US Installed Iraqi Ex-Prime Minister Says Bush "Utter Failure"

Saturday 03 January 2009  Baghdad - Former U.S.-installed Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has denounced the policies of President George W. Bush as an "utter failure" that gave rise to the sectarian venom that ravaged his country. Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi called George Bush an "utter failure.. » read more

The Massacre on 'The Highway of Death'

Posted Dec. 31, 2008 This report was made on May 11th, 1991, at a session of the New York committee for investigating war crimes I want to give testimony on what are called the "highways of death." These are the two Kuwaiti roadways, littered with remains of 2,000 mangled Iraqi military vehicles, and the charred and dismembered bodies of tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, who were withdrawing from Kuwait on February 26th and 27th 1991 in compliance with UN resolutions.   U.S.. » read more

Christmas as Cultural Genocide

Dec. 26, 2008 This morning's headlines in the U.S.A. are touting the official public celebration (meaning paid for by the USA/CIA) of Christmas in Baghdad.. » read more

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on Iraq: They Lied in 2003, and They're Still Lying Now

23 December 2008 ( Belfast Telegraph ) Triumphalists are getting off on Iraq again, intoning hallelujah songs as they did after staging the fall of Saddam's statue then again and again, sweet lullabies to send us into blissful sleep and wake to a new dawn. The composers and orchestrators – Blair, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Straw, Hoon and Rice – still believe history is on their side. Bush visited his troops at Camp Victory in Iraq this month and said: "Iraq had a record of supporting terror, of developing and using weapons of mass destruction, was routinely firing at American military personnel, systematically violating UN resolutions .... » read more

35 Iraq Officials Held in Raids on Key Ministry

Dec. 18, 2008 BAGHDAD — Up to 35 officials in the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior ranking as high as general have been arrested over the past three days with some of them accused of quietly working to reconstitute Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party, according to senior security officials in Baghdad. Johan Spanner for The New York Times An Iraqi man was treated at a hospital on Wednesday after a bomb attack in Baghdad. The arrests, confirmed by officials from the Ministries of the Interior and National Security as well as the prime minister’s office, included four generals. The officials also said that the arrests had come at the hand of an elite counterterrorism force that reports directly to the office of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.. » read more

The Shoe Heard Around the World

12-17-8 Sometimes seemingly insignificant events begin to show the truth of a situation. I have talked to many people in the EU and elsewhere over the last several days and to a man, to a woman, they all wished that one or both of the shoes hurled at Bush had hit him in the head, or square in the face. Most think he deserves that and much worse. I knew the EU opinion of Bush was low but it is much lower than I expected. Also, those I am talking to are watching Barky closely and they do not like the unmistakable foul smell developing around him.. » read more

The War in Common

Wednesday 17 December 2008  I met a chef from Texas who was like an oak tree with tattoos, and made a mean barbecue sauce. He'd been in the 101st Airborne and was about to be deployed to Iraq, but destroyed his knee in a training exercise and wound up getting discharged. He knew the war was nonsense and thought the Bush guys all deserved to rot in jail, but he still wanted to go to Iraq, and wept whenever a soldier he knew died over there because he should have been there and maybe could have saved that person if his knee hadn't buckled. Bush ducks one of two shoes in Baghdad on Sunday. Both missed.. » read more

FLYING SHOE IS MIDDLE EAST BATTLE CRY FOR JUSTICE

December 16, 2008 He humiliated the world's "leader" and the nation that swallowed him twice through Bush's rigged banana republic elections. He has done more non-violently with his two shoes to prove the point of the oppressed of these years for Iraq, Afghanistan, and the silenced ghetto of Gaza, than all that Al Qaeda wanted to do but did not achieve: Dr Nurden Almustakim   Muntazer al-Zaidi has become a folk hero in the Middle East by non-violently speaking the truth to false power through his two shoes ~ and, in the process, he has become both a symbol and an energizing force for the Iraqi Resistance movement ~ as well as growing Middle East public resentment towards Bush.  ( See Mosiac 4 minute Video ) http://www.linktv.org/video/3412#  Thousands of Iraqis have demanded the release of this local TV reporter who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush at a Baghdad news conference.. » read more

Bush and the Shoe: Full Uncut Video

Dec. 16, 2008 As Bush makes a crude joke about a “size 10 shoe,” Muntader al-Zaidi can be heard screaming in the background. The corporate media, of course, will not show you the entire video. Earlier today, the Roads to Iraq blog posted the following: Iraqi TV al-Sharqiya just reported on the news that al-Zaidi is transferred to Camp Cropper prison [the Airport prison, managed by the American forces]. The TV Channel announced that Al-Zaidi is in a difficult condition, with broken ribs and signs of tortures on his thighs.. » read more

BUSH SHOE-THROWER IN HOSPITAL AFTER BEATING BY SECURITY GUARDS: Brother

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