‘Forgers’ of Niger Uranium Contract Named

Staff / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

British Memo: Bush Was Set on War

Staff / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Albright: Good Versus Evil Isn’t a Strategy

Staff / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Documents Show Saddam’s WMD Frustrations

Staff / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Three Years of War in Iraq: a Timeline

Staff / Truthdig 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.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iraq: Three Years In

Staff / Truthdig 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". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Spies Who Came In From the Cold

Staff / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Lacked Iraq Rebuilding Plan

Staff / Truthdig 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." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iraq Headed Squarely Toward Civil War

Staff / Truthdig Mar 1, 2006 A bomb in a vegetable market killed 36 people in Baghdad, prompting the government to announce a one-day ban on all vehicles in the city This comes on the heels of similarly deadly bombings Wednesday and the day before The Washington Post put the death toll of this recent spate of violence at over 1,300 What's worse, America's spy chief tells Congress that the violence could destabilize the entire region--which would completely upend one of Bush's main reasons for invasion in the first place. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ex-CIA Chief Blasts Bush on Iraq Intel

Staff / Truthdig Feb 10, 2006 America's former top spy for the Middle East accuses the White House of "cherry-picking information" to justify a decision it had already made to go to war. | storyWho wants to bet on how long it will take the CIA to start swift-boating this guy? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Blair OK’d Iraq Invasion Before U.N. Resolution, Book Says

Staff / Truthdig Jan 31, 2006 The new edition of a book by a London University professor claims that the prime minister was prepared to join the war even before the second UN resolution in January 2003 | storyWe're shocked, SHOCKED to learn that the U gambit was apparently a ruse . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Why Iraq Invasion Will Prove a Disaster For Israel

Staff / Truthdig Dec 26, 2005 As argued elsewhere on this site by Juan Cole and Robert Scheer, one big cost of our invasion of Iraq is that Bush must now cozy up to the militants in control of Iran Now the top pro-Israel lobby accuses Bush of selling out its opposition to Iran's nuclear weapons program. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )