Video: Endgame in Afghanistan: 'It's taken a year to move 20km' | World news | guardian.co.uk
august 2010 by amy
Endgame in Afghanistan: 'It's taken a year to move 20km'As the war in Afghanistan enters its final chapter, Sean Smith's brutal, uncompromising film from the Helmand frontline shows the horrific chaos of a stalemate that is taking its toll in blood.
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august 2010 by amy
We didn't stop that war, but may have stopped the next | Comment is free | The Guardian
february 2008 by amy
Five years ago, the biggest political protest in our history served to explode the myth of public apathy
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february 2008 by amy
Study: False statements preceded war - Yahoo! News
january 2008 by amy
A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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january 2008 by amy
Guardian | CIA destroyed video of 'waterboarding' al-Qaida detainees
december 2007 by amy
The CIA destroyed video evidence of the coercive interrogation of al-Qaida operatives held under its secret rendition programme in order to shield agents from prosecution, it was revealed yesterday.
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december 2007 by amy
Books | Confronting the beast
september 2007 by amy
The secret allure and the greatness of literature, the secret that sends us to it over and over again, with enthusiasm and a longing to find refuge and meaning, is that literature can repeatedly redeem for us the tragedy of the one from the statistics of
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september 2007 by amy
No Exit, No Strategy - New York Times
september 2007 by amy
This was the week in which Americans hoped they would get straight talk and clear thinking on Iraq. What they got was two exhausting days of Congressional testimony by the American military commander, hours of news conferences and interviews, clouds of cu
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september 2007 by amy
Metromix. Movie review: 'No End in Sight'
september 2007 by amy
This devastating critique of the Iraq war can't, and won't, be easily picked apart by those who don't agree with its doleful conclusions. ...we hear the voices of people who knew more... than their armchair-warrior superiors about ...what went wrong...
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september 2007 by amy
The Great Iraq Swindle: : Rolling Stone
september 2007 by amy
How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury
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september 2007 by amy
Cleric Switches Tactics to Meet Changes in Iraq - New York Times
july 2007 by amy
After months of lying low, the anti-American Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr has re-emerged with a shrewd strategy that reaches out to Iraqis on the street while distancing himself from the increasingly unpopular government.
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july 2007 by amy
The White House Scales Back Talk of Iraq Progress - New York Times
april 2007 by amy
The Bush administration will not try to assess whether the troop increase in Iraq is producing signs of political progress or greater security until September, and many of Mr. Bush’s top advisers now anticipate that any gains by then will be limited, ac
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april 2007 by amy
Insurgents report a split with Al Qaeda in Iraq - Los Angeles Times
march 2007 by amy
Insurgent leaders and Sunni Arab politicians say divisions between insurgent groups and Al Qaeda in Iraq have widened and have led to combat in some areas of the country, a schism that U.S. officials hope to exploit.
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march 2007 by amy
House narrowly backs timetable for Iraq withdrawal - International Herald Tribune
march 2007 by amy
The House of Representatives voted Friday, by an extremely narrow margin and after an unusually emotional debate, to set a timetable for bringing American troops home from Iraq.
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march 2007 by amy
Powell's Books - PowellsBooks.Blog
february 2007 by amy
Why Can't We Remember Anything About Iraq?
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february 2007 by amy
Wellington Grey -- Miscellanea
february 2007 by amy
w.w.g.w.b.d flowchart
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february 2007 by amy
U.S. Deaths in Iraq Exceed 9-11 Count
december 2006 by amy
as of Dec. 26 apparently...
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december 2006 by amy
BBC NEWS | Americas | Iraq panel demands urgent change
december 2006 by amy
A major report on US policy in Iraq has called for a new approach and urgent action to stop "a slide towards chaos".
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december 2006 by amy
Britons wary of Bush more than Kim Jong-il: poll
november 2006 by amy
The United States is seen as a threat to world peace by its closest neighbors and allies, with Britons saying President George W. Bush poses a greater danger than North Korea's Kim Jong-il, a survey found on Friday.
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november 2006 by amy
The Observer | Comment | Now we know what we know, why is Blair still in office?
october 2006 by amy
As more evidence of his role in the Iraq debacle emerges, it beggars belief that the Prime Minister hasn't been impeached
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october 2006 by amy
Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000 - washingtonpost.com
october 2006 by amy
A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.
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october 2006 by amy
Over 800 attacks every week in Iraq
september 2006 by amy
The Bush administration has misled the American people about the level of violence in Iraq, where there is an attack by insurgent forces every 15 minutes, Bob Woodward, the investigative journalist, said yesterday.
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september 2006 by amy
LRB | Bush’s Useful Idiots
september 2006 by amy
Tony Judt on the Strange Death of Liberal America
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september 2006 by amy
Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat - New York Times
september 2006 by amy
A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since 9/11.
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september 2006 by amy
The World After 9/11
september 2006 by amy
Amy Davidson talks to Seymour M. Hersh, Jon Lee Anderson, and George Packer about Iraq, Afghanistan, the war on terror, and whether America is stronger now.
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september 2006 by amy
Flat Daddies
september 2006 by amy
The US National Guard has hit upon the idea of providing the families of servicemen with life-size cut-out photographs of their loved ones to help them through the strains of an overseas deployment. The scheme is called Flat Daddies.
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september 2006 by amy
Iranian president lambasts US on new blog | Top News | Reuters.com
august 2006 by amy
Iran's president has launched a Web log, using his first entry to recount his poor upbringing and ask visitors to the site if they think the United States and Israel want to start a new world war.
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august 2006 by amy
Middle East policy | To Israel with love | Economist.com
august 2006 by amy
ANYBODY who doubts the size of the transatlantic divide over Israel should try discussing the Middle East conflagration in Britain and then doing the same in America.
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august 2006 by amy
Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts - New York Times
july 2006 by amy
A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed "large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists" to infiltrate the military
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july 2006 by amy
Bush challenges hundreds of laws - The Boston Globe
may 2006 by amy
President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.
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may 2006 by amy
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Meet Bush's latest enemy in the war on Iraq: the Raging Grannies of Tucson, Arizona
april 2006 by amy
Peace grannies' part of growing anti-war network - Elderly women tried to enlist in place of young
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april 2006 by amy
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