De Onzichtbare Oorlog in Irak

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Op vrijdag 9 maart 2007 00:29 schreef JohnDope het volgende:
_{beetje zielig verwijderen, waarom zou dat van mij "onzin" zijn en dat van jou niet}

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Op vrijdag 9 maart 2007 00:35 schreef JohnDope het volgende:

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Kijk jij bent nog bezig met Terror, voor Amurica is dat nog enkel corvee, de Amerikanen hebben allang weer wat nieuws bedacht hebben waarmee ze de wereld kunnen domineren; CO2.
De mensen die Amurica niet via Terror voor zich heeft weten te winnen, die heeft Amurica wel weer via de CO2 voor zich weten te winnen.

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Op vrijdag 9 maart 2007 00:41 schreef Daniel.J het volgende:
Oorlog is een grote markt.

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Op vrijdag 9 maart 2007 00:43 schreef JohnDope het volgende:

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Maar geef toe, ik maak het topic wel een beetje 'Duisterder'....

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Iraq War Vet Says He's 'Sinned For Freedom'

A decal on a California soldier's pick-up has become a lightning rod for debate in Bakersfield.

The message says "Lord, please forgive me. I've committed sins for our freedom.'

Sergeant Matthew Gonzalez served in Iraq as an Army Ranger and says he would do it again to keep his family safe.

But that doesn't change how he feels about his religion and what happened during his military service in Iraq.

"I'm proud to be a vet, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat," said Gonzalez, "But being a Catholic, I acknowledge that I committed sins."

Critics say the bumper sticker is unpatriotic and even insulting to veterans.

But Gonzalez says everyday people also thank him for his service.

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Douglas Feith was the author of the orders to disband the entire Iraqi army and destroy the civilian government infrastructure. I was a student in Germany after the Second World War. Even after ousting the the Nazis, America did not dismiss every school teacher and village administrator, but that's what the U.S. government did in Iraq. Under Saddam, government officials had to join the Ba'ath Party; after his removal, all Ba'athists were fired.

After Libby, All Roads Lead to Feith

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Israeli officer sells weapons to terrorists in Iraq

Ma'ariv Daily [een Israelische krant] has reported that an Israeli retired officer sells weapons to terrorist groups in Iraq.

Shmoel Avivi, an Israeli retired officer, had established a firm in Iraq 2 years ago, which secretly sold arms to terrorist groups in Iraq, Ma'ariv reported.

Amnesty International reported that Avivi was one of the biggest weapon dealers in the Middle East.

Iraqi sources earlier announced that terrorist attacks in Iraq were backed by the intelligent agencies of CIA and Mossad and the secret agents of Iraqi former regime.

Earlier, Iraqi parliament security commission chairman Hadi Ameri had accused the occupying soldiers of secretly directing the terrorist attacks and forming terror squads in Iraq.

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The situation was not helped when on March 7, 2007, the Israeli Ma'ariv Daily reported that "Israeli officer sells weapons to terrorists in Iraq". The story focuses on Shmoel Avivi, an Israeli retired officer, who established a firm in Iraq two years ago.

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The accusation of US collusion with the death squads has now reached the circles of the "democratically elected Iraqi parliament". Iraqi parliament security commission chairman Hadi Ameri has accused the occupying soldiers of secretly directing the terrorist attacks and forming terror squads in Iraq.

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Op woensdag 28 maart 2007 23:18 schreef OpenYourMind het volgende:
Heb zonet de documentaire Shadow Company en Iraq For Sale The War Profiteers" gezien over deze huurlingen en de contract firma's zoals Blackwater, Haliburton, Kellog Brown & Root, Kroll, Dyncorp, etc...

Shadow Company vind ik verreweg de betere documentaire, je krijgt veel informatie en interviews met huurlingen zelf en het onderwerp wordt zeer informatief en vanuit vele hoeken benaderd.

Iraq For Sale vond ik zelf wat minder, veel interviews met slachtoffers (nabestaanden) en de nadruk ligt voornamelijk op het emotionele inplaats van informatieve vlak. Desalnietemin zit hier wel interessante informatie in over het gebruik van deze firma's bij ondervragingen in de gevangenissen en de wederopbouw van Irak.

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On September 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld gave one of his first major addresses as Defense Secretary, and gathered before him was the gaggle of corporate executives that had been tapped by the Bush administration to make up the senior civilian leadership at the Pentagon. There was a sort of mixture of people at the Pentagon. On the one hand, you had people from corporate America, from all the defense and weapons manufacturers that were brought in, and then you also had the neoconservative ideologues, people like Paul Wolfowitz. And so, Rumsfeld gives a speech in which he literally declared war on the Pentagon bureaucracy. And he said, “I’ve come not to destroy the Pentagon, but to liberate it. We need to save it from itself.”

And then literally the next day the Pentagon would be attacked. But the vision that Rumsfeld sort of laid out that day would become known as the Rumsfeld Doctrine, where you use high technology, small footprint forces and an increased and accelerated use of private contractors in fighting the wars. It also, at the center of the Rumsfeld Doctrine, became regime change in central strategic nations. Rumsfeld and Cheney both had been signers of the Project for a New American Century, that envisioned a new Pearl Harbor as accelerating the agenda, the neoconservative agenda. And, indeed, the day after Rumsfeld laid out that plan, the Pentagon was attacked, and all of a sudden the world became a blank canvas on which Rumsfeld and Cheney and Bush could sort of paint their vision.

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

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US accused of using neutron bombs

The former commander of Iraq's Republican Guard has accused the US of using non-conventional weapons in its war against the Middle East country.

Saifeddin Fulayh Hassan Taha al-Rawi told Al Jazeera that US forces used neutron and phosphorus bombs during their assault on Baghdad airport before the April 9 capture of the Iraqi capital.

Al-Rawi is one of the most wanted associates of Saddam Hussein, the deposed Iraqi leader, still on the run.

"The enemy used neutron and phosphorus weapons against Baghdad airport... there were bodies burnt to their bones," he said.

The bombs annihilated soldiers but left the buildings and infrastructure at the airport intact, he added.

A neutron bomb is a thermonuclear weapon that produces minimal blast and heat but releases large amounts of lethal radiation that can penetrate armour and is especially destructive to human tissue.

About 2,000 elite Republican Guard troops "fought until they were martyred", according to al-Rawi.

He said the Iraqi military command was surprised by the speed of the US land offensive, expecting air bombardment to last much longer.

"We had not expected the enemy to launch its land offensive from the very first or second day.

We expected the air raids to last at least a month," he said.

"The land offensive came at the same time as the air offensive. That was a situation we did not expect," he told Al Jazeera.

Al-Rawi, who carries a $1m US bounty on his head, was also the jack of clubs on the deck of cards of 55 most wanted Iraqis distributed by the Pentagon before the invasion in 2003.

bron: english.aljazeera.net