Archive for the ‘Iraq’ Category

Blackwater killings dismissed

Posted: December 31, 2009 in Iraq

One guard pleads guilty for killing at least one Iraqi,  but five plead not guilty to manslaughter and get away with it. The judge decided that the U.S. Justice Department used evidence that prosecutors were not supposed to have.  By the sounds of it, they were indeed guilty, but because evidence was used that they weren’t [...]

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U.S.-Iraq security deal

Posted: October 18, 2008 in Iraq, October 2008

There reaches a point when you just need to admit that you were and are wrong. No matter how many times the Bush administration is told that their occupation of Iraq is unjustified and clearly wasteful (at this point, but one could argue that they did at least some good with the removal of Hussain’s [...]