More of the shameful war crimes being committed by the US to shore up its occupation of Iraq. As the British are leaving, the bush is adding more US troops to the maelstorm of his making. The longer this obscenity continues, the more enemies the US creates. Juan Cole of Informed Comment says it better than I can. At least, more objectively than I can.
And on the subject of Iran, testimony in the libby trial points to cheney having a prominent role in the “outing” of Valerie Plame. This should be considered treason, since it removed her from her role in counter-proliferation activities specializing on Iran. Now with the bush talking up war with that country because of its nuclear activities, how else can one consider cheney’s act? If what the bush says is true, a BIG stretch to be sure, then cheney certainly aided the “enemy”.
And as we know, the punishment for treason “in a time of war”, as the bush like to keep reminding us we’re in, is death. But I’ll settle for both the bush and cheney being imprisoned for life for their treasonous actions, and their assets seized for their ongoing criminal enterprise.
We are just days away from the 4th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, and the situation there becomes worse daily. This is truly not a time for timidity in opposing the administration or its allies and enablers. They are all war criminals.
US bombing 'terror targets'
24/02/2007 22:38 - (SA)
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_2074616,00.html
Baghdad - US forces launched air strikes in southeast Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi officials said, as a series of massive explosions rocked the war-torn city.
"American aircraft are bombarding terrorist targets that have been chosen by US and Iraqi forces, as part of our Baghdad security plan," said Brigadier-General Qasim al-Mussawi, spokesperson for the operation.
There was no immediate comment from the US, but AFP reporters in downtown Baghdad heard the rumble of more than three dozen powerful blasts in rapid succession at around 22:00pm (19:00 GMT).
Shortly after the first blasts, electricity was cut in part of central Baghdad, but it was not clear if these events were linked.
A senior Iraqi interior ministry official told AFP that the air strikes were aimed at insurgent strongholds in Bo'aitha, a sparsely populated neighbourhood on the west bank of the Tigris, south of the city centre.
While lying within the city limits, Bo'aitha is a district of farms and smallholdings, whose scattered villages are known to house the hideouts of Sunni insurgent gangs linked to al-Qaeda.
Iraqi officials said that the bombardment would run hand-in-hand with sweeps on the ground by US and Iraqi ground forces.
Informed Comment
by Juan Cole
Sunday, February 25, 2007
http://www.juancole.com/2007/02/al-hakim-targeted-with-car-bomb.html
Late Saturday, the US Air Force launched a series of bombing raids on southeast Baghdad. This is absolutely shameful, that the US is bombing from the air a civilian city that it militarily occupies. You can't possibly do that without killing innocent civilians, as at Ramadi the other day. It is a war crime. US citizens should protest and write their congressional representatives. It is also the worst possible counter-insurgency tactic anyone could ever have imagined. You bomb people, they hate you. The bombing appears to have knocked out what little electricity some parts of Baghdad were still getting.
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