The occupation of Iraq has made Americans less secure. Bush administration policy has radicalized Muslim extremists and drastically enhanced the Muslim call to jihad. Bush did this knowingly and deliberately.
In his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Porter Goss, the new CIA Director confessed that the war in Iraq “was giving terrorists experience contacts for [...]
Archive for February, 2005
More Americans believe that 9/11 hijackers were Iraqis
Posted in Igor Volsky Posts, Iraq on February 25, 2005 | 1 Comment »
A Harris poll found that 44% of Americans now believe that several of the 9/11 terrorists were Iraqis. This is up from 37% in November.
The Consequences of Iraq
Posted in Igor Volsky Posts, Iraq on February 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The occupation of Iraq has made Americans less secure. Bush administration policy has radicalized Muslim extremists and drastically enhanced the Muslim call to jihad. Bush did this knowingly and deliberately.
In his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Porter Goss, the new CIA Director confessed that the war in Iraq “was giving terrorists experience contacts for [...]
Finding ways to torture
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2005 | 2 Comments »
The CIA has been operating “a global ‘ghost’ prison system, where terror suspects are secretly interrogated [in foreign countries that practice torture]… several of the Gulfstream flights allegedly correlate with other ‘renditions,’ the controversial practice of secretly spiriting suspects to other countries without due process.”
One former terror suspect tells the story of how “he was [...]
Drs Insurance premiums increase because of market cycles, not malpractice claims
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times is reaffirming the obvious: malpractice law suits are not the root-cause of higher insurance premiums for doctors. Instead, “the more important factors appear to be the declining investment earnings of insurance companies and the changing nature of competition in the industry.”
In the late 1990s, insurers discovered that they had dropped prices [...]
We have to fight them over there so that they don’t come over here
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Bush giving a pep talk to German troops: “There is only one option for victory…We must take the fight to the enemy.”
But by taking the fight to ‘the enemy’ in Iraq, “Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the training ground for the next generation of ‘professionalized’ terrorists…Iraq provides terrorists with ‘a training ground, a recruitment ground, [...]
Bush: ‘people ought to be determining policy’
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Bush to Iran: “We believe that the voice of the people ought to be determining policy, because we believe in democracy and freedom.”
Oh really? A recent Zogby Poll showed that, 82% of Sunnis and 69% of Shiites now favor a U.S. pullout. As the Post points out, “many Iraqis viewed the election as one way [...]
Iran is no Iraq
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
President Bush on Iran:
“It’s vital that the Iranians hear the world speak with one voice that they shouldn’t have a nuclear weapon…all options are on the table…I also reminded people that diplomacy is just beginning. Iran is not Iraq.” (emphasis added)
Yes Mr. President, Iran might actually have nuclear weapons…
Jafari pushes for U.S. pull-out
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
“When there is a self-sufficiency regarding security, then the existence of foreign forces in Iraq, be they in the form of individual troops or in the form of military bases, will not be justified.”
Jafari’s rising star
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
1) Iraqis want Islamic law to be the bedrock of their constitution. Jafari has said that that Iraq’s constitution should be drafted by an Iraqi national assembly and have its foundation exclusively in Islamic law. The final constitution has to find a balance between the religious Shiites (with 140 seats), the secular Sunnis (with 40 [...]
