A community portal about The Iraq War with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, started with the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Subsequent occupation of Saddam Hussein -led Ba...
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A community portal about The Iraq War with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, started with the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Subsequent occupation of Saddam Hussein -led Ba'athist Iraq by a United States -led coalition has resulted in ongoing asymmetric warfare between resistance forces and coalition forces. The New Iraqi Army was created to replace the old one that was disbanded after the U.S. led invasion. In the midst of fighting between resistance, coalition, and Iraqi forces, sectarian civil war between the majority Shia and minority Sunni populations continues today. The causes and consequences of the war remain controversial.
The mercenary firm Blackwater has become a symbol of the utter lawlessness and criminality that permeates the privatised wing of the US war machine. The company's operatives have shot dead scores of Iraqi and Afghan civilians, while former employees ...
A former vice president of the Blackwater private security company said he was "unaware of any plot or guidance for Blackwater to bribe Iraqi officials" as rage erupted over the killings of 17 civilians by the company's security guards more than two years ago.
(CNN) -- A former vice president of the Blackwater private security company said he was "unaware of any plot or guidance for Blackwater to bribe Iraqi officials" as rage erupted over the killings of 17 civilians by the company's security guards more ...
A former vice president of the Blackwater private security company said he was "unaware of any plot or guidance for Blackwater to bribe Iraqi officials" as rage erupted over the killings of 17 civilians by the company's security guards more than two years ago.
A former vice president of the Blackwater private security company said he was "unaware of any plot or guidance for Blackwater to bribe Iraqi officials" as rage erupted over the killings of 17 civilians by the company's security guards more than two years ago.
Since Iran is the primary beneficiary of our invasion and occupation of Iraq , on the surface it does not make any sense that they are funding and supporting organizations which are fighting America and the Maliki government , which is already in Iran's pocket. But last week General Petraeus warned that these Iranian proxies are now the primary enemy in the ever changing, always shifting, goal line in Iraq . Of course, Iran is gaming the situation . They support every political side that matters in Iraq , so no matter what happens it is a win win situation for them, and they ...
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Historical perspective on the Middle East is often forgotten and frequently underrated. If we think that the current US embroilment in Iraq is a new phenomena, we can correct this with a visit back to 1922. Winston Churchill, then the Minister with responsibility for the British presence in Iraq, wrote a letter home to his Prime Minister, David Lloyd George. An excerpt of the letter has echoes of our modern problems: “I am deeply concerned about Iraq. The task you have given me is becoming really impossible…there is scarcely a newspaper…which is not consistently hostile to our remaining in this country. I think we ...
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The following is a list of the latest causualty reports from Iraq and Afghanistan. Click on the name of the GI for more information. Casualty Reports: Army 1st Lt. Brian Brennan , 23, lost his legs to amputation and suffers from an acute brain injury. He was critically injured while on a mission in the 2nd Platoon Delta Company, 506th Infantry Division, 101st Airborne, patrolling villages in Afghanistan. According to information provided by his family, "On March 20, improvised explosive devices blew up the Humvee in which Brian was riding, splitting the vehicle in half and hurling Brian and the driver, Spc. Ryan Price ...
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Kurds Extend Role Beyond Autonomous Borders, Angering Arabs By Amit R. PaleyWashington Post Foreign ServiceSaturday, September 13, 2008; A01 http://tinyurl.com/4j9n82 JALAWLA, Iraq -- Kurdish leaders have expanded their authority over a roughly 300-mile-long swath of territory beyond the borders of their autonomous region in northern Iraq, stationing thousands of soldiers in ethnically mixed areas in what Iraqi Arabs see as an encroachment on their homelands. The assertion of greater Kurdish control, which has taken hold gradually since the war began and caused tens of thousands of Arabs to flee their homes, is viewed by Iraqi Arab and U.S. officials as a provocative and potentially ...
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The Iraq War has been going on for over 5 years now and nothing has really been accomplished. Sure, the Iraqi tribal leaders rose up against Al Quaeda and drove them out of their towns and villages, but the U.S. military didn't have a damn thing to do with bringing a semblance of peace to Iraq. What the Bush Administration and the U.S. Military did to Iraq is as bad as what the Nazis did to the Jews during the Holocaust. Innocent Iraqi children were caught up in Bush and Cheney's wild ass dream of turning Iraq into a democracy, and this video shows ...
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