I often check the internet for the latest news and general information. A number of web sites warrant a daily visit, like antiwar.com and counterpunch.org. Both of these sites offer archives of previous commentaries by their contributors.

The following are several notable sites that address the issues of our foreign policy in Iraq. There are two groups, general articles and those about the lies to convince Americans of the need to invade. These sites are in chronological order. Each author provides his/her own perspective and each article offers that insight. Which insight might seem more important to me is very subjective. Perhaps these articles will be of interest to the reader.

There are several collections of links below:

Fallujah and Haditha.
lies about the Plame affair and the Downing Street memo.
Cindy Sheehan.

General articles about Iraq:

Was Dr. David Kelly a Target of Dick Cheney’s “Executive Assassination Ring”? by Tom Burghardt (07/20/2009)

A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush by James A. Haught

Two Dangerous Bush-Cheney Myths by Robert Parry (12/26/2008)

The Urge To Surge by Tom Engelhardt (06/30/2008)

Killing the News in Iraq by Dave Lindorff (06/19/2008)

Anti-Terrorist Raids by Jason Ditz (06/14/2008)

What the Iraq War is About by Paul Craig Roberts (04/23/2008)

The Surge--Is It Soup Yet? by Gary Brecher (03/18/2008)

Book Reviews: Still Broken (A.J. Rossmiller) and So Wrong for So Long (Greg Mitchell) by SusanG (03/09/2008)

Will Anyone Pay for the Iraq War? by Robert Parry (01/15/2008)

Redacted, a Review; Brian DePalma's Scream of Outrage by Kim Nicolini (12/29/2007)

If We Lose Iraq, You're to Blame by William J. Astore and Tom Engelhardt (11/07/2007)

How the 'gang of four' lost Iraq by Khody Akhavi (09/28/2007)

Pro-Democracy Killing in Iraq by Jacob G. Hornberger (09/14/2007)

A very private war by Jeremy Scahill (08/01/2007)

How to Win in Iraq by William S. Lind (07/30/2007)

The Conquest of America by Iraq by Doug Bandow (07/20/2007)

Shoot First -- Ask Questions (Much) Later? by Greg Mitchell (07/17/2007)

Is the U.S. Responsible for the Death of Nearly a Million Iraqis? by Robert Naiman (07/11/2007)

The risks of staying vs. leaving Iraq by Barry R. Posen (04/19/2007)

Plan FUBAR: Time for Plan G in Iraq? by Phillip Carter (04/18/2007)

Green Zone Down: Bomb Hits Parliament As Bush Moves to Make Baghdad a Prison by Chris Floyd (04/14/2007)

Murder, Inc. That's the reality of American foreign policy by Justin Raimondo (02/19/2007)

The Bush Torture Memos by James Bovard (02/05/2007)

The Crime of the Century by Paul Craig Roberts (01/31/2007)

Going for Broke by Andrew J. Bacevich (01/29/2007)

Aliens in an Alien Land: Iraq Through the Lens of Soldiers' Memoirs by Stephen Soldz (01/23/2007)

Top Ten Myths about Iraq 2006 by Juan Cole (12/26/2006)

Time for Another Body Count in Iraq by Sheldon Rampton (11/18/2006)

"The American Era in the Middle East Has Ended" by Mike Whitney (11/02/2006)

Readings in the Age of Empire (the book: State of Denial) by Doug Bandow (10/27/2006)

No Excuses; There's no wriggling out of responsibility for the Iraq disaster by Justin Raimondo (10/25/2006)

The Bush Administration's War of the Images by Tom Engelhardt (10/25/2006)

On the Offense; No matter what the facts say, President Bush insists that we stay the course by Andrew J. Bacevich (10/23/2006)

Part II: Iraqi Death Rate May Top Our Civil War -- But Will the Press Confirm It? by Greg Mitchell (10/16/2006)

Operation Founding Fathers by James Bovard (10/13/2006)

Bush Has Achieved America's Demise by Paul Craig Roberts (10/12/2006)

Rules of Engagement by William Langewiesche (Oct. 2006)

What's an Iraqi Life Worth? by Andrew J. Bacevich (07/09/2006)

Bush's Army: a Few Good Degenerates By Paul Craig Roberts (07/04/2006)

Running With the Barbarians by Tom Engelhardt (06/26/2006)

The Dangerous Notions of Michael Berg by Chris Floyd (06/16/2006)

Three Iraq Myths That Won't Quit by Scott Ritter (06/26/2006)

Why Bush's Iraq is Worse Than Saddam's by William Blum (06/21/2006)

Killing Iraqi Children by Jacob G. Hornberger (06/19/2006)

Did They Kill Him So He Wouldn't Talk? The Strange Death of Zarqawi by Dave Lindorff (06/13/2006)

Why read Clausewitz when Shock and Awe can make a clean sweep of things? by Andrew Bacevich (06/08/2006)

American Gangsterism, The U.S. is committing war crimes in Iraq by Justin Raimondo (05/22/2006)

Space Aliens From Luxembourg: A Horror Story by Stefan Molyneux (05/18/2006)

Fantasies of American Power by Tom Engelhardt (05/05/2006)

War Crimes and Consequences by Dahr Jamail (04/27/2006)

How Massacres Become the Norm by Dahr Jamail (04/05/2006)

Noam Chomsky on War Crimes in Iraq by Tom Engelhardt (04/04/2006)

Are US Intentions More 'Base' Than Honorable? by Jim Lobe (03/24/2006)

Iraq's My Lai? US Troops Shooting Any Iraqi Who Moves by Patrick Cockburn (03/22/2006)

The Iraq War: A Black Hole by Birch Blog (03/21/2006)

Iraqi video details end of alleged attack by Bassem Mroue (03/21/2006)

Godot in Iraq by Matthew Yglesias (03/14/2006)

Iraq: Permanent US Colony by Dahr Jamail (03/14/2006)

How Do We Fix the Mess In Iraq? by Karen Kwiatkowski (03/09/2006)

Intelligence, Policy,and the War in Iraq by Paul R. Pillar (March 2006)

On The Brink In Iraq by Robert Dreyfuss (02/24/2006)

Let history judge by Scott Ritter (01/23/2006)

A Formula for Slaughter by Michael Schwartz and Tom Engelhardt (01/11/2006)

How Many Iraqis Have Died Since the US Invasion in 2003? by Andrew Cockburn (01/09/2006)

Iraq war could cost US over $2 trillion, says Nobel prize-winning economist by Jamie Wilson (01/07/2006)

Puppet State Brought Down By Price Controls? by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. (12/31/2005)

America’s Catastrophic Dilemma by Jack D. Douglas (12/28/2005)

US as Belligerent Occupant, Iraq and the Laws of War by Francis A. Boyle (12/26/2005)

George the Disconnected By Lawrence R. Velvel (12/12/2005)

Questionable Assumptions by William S. Lind (12/08/2005)

Rumsfeld's Handshake Deal with Saddam by Norman Solomon (12/08/2005)

Ten Ways to Argue about the War by Tom Engelhardt and Michael Schwartz (12/05/2005)

Slipped His Moorings by Charley Reese (11/26/2005)

Success in Iraq? by Michael S. Rozeff (11/24/2005)

Is Bush’s War on Terrorism in Iraq a War Crime? by Jacob G. Hornberger (11/22/2005)

Losing the Fear Factor by Tom Engelhardt (11/22/2005)

Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh: Iraq Confidential (10/26/2005)

What's Wrong With Cutting and Running? by Gen. (ret.) William E. Odom (10/03/2005)

Why Immediate Withdrawal Makes Sense by Michael Schwartz and Tom Engelhardt (09/23/2005)

'What Have We Done?' by Dahr Jamail (08/06/2005)

The Insurgency: Neighborhood Watch by Gary Brecher (08/03/2005)

Boy President in a Failed World? by Tom Engelhardt (07/11/2005)

From Communism to Terrorism by Jacob G. Hornberger (06/13/2005)

The revenge of Baghdad Bob by Juan Cole (06/09/2005)

The Return of the Body Count by Tom Engelhardt (05/24/2005)

They shoot journalists, don't they? by Pepe Escobar (04/28/2005)

A Math Lesson: The Killing of Nicola Calipari by Eli Stephens (04/18/2005)

An Unjust War by Charley Reese (04/16/2005)

Who's Better Off? by Rep. Ron Paul (04/07/2005)

The Pentagon's Secret Stash - Why we'll never see the second round of Abu Ghraib photos by Matt Welch (April 2005)

Fool Me Once . . . by Harry Browne (03/31/2005)

Bush’s Napoleon Complex - What the French experience in Spain could teach us about Iraq by Gregory Cochran (03/28/2005)

Sgrena Sets the Record Straight - "There was No Checkpoint; No Self-Defense" by Jeremy Scahill (03/28/2005)

Hijacking Democracy in Iraq by Scott Ritter (03/23/2005)

The Intelligence Made Them Do It by Ray McGovern (03/19/2005)

A Breeding Ground For Tyrants by Michael Gaddy (03/10/2005)

The law of unintended consequences - Careful what you wish for in Iraq by Robert Scheer (02/08/2005)

Sanctions and the Health Crisis in Iraq - Compassion, Courage and Consequences by David Smith-Ferri (02/08/2005)

What I Heard about Iraq by Eliot Weinberger (02/03/2005)

Train wreck of an election by James Carroll (02/01/2005)

Iraq as Disneyland by Brian Cloughley (01/25/2005)

Julia Roberts has a better chance of winning this war by Max Hastings (01/19/2005)

Bush's Grand Plan? Incite Civil War in Iraq by Mike Whitney (01/15/2005)

Iraq: The Devastation by Dahr Jamail and Tom Engelhardt (01/08/2005)

Ignorance and Illogic About Iraq by Darrell Dow (01/06/2005)

Blind in Baghdad by John Prados (Jan. 2005)

Images of war's true cost by Joan Ryan (12/28/2004)

The Iraq War - A Catastrophic Success by Robert Higgs (12/21/2004)

Another Iraq Exit Strategy - What is so strategic about leaving a place that you hold hostage? by Jeremy Sapienza (12/13/2004)

Abused Iraqis, Abused Americans - The War is the War Crime by M. Junaid Alam (12/13/2004)

The oil-for-food 'scandal' is a cynical smokescreen by Scott Ritter (12/12/2004)

I want YOU in the coalition of the willing by Nicholas D. Kristof  (12/11/2004)

The Greatest Political Scandal of Our Time - Iraq: The Unthinkable as Normalcy by John Pilger (11/15/2004)

Light Shed on Questions About War by Helen Thomas (11/05/2004)

Adventure Capitalism by Greg Palast (10/26/2004)

Why We Cannot Win by Al Lorentz (09/20/2004)

The Paper Trail by John Prados (06/24/2004)

Off Target: The Conduct of the War and Civilian Casualties in Iraq by Human Rights Watch (Dec. 2003)

Invasion as Marketing Problem: The Iraq War and Contempt for Democracy by Noam Chomsky (11/14/2003)

The Pentagon's War on the Facts: Is Anyone Telling the Truth by Brian Cloughley (11/14/2003)

The president's real goal in Iraq by Jay Bookman (09/29/2002)


The following links are about possible war crimes in Fallujah and Haditha:

Children as Unlamented Victims of Bush’s War Crimes by Michael Haas (05/01/2009)

Fallujah, the Information War, and US Propaganda by Stephen Soldz (12/28/2007)

The 'Incident' at Haditha by Tom Engelhardt (06/07/2006)

Haditha, Bush & Nuremberg's Law By Peter Dyer (06/06/2006)

The Pentagon's Shaky Self-Exoneration by Chris Floyd (06/05/2006)

Haditha is Not an Aberration, More, Lots More by Mike Ferner (06/02/2006)

War Crimes Start at the Top by Brian Cloughley (06/01/2006)

What May Come of the Haditha Massacre? by Karen Kwiatkowski (05/27/2006)

The White Death of Fallujah by Chris Floyd (12/17/2005)

Behind the phosphorus clouds are war crimes within war crimes by George Monbiot (11/22/2005)

Incinerating Iraqis; the napalm cover up by Mike Whitney (06/27/2005)

Falluja troops told to shoot on sight, from Aljazeera.net (12/09/2004)

Dead-Check in Falluja by Evan Wright (11/24/2004)

Greetings from Fallujah! by L. Reichard White (11/26/2004)

"Let Them Drink Sand!" War Crimes in Fallujah; a Gutsy Campaign Against Lantos by Alexander Cockburn (11/13/2004)

Four Times Fallujah Equals? by Tom Engelhardt and Mark LeVine (11/12/2004)


These articles are about the lies to convince Americans of the urgent need to invade Iraq, including the Libby indictment, the Plame controversy and the Downing Street Memo.

War Lies and the 2004 Election by James Bovard (07/23/2007)

After Libby, All Roads Lead to Feith by Jon Basil Utley (03/13/2007)

Libby and the Cheney Unseen by James P. Stevenson (03/09/2007)

Why Cheney Lost It When Joe Wilson Spoke Out by Ray McGovern (03/08/2007)

Placing Libby Above The Law by David Corn (03/07/2007)

Dying for a Lie by Laurence M. Vance (05/29/2006)
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The slow-motion trap by Sidney Blumenthal (04/13/2006)

The President's Final Jeopardy Question by Elizabeth de la Vega (04/09/2006)

The Truth About Lewis "Scooter" Libby's Statements to the Grand Jury Claiming the President Authorized a Leak of Classified Information by John W. Dean (04/07/2006)

The Plame Game by Greg Sargent (04/04/2006)

Still Cherry-Picking the Facts on Iraq by Scott Ritter (02/14/2006)

Libby, Franklin, the OSP and Sibel Edmonds - What's It All About? by Scott Horton (01/06/2006)

Stacking the Deck to Save the Administration by Christopher Deliso (01/04/2006)

Scooter's Motive by Justin Raimondo (11/28/2005)

Outing Brewster Jennings by Gordon Prather (11/26/2005)

Bush Tries to Gag Critics in Veterans Day Speech by Matthew Rothschild (11/11/2005)

A Cheney-Libby Conspiracy, Or Worse? Reading Between the Lines of the Libby Indictment by John W. Dean (11/04/2005)

Reid takes Senate into closed session over Iraq intelligence (11/01/2005)

Libby's Lies, A Moment of Truth by Elaine Cassel (10/31/2005)

What we don't know, Five unanswered questions raised by Libby indictment by Geov Parrish (10/31/2005)

It's Bush-Cheney, Not Rove-Libby by Frank Rich (10/16/2005)

Remember The Memo by Michael Tomasky (10/03/2005)

Unraveling the Plame Case by Tom Engelhardt and Jonathan Schell (07/28/2005)

Condoleezza Rice at the Center of the Plame Scandal, The Source Beyond Rove by Roger Morris (07/27/2005)

Ambassador Joe Wilson's Letter to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee by Ambassador Joe Wilson (07/15/2005)

Behind the Downing Street Memos Lurks the specter of treason by Justin Raimondo (06/17/2005)

The last laugh by Joe Conason (06/10/2005)

Did Bush Deliberately Deceive America About Iraq? by Rep. John Conyers (06/06/2005)

The Smoking Bullet in the Smoking Gun: Bush Began Iraq Invasion in 2002 (06/06/2005)

What’s Up With the Downing Street Memo? by Diana Sevanian (06/04/2005)

When Presidents Lie by Jason Leopold (06/01/2005)

An Interview with James Bamford, Inventing a Pretext for War by Kevin B. Zeese (05/23/2005)

A New Chapter In The Valerie Plame Case by John W. Dean (05/20/2005)

The lies that led to war by Juan Cole (05/19/2005)

The Smoking Gun Memo by Mark Danner and Tom Engelhardt (05/17/2005)

The Smoking Gun by Juan Cole (05/07/2005)

The Smoking Gun on White House Deceit by Ray McGovern (05/05/2005)

Eighty-eight members of Congress call on Bush for answers on secret Iraq plan (05/05/2005)

Weapons of Mass Deception, True Lies by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber (07/31/2003)


These articles about the rejuvenation of the antiwar effort from the personal determination of Cindy Sheehan:

Cindy Sheehan: The Human Cost of Peace by Samuel Bostaph (04/202/006)

The Day Casey Died: Cindy Sheehan, Journalist and Wounded Soldier Remember the Battle of Sadr City (08/31/2005)

Hypocrites and Liars by Cindy Sheehan (08/20/2005)

When Sympathy is Not Enough by Ron Jacobs (08/20/2005)

Cindy Sheehan’s Moral Alternative to Bush and Dean by Norman Solomon (08/13/2005)

Angry Mothers and Trembling Grizzlies: The Sheehan Effect by Dr. Teresa Whitehurst (08/10/2005)

Homegrown Resistance by Stan Goff (08/10/2005)

Peasants on the March to King George by Amy Branham (08/09/2005)

Still Not Worth It by Cindy Sheehan (07/04/2005)


A humorous look at the foreign policy of Bush 43 relative to Iraq and North Korea. This page preceded the invasion of Iraq:

Bush On North Korea: 'We Must Invade Iraq' by the Onion (01/15/2003)


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