• Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’

    “America’s relationship with Israel is important, but not as important as the lives of America’s soldiers.”

    by  • March 16, 2010 • politics & money

    photo credit: The U.S. Army US/Israel relationship is getting a little less special. Certainly, it was thought, Israel would get the message. Israel didn’t. When Vice President Joe Biden was embarrassed by an Israeli announcement that the Netanyahu government was building 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem, the administration reacted. But no one was more [...]

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    US Prison Handover

    by  • March 16, 2010 • politics & money

    We are still in Iraq, but we are steadily withdrawing forces. Camp Taji has been handed over to the Iraqi government. The Jail at Camp Taji north of Baghdad holds 3,000 inmates, mostly “low level insurgents”, the military said. Only a small number of inmates have been convicted of a crime with most detained because [...]

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    Blair: Poor choice to coordinate Mid-East peace

    by  • February 2, 2010 • politics & money

    Tony Blair’s widely panned appearance at last week’s Chilcot inquiry into the origins of the Iraq war reminded the world about the former British prime minister’s role in that lethal fiasco. Like many of the Iraq war’s instigators here in the United States, Blair has gotten a free pass while flaunting his lack of remorse. [...]

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