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10 Questions about Obama's Iraq Bombing
16 Aug 2014; posted by the editor - United States, Iraq

By Matthew Rothschild
In assessing President Obama’s latest escalation in Iraq, it’s worth asking a few basic questions, writes Matthew Rothschild, senior editor at Progressive.org.

Tags: Iraq, military escalation, Obama

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Danny Schechter Dissects the Latest Iraq Lies
15 Aug 2014; posted by the editor - Features, International

Back In Iraq: We Only Want To Save You
By Danny Schechter
New York, New York: Welcome back to Iraq—complete with our ever present WMD's—Weapons of Mass deception
Suddenly, the country we never wanted to have to think about again is back in the news and on our military agenda. So, after a few denials that troops would not, never, and no way be sent, sure'nuff, U.S, boots are back on the ground, but to play a very different "mission".

Tags: Danny Schechter, Iraq

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Top 9 Reasons to Stop Bombing Iraq
13 Aug 2014; posted by the editor - Features, Opinion

By David Swanson
1. It's not a rescue mission.
The U.S. personnel could be evacuated without the 500-pound bombs. The persecuted minorities could be supplied, moved, or their enemy dissuaded, or all three, without the 500-pound bombs or the hundreds of "advisors" (trained and armed to kill, and never instructed in how to give advice—Have you ever tried taking urgent advice from 430 people?). The boy who cried rescue mission should not be allowed to get away with it after the documented deception in Libya where a fictional threat to civilians was used to launch an all-out aggressive attack that has left that nation in ruins. Not to mention the false claims about Syrian chemical weapons and the false claim that missiles were the only option left for Syria—the latter claims being exposed when the former weren't believed, the missiles didn't launch, and less violent but perfectly obvious alternative courses of action were recognized. If the U.S. government were driven by a desire to rescue the innocent, why would it be arming Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain? The U.S. government destroyed the nation of Iraq between 2003 and 2011, with results including the near elimination of various minority groups. If preventing genocide were a dominant U.S. interest, it could have halted its participation in and aggravation of that war at any time, a war in which 97% of the dead were on one side, just as in Gaza this month—the distinction between war and genocide being one of perspective, not proportions. Or, of course, the U.S. could have left well alone. Ever since President Carter declared that the U.S. would kill for Iraqi oil, each of his successors has believed that course of action justified, and each has made matters significantly worse.

Tags: Iraq, US, weapons, bombing

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No Us Military Intervention In Iraq
11 Aug 2014; posted by the editor - United States, Ireland, Middle East, Iraq

The Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) today issued a statement condemning both the response of the US Government through its military airstrikes and the ethnic cleansing of Christians and other religious groups by the Islamic State forces.

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