Embassy Baghdad
“My cousin was in war but he got hurt. Now he has a big beard and drinks beer all day long. My mom says he should get a job.” From Wisdom from the Home front, Letters to soldiers from children
(Click on pix above to bigify)
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February 09, 2008
“A year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush”
A series of images from the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, narrated by the photographer Louie Palu
What is this 'Iraq war' charge on my phone bill?
(YT)
In The Know: New Iraqi Law Requires Waiting Period For Suicide Vest Purchases
Re-post: Ashley Gilbertson’s Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Why the American Century will die in Iraq, by Bernard Chazelle
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January 09, 2008
Paying the price for a photo
The Doctor's Dilemma, a new installation by Jon Haddock
The story of AP photographer Bilal Hussein, accused of terrorism
The phrase Verschaerfte Vernehmung is German for "enhanced interrogation". Other translations include "intensified interrogation" or "sharpened interrogation". It's a phrase that appears to have been concocted in 1937, to describe a form of torture that would leave no marks, and hence save the embarrassment pre-war Nazi officials were experiencing as their wounded torture victims ended up in court
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November 24, 2007
Great news from Anbar!
Aftermath of a car bomb on Google Maps
The Iraqi Challenge: Plans to withdraw troops from Iraq delayed until further notice
Iraq Hotel Reviews at J-Walk
The Top 100 private contractors in Iraq & Afghanistan
Afghan Massacre - the Convoy of Death
(Logo above from One Horse Shy)
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November 07, 2007
KMAG YO-YO
Total US facilities: About 100. Major U.S. installations in Iraq. (From a Mother Jones cover story “The Moral Dilemma of Leaving Iraq”)
Also there: Hillbilly Armor: improvised vehicle armor made from scrap metal and scrounged parts. Also known as "Frankenstein" in the Marine Corps. From Lexicon of Iraq War Lingo
Truck Blown To Bits somewhere in Iraq
Top 7 Ways of not Supporting the Troops. The number one way of not supporting the troops: Sending them to unnecessary wars
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October 15, 2007
Billions over Baghdad
Don't mind me... I’m just looking for a can opener
Who’s in charge of Blackwater USA?
Never coming home. (From Bag news notes)
An Oversimplified List of Options in Iraq
Between April 2003 and June 2004, $12 billion in U.S. currency—much of it belonging to the Iraqi people—was shipped from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad, where it was dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority. Some of the cash went to pay for projects and keep ministries afloat, but, incredibly, at least $9 billion has gone missing, unaccounted for, in a frenzy of mismanagement and greed. Billions over Baghdad
Bush's Top 10 Reasons for Bombing Iran
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September 20, 2007
The new Saddam
So you’re about to be invaded by the United States? Here are some tips on what to expect and what you might want to do to prepare for the aftermath of the initial assault. Advice to Iranians
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Welcome to the new US embassy - The largest Embassy built – roughly the size of Vatican City – and at $600 million the most expensive
What’s in that Iraq Report Petraeus Delivered
Breaking the Iraq stalemate: “…There is no way for Bush to get out of this self-created box -- except by ratcheting up tensions with Iran and Syria in the hopes of provoking an accidentally-on-purpose regional war that would serve as a do-over for his entire misguided Middle East adventure…”
(Photo above from How George Bush became the new Saddam)
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August 26, 2007
Sailboat fuel
Aerial Shot of al-Qataniyah Blast That Killed 400 People
Operation Iraqi Freedom was never a war against Saddam ¬Hussein. It was simply the redirection of a huge portion of the US treasury to the pockets of Big Business, conducted with the active support and full power of the federal government and almost completely unfettered by oversight of any kind whatsoever. The Great Iraq Swindle
A Boy and His Green Chick
Audios & videos of CNN international correspondent Michael Ware
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August 13, 2007
No End In Sight
Dick Cheney explains why toppling Hussein wouldn't be such a great idea
Unpublished photos from funerals of some of the 3689 dead soldiers
Charles Ferguson's No End In Sight
Ooops. Who was in charge of the operation to monitor the "missing weapons"?
Some cartoons on Last of Iraqis blog
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July 29, 2007
DRMO Junkyard
U.S. Army Maj. Chad Weddell describes Camp Al Asad's Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office (DRMO) junkyard, December 7, 2006, in Iraq. The yard houses all scrap metal and battle damaged and wrecked vehicles for western Iraq. Read between the lines. (From Crooks And Liars)
Richard Thompson’s new song Dad's Gonna Kill Me
A field study released Monday by the University of North Carolina School of Public Health suggests that Iraqi citizens experience sadness and a sense of loss when relatives, spouses, and even friends perish, emotions that have until recently been identified almost exclusively with Westerners
"I am not an animal... I am a human being..."
Grim Tattoo Subculture Growing as Iraqis Want Own Remains Easily ID'ed by Family - Iraqis Marking Selves for Death
Kadhem Sharif is an Iraqi wrestler and weightlifter. He is most famous for attempting to use a sledgehammer to bring down the statue of Saddam Hussein at the Firdos Square in Baghdad
Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg is Planning for 2009
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July 16, 2007
Lords of War
Victor Bout is a former KGB major and arms merchant, the most notorious in the Post Cold War era and he plays a critical role in areas where the weapons trade has been embargoed by the United Nations. Like Iraq...
A series of mock-up Hollywood film posters - with a chilling message for US troops in Iraq - has started to appear on the web. Iraq's Horror Movie Posters
Breaking news: ...“Prime Minister Maliki warned gunmen to stop firing rockets into the Green Zone”...
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July 06, 2007
Militias vs. police
U.S. troops try to beat back disturbing Iraqi Urban Legends
Also there - Rumors of Strange Creatures Abound in Basrah
The Photos Washington Doesn't Want You To See - (Graphic and disturbing)
Iraq by the Numbers:
Number of years Gen. Petraeus predicts that the U.S. will have to be engaged in counterinsurgency operations in Iraq: 9-10 years.
Number of years administration officials are now suggesting that American troops might have to remain garrisoned at U.S. bases in Iraq: 54
What Every American Should Know About Iraq: Bush never asked his father for advice on Iraq. Instead, he said: "You know he is the wrong father to appeal to in terms of strength. There is a higher father that I appeal to."
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June 13, 2007
“Increasingly irrelevant”
Eyeballing the US Embassy Baghdad
Breaking a 211-year media silence, retired Army Gen. George Washington appeared on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday to speak out against many aspects of the way the Iraq war has been waged
In 1943, some American troops were stationed in Iraq. Here is a PDF of a War Department handbook introducing them to the country, and providing some dos and don'ts when interacting with the Iraqi people
The tortured lives of interrogators
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May 29, 2007
“Hasty, Illegal Acts”
Terror Video attempts to Bring Peace, Love and Ice Cream to Iraq
Petraeus: Do Not "Commit Hasty, Illegal Acts"
Hermann Mejía’s Iraqi Quagmire Chess Set
The secret Iraq documents my 8-year-old found
What's to Become of "Saddam's Hands" and Those Huge Swords?
A continuous loop of sophistry
Cindy Sheehan quits: "Good Riddance Attention Whore"
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May 07, 2007
Five Iraqis in a boat in the middle of the ocean
There are five Iraqis in a boat in the middle of the ocean. Right in the middle of their boat is a huge spike with barbs all around it and razor edges. The Iraqis don't like it being there, but they don't dare remove it because getting near it is very dangerous and, besides, it is kind of holding the boat together.
Forty Americans pull up alongside in a much bigger, better equipped boat, and they see the spike and the predicament the Iraqis are in. Partly because they think the spike is dangerous to the Iraqis, and partly on the theory that it could be dangerous to other boats, they decide they must remove the spike. Five Americans jump in and swiftly knock out the spike, because despite it being dangerous, they have excellent spike-removal tools.
The Iraqis are partly happy, because now their dangerous spike is gone, and partly worried, because now there is a hole in the bottom of their boat and they are taking on water.
(Read the rest of this sad allegory at The Good Reverend blog)
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May 02, 2007
Accomplished
With the Iraq war in its fifth year, the war in Afghanistan in its sixth, and conflict between Israel and the rest of the region continuing unabated for more than half a century, intelligence sources are warning that a new wave of violence in the Middle East may soon blah blah blah, etc. etc., you know the rest
Doing the Hubbly Bubbly in Baghdad
McCain’s reasons for U.S. Troop Withdrawal
By the way, the guy who wrote "Barbara Ann" is Iranian
Riverbend and her family decided to leave Iraq
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April 16, 2007
Iraq’d
Roger Waters sings Leaving Beirut 2006. (YouTube)
Signs of Permanent Occupation - Before / after satellite photos of Saddam's palace in Baghdad
An ad from the 1970s purchased by a number of U.S. power companies using the Shah's nuclear power program to convince Americans of the necessity and safety of nuclear energy: Guess who's building nuclear power plants
Simple swim takes careful planning, and a little luck
What price does the life of a 9-year-old boy, shot by a soldier who mistook his book bag for a bomb satchel? Random sample (pdf) of the documents showing how Iraqis are compensated by the US military after family members are killed in cases of mistaken identity
“Triple Canopy would like to correct recent media statements regarding security at the Iraqi Parliament Building in Baghdad, Iraq”
Michael Fay's Combat Art. Michael Fry is one of three combat artists for the US Marine Corps
Jawad Selim's Monument Defines Baghdad's Tahrir Square
I’m worried about Riverbend who haven’t updated her blog for nearly two months
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March 25, 2007
218-212
If You Gamble Life, Limb, and $30 at the Baghdad Airport Duty Free Shop - This Harley Could Be Yours
The Liberation of Baghdad by Sandow Birk
Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Gulag Archipelago that sleep deprivation was perhaps the worst torture inflicted on the prisoners. Interestingly, torture was also illegal in the Soviet Union, and sleep deprivation, extreme temperatures, and stress positions were merely considered coercive methods. At the end of interrogation, prisoners had to sign a statement affirming that they had not been tortured and that they had given their confessions in full awareness of their rights. How Doctors Got Into the Torture Business by Andrew Sullivan
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March 18, 2007
Unhappy 4 Year anniversary
Tom Paxton has updated his Vietnam era Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation: “I got a letter from old George W., It said, “Son, I hate to trouble ya, But this war of mine is going bad. It’s time for me to roll the dice; I know you’ve already been there twice, But I am sending you back to Baghdad”. (From Back Porch News)
The three inch credibility. (Scroll down)
"The dentist" at Hometown Baghdad
Bush Bravely Leads 3rd Infantry Into Battle
“…Masking monumental miscalculations that will haunt generations to come…” The hidden cost of the war on Iraq
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March 12, 2007
Switzerland on the Tigris
A panel of experts convened by Rolling Stone Magazine agree that the war in Iraq is lost. The only question now is: How bad will the coming explosion be? Best case scenario, most likely scenario & worst case scenario all sound terribly frightening: Beyond Quagmire
Horsing around: Ahkmeds Used Car Lot. (YouTube)
More: Riding on the edge
Preznuts by Ted Rall
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March 10, 2007
Asymmetric warfare
The US Marines just bought 60 Israeli-made "Golan" armored vehicles for deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan
In a move intended to send an "unmistakably clear message" to Barstow County High School Principal Robert McCluskey, the school's student council approved by a vote of 22-3 during seventh period Monday a Nonbinding Resolution criticizing the principal's recent decision to install three extra hall monitors
The epidemiology of 654,965 dead Iraqis
Six protest photos. (Scroll down)
Four years into the fighting, what institutions, countries, ideas, or individuals are better off because of the war? Who, in essence, Wins in Iraq?
Iraq 101 from Mother Jones
By the way, how do you celebrate a terrorist's birthday?
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February 26, 2007
In For the Long Haul
Excuse me, waiter - There are 3,000 dead American soldiers in my soup
Who is New 'Baghdad Bob'?
Army hand signals with comments. (Click to enlarge)
Iran is nose job capital of the world, and other things I have learnt about Iran lately
The occupation of Iraq has been a losing game for a lot of reasons. Consider one Army unit's effort to hand out hundreds of soccer balls to Iraqi kids
Missing: $12 billion in cash
The domino effect
You won't find embarrassing interviews about Iraq on the White House website any more. But you will find this photo of all Bush extended family who did not serve in Iraq
Congressional Reinforcements Surge Into Iraq
The British are leaving, the Iraqis are failing and the Americans are staying - and they're going to be there a lot longer than anyone in Washington is acknowledging right now.. What few people seem to have noticed is that Gen. Petraeus's new "surge" plan is committing U.S. troops, day by day, to a much deeper and longer-term role in policing Iraq than since the earliest days of the U.S. occupation. How long must they stay under the Petraeus plan? Perhaps 10 years. At least five. Why we are staying in Iraq
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February 08, 2007
Who would send 363,000 kilos of cash into a war zone?
No Forwarding Address – A sad snapshot of a Baghdad neighborhood
More than 1,900 dead in 31 days in January
A man with no face stares at me from the corner of a room. He pleads for help, but I'm afraid to move. He begins to cry. It is a pitiful sound, and it sickens me. He screams, but as I awaken, I realize the screams are mine: An Iraq Interrogator's Nightmare
Excerpts from 'Interpreting Iraq'
The history of the Iraqi insurgency on wikipedia
Why is Bush willing to risk his party’s future, as well as his own legacy, by putting more troops into Iraq when it’s clear to almost everyone that Iraq is descending so quickly into civil war?...
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January 29, 2007
Next stop, Cambodia
A peck of lions in the Baghdad zoo are being fed on two live donkeys, to the cheers of spectators. (Warning: Gruesome if you don’t like to see donkeys eaten by lions / OK if you think War is tough, man, the lions have to eat too)
Tintin in Iraq - A parody, based on the original Tintin albums created by Hergé. This spoof uses images from different Tintin albums with adapted balloons, creating a completely new story about the war in Iraq. (In French. From Frog Smoke)
People Who Mattered In 2006, according to Time Magazine: Amina Sabah Shaab
Photos from Iraq by Mike Ferner
Stop Him Before He Kills Again. Bush has accomplished what Osama bin Laden only dreamed of by disgracing the model of American democracy in the eyes of the world
Did We Just Declare War on Iran?
Hail to The commander in chief - At Ease, Mr. President
"Decent interval" Redux - How to win the next election, not the war
The True Cost Of War
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January 11, 2007
Escalation, or Stay the course plus 21,500
I lost 11 members of my family in less than one year
Skateboarding on the roof of Saddam’s palace
The spoils of war: How the West will make a killing on Iraqi oil riches
...Sending more troops to Iraq would “undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take the lead” and “suggest that we intend to stay forever.”
The annotated Bush speech of triumph in Iraq
It takes real genius to create a martyr out of Saddam Hussein
Iraq: Why We Went, Why We Screwed Up, and Why It Matters Now
Happy 101 birthday dear Albert Hofmann. Thank you for the marshmallows!
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December 30, 2006
“I am not a failure. I am a success that hasn't occurred yet”
A scary article by Robert Parry; Intelligence sources say President Bush - along with Israel's Ehud Olmert and the UK's Tony Blair - are weighing the possibility of Israeli-led attacks on Syria and Iran in early 2007, with the United States providing logistical back-up. A Very Dangerous 2007
Statistics released by the Department Of Defense estimated that 2,937 U.S. troops and over 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died in the Continuing Iraq Victory
The Execution of Saddam Hussein on wikipedia
Books about the war I haven’t read yet: FIASCO: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Bob Woodward’s State of Denial, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
(Hover above photo above to see its meaning)
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