January 16, 2009
January 5, 2009, Fox News
After much delay the United States opened its new $700 million embassy in Iraq on Monday, inaugurating the largest — and most expensive — embassy ever built. The compound is six times larger than the United Nations compound in New York, and two-thirds the size of the National Mall in Washington. It has space for 1,000 employees with six apartment blocks and is 10 times larger than any other U.S. embassy.
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July 5, 2008
With thanks to David Weston:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/04/oil.oilandgascompanies
Big Oil’s Iraq deals are the greatest stick-up in history
The country’s invaders should be paying billions in reparations not using the war as a reason to pillage its richest resource
Naomi Klein, The Guardian, Friday July 4, 2008
Once oil passed $140 a barrel, even the most rabidly rightwing media hosts had to prove their populist credibility by devoting a portion of every show to bashing Big Oil. Some have gone so far as to invite me on for a friendly chat about an insidious new phenomenon: “disaster capitalism.” It usually goes well – until it doesn’t.
May 6, 2008
Thanks to David Soori:
Insanity is defined as repeating one mistaken action again and again, each time expecting a better result that never comes. Prime example: the United States in Iraq. Washington perceived a weapons of mass destruction threat from Saddam Hussein, but instead of responding with diplomacy — internationally coordinated weapons inspections — it went to war. When Saddam Hussein was toppled, the initiative should have passed from the Pentagon to a State Department-led program of stabilization and reconstruction, but instead a crudely violent military occupation was begun. Diplomacy was once again rejected.
May 6, 2008
Thanks to David Weston, Democracy for a Change:
‘Western Leaders Are War Criminals’
Former PM of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad calls for Western leaders to be charged with war crimes
By Mick Meaney
Global Research, April 26, 2008
The former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, has echoed calls for Western leaders to be charged with war crimes over the illegal invasion of Iraq.
Speaking at Imperial College in London Mahathir, who was in office from 1981 to 2003, singled out US President George Bush, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australia’s former prime minister John Howard as he wants to see them tried “in absence for war crimes committed in Iraq”.
