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War news

IraqWar - A Russian journalists' site based on info from GRU - Russian military intelligence - the best info by far.

A mirror: Venik's Auronautics

 

IndyMedia's direct reports from Iraq

 

 

- and some sardonic humour :

Reasons to invade irak now !    

WAR SHOCK LATEST: IRAQI TROOPS NOW EATING LIVE BABIES

Maps

 

IraqWar - Russian journalists' site

 

Clashes - Asia Times

 

From StrategyPage.com:

Iraq Dissident Areas     Battle Map    Bagdad

 

 

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Single articles

 

Iraqi Wars, by by Chalmers Johnson, January 10, 2003
 

The Lies We Are Told About Iraq , By Victor Marshall, LA Times  January 5, 2003
Pentagon propaganda got us into the first Gulf War. Will we be fooled a second time?

Victor Marshall, a research fellow at the Independent Institute, a public policy group, is the author of "To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War."

US WILL LOSE THE IRAQ WAR -SAYS SCOTT RITTER

Scott Ritter, is a former U.N. weapons inspector and author of the book "Endgame." Ritter, a ballistic missile technology expert, worked in military intelligence during his 12-year career in the U.S. armed forces. In 1998, Ritter resigned from the U.N. Special Commissions team to protest Clinton Administration policies that he said subverted the weapons inspection process.

 

West's greed for oil fuels Saddam fever by Anthony Sampson, August 11, 2002

 

The economic costs of war with Iraq , by Miriam Pemberton (Testimony before the US Congress, September 13).
 

Reconstruction in Iraq

 

Promises but no plan for Iraq's reconstruction -  from Financial Times local copy

 

It may be of interest to see who Mr. Bush wants to run reconstruction in Iraq - General Jay Garner, associated with JINSA (who also claims authorship for the whole war strategy)
 

American hired arsonists? Americans removing the PR mask of "liberation" to direct occupation, lockdown, curfew, staged arson buses moving about, destroying the culture of Iraq for occupation while letting Iraqi government escape, by Robert Fisk, Friday, April 18, 2003, Indymedia

Sanctions
 

Bibliography - American Sanctions Against the Iraqi People

 

The International Action Center

 

The Devastation of Iraq by War and Sanctions - Fire and Ice by Ramsey Clarke, former US attorney

 

THE SECRET WAR ON IRAQ by John Pilger, December 20, 2002

 

Background
 

 

 

The Origin of ‘Shock & Awe’   

U.S. ‘Hyperwar’ Doctrine Laid Out in 1996 Study Co-Authored by JINSA Advisor
 

Weapons inspections

 

Star Witness on Iraq Said Weapons Were Destroyed: Bombshell revelation from a defector cited by White House and press,  February 27, 2003, FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

 

Oil Interests

 

U.S. Probes Its Iraq - Oil Rights International Law Gives Occupying Power Freedom to Maneuver, By Chip Cummins
01/29/2003, The Wall Street Journal, local copy

 

History

 

Saddam's Brain by David Brooks - The Weekly Standard, 11/11/2002, Volume 008, Issue 09
From the November 11, 2002 issue: The ideology behind the thuggery.

An analysis of the history and ideology of the Baath Party- a pan-Arabism with roots in Leninism, Nazism (and thereby a twisted Syndicalism).
 

 

The Gulf  War I

 

The following shows how much more sense Bush the older had, than the present US administration.
Don't Remove Saddam, Warned Bush Senior , Copyright © 2002 by Richard Maybury, October 1, 2002
 

On how the US "allowed" Saddam to take a part of Kuwait.
 

Excerpts From The Third Presidential Debate of 1992
PEROT: ... Now, let's go back to Saddam Hussein. We gave Ambassador Glaspie written instructions. That's a fact.

 
THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1990:
Excerpts From Iraqi Document on Meeting with U.S. Envoy - very worthwhile reading... local copy of the whole transcript

APRIL GLASPIE: I thank you, Mr. President, and it is a great pleasure for a diplomat to meet and talk directly with the President. I clearly understand your message. We studied history at school That taught us to say freedom or death. I think you know well that we as a people have our experience with the colonialists. ...
GLASPIE: I have a direct instruction from the President to seek better relations with Iraq. ...
HUSSEIN: Kuwait and the U.A.E. were at the front of this policy aimed at lowering Iraq's position and depriving its people of higher economic standards. ... ...
APRIL GLASPIE: ... But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait.
I was in the American Embassy in Kuwait during the late 60's. The instruction we had during this period was that we should express no opinion on this issue and that the issue is not associated with America. ... All that we hope is that these issues are solved quickly. ... I simply describe the position of my Government. ...
HUSSEIN: We do not ask people not to be concerned when peace is at issue. ... We want to find a just solution which will give us our rights but not deprive others of their rights. But at the same time, we want the others to know that our patience is running out regarding their action, ... As a country, we have the right to prosper. We lost so many opportunities,... We are not aggressors but we do not accept aggression.

 

 

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