Iraq Is Not Vietnam, but...
Starmail - 25. Okt, 15:36
Irak-Krieg
25
Okt
2005
US Military Revives Body Counts to Show Success in Iraq
Eager to demonstrate success in Iraq, the US military has abandoned its previous refusal to publicize enemy body counts and now cites such numbers periodically to show the impact of some counterinsurgency operations. The revival of body counts, a practice discredited during the Vietnam War, has apparently come without formal guidance from the Pentagon's leadership.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102405C.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102405C.shtml
Starmail - 25. Okt, 15:34
24
Okt
2005
Malnutrition among Iraqi children has almost doubled since U.S. invasion
Children who are acutely malnourished are literally wasting away, and for severe cases their condition can be fatal. Acute malnutrition sets in very fast and is a strong indicator of the overall health of children.
http://www.unicef.org/emerg/media_9419.html
From Information Clearing House
http://www.unicef.org/emerg/media_9419.html
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 24. Okt, 23:32
Making a killing
The American government is hiring private security firms to stabilise Iraq — and paying them a fortune to do it. But many of them are unregulated and operate outside the law. Jon Swain joins the hired guns on the streets of Baghdad — and assesses the real cost of privatising war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10738.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10738.htm
Starmail - 24. Okt, 23:29
Another Iraq war legacy: badly wounded US troops
The human toll for the U.S. military in the Iraq war is not limited to the nearly 2,000 troops deaths since the March 2003 invasion. More than 15,220 also have been wounded in combat, including more than 7,100 injured too badly to return to duty, the Pentagon said.
http://www.maconareaonline.com/news.asp?id=12320
From Information Clearing House
http://www.maconareaonline.com/news.asp?id=12320
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 24. Okt, 23:27
23
Okt
2005
Leadership Failure: Firsthand Accounts of Torture of Iraqi Detainees
Torture in Iraq
The New York Review of Books has published an excerpt of a report from Human Rights Watch: "Leadership Failure: Firsthand Accounts of Torture of Iraqi Detainees by the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division." Read this to understand how torture has become a "sport" for US soldiers in Iraq.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102305X.shtml
The New York Review of Books has published an excerpt of a report from Human Rights Watch: "Leadership Failure: Firsthand Accounts of Torture of Iraqi Detainees by the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division." Read this to understand how torture has become a "sport" for US soldiers in Iraq.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102305X.shtml
Starmail - 23. Okt, 22:27
Vier Fünftel der Iraker lehnen eine weitere Präsenz der Koalitionstruppen ab
Bald werden 2000 US-Soldaten seit Beginn des Irak-Kriegs getötet worden sein, die Situation scheint verfahrener denn je zu sein.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21196/1.html
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21196/1.html
Starmail - 23. Okt, 22:08
Iraq Slips Away
The delusional happiness reflected in Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice's remarks this week to Congress about the so-called progress in Iraq ignores hard facts that point to a debacle.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102205E.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102205E.shtml
Starmail - 23. Okt, 08:48
22
Okt
2005
Iraq Is in Tatters and So Is Its Constitution
Iraqis decided their Constitution on October 15. But what legitimacy and validity should be accorded to this text which was amended over and over again, often under murky conditions, with the last amendment dated three days before the election and the next planned for after the legislative elections scheduled December 15?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102105H.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102105H.shtml
Starmail - 22. Okt, 12:23
Law lord damns 'half-baked reforms and illegal Iraq war'
Lord Steyn, a law lord, also launched a scathing attack on ministers over the Iraq war, accusing them of “scraping the bottom of the legal barrel” to justify their case.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1832270,00.html
From Information Clearing House
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1832270,00.html
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 22. Okt, 11:59
