Iraqi’s are getting a heavy dose of democracy. Next month’s election has 14,500 candidates for 440 positions. That is an average of 33 candidates for each office.
That either means democracy is taking hold or as one Iraqi citizen put it: ”It’s a stampede. Not because of their love of country, but for their love of [...]
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Mastermind Behind Shoe-Thrower Is Throat-Slitter (So Say Iraqi Authorities)
Posted in December 24th, 2008
by Glenn Church in Iraq
This is a tough story to buy.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said that the journalist who threw the shoes at George Bush was under the influence of a criminal mastermind. The shoe-thrower, Muntazar al-Zaidi, was persuaded to toss the shoes by a man known by Iraqi authorities as a throat-splitter.
According to the Iraqi government, a [...]
Unpublished Report Shows Pentagon Made Up Facts To Cover Failures In Iraq
Posted in December 14th, 2008
An unpublished 513-page history of the U.S. rebuilding of Iraq does not speak well of the Pentagon’s efforts.
“Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience,” the first official account of its kind, is circulating in draft form in Baghdad and in Washington among a tight circle of technical reviewers, policy experts and senior officials. It also concludes [...]
Military Interrogator Claims Torture Policy Recruited Fighters For al-Qaeda
Posted in December 1st, 2008
A senior interrogator from the U.S. military, using the pseudonym Matthew Alexander, revealed that he is disturbed by what he saw in Iraq. In a Washington Post article, he claims that the interrogation techniques used betray American traditions and do not work.
I joined an elite team of interrogators attempting to locate Zarqawi. What I soon [...]
Iraqi Parliament Delays Elections Again As They Try To Figure How To Organize The Country
Posted in August 30th, 2008
by Glenn Church in Iraq
The Bush administration is beginning to tout Iraq as a democratic success story. The “surge” has quieted the fighting and the economy is slowly getting back to normal. That is all true. Iraq is far from a success, however. The Iraqis continue to squabble over the most basic details of democracy. When the U.S. finally [...]
White House Admits to Error With “Mission Accomplished” Banner
Posted in May 1st, 2008
The White House said the “Mission Accomplished” banner was a mistake. No, the words were not a mistake, but the confusion that the banner referred to the ending of the Iraq War.
“Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on Sept. 11, [...]
Armored Car Used to Transport Prostitutes in Iraq
Posted in April 29th, 2008
by Glenn Church in Iraq
At a federal hearing on contractor abuses it was revealed that Dyncorp used an armored car on at least one occasion to transport prostitutes between Kuwait and Iraq. During at least one of trips, private contractors went without adequate armored protection elsewhere in Iraq.
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Three Congressman Duped Into Saddam Financed Junket
Posted in March 28th, 2008
Washington, D.C. — Three anti-war Democratic members of the House of Representatives visited Iraq in October 2002 prior to the U.S. invasion. Federal prosecutors say the trip was arranged by Muthanna Al-Hanooti of Michigan. Al-Hanooti is alleged to have cut a deal with Iraqi intelligence officials to finance the trip. For his efforts, the Iraqi’s [...]
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