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"THESE WOUNDS ARE NOT THE RESULT OF INSURGENTS, THEY ARE THE RESULT OF INCOMPETENCE ON AMERICAN SOIL."

Steve McCarty was a Lance Corporal in the US Marine Corps Reserve when he was sent to Fallujah in September of 2006 to drive a 7-ton refueling truck. Last February he became very sick but continued driving his truck. When...

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November 6, 2007 in Iraq | Permalink | User Comments (37)

THE LARGEST EMBASSY IN THE WORLD LACKS FIRE PROTECTION

On July 26, 2007 Rep. Henry Waxman's oversight and government reform committee held a hearing on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, the LARGEST one in the world. At that hearing , Major General Charles Williams, the Director of the Overseas...

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October 9, 2007 in Iraq | Permalink | User Comments (0)

"CONVERT TO ISLAM, PAY $300 A MONTH FOR PROTECTION OR LEAVE THE AREA"

From the President on down, many U.S. politicians like to call the United States a Christian Nation. But IRAQ, the country on whose soil American Soldiers are spilling their blood to get freedom and democracy going, doesn't care much for...

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October 8, 2007 in Iraq | Permalink | User Comments (0)

A POWER DRILL HAD BEEN USED TO DRILL HOLES IN THE BODY OF THE 80 YEAR OLD FATHER

Judge Radhi Hamza al-Radhi is one brave man! Judge Radhi Hamza al-Radhi is the Commissioner of the Commission on PUBLIC INTEGRITY, REPUBLIC of IRAQ. He has held that position since the start of the commission in 2004. His job is...

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October 4, 2007 in Iraq | Permalink | User Comments (0)

BLACKWATER'S ACTIONS COULD HURT THE U.S. "WORSE THAN ABU GHRAIB"

The 15 page staff memorandum prepared for House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman is full of horrific incidents involving Blackwater contractors. What follows comes from that memo. It was Christmas eve, 2006 and a Blackwater contractor was...

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October 2, 2007 in Iraq | Permalink | User Comments (1)

IT COULD CAUSE IRAQIS to "TRY AND GET KILLED"

"In December of 2006 a drunken blackwater contactor killed the guard of Iraqi Vice President Adil Abd-al-Mahdi. Within 36 hours after the shooting, the State department allowed Blackwater to transport the Blackwater contractor out of Iraq. The State Department CHARGE...

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October 1, 2007 in Iraq | Permalink | User Comments (1)

"I NEED NEW VEHICLES. I NEED AMMO, I NEED GLOCKS and M4s...I'VE REQUESTED HARD CARS FROM THE BEGINNING ..."

On March 30th, 2004, ONE DAY before four Americans working as private security personnel for BLACKWATER were brutally attacked, their bodies burned and strung up on a bridge in FALLUJAH, the BLACKWATER operational manager in BAGHDAD, Tom Powell, sent an...

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September 27, 2007 in Iraq | Permalink | User Comments (0)

'IT'S LIKE BEING KICKED IN THE TEETH BY A HORSE'

"I've been sitting here for THREE YEARS. I don't even know 'what going on with my life' means. I WANT TO SCREAM AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS. I'M AT THE END OF MY ROPE." That is what staff sgt....

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September 17, 2007 in Iraq | Permalink | User Comments (0)

THEY'RE SHOWING THE PICTURE WE WOULDN'T

They have a web site and when you go to it, you are hit smack in the face with that gruesome picture of 2 bodies burnt to a crisp hanging from a bridge with a crowd of jubilant onlookers celebrating...

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June 11, 2007 in Iraq | Permalink | User Comments (2)