Video: Secrets of the Iraq War:

The story of spying, bribery and secret deals done by U.S. with Saddam's senior commanders to betray their former boss, and the story of what happened to the feared Republican Guard.

Real Video.
http://207.44.245.159/article6648.htm

Patriots, some would argue, must march unwaveringly for the cause of liberty in Iraq. They would have Americans accept that anything — anyone — that gets in the way must be destroyed.

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=79980&ran=20726
http://snipurl.com/brsq


From Information Clearing House

by Col. David Hackworth (USA, Ret.)

WorldNetDaily

01/04/05

Considering the hits we keep taking in our global fight against terrorism, I'm gearing up in '05 to go up against the Pentagon's increasingly out-of-control campaign to keep us all conned. The cover-ups track too often with more names added to the U.S. casualty list. So here's my New Year's resolution: to keep countering Pentagon lies with the truth until enough concerned citizens demand that Congress set up a congressional investigative arm to formally expose the liars and hold them accountable...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42230


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

USA Today

Congress expects the White House to request as much as $100 billion this year for war and related costs in Iraq and Afghanistan, congressional officials say. It would be the third and largest Iraq-related budget request from the White House yet, and it could push the war's costs over $200 billion -- far above initial White House estimates of $50 billion-$60 billion. So far, the Iraq war has cost about $130 billion, according to the White House's Office of Management and Budget." (01/03/05)

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-01-03-iraq-costs_x.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Ron Jacobs

CounterPunch

01/03/05

The war just keeps getting closer. I found out from my dad over the weekend that the son of a kid I used to play Boys & Girls Club sports with was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq early in December. I never knew the dead young man, but his uncles and aunts attended the same schools and churches that I did when I was young. Unless the US troops get out sooner rather than later, this familiarity with death in war will become as familiar to US residents as it did in Vietnam and Korea (not to mention this country's previous wars), and as familiar as it has become to Iraqis and Afghanis. Like my dad rhetorically asked after giving me this news: 'What did he die for?' For those of us who have been opposed to these wars since their inception, this is not that much of a question. For my dad, it is...

http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs01032005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

A leading Republican senator yesterday condemned as "a bad idea" a reported U.S. plan to keep some suspected terrorists imprisoned for a lifetime even if the government lacks evidence to charge them.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2614

http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2005/01/kind_of_a_shame.php


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

http://www.alternet.org/story/20867/


Informant: Laurel

In 2004, Iraq went badly wrong - except for supporters of the insurgency, in which case it went grimly well...

http://207.44.245.159/article7589.htm