War On Iraq-Open Forum

In an ambush about 12 miles west of Mahmoudiya this morning, five were left dead and three missing among a patrol of U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter. Despite the military's best efforts, the three missing soldiers' whereabouts are still unknown. This is yet another tragedy in the ongoing larger-scale tragedy that is the war in Iraq. In other news today, Vice President Dick Cheney visited the Saudi Arabian King Abdullah in an effort to gain support for the war. The king, who gave Bush...Read Full Story

Where Nobody Is Accountable Inter Press Service, Ali al-Fadhily* Dahr Jamail, MidEast Dispatches BAGHDAD, May 21 (IPS) - Killings, crime, lack of medical care, collapse of education, the list goes on. But with the occupation by U.S.-led forces now into a fifth year, and a supposedly democratic government in place, no one knows who to hold accountable for all that is going wrong. It is the occupation forces, particularly the United States and Britain, that must be held accountable, many Iraqis...Read Full Story

"Baghdad is a smashed City" The western media shows a very limited scenario of the devastation caused as a result of the USUK's illegal invasion of Iraq and nothing of the war crimes they have committed there. As usual, news is kept as sanitized as possible. They cannot and will not show or tell us the truth. It's only thanks to websites like Uruknet and Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches can concerned folk in the West and elsewhere begin to grasp the true state of affairs. Here's the most...Read Full Story

The following is a comment made on my article, "Iraq: The American Tarpit". I feel that it has something valuable hidden within the message that I want to address afterward. Thank you, Anonymous. mullah cimoc say him warning ameriki people in 2003 when bush the invading iraq. mullah cimoc then tell all ameriki saying please to reading the books of him chairman mao tse tung on guerilla warfare strategies and tactical. mullah cimoc say in 2003 him insurgent running the enrage the bear tactical...Read Full Story

From ConnieTalk.com : “Four years into our occupation, we have failed on every promise, while we have substituted Baath Party tyranny with a tyranny of Islamist, militia and criminal violence. When the primary preoccupation of average Iraqis is when and how they are likely to be killed, we can hardly feel smug as we hand out care packages. As an Iraqi man told us a few days ago with deep resignation, “We need security, not free food.” Two soldiers that wrote a NY Times Editorial on the Iraq...Read Full Story