Iran Reviews > July 09, 2010
I Am America (and Stephen Colbert's Not) | Constitutionclub.org
[Constitutionclub.org] Originally formed in the months leading up to the Iraq invasion, The Constitution Club blog and its diverse group of bloggers present an array of perspectives on society, politics and culture that is always ahead of the curve. Visit Conclub daily for a battle of ideas that will both inflame and enlighten.
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July 09, 2010
Kurds Abandoning the Constitution « Iraq and Gulf Analysis
[Iraq and Gulf Analysis] If on the other hand it means a collective flight into the fantasy world of Faryad Rawanduzi, then it will lessen their prospect for participation in the next Iraqi government. Not much is expected to happen this week, which is a long holiday weekend in Iraq (though with both Allawi and Maliki currently in Lebanon according to reports).
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July 02, 2010
Turks seek more trade with Iraqi Kurds despite tensions - Hurriyet ...
[Hurriyet Dailynews] Despite the tensions, Turkish entrepreneurs have been keen to do business in northern Iraq, taking advantage of relative peace in the region and its proximity to Turkey. More than 500 businessmen applied to go to northern Iraq, but the capacity is limited to 200.
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June 23, 2010
Footage Shows Officer Beating Unarmed Iraq War Veteran [Video ...
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June 02, 2010
Musings On Iraq: Maliki Under Pressure By His Erstwhile Shiite ...
[Musings On Iraq] Another is to have a security committee made up of all the major Iraqi parties that would control security in the entire country. Both recommendations would rob any prime minister of his main powers over the country.
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Posted at 03:34 PM
May 31, 2010
Witness: Secret Iraq prison for women and children - 12160.org
[Everyone's Blog Posts - 12160.org] By Jane Arraf & Mohammed al-Dulaimy, REMEMBER WE ALL CARRY RESPONSIBILTY FOR THIS! cjw Iraq's Muthanna Army base has women and children in a secret prison, says an Iraqi eyewitness.
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Posted at 03:39 PM
Witness: Secret Iraq prison for women and children
[Question Everything] He says at least six women and at least eight children were being held, including the wives of two suspected Al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders, Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayub al-Masri. The two women were detained with their children when their husbands were killed in an April air strike.
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Posted at 03:38 PM
May 10, 2010
Iran Gets Negative Reviews in Iraq, Even from Shiites | Planet ...
[Planet-Iran.com] Most observers believe that Tehran seeks to unify the predominantly Shiite SLA and INA. Iran also reportedly opposes any government led by Allawi.
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Posted at 03:47 PM
April 30, 2010
Now That Iraq Has A Constitution : Iraq News and Information
[Iraq News and Information] The current constitution of Iraq was approved by an October 15, 2005 ratification vote. The proposed constitution was drafted in 2005 by members of the Interim Iraqi Government to replace the Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period, which had been put in force by the Coalition Provisional Authority after the Iraq War and occupation of Iraq by the United States and Coalition forces.
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April 09, 2010
Iran & Iraq Map (1949) | The Philatelic Database - Archive of ...
[The Philatelic Database - Archive of Stamp Collecting Articles] Iran & Iraq Map (1949) · New Zealand: Wekaweka Post Office, Whangarei 300 (2010) · Stamps of Gibraltar: Centenary of King George V Accession · Ernest Alfred Crome, “Joint Father Of Aerophilately” · Cartoonist Bill Mauldin Immortalized .
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Posted at 04:04 PM
March 19, 2010
Iraq - Women Miss Saddam Hussein
[Dahr Jamail's Mideast Dispatches » Dahr Jamail - Independent Reporting from Iraq and the Middle East] [...] author of The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, discusses the nostalgia many Iraqi women have for the (relative) gender and religious tolerance in the Saddam Hussein era, [...]
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Posted at 04:07 PM
CODEPINK : Women Mark Iraq War's Seventh Anniversary with Vibrant ...
[CODEPINK] "As the hope of a new administration leading us towards peace has faded, it is clear that only way we will bring our troops home is to organize the silent majority opposed to the needless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan", states Medea Benjamin cofounder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK. "On the 7th anniversary of the Iraq war, we are determined to bring the voices of Main Street to the halls of power to say: Stop funding the warfare state and redirect our resources to life-affirming activities".
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March 15, 2010
An Oscar for America's Hubris | Mostly Water
[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news] After the U.S. invasion Galbraith was an active adviser on the writing of Iraq’s constitution and lobbied to include language that gave the Kurds control over the oil in their region. Galbraith was at the time advising a Norwegian company that secured oil rights from those same Kurds, and he, in turn, received 5 percent of one of the most promising oil fields, worth an estimated $100 million.
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Posted at 03:37 PM
March 12, 2010
Mangan's: How the Israel lobby pushed the Iraq War
[Mangan's] What’s always intrigued me about the argument that American Zionists/the lobby/American Jewish leadership had no responsibility for the war is that I grew up being told that Jews were the smartest people in the world and our ideas had changed history- Einstein, Freud, and Marx were the triumvirate my parents cited- and then the Iraq war happens, and basically it’s our ideas, or Zionist neocon ideas, and when the thing is a disaster everyone says that Bush and Cheney came up with it.A clear case of the majority needing to reassert itself? The thing is, I recall that most Americans were all for it - having been convinced of the need, of course.
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Posted at 04:04 PM
Elections Don't Justify Iraq War | The Progressive
[The Progressive Magazine Feed] Years after the debate was seemingly settled on the folly of the Iraq War, some in the media are using the recent Iraqi parliamentary elections to excuse the invasion.
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March 03, 2010
Palestinian Pundit: Blair Warned in 2000 Iraq War was Illegal
[Palestinian Pundit] March 02, 2010 "The Independent" -- An invasion of Iraq was discussed within the Government more than two years before military action was taken - with Foreign Office mandarins warning that an invasion would be illegal, that it would claim "considerable casualties" and could lead to the breakdown of Iraq, The Independent can reveal.
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Posted at 03:35 PM
Rumour: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release ...
[Kotaku Australia] Six Days In Fallujah, a game based on the Iraq War that Konami thought was too 'hot' to publish, has according to IGN been completed, and is ready to .
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Posted at 03:33 PM
March 01, 2010
US Media Replays Iraq Fiasco on Iran -- Signs of the Times News
[Signs of the Times] Those poll results were either ignored by the U.S. news media or discounted as the result of fearful Iranians simply saying what their government wanted to hear. However, similar polls have been conducted in countries around the world, including during the U.S. military occupation of Iraq, and have been regarded as useful measures of public opinion.
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Posted at 03:36 PM
January 27, 2010
Consortiumblog: Shiite Power Play Threatens Iraq Quiet
[Consortiumblog] and a rising Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. So far, Iraq has been quiet enough that many in the media and public have redirected their attention to the wars du jour of Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia.
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Posted at 03:35 PM
January 22, 2010
Iraq's President Orders Probe of Candidate Ban
[GlobalSecurity.org] Sectarian, ethnic and other issues have already pushed the election beyond the deadline called for in Iraq's constitution. The United States is eager to have it go forward, as it is tying its withdrawal of troops from the country in part to a successful vote.
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Posted at 04:02 PM
January 15, 2010
MAPPING THE FUTURE OF IRAQ: AUTONOMOUS REGIONS ALLOWED UNDER THE ...
[Goals for Americans] The Constitutional writers recognized that the warring factions in Iraq might never reconcile their ethnic, religious and tribal grievances and blood feuds. They provided FEDERALISM as a mechanism to separate these factions to some degree while still maintaining a unified country - the FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF IRAQ.
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Posted at 04:05 PM
January 04, 2010
Pushed to the Left and Loving It: The War in Iraq Has Made ...
[Pushed to the Left and Loving It] Six years later, after successive waves of violence and intimidation largely unchecked by either Iraqi government action or U.S. intercession, more than 500,000 Christians have fled the country. It is a crisis that inspired Christian leaders to assemble in Baghdad in December for a conference piteously titled: “Do Christians Have a Future in Iraq?”
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