Tag: saddam
group name: politicsjustice
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November 12, 2006 08:47 PM EST --
Few believe that the execution of Saddam Hussein will bring an abatement of strife between Iraqis.
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December 31, 2006 03:16 PM EST --
Grim milestone indeed. 3,000 American mothers will never see their sons or daughters because George W. Bush had to prove he was a better man than his daddy. 3,000 American fathers will never see their . . .
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May 30, 2007 11:14 AM EDT --
US forces in Iraq will peak at around 170,000 next month and GIs in the new units are being told they could be on operations for at least 15 months. The US has told the British it is considering introducing . . .
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December 26, 2006 01:22 PM EST --
I got up today and flashed through the morning news -- saw that Saddam has 30 days to have his death sentence commuted. The 30 days doesn't mean he has 30 days to live - it means someone has . . .
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December 30, 2006 12:39 AM EST --
The former leader of Iraq is was born on April 28, 1937, in a small village of al-Auja near the town of Takrit. His early child hood was spent in a mud . . .
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March 13, 2007 01:32 AM EDT --
Halliburton's big move: brickbats flying
Halliburton's decision to move much of its operation and focus from Texas to Dubai "is another sign of shifting alignments in the global oil . . .
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August 30, 2007 12:48 PM EDT --
Remember all those annoying Budweiser Waazzzuuup Commercials? This one's in a foreign language but it's pretty plain what's going on. Might want to turn your volume down a bit. Funny! CLICK . . .
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March 22, 2007 12:38 PM EDT --
Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy by Andrew Cockburn. Scribner, New York, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-3574-4. Price: US$25, 247 pages.
A fine review of Cockburn's well-informed study . . .
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March 04, 2009 03:20 PM EST --
First of all, I'm not interested in saying I told you so, but this information, I find, has been generally ignored, and is still not common knowledge, at least not to all of the general public. We . . .
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May 09, 2007 03:11 AM EDT --
The US Energy Information Administration estimates Iraq possesses 115 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, the third-largest in the world (after Saudi Arabia and Iran). Two-thirds of . . .
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March 12, 2007 12:22 PM EDT --
"The course of true love never did run smooth, Lysander comforted Hermia in William Shakespeare's wedding play A Midsummer Night's Dream. That's pretty much how the dialogue struggling . . .
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December 30, 2006 11:01 AM EST --
We know very well what we hated about Saddam Hussein and thankfully those cruel characteristics have departed along with the man. Justice has been done, but the long delay between capture and punishment . . .
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June 11, 2007 11:49 AM EDT --
"The Other Intelligence Assessments on Iraq"
http://www.nationalinterest.org/PrinterFriendly.aspx?id=14564
Paul R. Pillar previews a longer article that will appear in a forthcoming . . .
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October 04, 2006 02:25 PM EDT --
Death squads. Militias. Letters home to families of US soldiers saying they have lost a son or daughter. Thousands more dead Iraqi civilians. Kidnappings. Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Missing or slain reporters. . . .
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May 01, 2007 03:27 PM EDT --
Swiss staged a demonstration in Basel to oppose US hostile policies to Iran and its peaceful nuclear program. Protesters carried banners featuring "No War against Iran". . . .
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October 02, 2006 08:22 PM EDT --
The standard response by the Bush administration to charges that Iraq is a major setback in the war on terror--confirmed by the recent NIE terror report—is that the transformation of Iraq to a free . . .
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February 08, 2007 07:22 PM EST --
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and senior lecturer at Haifa University. He's also Academic Director of the Research Institute for Peace at Givat . . .
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August 10, 2007 11:15 PM EDT --
Just three hours ago a friend asked me to visit a movie's website and review it for myself (you can do that here, its free but two hours long if you can spare that), hoping, of course, to . . .
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December 30, 2006 08:39 PM EST --
Last night, the Iraqi government -- which is unable to provide the most basic services to even the residents of Iraq's largest city -- executed their former president, Saddam Hussein. The Bush Administration . . .
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March 19, 2008 04:09 PM EDT --
I probably don't need to remind anyone of the fact that today is the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war. But, here's a rather depressing rundown of the past 5 years posted by my colleauge . . .
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