Iraq War Article Index

Iraq prisoner abuse witnesses 'disappear' in US  custody
Iraq_Prisoner_Abuse_Witnesses_disappear.html

Lets Not Forget
Lets_Not_Forget.html

Defending Kent State Student Protests
Defending_Kent_State_Student_Protests.html

BEING LIED INTO WAR -- Worden
BEING_LIED_INTO_WAR.html

Rumsfeld ordered the torture
Rumsfeld_ordered_the_torture.html

The Most Important Criminal Case inAmerican History
Most_Important_Criminal_Case_in_American_History.html

In Praise of Sgt. Kevin Benderman
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/23808/

Ariz. Guard blogger punished
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=3D1-292925-1003245.php

What Is The Price For Your Child's Life?
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/priceofyourchild.html

A Childish Theory by Charley Reese
A_Childish_Theory.html

Antiwar.com - Letter From an Iraq Vet
Letter_From_an_Iraq_Vet.html

Would You Kill A Kid?
Would_You_Kill_A_Kid.html

Get Ready for World War III by Paul Craig Roberts
Get_ready_for_WWIII.html

Alex Jones Goes to Crawford
Alex_Jones_Goes_to_Crawford.html

A Simple Question and the Power of Shame
A_Simple_Question.html

Not for oil?
Not_for_oil.html

100,000 dead in Unconstitutional WAR - Wolfowitz's Admission Should Cause Impeachment
100000_dead_in_unconstitutional_war.html

Why We Fight - HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS BEFORE THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 8, 2005
Why_we_fight.html

Real U.S. death toll in Iraq War is 9,023
http://members.aol.com/deawatch/daily.htm

From The New York Times: Blair admits authenticity of the Downing Street Memo
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/050630/2005063046.html

General admits to secret air war -  June 26, 2005 - by Michael Smith
  THE American general who commanded allied air forces during the Iraq war appears to have admitted in a briefing to American and British officers that coalition aircraft waged a secret air war against Iraq from the middle of 2002, nine months before the invasion began.

Addressing a briefing on lessons learnt from the Iraq war Lieutenant-General Michael Moseley said that in 2002 and early 2003 allied aircraft flew 21,736 sorties, dropping more than 600 bombs on 391 "carefully selected targets" before the war officially started.

The nine months of allied raids "laid the foundations" for the allied victory, Moseley said. They ensured that allied forces did not have to start the war with a protracted bombardment of Iraqi positions.

If those raids exceeded the need to maintain security in the no-fly zones of southern and northern Iraq, they would leave President George W Bush and
Tony Blair vulnerable to allegations that they had acted illegally.

Moseley's remarks have emerged after reports in The Sunday Times that showed an increase in allied bombing in southern Iraq was described in
leaked minutes of a meeting of the war cabinet as "spikes of activity to put pressure on the regime".

Moseley told the briefing at Nellis airbase in Nebraska on July 17, 2003, that the raids took place under cover of patrols of the southern no-fly zone; their purpose was ostensibly to protect the ethnic minorities.

A leaked memo previously disclosed by The Sunday Times, detailing a meeting chaired by the prime minister and attended by Jack Straw, the foreign
secretary, Geoff Hoon, the then defence secretary, and Admiral Sir Michael Boyce, chief of defence staff, indicated that the US was carrying out the
bombing.

But Moseley's remarks, and figures for the amount of bombs dropped in southern Iraq during 2002, indicate that the RAF was taking as large a part
in the bombing as American aircraft.

Details of the Moseley briefing come amid rising concern in the US at the war. A new poll shows 60% of Americans now believe it was a mistake.