Iraq is such a mess these days. As the Bush administration appear to be trying to spin their way out of a quagmire, Mother Jones has published an interactive timeline of how they got there. The timeline highlights the ‘bad intelligence’, ‘misinformation’, ‘faulty intelligence’ and lies that made the Iraq invasion so hard to swallow. [...]

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In the past I’ve talked about the cost of the Iraq war to Iraqis and today Crikey‘s daily newsletter today has calculated the financial (not moral or ethical) cost of the Iraq war to Australians: “By June a Australia’s war in Iraq will have cost taxpayers $1.2 billion, according to defence think tank Australian Strategic [...]

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Thousands marched around the world to protest a war that has been raging for three years. Perhaps they’re upset that more than 33,000 Iraqi civilians have died in that time or they’re frustrated that the war was based on lies.

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CRACKER: Iraq has weapons of mass destruction! Oh, wait, um… CRACKER: Iraq has ties to Al Qaeda! Oh, wait, um… CRACKER: Iraq can strike the US in 45 minutes! Oh, wait, um… CRACKER: Iraq is buying yellowcake from Niger! Oh, wait, um… CRACKER: Iraq wanted weapons of mass destruction! Oh, wait, um… CRACKER: Iraq must [...]

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