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  • Posted By: Sultan Ahmed @ 04/08/2008 6:36:10 PM

    Comment: War,sucession,control and peace,these three are uphill task for conqueror.

    The world has admitted that United States defeated largest Iraqi army and occupied a oil-producing country in the name of weapons of mass destruction but you all knew that more than six lacs of people were killed during and after the the war including innocent women and childern.


    Fact of the day is that war is still going on,american millitary and allied forces is in action today against,they described them as terrorists.

    There is no peace,law and order situation and safety of common man as well.people has begun remember Saddam's rule.

    My question is that being a supper power they can not impose peace in the region why?


    United States has vast sources inspite of it he looks failed.America can see the ways through which insurgency penetrates into the country and destroy hoorible situation.In this way,american credibility,ablility and leadership's
    eligibility has become a sign of interogation before the political wisdom.

    • Posted By: burbank @ 04/25/2008 01:04:46

      Comment: To: Sultan Ahmed: As to your question why can't America impose peace in the region? My answer is that we cannot impose peace on anybody. You must first impose peace upon yourselves. Until you repudiate the tenents of your religion that mandate the wanton destruction of human life through the construct of jihad, until you accept the social and religious pluralism that is the foundation of modern society and allow all no matter what their view choose by free will the outcome of their own destiny; when you can do this, then there will be peace.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 04/07/2008 1:14:12 AM

    Comment: All Americans all willing to sacrifice for this great country. It is not the first time we have saved a nation. In fact, we have saved the modern world from Hitler, Communism and now FUNDAMENTALISTs who are indoctrinating all Muslims around the world, of all races to wage JIHAD. GOD HAS SENT US TO DEFEAT FUNDAMENTALIST ALL AROUND THE WORLD. EVEN THE ONES THAT LOOK LIKE US. AL QUEDA IS ACTIVELy RECRUITING WESTERN LOCAL INDIVIDUALS TO WAGE JIHAD.

    We HAVE SHOWN THE WORLD WE CAN FIGHT AND WILL DEFEND OUR FREEDOM AT ALL COSTS. THIS IS WHY you have the freedom of sPeech SAM. BECAUSE the AMERICAN ARMy kicks a== and no fighting force on this Planet can match us. WE are Willing to Take heavY losses. THE WORLD THOUGHT WE WERE WEAK and would back down from a FIGHT. HUSSEIN was a mass BUTCHER. A RUTHLESS BULLY. We annihalated him and now he laYs in a grave beside his two sick dead sons in Tirkirt. GOD BLESS AMERICA. AMERICA STANDS UP TO THOSE BULLIES WHO THE WORLD CANNOT HANDLE.

    THE Problem is, the CHINESE government thinks theY can do what theY want all the time. Their theft of coPYrighted material is
    unPrecedented in WORLD HISTORY. NEVER HAS ONE NATION STOLE so MUCH.
    WE ARE ABOUT TO LET THE CHINESE GOVERMENT know that theY cannot do as theY Please with us as theY do with their own PeoPle.
    TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE involved the Chinese Government killing their own PeoPle. We honored our Vietnam Vets bY building the VIETNAM memorial. The Chinese should unveil their memorial for the Chinese victims who were run over bY tanks, on direct orders from their own government, at the uPcoming OLYm ics.
    goldenstars i see what You ar trYing to saY However it is a flawed argument.
    Communism is about controlling individual freedom. The Chinese government massacared their own PeoPle. THAT IS A FACT. IT haPPened a couPle of years ago.
    WE the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA are THE WORLD"S ONLy SUPERPOWER. WE SAVED THE IRAQIS, SOUTH KOREANS, VIETNAMESE, EUROpE, the Great British EmPire, BOSNIA, and the CHiNESE IN MANCHURIA.
    WE can annhilate anY nation in thirtY five minutes.
    WE need a President who can handle CHINA AND RUSSIA.

    THE KURDS LOVE US. WE DESTROyED SADDAM and exPosed him for the coward he reallY is.
    WE SAVED IRAQ. Unfortunately, it took the Iraqi's a while to realize they should work with us so they can Preserve their freedom. All Iraqils aPPreciate their freedom. SOON they will be willing to die for their freedom just like us AMERICANS. GOD BLESS AMERICA THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH.
    Russia WAS a suPerPower. WE WON THE COLD WAR AND WON VIETNAM IN THE LONG RUN.

    AS A RESULT there are manY VIETNAMESE LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM.

    The Vietnamese should build their own memorial for the one million VIETCON that were eliminated by our suPERIOR AMERICAN FORCES. OBVIOUSLy your weaPons were out of date and could not stoP the Napom.

  • Posted By: Sultan Ahmed @ 04/04/2008 9:21:18 AM

    Comment: The state department made a horrible istake in taking the decision regarding the invasion on Iraq,

    In fact, basic target was Saddam,there were other options removing Saddam from power but not considered any of them.and adopt ed a way of destruction.

    Five years on,no any remarkable change has come to,bloodshed,combat,insurgency,unrest civilwar deteriorating law and order situation is stand it has esclated to other areas like Afghanista and pPakistan's trible areas.

    What is the right direction to resolve this heinous problem.Which way to be adopted so that peace may enter into the Iraqi land smeared with blood of Americans and Iraqi.


    It is wrong to say United States alone can solve this complicated issue, no never it will have change its view regarding the peace.It will have change its policies toward Iraq and other places where war is being fought on the name terrorism.


    According to my considered view, a peace conference be called as soon as may be,consisting of Iran,syria,Pakistan,India.China must be included in it.

    A consensus be created so that a unanimous decision may be taken .In case,all the countries has come to the conclusion and resulting in prepared a formula in re to present crisis. War war like situation may be removed and peace take place in without any delay.

  • Posted By: lilinha @ 03/29/2008 2:00:38 PM

    Comment: I think, by the way, that is true Bush killer Sadam, 'cause "Sandam" killed Bush' father. The psychologist are really correct when explain it. This is a transfer. I think no one can into in another place without has the permission to do it. That are people said:"God sent Bush to save Iraq", but I believe God send and use persons to save another, but isn't this case. Bush go to Iraq between the army to save the Iraq' people but the Iraq's people, don't want this. This is the mistake, in my opnion.

  • Posted By: chrisvanoire @ 03/29/2008 11:39:00 AM

    Comment: eddiewhere, you poor gullible and misguided imbecile. Does anything that has been happening in Iraq look like, smell, or taste like freedom? Don't tie my God into this mess. He had nothing to do with it. He would not have needed for lies to fabricated and fed like poop covered chocolate to an over sensitized public that has long lost leased its mind to a self-serving system. If you have any handle at all on the very basics of critical thinking, then you would have to say this thing was one big hoax from the get go. But you and many others(don't feel bad...you're not alone) are now playing out what psychologists call 'cognitive dissonance'. You supported this war effort based on facts you were fed and now that the majority of those facts have turned out to be false. You still refuse let go of your previous position, because doing so would conclude what i know and what you are trying NOT to know. Which is that you're a poor, gullible, and misguided imbecile.. In other words you would rather be stupid than be wrong. Sad thing is that by refusing to change your mind in light of new and substantial evidence, you end both stupid and wrong . tsk, tsk.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 03/27/2008 4:55:17 PM

    Comment: GOD SENT AMERICA TO SAVE IRAQ FROM SADDAM.
    WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE WE ELIMINATED SADDAM AND HIS FOLLOWERS.
    GOD BLESS AMERICA FOR WE ARE THE IRAQI'S SAVIOR.
    HISTROy WILL SHOW THAT AMERICA GAVE THE IRAQI'S THE GIFT OF FREEDOM.

    • Posted By: a1109 @ 03/28/2008 10:04:18

      Comment: Great ! But , who is America to spread the ``justice `` all arround the world? The only gift that was given in Iraq is free oil for America.Iraqis got only freedom to kill each other and ocasionaly foreign soldiers.

  • Posted By: CuriousAndrew @ 03/27/2008 4:42:46 PM

    Comment: wow... ... so they're saying that Bush lied? that doesn't make sense... he assured us that this was a good idea... .... ... hhhmmmm... ... maybe the documents that prove the terror links are in Iran... that' s probably where he left them - and sense we're already over there... ??? ... might as well just have a quick peek to make sure

  • Posted By: Ken Pichon @ 03/27/2008 12:58:28 PM

    Comment: Another probable debunking of a past accepted story. I wonder if there will be a blank space in the G W Bush Presidential Library on this phase of his presidency. I do not see how this man can sleep at night knowing he has killed 4000 American GIs for oil and revenge, not necessarilay in that order

  • Posted By: Ken Pichon @ 03/27/2008 12:53:12 PM

    Comment: Now that the so-called attempt on G.H.W.Bush's life has once again been exposed as a probable lie, I wonder if there will be a a blank space in W.'s presidential library about why we went to war. I don't see how this man can sleep at night when he thinks about the 4000 GIs he sacrificed for revenge and oil..

  • Posted By: hypnotoad3000 @ 03/26/2008 11:20:45 AM

    Comment: My book Both In One Trench: Saddam's Secret Terror Documents examines many of these same documents in detail (and more) in greater historical context. It is quite clear that Saddam was deeply involved in Islamic terrorism and had many connections to al Qaeda core leadership. There is even evidence that he directly influenced al Qaeda and the Taliban and at the very least funded those groups.

    About the Yasin matter, do not dispel the probablility that Saddam was lying for his ministers as this was probably the greatest secret in his regime. If anybody could have solidly linked Yasin to the regime in the mid 90's he would have been long gone. Even Clinton would have had to respond with regime change.

    Saddam lied to his ministers all the time.

    And Paul Pillar is a liar. The EIJ did not formerly merge with UBL's al Qaeda until 1998. However, Zawahiri and Usama bin Laden were working together in the early 90's. They both claimed credit for the attacks in Mogadishu. The both were associated with the NIF in Sudan which was hosting them there. Pillar is the one playing words games. He has lied about this before and will continue to lie to cover his own incompetence.

    http://www.bothinonetrench.com

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  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 03/25/2008 4:51:59 PM

    Comment: eddielost:: Iraqis claimed that a million people died as a result of the UN sanctions enforced upon Iraq all through the 1990s. Some ''security''. You forget that the trains ran on time in fascist dictatorships as well. This did not make them any less dangerous. Rather,Arab/Persian societies need to pull their heads out of it more so than do western democracies which need only elections every four years to correct mistakes[Take Israel for one instance. It underwent liberal labour,dove and rightist governments while Arafat remained a dictator literally for life]. So here. Had there been no war,Iraqis would be complaining and teeth-gnashing over another million dead people due to these sanctions while your Baathist overlords were living it up. Now what CAN be done,and has been advocated by those of the Democratic bloc in this country,is to withdraw and leave the Iraqis to their fate. Which will be even unkinder than the one they are now enduring.

  • Posted By: eddielost @ 03/25/2008 8:20:15 AM

    Comment: Whether it was Saddam, Bush Jr., Bush Sr., or Al- Qaeda, it doesn't matter any more, the most matters things now, are the dead Iraqis and the fled ones, what's the point of knowing that Saddam did this and did that, am not defending him, but let's not forget the fact that he used to secure us, at least we used to have homes we can get back to after long working days, at least we had electricity and security, which are things even the US Greatest government can't afford to stabilize after 5 years of invasion, who are we fooling?
    I & almost every Iraqi who is living far away from home, can't even get refugee visa for a third world country, all of us have only one wish, that is to sue G. Bush Jr. and the whole American society and government who made the decision of taking the war against Iraq, and killing more thousands of thousands of children, and the fact that American war, did nothing but creating a whole new generation of Young terrorists, who are willing to kill more and more, and someday, it will turn back badly on the US society???
    This is my message and I hope US media won't make it misty anymore, the fact that Iraq was secured and now it's not???
    If Saddam killed 100000, Bush was the reason of a Million killed???

  • Posted By: eddielost @ 03/25/2008 8:18:33 AM

    Comment: whether it was Saddam, Bush Jr., Bush Sr., or Al- Qaeda, it doesn't matter any more, the most matters things now, are the dead Iraqis and the fled ones, what's the point of knowing that Saddam did this and did that, am not defending him, but let's not forget the fact that he used to secure us, at least we used to have homes we can get back to after long working days, at least we had electricity and security, which are things even the US Greatest government can't afford to stabilize after 5 years of invasion, who are we fooling?
    I & almost every Iraqi who is living far away from home, can't even get refugee visa for a third world country, all of us have only one wish, that is to sue G. Bush Jr. and the whole American society and government who made the decision of taking the war against Iraq, and killing more thousands of thousands of children, and the fact that American war, did nothing but creating a whole new generation of Young terrorists, who are willing to kill more and more, and someday, it will turn back badly on the US society???
    This is my message and I hope US media won't make it misty anymore, the fact that Iraq was secured and now it's not???
    If Saddam killed 100000, Bush was the reason of a Million killed???

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 03/25/2008 5:02:39 AM

    Comment: I HOPE THE CHINESE HONOUR THE TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE AT THIS YEARS OLYMPICS. AND ALL THEIR BROTHERS ROTTING IN JAIL FOR NO REASONS.

    COPYRIGHTED EDDIEWHERE.
    NO CHINESE IS GOING TOO STEAL MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

    THE WORLD HAD A GREAT opportunity to stand up to CHINA during The Tiananmen Square MASSACARE of 1989, but did nothing. THERE IS NO COUNTRy ON THIS planet THAT CAN SAVE TIBET. THE opportunity has been lost. IF THE WORLD WAS SERIOUS ABOUT TIBET THEy would have cut CHINA OFF. HOWEVER NO NATION can ignore the two billion citizens of CHINA. By the time we stand up to CHINA AND RUSSIA IT WILL BE TOO LATE.

    THESE TWO NATIONS ARE the GREATEST THREAT TO AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURTIy . CHINA AND RUSSIA are our MILITARy , TECHNOLOGICAL and economic adversaries.
    WHILE WE ARE DISTRACTED IN THE MIDDLE EAST. RUSSIA AND CHINA HAVE GOTTEN AWAy WITH "MURDER". TIBET is a perfect example of this analogy.
    WE HAVE NOT STOOD Up to CHINA AND RUSSIA AND NOW IT is TOO LATE. WE CAN ONLy LEcTURE CHINA WE CANNOT GO BEyond that unless we are willing to start a WORLD WAR.

    RUSSIA AND CHINA vs UNTIED STATES. I am glad someone has recognized that these two BULLIES HAVE GROWN extremely powerful while we have been distracted fighting a bunch wimps with no shoes in IRAQ.
    RUSSIA and CHINA HAVE SUCCESSFULLy penetrated all of our political and economic institutions

    I HOPE THE CHINESE HONOUR THE TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE AND ALL THEIR BROTHERS ROTTING IN JAIL FOR NO REASONS.

    COPYRIGHTED EDDIEWHERE.© 2008
    NO CHINESE IS GOING TOO STEAL MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 03/24/2008 3:15:18 PM

    Comment: Issikoff [who will be remembered for his ill-sourced ''Koran flushing''story that set off riots in the Muslim world],is hedging bets. We will recall that the cry was that there was NO ''cooperation''between the Baathists and even Islaic jihadists that could even be remotely compared to al Qaeda. The fact remains that Zawahiri,remains Zawahiri,whether he is with EIJ or with al Qaeda. In much the same fashion that a ''Syndicate''or a ''La Cosa Nostra'' or a ''Black Hand'' remains The Mafia,so here. Enough from these documents[that not a single American reporter has even bothered to minutely scrutinze], exists to illuminate a factual bond between Islamic jihadist groups that operate under al Qaeda auspices and assistances and the Saddam era Iraq. We should note here that Issikoff did bother to detail bonds forged between Iraqs Intelligence Service in the Pentagons extracts of the captured documents and those persons who carried out the 1993 WTC bombing,which was a combined IJ/al Qaeda show.

  • Posted By: olderwiser @ 03/23/2008 10:10:20 PM

    Comment: I have lived in this country for many long years, having witnessed WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq, and a few of our small invasions around the world, but on this one that we now have in Iraq, the shock and awe are all mine. I was shocked and awed to see it commence with the most spurious of contrived reasons, and cannot believe that we have tolerated it for so long. You have to indulge in make believe to support it any at all. Democracy emerges from the interior of the society that is so fortunate to have it, and to even attempt to force it from the exterior of a society which has little understanding of what it is, then you simply glorify folly much beyond its usual dignity. We are figuratively spitting into the wind and it continues to blow back upon us.

  • Posted By: olderwiser @ 03/23/2008 9:52:42 PM

    Comment: When you want to go to war badly enough, you need almost no intelligence at all, and if the supply is limited, then you can always spice up what you do have to make it fit your purpose. History will call this the "Blankety Blank" war. We just filled in the blanks and went to war. Then, as each original reason proved inadequate, we simply made up another reason from the fabric of the war that we had started. The war itself generated "self justifying" reasons. One, as an example, was based in the fact that Al Qaeda did not exist in Iraq before the war, but after we started it, they came in large numbers to the scene of our debacle, and we conveniently justified our presence and continuation in the fact that Al Qaeda was there. When you have the creative leadership that we have enjoyed for the past seven years, the reasons to continue are infinite, some great ones no doubt yet to emerge.

  • Posted By: mendoza dajoo @ 03/23/2008 9:39:11 PM

    Comment: amazingly biased report Isakoff. you are truly turning into a company man.

  • Posted By: eucl65 @ 03/23/2008 8:35:12 PM

    Comment: Did we find any documentation for the reason, and the places of mass murder? or any documentation about the "suicide" of Abou-Nidal (a known fanatic, and terrorist)? coming from a middle eastern background, I could clearly see that the problem here, is that we are looking at the fact from a purely American perspective. In order for you to get the explanation around many important issues such as, the Al Qaada links with Saddam's regime, Weapons of mass destructions... you need to think as a middle eastern person (Iraqi more specifically), and you will soon understand why there is no documentation around any of what you are looking for!

  • Posted By: olderwiser @ 03/23/2008 7:42:56 PM

    Comment: When you want to go to war, you go to war with the intelligence you've got.

    • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 03/23/2008 20:27:41

      Comment: no we did not go with any intellegence! as it was planned prior to 9/11 and an easy target to conquere, but like his father stated in 91 "We cannot now or ever afford to take Bagdad" i guess his son just don't hear to well and has no street concept, that WAR does not jump start an economy any more, when all the funding is spent in another country! Afganistan was a needed strike, to the point He would be toe jam, but we wore shoes. So we like Russia with 250,000 troops, could not get Bin-Lauden! Iraq was a "We need to win something war" when you declare it on, an adjective, a combate tech, not a way of life, is nothing short of wasting life! Except we have become a country who lives in fear of it's self! So we are scared of the world, when your neighbor is more likely to kill you than a terrorist attack! Intellegence is like history, it's written by the victor, or the reigning authority figure! Believe what you will, but this government does not have my trust to tell me what color my underwear is, no less to kill for. This is there legacy,not Americas!

  • Posted By: ikez78 @ 03/23/2008 10:10:46 AM

    Comment: Mr. Isikoff,
    If you are going to talk about the attempted attack on Bush Sr., don't you think you should mention that there is video of Saddam discussing his intent to kill Bush Sr. using a carbomb in the report?
    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/967043.html

    • Posted By: Peter Biddulph @ 03/24/2008 05:38:43

      Comment: My point is that there is no evidence of a planned Libyan assassination attack on Bush Sr. It was a concoction of the 1986-88 Libyan desk at the White House, manned by Vincent Cannistraro and Howard Teicher. In the documentary film mentioned elsewhere in my previous comment, Cannistraro boasts that it was he who drafted the "Libyan disinformation campaign strategy" for Bush Sr, and that the President accepted and worked with it.

      There exist many emails and telexes from the Tower Commission files in which senior government members and CIA agents openly discuss targets, assassinations, covert rendition programmes etc. They are all available in "White House Email" published in 1995 by the National Security Archive of America, edited by Tom Blanton. I suggest you read it. It might change your views about whether a nation should ever trust a president and his entourage.

      As for the 1990 video of what Haretz claims is a meeting between Hussein and Arafat, where is it? The Haretz article you quote only talks about it. If you can direct me to the video, then I accept your point.

      Whatever may be the case, your point does not disprove mine. But if the video is "not available" , then people have a right to be suspicious about the Haretz sources. Israel has never been prominent when it comes to speaking truth about its Arab enemies.

  • Posted By: Peter Biddulph @ 03/23/2008 5:12:20 AM

    Comment: I omitted to mention that the documentary film The Maltese Double Cross was on the subject of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. I guess that very few American citizens are aware that the legal issues are still running, with the possibility of a second appeal by convicted Libyan Al-Megrahi due later in 2008.
    Meanwhile there exists a secret report said to concern the only fragment of the Lockerbie bomb every found. The US government and British government are preventing access to the report by the Al-Megrahi defence team, on the grounds that the report adversely affects "national security".
    Yes, you've heard it before, often.
    Peter Biddulph
    Worcestershire, England

  • Posted By: Peter Biddulph @ 03/23/2008 5:03:50 AM

    Comment: In a parallel disinformation campaign, Howard Teicher, former adviser to the NSC alongside Vincent Cannistraro, produced the following information.
    In 1993, Teicher was filmed for a documentary film The Maltese Double Cross. He was asked about the 1986 - 88 reports which he and Cannistraro had circulated regarding Libya's infiltration of agents into the United States with orders to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. All that Teicher could offer as proof was to imply that it had all along been a concoction of former CIA chief William Casey: "There was intelligence information which could not be absolutely confirmed, that Gaddafi was indeed interested in killing President Reagan. It is true that since then people have argued that this was a fabrication by CIA Director Casey. Of course, with Casey dead, no-one can know for sure what was Casey's agenda and whether, indeed, this information was fabricated."
    Casey died of a brain tumour in 1987, at the commencement of the Iran-Contra trial of Oliver North. Teicher added, for good measure: "It is certain that Gaddafi sent people to America to kill Libyan dissidents. No doubt about that. Whether some people may have twisted information that dealt with those individuals into stories alleging a conspiracy against President Reagan, may be true, or may not be true."
    As a further interesting point, one hundred and fifty copies of the documentary film were posted to bereaved relatives in the US. Not a single copy reached its destination. A CIA agent was heard to boast that the US spent $20 million preventing the film being shown in the US. Welcome to the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.
    Peter Biddulph,
    Worcestershire, England.

  • Posted By: HelenWiells @ 03/22/2008 8:19:23 PM

    Comment: We Americans allowed ourselves to be duped into the Iraq war. We were overcome with fear and anger after 9-11 and wanted "somebody" to pay...little did we know that somebody would be us.

  • Posted By: Jacob Freeze @ 03/22/2008 7:04:18 PM

    Comment: As Chalmers Johnson says, the name of the CIA should be changed to WIA (Worthless Intelligence Agency), and the whole operation should be flushed down the nearest toilet before it helps another unscrupulous President lie us into war.

  • Posted By: ikez78 @ 03/22/2008 2:37:55 PM

    Comment: You left out most of the details of Saddam's terror aspirations, as expected from someone invested in the "Bushlied" meme. Why not mention the large scale production of IED's, suicide vests, carbombs and recruitment and training of thousands of Iraqi and non Iraqi suicide bobers?

    www.regimeofterror.com

 
 
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