‘Forgers’ of Niger Uranium Contract Named
Apr 9, 2006 Remember the uranium ore that Hussein supposedly purchased from Niger? A contract documenting the sale was used as evidence of the need to invade Iraq and was included in a 2002 U.S. State Department fact sheet on Iraq's weapons program. Remember how the IAEA denounced the documents as fakes shortly before the invasion of Iraq? Well, according to the Times Online, the forgers have finally been named.British Memo: Bush Was Set on War
Mar 27, 2006 The New York Times gets a closer look at a UK official's memo that indicates Bush was set on an invasion of Iraq regardless of a U.N. resolution or the outcome of the WMD issue.Albright: Good Versus Evil Isn’t a Strategy
Mar 25, 2006 The former secretary of state writes that the White House's "penchant for painting its perceived adversaries" with a "sweeping brush has led to a series of unintended consequences" in the Middle East.
Documents Show Saddam’s WMD Frustrations
Mar 22, 2006 AP reports that Hussein and his inner circle were exasperated in their attempts during the 1990s to prove to the world that they'd given up banned weapons, according to transcripts of meetings found among documents seized after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. "We don't have anything hidden!" Saddam once interjected, documents show.
Three Years of War in Iraq: a Timeline
Mar 21, 2006 The blog ThinkProgress has put together a stellar walk-through of the major events of the conflict. (Above: Bush's infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech aboard an aircraft carrier.)
Iraq: Three Years In
Mar 19, 2006 It's the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq Where do we stand? The NY Times calls the undertaking a miserable, botched fiasco Iraq's former interim prime minister calls the sectarian violence "civil war" An LA Times reporter says that Bush is working to lower expectations in Iraq Donald Rumsfeld, writing in the Washington Post, sees the occupation through rose-colored glasses A BBC reporter gives a "glass-half-full / glass-half-empty" reading, but the headline uses the word "bleak".The Spies Who Came In From the Cold
Mar 2, 2006 Even though Germany sat out the invasion of Iraq, its spies in Baghdad passed on reams of information to the U.S. command, according to classified Berlin files.Bush Lacked Iraq Rebuilding Plan
Mar 1, 2006 The Washington Times (of all publications) says that a new government report claims the White House "never drew up a comprehensive plan for rebuilding Iraq" after the 2003 invasion. In the last week, Bush has lost: Bill O'Reilly William F. Buckley William KristolNow even the staunchly conservative Washington Times is giving the White House a hard time. All of a sudden the ranks of Bush supporters seem about as robust as our "coalition of the willing."
