A few more bad apples. It’s starting to look as American as bad apple pie:
Allegations that American soldiers routinely tortured and maltreated detainees have emerged from a third Iraqi city, renewing fears that abuse similar to that inflicted in Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad has been systematic and widespread.
American soldiers in the northern Iraqi city [...]
I know it’s churlish of me to keep harping on about this, but:
…investigators have found no support for the two main fears expressed in London and Washington before the war: that Iraq had a hidden arsenal of old weapons and built advanced programs for new ones. In public statements and unauthorized interviews, investigators said they [...]
US News:
On the evening of February 1, two dozen American officials gathered in a spacious conference room at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va. The time had come to make the public case for war against Iraq. For six hours that Saturday, the men and women of the Bush administration argued about what Secretary [...]
A woman who works for the IS team on the floor above me is married to an Iraqi aerospace engineer. Unfortunately, because of bigotry around the time of the Gulf War, he found he couldn’t get an engineering job—so he opened a pizza restaurant.
On Saturday, after several threats, an arsonist torched their restaurant.
Here’s the [...]