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 few weeks, Israel has been pounding Lebanon in a series of strikes aimed at achieving peace by killing hundreds of innocent people. I’m no military strategist, but I would have thought that a great way to turn average Lebanese civlians into ‘terrorists who hate your country’ would be to kill women and [...]

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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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Me and NYCWhen 19 men hijacked 4 jets and used them as missiles in the United States, I remember watching relayed footage from ABC America on a local network in Sydney, Australia. It was just so awful. The events unfolded 10,000 miles away, but still made me sick to my stomach. Months later, I drove [...]

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