Trump: Middle East Would Be More Stable With Saddam Hussein and Gadhafi In Power
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, when asked if he believes the Middle East would be better today if Moammar Gadhafi of Libya and Saddam Hussein of Iraq were still in power, responded,...
View ArticleTrump says world a better place if Saddam, Kadhafi still ruled
Washington (AFP) - The world would be a better place if dictators such as Saddam Hussein and Moamer Kadhafi were still in power, top Republican US presidential hopeful Donald Trump said in comments...
View ArticleIran considered nuclear weapons during 1980s Iraq war, ex-president says
Iran considered pursuing a nuclear deterrent when it began its nuclear program in the 1980s, during an eight-year war with Iraq, a former president has been quoted as saying. Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi...
View ArticleIraq leaders attend funeral of invasion backer Chalabi
BAGHDAD: Top Iraqi officials attended a funeral Wednesday for politician Ahmed Chalabi, a controversial champion of the U.S.-led invasion of his country. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, President Fuad...
View ArticleCruz: Middle East was more secure with Hussein, Gadhafi
GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz said Thursday that the Middle East was more secure when key dictators were still in power, and said too many Democrats and Republicans have supported toppling Middle...
View ArticleConfirmed quotes made prior to "Gulf War II"
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line." President Clinton , Feb. 4, 1998....
View ArticleChemical Weapons Found in Iraq Were Not Those Used to Justify Invasion
U.S. troops and U.S.-trained Iraqi forces uncovered about 5,000 chemical weapons in Iraq between 2004 and 2011 and soldiers were injured by these weapons in six instances. However, the weapons had not...
View Article[ from February 17, 2011 ] Defector Admits Lying Extensively About...
If any doubt remained that the U.S. and British governments’ case for invading Iraq was based almost entirely on lies, the Guardian has just put such doubt to rest. The British newspaper published a...
View ArticleShow This Column to Anyone Who Claims Bush Lied about WMDs in Iraq
Throughout the Bush years, liberals repeated "Bush lied, people died" like a mantra. That slander wasn't true then and it's not anymore true now that it has resurfaced. There are many legitimate...
View ArticleAl-Afari And Away: Ignoring the Saddam-ISIS link
Al-Afari And Away: Ignoring the Saddam-ISIS link by Daniel Clark During two Republican primary debates, presidential frontrunner Donald Trump claimed that Saddam Hussein had been an enemy of Islamic...
View ArticlePapers show Saddam snatched $1bn from bank a day before invasion
Saddam Hussein ordered Iraq's central bank to withdraw $1 billion for his youngest son the day before the invasion to stop it falling into foreign hands, according to a leaked letter apparently written...
View ArticleDeclassified Iraqi War Crimes
I opted to leave this as a PDF. Some of the material is disturbing.
View ArticleWhere is the peace? (Ithaca newspaper mourns loss of Saddam)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An old Arab proverb says tyranny is better than anarchy. A year after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003, Iraqis have scarcely had a day free of bedlam. That point was...
View ArticleSaddam Hussein 'had secret torture chamber in New York'
Saddam Hussein had a secret torture room built in the basement of the Iraqi mission to the United Nations in New York’s Upper East Side, it has been reported. The Iraqi dictator ordered the...
View ArticleTen years after Saddam execution, CIA officer says that everything the US...
[full title]:The Saddam interrogation: Ten years after the tyrant's execution, the CIA agent who grilled him reveals the shattering truth... that everything the US thought it knew was WRONG CIA analyst...
View ArticleHow Saddam’s men help Daesh rule
Mohannad is a spy for Daesh. He eavesdrops on chatter in the street markets of Mosul and reports back to his handlers when someone breaks the militant group’s rules. One man he informed on this year...
View ArticleAP Sources: US Sanctions Venezuela’s New Vice President
The Trump administration is slapping sanctions on Venezuela’s new Vice President Tareck El Aissami and accusing him of playing a major role in international drug trafficking. (snip) The U.S. is also...
View ArticleInterrogating Saddam: What He Said on Kuwait and What Angered Him the Most
CIA officer John Nixon sums up his role in Iraq during the US occupation. His first mission was to gather as much information as possible about Saddam Hussein, and then sent to Baghdad to help search...
View ArticleIraq then and now: Bush was right and Obama was wrong
This is the 13th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War II. What if President George W. Bush had not invaded Iraq? I suggest this scenario: 1. Saddam Hussein would have become a bigger threat to the...
View ArticleA decade later and the Iraq debate is still contaminated with myths (from 2013)
ere on the 10-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, I wonder how long it will be before we can discuss the war free from the contamination of myths. It may be sooner than many myth-purveyors...
View ArticleThe Awans, Obama, and Saddam Hussein and Iran's nuclear programs
As many of you will recall, Obama made a trip to Pakistan when he was at Occidental College. I am seeing indicators that this relates to the Awans' network and to Iraq and Iran's nuclear programs,...
View ArticleSecond Tape of Finding Saddam, Part I - 14 Dec 2003
Second Tape of Finding Saddam, Part 2 - 14 Dec 2003 A young gentleman who had been 8 years old when this happened asked me to put up more of my news tapes of the event. I'll be doing that over the next...
View ArticleBaathism - pan-Arabism: Admiration for Islam, admiration for and influenced...
Adel Soheil (2018). "The Iraqi Ba'th Regime's Atrocities Against the Faylee Kurds Nation-State Formation Distorted." pp. 55-56. https://books.google.com/books?id=_6tyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA55 Similar to...
View ArticleRay Odierno, Army general who led troops through Iraq War, dies at 67
Ray Odierno, the retired Army general who led U.S. troops through the Iraq War and later served as the Army’s chief of staff, has died of cancer at the age of 67. Odierno’s death Friday was announced...
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