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The US Occupation of Iraq: Casualties Not Counted
Friday, 6 October 2006, 12:05 am | Dahr Jamail
In all past wars the United States has been involved in, including the two World Wars, Vietnam and the first Gulf War, the military was self reliant and took care of its basic support functions like cooking, cleaning and other services. More >>
Jamail: A Broken, De-Humanized Military in Iraq
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 10:22 am | Dahr Jamail
While the deranged chicken-hawks who "lead" the US continue their efforts to wage another unprovoked war of aggression, this time against Iran, what's left of their already overstretched military continues to be bled in Iraq. More >>
Dahr Jamail: AP Propaganda About Iraq
Monday, 25 September 2006, 1:57 pm | Dahr Jamail
On Monday, September 18, Associated Press (AP) ran a story titled, " Iraqi tribes fight Insurgency ." At first glance, the average reader cannot be blamed for thinking that this is a story about how tribes in Iraq have decided to take up arms against ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: Meanwhile in Baghdad ...
Wednesday, 13 September 2006, 2:03 pm | Dahr Jamail
I've recently received several emails from Iraq. Some, like the first, have been sent to me from people I know. Others were passed on by my friend Gerri Haynes, who receives emails regularly from friends she made during her several trips to Iraq. ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: Interview With Ray McGovern, Part 3
Wednesday, 6 September 2006, 4:48 pm | Dahr Jamail
In the final installment of this interview series for Truthout, McGovern discusses links between US/Israeli policy, the need for change if there is to be true security for either country, the Bush administration's use of torture, and the likelihood ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: Interview With Ray McGovern, Part 2
Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 12:53 am | Dahr Jamail
During the Veterans for Peace National Convention in Seattle, I conducted an interview with Ray McGovern. McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years and is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). More >>
Dahr Jamail: Interview With Ray McGovern (1)
Tuesday, 22 August 2006, 10:51 am | Dahr Jamail
During the Veterans for Peace National Convention in Seattle, I conducted an interview with Ray McGovern. McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years and is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). More >>
Watada: "Soldiers Can Choose to Stop Fighting"
Wednesday, 16 August 2006, 4:18 pm | Dahr Jamail
On Saturday night, I was lucky enough to be at the Veterans for Peace National Convention. For that night, Lt. Ehren Watada was able to give the following speech, which I've just received permission to post here. The speech was met with a powerful, standing ... More >>
Watada: "Soldiers Can Choose to Stop Fighting"
Wednesday, 16 August 2006, 3:03 pm | Dahr Jamail
On Saturday night, I was lucky enough to be at the Veterans for Peace National Convention. For that night, Lt. Ehren Watada was able to give the following speech, which I've just received permission to post here. The speech was met with a powerful, standing ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: "Supporters of Hezbollah"
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 10:14 pm | Dahr Jamail
Today, Sunday, I write this from Beirut, which is being circled by Israeli unmanned military surveillance drones, the same kind I saw so often in Fallujah. I suppose they were spying on the raging demonstrators who clogged the streets in Beirut and ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: "Aren't People Seeing All of This?"
Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 12:11 am | Dahr Jamail
Hundreds of Lebanese refugees languish in a city park in downtown Beirut. Fleeing southern Lebanon, as well as south Beirut, thousands have already made their way through this camp as they are farmed out to schools, abandoned buildings and anyone ... More >>
Jamail: Lebanon Bleeds, Iraq Burns, People Flee
Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 12:11 am | Dahr Jamail
"Habibi, to live in Baghdad now is to live in a big prison," he told me recently, "You stay in your home, and that's it. You only go out when you must. So many are being killed daily, and you only hope that your day to die is not today." More >>
Dahr Jamail: "Open War" in the Middle East
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 11:07 am | Dahr Jamail
"In my judgment, the best way to stop the violence is to understand why the violence occurred in the first place." That one sentence (a surprisingly rare example of a complete sentence spoken by Cheney spokesman George W. Bush), taken on its own, would ... More >>
Lebanese Refugees Speak of Catastrophic Bombing
Monday, 17 July 2006, 11:21 am | Dahr Jamail
Lebanon-Syria Border - Refugees fleeing Beirut in the face of Israeli air attacks are speaking of "haphazard bombings" and a crisis situation developing in the city. More >>
Dahr Jamail: A Big Disaster for the Lebanese
Saturday, 15 July 2006, 11:17 am | Dahr Jamail
Once again the U.S. government has refused to condemn the Israeli invasion of Lebanon as the bombs fall on Beirut, killing scores of civilians. In a moment of levity while driving to the border, Abu Talat turned to me and said, "You know what I miss?" I ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: "This Is Going to Be a Big War"
Friday, 14 July 2006, 10:18 am | Dahr Jamail
You can always spot them a mile away-he was white, middle-aged, overweight, hair cut close to hide the pattern baldness, red face, wearing a Harley Davidson motorcycle t-shirt and shorts. All of the aforementioned is acceptable in the Middle East, of ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: "Packing It In"
Monday, 10 July 2006, 11:43 am | Dahr Jamail
Surprise, surprise. In an interview with John King from CNN last Thursday, Dick Cheney said that withdrawing US forces from Iraq would be the "worst possible thing we could do." More >>
Orwell in Iraq: Snow Jobs, Zarqawi & Bogus Peace
Tuesday, 4 July 2006, 10:21 pm | Dahr Jamail
"My personal opinion is that the only way we will lose this war is if we pull out prematurely," said Colonel Jeffrey Snow, who commands a brigade of soldiers in Iraq. Snow, as reported by AFP on June 30th, fears losing public support in the US for ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: An Iraqi Withdrawal From Iraq
Friday, 30 June 2006, 11:08 am | Dahr Jamail
An Iraqi Withdrawal From Iraq By Dahr Jamail t r u t h o u t | Perspective From: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062806A.shtml Wednesday 28 June 2006 More >>
"Operation Forward Together": Deeper Into Quagmire
Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 2:56 pm | Dahr Jamail
On Tuesday, June 13th, while Mr. Bush spent a brave five hours in the "green zone" of Baghdad with puppet Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, at least 36 people were killed across Iraq amidst a wave of bombings. 18 of those died in a spasm of bombings ... More >>
