An editorial in the Investors Business Daily makes this claim about the “death squads”: People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless. Umm – Hawking was born in the […]
Well it appears to be nothing more than an actual death sentence to members of Saddam’s party. DDay explains: Essentially, this law forces a Baath Party member who wants a job in the government to appear before a judiciary board in public view and announce that they are an ex-Baathist, in a time where Shiite […]
We are now into the 5th month since the “surge” started and it seems that every month is getting worse than that last. Here is the latest from that: The US military surge in Iraq, designed to turn around the course of the war, appears to be failing as senior US officers admit they need […]
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Baghdad police found the bodies of 18 men, bound and blindfold, in a minibus close to a violent, mainly Sunni Arab, district of the capital, officials said on Wednesday. It was unclear how the men died, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. One police source said they may have suffocated. The identities of […]
While we got the administration denying any chance of Iraq heading towards a civil war, even the US envoy is warning of the threat of a “wider war”. From today’s L.A. Times: The top U.S. envoy to Iraq said Monday that the 2003 toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime had opened a “Pandora’s box” of volatile […]