Happy 10th Anniversary!

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http://www.democracynow.org (http://www.democracynow.org) - On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the global justice activist and author Arundhati Roy joins us to discuss the war's legacy. Roy is the author of many books, including "The God of Small Things," "Walking with the Comrades," and "Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers." Roy argues the imperial mentality that enabled the United States to invade Iraq continues today unabated across the world. "We are being given lessons in morality [by world leaders] while tens of thousands are being killed, while whole countries are shattered, while whole civilizations are driven back decades if not centuries," Roy says. "And everything continues as normal."



Arundhati Roy on Iraq War's 10th: Bush May Be Gone, But "Psychosis" of U.S. Foreign Policy Prevails


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlCQIDspDJI

[Nbadan]

"if someone invaded our country based on false premises and murdered 100,000 to a million of our people, as we are accused of doing in Iraq, depending on whose estimate you believe, would we be so sanguine? Would we be so forgiving? Or would we demand some accountability?"


LISA BLOOM, CNN legal analyst: And when you think about it more broadly, there have been a number of world leaders who have been prosecuted in international criminal courts. In South Africa, which of course had the Apartheid regime for many, many years, a brutal regime responsible for the deaths of many of its own people, no one was prosecuted, ironically. In fact, they had the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which encouraged everybody, essentially, to talk to each other in commissions, acknowledge responsibility, and forgive. And yet Bishop Tutu, as you say, a very respected world leader, is now calling on President Bush to be prosecuted.

BANFIELD: So we are not signatories here in the United States of the International Criminal Court, and for good reason, Americans don't want to be prosecuted in criminal court.

(Crosstalk)

BANFIELD: We don't want our soldiers hauled off of battlefields and thrown into international criminal courts.

BLOOM: But isn't that interesting, because if we want others to be held accountable for war crimes, why shouldn't we accept jurisdiction of the same court?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2013/03/19/cnn-asks-if-bush-officials-should-be-tried-war-crimes

CNN only raises the question so they can rationalize that Bush officials should not be tried for the war crimes they committed. It is really a continuation of the whitewashing of the crimes. Clever, but clearly a tool to try to justify the crimes, I love the part where they imply Bishop Tutu is a hypocrite, that bit was classy..

[Nbadan]

Days after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Tomas Young, then a 22-year-old from Kansas City, Mo., made a decision repeated by many other Americans around the country: He was going to enlist in the military in hopes of getting even with the enemies who had helped coordinate the deaths of nearly 3,000 men, women and children.

Less than three years later, Young's Army service placed him not in Afghanistan -- where then-President George W. Bush had told the nation the terrorist plot had originated -- but in Iraq. On April 4, 2004, just five days into his first tour, Young's convoy was attacked by insurgents. A bullet from an AK-47 severed his spine. Another struck his knee. Young would never walk again, and in fact, for the next nearly nine years, he would suffer a number of medical setbacks that allowed him to survive only with the help of extensive medical procedures and the care of his wife, Claudia.

The incident turned Young into one of the most vocal veteran critics of the Iraq War. He has, however, saved his most powerful criticism for what he claims will be his last. Young says he'll die soon, but not before writing a letter to Bush and former Vice President Cheney on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War.

From Young's letter, published on TruthDig:


I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/19/tomas-young-letter-iraq_n_2908335.html

[Wild Cobra]

LOL...

Shock and Awesome...

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LOL...

Shock and Awesome...

WC loves him some dead brown people.

[Wild Cobra]

WC loves him some dead brown people.
I am just a firm believer that we did a good thing taking Saddam out.

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WC loves him some dead brown people.

loves them even more when they're Muslim

[Wild Cobra]

I just love how much you assholes hate me.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

I am just a firm believer that we did a good thing taking Saddam out.

:madrunWe'll shove a boot up your ass, it's the American way!:madrun

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With many many Happy Anniversareis to come in "liberated" Iraq

'Falluja Babies' and Depleted Uranium -- America's Toxic Legacy in Iraq

Contamination from Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions and other military-related pollution is suspected of causing a sharp rises in congenital birth defects, cancer cases, and other illnesses throughout much of Iraq.

Many prominent doctors and scientists contend that DU contamination is also connected to the recent emergence of diseases that were not previously seen in Iraq, such as new illnesses in the kidney, lungs, and liver, as well as total immune system collapse. DU contamination may also be connected to the steep rise in leukaemia, renal, and anaemia cases, especially among children, being reported throughout many Iraqi governorates.

There has also been a dramatic jump in miscarriages and premature births among Iraqi women, particularly in areas where heavy US military operations occurred, such as Fallujah.

Official Iraqi government statistics show that, prior to the outbreak of the First Gulf War in 1991, the rate of cancer cases in Iraq was 40 out of 100,000 people. By 1995, it had increased to 800 out of 100,000 people, and, by 2005, it had doubled to at least 1,600 out of 100,000 people. Current estimates show the increasing trend continuing.

"My colleagues and I have all noticed an increase in Fallujah of congenital malformations, sterility, and infertility," he said. "In Fallujah, we have the problem of toxics introduced by American bombardments and the weapons they used, like DU."

http://www.alternet.org/world/falluja-babies-and-depleted-uranium-americas-toxic-legacy-iraq

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

rofl sounds like they need to make a Hill Have Eyes 3 sequel that takes place in Iraq

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Abby Martin talks to US Congressman, Dennis Kucinich, about the 10th anniversary of the Iraq war and other issues that set him aside from the average establishment politician.
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Dennis Kucinich: US an 'Orwellian State', Drones, GMOs, Holding Bush Accountable



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyrYyuUoaCo

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What better way to celebrate 10 years of lies and illegal war and murder? Doing it all over again, perhaps..



Abby Martin takes a look at how 10 years after the US invasion of Iraq; the same war drums are beating for new military engagements in Iran and Syria.



Selling Iran & Syria Wars | Weapons of Mass Distraction



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4AA76rA-Pg

[rjv]

americans love their wars.

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Bishop Gecko would have let the neo-cons and the for-profit MIC attack Iran, which is as much of an IMMEDIATE THREAT to USA as Iraq was in March 2003.

[mouse]

I am just a firm believer that we did a good thing taking Saddam out.

Then what was Desert storm for?

[Wild Cobra]

Then what was Desert storm for?
Look it up. You can find it in wiki.

[mouse]

Look it up. You can find it in wiki.

Is that where you get your info ? figures.

[Wild Cobra]

Is that where you get your info ? figures.
No.

It is a quick reference, and if you recall, I ask people to verify more than anyone else here.

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National Security Brief: Report Says Iran ‘Reaps The Gains’ From Iraq War (http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/03/29/1793531/national-security-brief-iran-iraq-war/)

The Los Angeles Times reports (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-fg-iraq-iran-influence-20130329,0,6737310,full.story) that the real winner of President George W. Bush’s war in Iraq is the Islamic Republic of Iran. “Iraqi officials say Washington’s political influence in Baghdad is now virtually nonexistent. Hussein is dead. But Iran has become an indispensable broker among Baghdad’s new Shiite elite, and its influence continues to grow,” the Times says.

Secretary of State John Kerry travelled to Baghdad last week to ask Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to stop Iranians from using Iraqi airspace to fly of weapons and supplies to Bashar al-Assad’s forces fighting Syrian rebels but he was rebuffed (http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-kerry-maliki-20130324,0,4190952.story). Maliki claimed that there is no evidence that the flights contain anything but humanitarian supplies.

“The Americans have no role. Nobody listens to them. They lost their power in this country,” said Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Mutlaq, a Sunni, commenting on the disappearance of the Americans as a broker for most of Iraq’s disputes.

And the Iranians have filled the vacuum. “At the moment, Iran has something akin to veto power in Iraq, in that Maliki is careful not to take decisions that might alienate Iran,” said Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/03/29/1793531/national-security-brief-iran-iraq-war/

And of course Iran is long-time backer of Syria, and of Syria controlling Lebanon and Hezbollah, and Hezbollah, Hamas continues to control Gaza and attack Israel

So the Repugs in invading Iraq for oil has produced a wonderful, US-friendly Middle East peace and stability under the American regional hegemony.

"heckuva job, dubya"

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Fuck All Y'all Bubbas

[symple19]

Fuck All Y'all Bubbas

I love you too, Boutons

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Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai reveals US will retain nine bases after withdrawal


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/09/afghanistan-hamid-karzai-us-nine-bases-withdrawal

[BobaFett1]

I just love how much you assholes hate me.


They cannot handle the truth wc.