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Preparing the Battlefield

Preparing the Battlefield

Seymour Hersh is the investigative reporter who broke the My Lai and Abu Ghraib stories. Now, in this month’s The New Yorker magazine, Hersh talks about the Bush administration’s covert activities in Iran. All the more shocking for the non-sensational way he presents the information, he reveals that we have been funding terrorist groups such as the Mujaheddin-e-Khalq in Iran. Bush and Cheney have built multiple chains of command that report to them, not to commanders in the field…

Maliki: Iraq has the right to order US forces off Iraqi sovereign soil

Maliki: Iraq has the right to order US forces off Iraqi sovereign soil

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki suggested that US forces might be asked to leave if the two countries cannot agree on the new status of forces agreement…

Treaty tensions mount as Iraq tells the US it wants all troops back in barracks

Treaty tensions mount as Iraq tells the US it wants all troops back in barracks

American troops in Iraq would be confined to their bases and private security guards subject to local law if Iraq gets its way in negotiations with the US over the future status of American forces…

Winston Churchill: Pull out of IRAQ ASAP

Winston Churchill: Pull out of IRAQ ASAP

At present we are paying eight millions a year for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano out of which we are in no circumstances to get anything worth having.