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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said congressional Democrats will stick to demands for some form of accountability from President George W. Bush in any legislation to pay for U.S. military operations in Iraq.

Lawmakers and Bush administration officials were unable to reach a compromise in negotiations last week on a funding measure. Bush and his aides said that there can be no timeline for a U.S. withdrawal in the legislation and each side blames the other for refusing to make concessions.

Lawmakers are trying to craft a measure that provides almost $100 billion for the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and Democrats are seeking to impose restrictions on Bush’s strategy. Congressional leaders have pledged to complete the legislation before taking a week-long Memorial Day recess that begins at the end of this week.

White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten said after the last round of negotiations May 18 that the Democrats “seem to be dug in on presenting the same approach” that the president already vetoed.

Pelosi said Democrats have demonstrated they are willing to work with Bush on his priorities, including trade and immigration.

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June 2009 The dark cells of Suddam Husseins female prisons, no longer hold women awaiting execution. Today they are crammed with homeless families displaced by years of violence. Is life really getting better in Iraq? That was the execution room, we fixed it up and live in it tells one man. He walks into the courtyard where messages from those executed remain written on the walls. You may read my prayer, weep for my youth. Yet one of these writers has survived. She now lives with her family …

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Music Link: itunes.apple.com Music is from AUDIOSWAP: Artist: 009 Sound System Song: Holy Ghost This is another in a series I am releasing as tributes to the US Marines in Iraq. This is as real as the real gets. Never again likely will you ever get to see uncensored footage from the front lines. May God watch over all fighting for their countries.

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Official theatrical trailer for the documentary “Iraq In Fragments,” directed by James Longley. The film, distributed by Typecast Releasing in association with HBO Documentary Films, will have its theatrical premiere in New York City on November 8, 2006, and will open in select US cities later that month. “Iraq In Fragments,” an audience favorite on the international film festival circuit, was the winner of three awards at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, among many other honors….

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An American tank guards the museum following the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.

The National Museum of Iraq is a museum located in Baghdad, Iraq. It contains priceless relics from Mesopotamian civilization, thousands of which were looted in 2003 during the Iraq War.In Feb. 23th. 2009 the museum has been reopened by Iraqi prime minster Al-Maliki , after most of it’s contain returned to Iraqi Government. The museum also has been renewed by adding more room to it, and more than 12 different countries helped in that including the UN.

Foundation

It was established by the British traveller and author Gertrude Bell and opened shortly before her death in 1926. It was originally known as the Baghdad Archaeological Museum.

Collections

Because of the archaeological riches of Mesopotamia, its collections are amongst the most important in the world; and it has a fine record of scholarship and display. The British connection with the museum (and with Iraq) means that exhibits have always been displayed bilingually (English and Arabic). It contains important artifacts from the over 5,000 year long history of Mesopotamia in 28 galleries and vaults.

Recent history

Closed in 1991 during the Gulf War, out of fear of further U.S. air-strikes it was not re-opened until April 28, 2000, former President Saddam Hussein’s birthday.

Damage and losses during 2003 war

National Museum of Iraq

In the months preceding the 2003 Iraq war, starting in December and January, various antiquities experts, including representatives from the American Council for Cultural Policy asked The Pentagon and the UK government to ensure the museum’s safety from both combat and looting. Although promises were not made, U.S. forces did avoid bombing the site.

On April 8, 2003 the last of the museum staff left the museum. Iraqi forces, in violation of Geneva Conventions, engaged U.S. forces from within the museum, as well as the nearby Special Republican Guard compound. Lt. Col. Eric Schwartz of the U.S. Army’s Third Infantry Division stated that he was unable to enter the compound and secure it since they attempted to avoid returning fire at the building. Sniper positions, discarded ammunition, and 15 Iraqi Army uniforms were later discovered in the building. Iraqi forces had built a fortified wall along the western side of the compound, allowing concealed movement between the front and rear of the museum.

Thefts took place between April 8 and 12, when some staff returned to the building. U.S. forces, headed by Marine Col. Matthew Bogdanos, entered the compound on April 16, and initiated an investigation on April 21. His investigation indicated that despite claims to the contrary, no U.S. forces had looted the building, and that there were three separate thefts by three distinct groups over the four days. While the staff instituted a storage plan to prevent theft and damage (also used during the Iranraq War and the first Gulf War), many larger statues, steles, and friezes had been left in the public galleries, protected with foam and surrounded by sandbags. Forty pieces were stolen from these galleries, mostly the more valuable. Of these 13 have been recovered as of January 2005, including the three most valuable the Sacred Vase of Warka (though broken in fourteen pieces,which was the original state it was found in when first excavated), the Mask of Warka, and the Bassetki Statue.

In addition, the museum’s aboveground storage rooms were looted; the exterior steel doors showed no signs of forced entry. Approximately 3,100 excavation site pieces (jars, vessels, pottery shards, etc.) were stolen, of which over 3,000 have been recovered. The thefts did not appear to be discriminating; for example, an entire shelf of fakes was stolen, while an adjacent shelf of much greater value was undisturbed.

The third occurrence of theft was in the underground storage rooms, where evidence pointed to an inside job. The thieves attempted to steal the most easily transportable objects, which had been intentionally stored in the most remote location possible. Of the four rooms, the only portion disturbed was a single corner in the furthest room, where cabinets contained 100 small boxes containing cylinder seals, beads, and jewelry. Evidence indicated that the thieves possessed keys to the cabinets but dropped them in the dark. Instead, they stole 10,000 small objects that were lying in plastic boxes on the floor. Of them, nearly 2,500 have been recovered.

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By: himfryang

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e the repeated attempts of former President George W. Bush to renege on his usage of the word “crusade” to describe the Iraq War, there are some in the evangelical community who suspected all along that for Bush and his top aides, the Iraq War was indeed a holy war. At the time, the majority of evangelicals–including myself–cheered as the President and his top aides cast the Iraq war in moralistic terms, invoking the name of God to bless the bombs dropped by U.S. planes in the initial “shock and awe” campaign.

When other Christians tried to tell us that invoking the name of God to bless the invasion of a sovereign nation was wrong, we laughed and mocked. Who in the world–other than liberals of course– actually believes that the President of the United States of America would launch a modern day crusade? It turns out that the minority was right. I was wrong.

Earlier this week GQ magazine released a set of memos from none other than the former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. In a set of memos placed on Bush’s desk every morning over a period of several months (titled the World Wide Intelligence Update), Rumsfeld quoted numerous passages from the Bible and superimposd them against a backdrop of soldiers, tanks, and fighter planes.

If the leader of a Muslim country were to invoke passages from the Koran to call on Allah to bless their troops as they attacked their American enemy, we would have with absolute certainty called that fanatacism–and we would have ridiculed anyone who thought otherwise. But because it was our leaders and they were calling on the name of our God and reading from our Bible–even though anyone with an elementary Bible knowledge knew that they were twisting the Scriptures by divorcing them from their original contexts–we called them pious.

To my fellow evangelicals that love Jesus and want to see His purposes fulfilled in our world, here are a few examples of how the Holy Scriptures were twisted by the Pentagon to sanctify a holy war.

1. In the first picture, there are three soldiers sitting in prayer with their machine guns pointed heavenward. The Scripture reference is Isaiah 6:8 which says, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” I can remember as a young boy going to church and seeing these words on a banner hanging over the center stage of the sanctuary. These words have inspired thousands of Christians to go into all the world and devote themselves as Christ’s ambassadors to humanity. Now apparently we’re supposed to believe that God had the U.S. military in mind when He inspired Isaiah to write these words.

2. In another frame we see a tank gliding across the Iraqi desert as the sun is setting. The Scripture for the day? Ephesians 6:13 which says, “Therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” I guess I was absent that day in Sunday School when the teacher said the Apostle Paul had America’s War on Terror in mind when he wrote these words. Somehow I always thought this verse was talking about prayer against demonic powers seeking to overthrow believers in their faith. Who would have known?

3. Perhaps the most bizarre frame is the one using Psalms 33:16. Although the verse says explicitly, “The King is not saved by a mighty army,” the verse is plastered across an American tank, a missile, and a U.S. soldier showing that victory does come through a mighty army. Talk about missing the point!

There’s only one word for such a blatant misuse of Scriptures to sanctify a political agenda–idolatry! The American Church let this happen. I let this happen. May God be merciful to us and move upon our hearts to repent.

By: Aaron Taylor

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jorsher123 asked:

Very important clip. Please show everyone you know, I think it’s hard to keep from tears watching this. 9/11 was an inside job. But worse than 3000 people dying on that day is hundreds of thousands because ignorant Americans think terrorism is from the middle east – it comes mainly from our…

When I was a child, I often heard that America “raised” Saddam, that he was her son. He was conceived the moment, if not before, he attempted to topple Iraqi President Abdul Kareem Qassim. It was 1959 and President Qassim had barely been in power for a year, but he was already Iraq’s most popular leader and America’s least favorite one. He had carried out anti-American and anti-corporatist policies like nationalizing foreign oil companies in Iraq, withdrawing Iraq from the US-initiated right-wing Baghdad Pact, and decriminalizing the Iraqi Communist Party. He also resurrected a long-standing Iraqi claim to Kuwait.

Saddam’s attempt on President Qassim’s life having failed, he fled to Egypt, where his nursing and rearing began. Hussein repeatedly visited the US Embassy and met with CIA agents interested in the downfall of the Qassim government. After his return to Iraq, in 1963 and with help of the CIA, President Qassim was assassinated, and in the process, thousands of Iraqis were massacred. While the brutalities of the Baathist regime aroused international protests, the United States was among the first nations to recognize the new government, and arms shipment began immediately.

At this point the CIA continued to hold Saddam’s hand and, step-by-step, they and the State Department led him into power. They offered a list of 800 Iraqi communists to the Baathist insurgents – all were killed. Meanwhile, western business interests, such as Mobile, Bechtel and British Petroleum began operations in Iraq. And in 1968, the final Baathist coup brought Ahmad Hassan Al Bakr to power. He placed his cousin, Saddam Hussein, in charge of the State Security apparatus.

In 1979, Saddam Hussein seized power in a palace-coup and by 1980, the incoming Reagan administration, seeing the Islamic revolution in Iran as a threat, encouraged, if not coached, the subsequent Iraqi invasion of Iran with promises of arms, money, and intelligence. In addition to billions of dollars in arms, the Reagan administration provided the Iraqi Regime with chemical and biological weapons, including Brucella Malitensis (a bacteria that can damage major organs; Bacillus Anthracis (cause of anthrax); histoplasma capsulatam (cause of a disease attacking lungs, brain, spinal cord, and heart; clostridium perfringens (a highly toxic bacteria causing systematic illness; clostridium tetani (highly toxigenic substance).

These were given with full US knowledge of the repressive nature of Hussein’s regime, and his support of international terrorists such as Abu Nidal. Back then, Saddam was loved unconditionally, practically patted on the back for what today Busch considers “unaccepted” behavior. For instance, after Iraq used U.S. supplied chemical weapons against Iranian troops and the Kurds, the Reagan administration resumed normal diplomatic relations with Iraq, and removed it from the list of countries that support terrorism.

The Iran/Iraq war stretched on for eight years, claimed over a million lives and bankrupt Iraq. After the war ended in 1988, Kuwait flooded the world oil market, lowering oil prices worldwide. It was rumored that Kuwait not only refused negotiations but assured Iraqis they’ll keep the prices low even if it meant that the Iraqi women will have to ********** themselves for ten dinars. During his court sessions some fifteen years later, Saddam cited this exact statement to the judge, which he claims was made by Kuwaiti officials.

Hussein’s pleas to OPEC ignored, he considered military action against Kuwait. When he informed the US about his plans to invade Kuwait, US Ambassador April Glaspie told him: “We (the United States) have no opinion on your border dispute with Kuwait. James Baker (then Secretary of State) has instructed our official spokesman to emphasize this instruction.” Given this green light to invade Kuwait, Saddam Hussein did so. The Bush administration immediately began preparations for war. Iraq offered to withdraw from Kuwait in exchange for arranging a Middle East peace summit, but was also ignored.

In this invasion, hundred of Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians died. And civilian infrastructure – including power generators and water treatment facilities – were considered to be “Legitimate Military Targets” – although the Geneva Convention, article 54, claims “It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population.”

Afterwards, over 5 million Iraqis had no access to clean water, which resulted in growing epidemics of Cholera, Typhoid, and diarrhea. Understaffed, overflowing hospitals, without power, were unable to provide even the most minimal treatment. And 1.5 million Iraqis died as a direct result of the harshest sanctions regime in world history.

Then, even though there were no links between Iraq and the terrorist who executed the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centers, the Bush administration found Saddam to blame and launched a second war against Iraq. Since then they’ve used a number of reasons, like liberations and such, to remain in Iraq, or to excuse their role in that country’s unbelievable downfall.

In four years, the violence and the number of dead bodies found buried or laying in the streets have outnumbered those whom Saddam had murdered in the thirty years he was in power. And Saddam had a mission regarding Iraqi lives – to destroy whoever crossed him politically, whereas both the Gulf War, Operation Iraqi Freedom and everything in between have caused aimless massacres for the Iraqis – sort of the way Saddam did with Halabja. All these attacks were done in the name of war against the enemy.

When Saddam dropped poison gas on the Kurdish city of Halabja, which occurred during the Iraq-Iran war, it wasn’t because he was mad. It was because Halabja was then held by Iranian troops and Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga guerillas allied with Tehran. Throughout the war, Iran had supplied Iraqi Kurdish rebels military support.

So all these attacks, whether by the United States against Iraq or Saddam against Halabja and Dejail were done in the name of war against the enemy. Except that Halabja and Dejail happened quickly. The death of Iraqis since 1991 has been slow, painful, degrading, and spreading wildly like an incurable disease. But that’s another story. Back to the parent and child.

The lengthy relationship between Saddam and the CIA is what makes the Middle East and Europe distrust the United States. Many factors make the world view us as the “bad guys.” For instance, in 1991 when Iraqis rose against Saddam, the United States, afraid that change would put its majority Shi’ites and thus Iran in power, stood by with its forces as the Republican Guard crushed the rebellion. In 1996, the CIA fled and left the INC people in the hands of Saddam as Iraqi tanks moved into the Kurdish-controlled zone to destroy them.

From beginning to end Saddam served his so called parent. Even in his death he was a good son. He was hung by Shi’ites in a ruthless manner that “by chance” was videotaped and distributed on the Internet, giving America’s least favorite Islamic sect the ugliest reputation possible. Now who the hell is going to be sympathetic towards Shi’ites – in other words, Iran – when the Arab world itself found them despicable for killing a man in a manner that completely goes against the teachings of the Quran?



By: Weam Namou

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I recently saw an article entitled “Clinton: Iraq War Bush’s

Responsibility”. I very rarely touch on political topics because I feel

politics in general is such rubbish. Not to mention, it effectively creates

the perception of separation and elitism which is totally against every

universal and spiritual principle known to man.

Nevertheless, I read about 2 paragraphs of the article and amazingly,

Clinton and other people actually feel the war in Iraq is Bush’s “fault” and

responsibility. As if Bush elected himself president (twice), flew over to

Iraq, pushed a guy’s shoulder and said, “Hey I’m picking a fight with you so

I can profit a few billion off the oil trade”. Not!

WE created this war. Bush is only the personification (result) of the United

States’ (and the world’s) thoughts of creating war, corruption, and every

other negative event that we encounter in our lives. We created this

reality. We are just as responsible as Bush, the Taliban, Osama and everyone

else who talks about war, thinks about war.and writes about war. Yes, just

the writing of this article contributes to war.

The Law of Attraction states: You attract and bring forth what you think

about and focus on the most. We are the creators of the world we live in.

We, the people of this great nation (or whatever nation you may come from)

have created a burning desire to create war against anyone who may “hurt”

us. So war happens. And war continues to happen as long as it is the focus.

Just recently, Sen. Mitch McConnell said he doubts that a resolution

opposing a troop buildup in Iraq will pass. Vice President **** Cheney said

the administration would proceed with additional troops even if a nonbinding

resolution won Senate approval. Sen. Joe Biden, who’s now running for

President, was just quoted saying, ‘It’s not the American people or the U.S.

Congress who are emboldening the enemy.it’s the failed policy of this

president…’ Wrong! It IS the American people – holding the thought of war

in their minds, talking about war, arguing about war. Let’s not mention the

media’s role in adding to the whole ‘war conversation’.

Even these so-called ‘anti-war’ rallies are only just creating more war.

‘Fighting’ against war is about the most ridiculous oxymoron I’ve heard in a

while. I loved Mother Teresa’s stance on anti-war rallies…She said, I’ll

never attend an anti-war rally, when you decide to have a ‘pro-peace’ rally,

invite me!”

Obviously, Clinton’s and Biden’s comments were just blatant political ploys,

but they are the embodiment of public thought – passing blame. Most people

put blame on other people, events or things for the conditions in their

lives. People blame their bosses, their ex-wives, the government, the

terrorists, technology.even the weather for what’s going on in their lives.

They find any and everything to point the finger at to avoid personal

responsibility.

The world needs to see that creating peace means focusing on finding,

developing and utilizing methods for peace. Really all that needs to happen

to create a successful campaign for peace is people believing that peace is

the answer. Just because a couple of people with particularly “big mouths”

say they don’t want this war, doesn’t mean that the majority is not still

calling out for it. When the Majority “believes” it is time for peace, we

will have it.

There is a common phrase that is perfect to illustrate my point on how to

achieve peace: “First you must believe (in peace) …in order to achieve

(peace)!” Just think about how quickly the world would change if we all

believed in the principles of peace.



By: Antonio Thornton

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My friend asked me to buy some Iraqi currency as its value is very low suffering the impact of the war on its economy… He said that when two years later when the value appreciate, i would get back 10 times the amount i invested… Is this true? I want to know your opinions…
I donno… It sounds like a scam to me…