By Simon Jenkins / The Gaurdian The overriding lesson of Iraq comes from that dejected goddess, humility. The dropping of thousands of bombs, the loss of 4,000 western troops and the spending of almost a trillion dollars still cannot overcome the AK-47, the roadside explosive device, the suicide bomber, and an aversion to occupation. Nations with different cultures cannot be ruled by seven years of soldiering.

Categories: Barack Obama  Iraq  War Atrocities  War Criminals  Neocons  

Added: September 01, 2010

Read Full Article  (View Count: 10)

By Adil E. Shamoo /Foreign Policy In Focus Iraq has between 25 and 50 percent unemployment, a dysfunctional parliament, rampant disease, an epidemic of mental illness, and sprawling slums. The killing of innocent people has become part of daily life. What a havoc the United States has wreaked in Iraq.

Categories: Iraq  War Atrocities  Unemployment  The US  Sstatistics  

Added: August 23, 2010

Read Full Article  (View Count: 30)

By John Pilger /Newstatesman.com Having helped destroy other nations far away, our former prime minister - "peace envoy" to the Middle East - is now free to profit from the useful contacts he made while working as a "servant of the people".

Categories: Iraq  Britain  War Atrocities  Justice  Middle East  

Added: August 06, 2010

Read Full Article  (View Count: 33)

By Simon Tisdall / The Gaurdian Leaked Afghanistan war logs reveal villagers' unenthusiastic responses to US army attempts to build bridges

Categories: Afghanistan  Intelligence Agencies  Human Rights  War Atrocities  The US  

Added: July 27, 2010

Read Full Article  (View Count: 31)

By Tom Eley / WSWS.org The people of Fallujah are experiencing higher rates of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality, and sexual mutations than those recorded among survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the years after those Japanese cities were incinerated by US atomic bomb strikes in 1945.

Categories: Iraq  War Atrocities  The US  Cancer  Environmental Damage  

Added: July 24, 2010

Read Full Article  (View Count: 27)

By Layla Anwar /Arabwomanblues Blog Everything that is related to Iraq pains me deeply...everything I read, every Iraqi I see, everything I remember, every song I hear, every picture I come across....

Categories: Iraq  Violence  War Atrocities  Baghdad  

Added: July 16, 2010

Read Full Article  (View Count: 20)

By BOB HERBERT / NY Times We're spending endless billions on this wretched war but can't extend the unemployment benefits of Americans suffering from the wretched economy here at home. The difference between this and a nightmare is that when you wake up from a nightmare it's over. This is all too tragically real.

Categories: Afghanistan  War Atrocities  Hamid Karzai  Barack Obama  Taliban  

Added: June 26, 2010

Read Full Article  (View Count: 25)

By BOB HERBERT / NY Times The U.S. doesn't win wars anymore. We just funnel the stressed and underpaid troops in and out of the combat zones, while all the while showering taxpayer billions on the contractors and giant corporations that view the horrors of war as a heaven-sent bonanza.

Categories: Afghanistan  War Atrocities  US Army  Hamid Karzai  

Added: June 12, 2010

Read Full Article  (View Count: 30)

By Dave Lindorff /t r u t h o u t US soldiers or contract mercenaries, cold-bloodedly executed eight hand-cuffed prisoners. It is a war crime to kill children under the age of 15, yet in this incident a boy of 11 and a boy of 12 were handcuffed as captured combatants and executed. Two others of the dead were 12 and a third was 15.

Categories: Afghanistan  Massacre  Media  War Atrocities  The US  

Added: May 12, 2010

Read Full Article  (View Count: 39)

By Medea Benjamin & Nancy Moncias /Alternet.org Obama's 'joke' at the White House correspondents' dinner was no laughing matter to the relatives of the hundreds of people killed in Pakistan by drones

Categories: Predator Drones  Human Rights  Hypocrisy  Terrorism  War Atrocities  

Added: May 07, 2010

Read Full Article  (View Count: 45)