"They Hate Democracy" so said Bill Clinton

After sending 75 tomahawk cruise missiles in the general direction of Afghanistan and Sudan, Mr. Clinton said this about Osama bin Laden and the "terrorists"....

Mr. Clinton neglected to mention the "terrorists" clearly stated reasons for their hatred towards the U.S.  These include quotes from bin Laden himself which outline his 3 major grievances towards America:

1. "The ordinary man knows that [Saudi Arabia] is the largest oil producer in the world, yet at the same time he is suffering from taxes and bad services.  Now the people understand...that our country has become an American colony.  They act decisively with every action to kick the Americans out of Saudi Arabia. 

2. "The evidence overwhelmingly shows America and Israel killing the weaker men, women and children in the Muslim world and elsewhere.  A few examples of this are seen in the recent Qana massacre in Lebanon..."

3. "...and the death of more than 600,000 Iraqi children because of the shortage of food and medicine which resulted from the boycotts and sanctions against the Muslim Iraqi people"

Content and Osama bin Laden quotes from 1996 as reported by PBS Frontline

Humpday Humor: The "Illusion of Choice" by George Carlin

Ten years ago George Carlin sat down with Alan Colmes to discuss voting, the U.S. war of terror and the "illusion of choice".

Colmes was selling the idea that once Democrats were elected to the White House the occupation of Iraq would come to an end.  We are still waiting for John Kerry to come out in strong opposition to the bombing of Iraq.

As you see in this short clip Carlin already knew that Fox News was on the side of the political propagandists....

Bill Clinton: An Early Champion of the Iraq WMD Rumour

Sixteen years ago Bill Clinton was spreading rumours that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction...

As John Pilger detailed in The Iraq Cover-Up: History Did Not Begin Yesterday.

Battle of Fallujah, Ten Years On

"The hypocrisy is absolutely stinking."

-Alice Mahon, British Labour Party on U.S. actions in Iraq


Six days after Mr. Bush was re-elected in 2004 the U.S. & Britain began their attack on Fallujah.

For a few weeks in November the United States used white phosphorus as a weapon against human beings in the "Battle of Fallujah".  A few politicians spoke out against the attack including Alice Mahon...

Supporting evidence on the use of white phosphorus can be found at Democracy Now! here ...the BBC here ... GlobalSecurity.org here

  

Bombs Away U.S. of A.

How many countries has 'the United States of America' attacked this month?

Humpday Humor: Obama Following Rick Perry Into Iraq?

Do you remember when Rick Perry made some really outlandish comments at the 2012 Presidential debate?

Here is a brief clip to jog your memory...

That's funny because voters were so disgusted by Perry's comments on Iraq that he lost all hope to become President.  Could you imagine America electing a President in 2012 who supported re-starting the failed invasion of Iraq?  That would be unthinkable!

Schizophrenia as Explanation for U.S. Policy Toward Syria

7,500 miles separate the cities of Damascus and Los Angeles.  Despite the vast geographical divide the people of each region are tied together via their central state.

To summarize Washington, D.C.'s policy toward Syria:

1. A decade long regime of sanctions prohibiting the people of Syria trading for American made goods.  
2. Two years of supplying automatic weapons to Syria's "moderate Islamic militants" in order to topple the Assad-led state of Syria. 
3. Two week long bombing campaigns in Iraq in order to kill "extremist Islamic militants" (members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria).
4. Newly announced drone surveillance flights over Syria in order to spy on ISIS.   

Imagine Non-Intervention in Iraq

 "If we developed a non-interventionist foreign policy in 1990 there would be no death's in Iraq".

-Ron Paul


With the U.S. once again attacking Iraq with military force it is a good time to review history.

How could the lives of 4,804 coalition troops have been saved?

*data from iCasualties.org 

Democracy, Hypocrisy

Saddam Hussein greeting U.S. special envoy Donald Rumsfeld

(Baghdad, 1983) 

Nearly a quarter century ago Murray Rothbard wrote* "Why the Intervention in Arabia?".  In it he ponders the contradiction of the U.S. supporting dictators in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia while Washington was claiming to be spreading "democracy":

"Saddam Hussein is a very bad man, the "Butcher of Baghdad." Absolutely, but he was just as much a butcher only the other day when he was our gallant ally against the terrible threat posed to the Gulf by the fanatical Shiites of Iran." 

...

U.S. Senator John Kerry dining with Assad

(Damascus, 2009 image The Telegraph)

Rothbard continues:

"The fanatical Shiites are still there, by the way, but they--as well as the Dictator of Syria, Hafez Assad, the Butcher of Hama--seem to have been magically transformed into our gallant allies against Saddam Hussein."

Fewer than three years after Kerry and Assad were dining together in Damascus the U.S. began allying with Syria's Muslim Brotherhood to topple Assad and his government.

According to the New York Times funding for Assad's opposition is coming from Turkey, Qatar, U.S. State Department, the C.I.A. and Saudi Arabia.

The victims of regime change in Iraq would ask if this policy of spreading "democracy" is underpinned by hypocrisy?

*Rothbard's article is published at Mises.org

Religious Freedom in Iraq?

Hundreds of Iraqi-Canadian's protested in Toronto this weekend.  Their cause: stop the mass-slaughter of Christians in Iraq.

image CBC

The CBC reports that ISIS has killed over 2,000 people over the last month in Mosul and Tikrit.

According to ISIS Christians in Iraq have three choices:

1. convert to Islam
2. be killed 
3. become a tax-paying citizen of their state  

Finally, over the last decade the Christian population in Iraq has dwindled from about 1 million under Saddam Hussein to 450,000 today.
  

An Iraqi-American Breaks Down Happenings in Iraq

Dr. Dahlia Wasfi, an Iraqi-American, shares her story with Abby Martin of RT.  In this video you will hear a perspective about Iraq that is simply censored by the outcast media.  

Find out more about Wasfi here.  

History Did Not Begin Yesterday: The Iraq Cover-Up

John Pilger wrote "Iraq: the great cover-up" published in January of 2001 by the New Statesman.  Pilger highlighted the devastating effects of the decade long sanctions against Iraq imposed by the U.S. and Britain:

The word "genocide" has been used by experts on international law and other cautious voices, such as Denis Halliday, the former assistant secretary general of the United Nations, who resigned as the UN's senior humanitarian official in Iraq, and Hans von Sponeck, his successor, who also resigned in protest. Each had 34 years at the UN and were acclaimed in their field; their resignations, along with the head of the World Food Programme in Baghdad, were unprecedented.

That's right, during the Clinton/Blair years two senior United Nations officials resigned in protest of the sanctions which crippled the people of Iraq.  The hundred's of thousand's of deaths caused by the western powers were explained away by current Georgetown University professor Ms. Madeleine Albright on CBS 60 Minutes.

Contrary to what the outcast media wants you to believe about Iraq, history did not begin yesterday.  

State Induced Chaos in Iraq

The showdown between the "Republic of Iraq" and the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" has led to massive chaos and violence in the city of Mosul.

 

As these few thousand people calling themselves "the state" waste resources to achieve political gains, 500,000 non-state people flee.

Security checkpoint in Kurdistan (Getty Images)

Geo Politics Meet People of Iraq

Favour: Iraq says it would favour a bid from Lukoil, CNPC for ExxonMobil's stake in West Qurna-2

How is that Iraq invasion working out for Bush, Blair & Cheney?

How is it working out for you?

Most importantly how is it working out for the people of Iraq?

In the most under reported story of October:

MOSCOW--OAO Lukoil Holdings, Russia's second largest oil producer, said Tuesday that the Iraq government has approved the geologic exploration, development and production contract for Block 10 in the south of the country.

Lukoil has a 60% stake in Block 10.  Japan's Inpex Corp. holds the other 40%.

From The Wall Street Journal