*****The latest statistics (July '07) to how much crappier the lives of Iraqi citizens are since US took over

****Soldiers describe how this one Iraqi city used to be a place where citizens could safely walk the streets.  No more.  And these soldiers want to go home. ("This is a dangerous place," said Capt. Lee Showman, 28, a senior officer in the battalion. "People are killed here every day, and you don't hear about it. People are kidnapped here every day, and you don't hear about it.")

***Military groups are fighting each other on Iraq's borders with civilians suffering while the US supports one of the groups and labels the other a terrorist group

*****The US is purposely causing a "civil war" using the ol'e method of Divide et Impera...it is the same thing they do to the american public but by attacking our minds instead of persons, well usually. ("The last thing an occupying power wants is for the people it’s dominating to recognize their common situation and interests. Were they to do that, they might mobilize their energies to fight their common enemy. So occupied countries are organized by their occupiers along color, religious and ethnic fault-lines.")

***Amputations are frequent as many Iraqis are requesting new limbs

***Many Iraqi citizens have become refugees burdening the other countries around them such as Jordan

****Many recently widowed Iraqi women are forced to turn to prostitution to feed their children.

******2500 children imprisoned which is against the Geneva convention as well as other War Crimes

**A reporter reports on the death of a collegue in Iraq and how it is just as bad or worse now (Also, the US resolution regarding whether to allow UN forces in Iraq)

****Invading Iraq, then knowingly breaking Geneva Conventions and purposely destroying their water supply

*******More Winter Soldier testimony as a Marine strips himself of his medals, shows video of the innocent men he killed, the Mosques they shot at for fun, tells how they acted completely different when they had embedded reporters next to them

***Over 700 children have been arrested by the US army in Iraq

***More troops winning the hearts and minds by destroying Iraqi cars just for fun

*****US FORCES in Baghdad are planning to seal off vast areas of the city with barricades, effectively imprisoning the inhabitants of neighbourhoods; a non-sequitor technique that has proven to be useless in the past This is a natural GHETTO BLASTER

****Good News! In the Green Zone, you can eat at restaurants!  Bad News: wearing Kevlar helmet and a flak vest is mandatory.

********Horrible: British using an awful disgusting weapon against the Taliban made by LOCKHEAD MARTIN. If the "bad guys" were using this weapon, you would hear about how sick they are in the media everyday. Such hypocricy. "sucks the air out of victims, shreds their internal organs and crushes their bodies." and that's if you're lucky and die right away

***Up-to-date stats from Iraq (August '07)

*****First hand look as a Doctor visits an american military prison in Iraq for "insurgents" where kids as young as 9 are locked up.  The doctor carefully berates the troops there but to no avail obviously.

**More airstrikes, more cilivian casualities as the ground war "fails", one story of many

****More eye-witness accounts of the secret vaporizing weapons US is using in Iraq

**More children die in a US airstrike

***Marine testifies that his unit was ordered to "crank up the violence level" and says that Marines consider all Iraqi men part of the insurgency.

**Baghdad now under an indefinite curfew

****More Afghan civilians being murdered...in fact more civilians have been killed by "the good guys" than the insurgents

**Pakistan/Afghan border in trouble and no one appears to know how to stop it

*****Opium production in Afghanistan soaring out of control and coming over here ("When the Taliban was in charge of Afghanistan, the opium trade was all but gone. Growers and dealers faced the death penalty. Now the US Government is in Afghanistan; a government which purports to oppose drug use, indeed strips away many of our civil rights under the aegis of a 'war on drugs', yet somehow the conquered poppy fields of Afghanistan are doing a booming business and their product floods the streets of America. Go figure.")

**While the second political assassination in Iraq in a week takes place, the Iraqi PM is meeting with Syrian leaders to discuss the number of Iraqi refugees in Syria (Think too many Mexicans illegally cross the borders now?  Imagine some other country attacked them...the number of illegal immigrants would skyrocket definitely causing a problem...and how would you feel about the country that attacked Mexico causing this in the first place?)

****June '07: US Air Strikes in Iraq double from last year, most since "Shock and Awe".  Civilian causalties increase dramatically.  We are the terrorist folks. ("Air Force Col. Gary Crowder, deputy director of the regional air operations center, said such casualties "pale in comparison" with civilian casualties from ground combat." So..it's okay because you're not killing as many people as the ground troops?)

***Taliban blast kills a bunch of people in Afghanistan, meanwhile US Forces kill a bunch of children trying to attack a suspected Al-Qaeda (not Taliban) area then accuse Al-Qaeda of hiding behind children (Yeah, next time warn them in advance when you are going to shoot missiles at their houses, and they will come right out for you and make an easy target away from the children! Makes perfect sense!)

**Children in Iraq continue to get dangerously sick from their water supply, which was a lot healthier under Saddam

**Current General, General Brooks, tells as of June 2007, how Iraq continues to gets worse

**The United States and its allies are killing Iraqi civilians, stealing Iraq's oil and destroying the nation's heritage with total impunity, according to a report released jointly today by 30 NGOs which concluded that The US Coalition is the principal cause of Iraq’s current ills.

******Amy Goodman aptly describes the media control and examples of the propaganda and manipulation they spread; especially during the war

*Iraq's largest bloc of Sunni politicians suspended membership in the government

****US says they killed 17 al-Qaeda gunmen while the local citizens say they killed their town security...oh no! who should I believe?

***Farmers (under Gang protection) in southern Iraq have started to grow opium poppies in their fields for the first time, sparking fears that Iraq might become a serious drugs producer along the lines of Afghanistan

**The Green Zone Is "The Most Dangerous Place In Iraq" Claims Iraqi Foreign Minister

*****Red Cross warns of 'ever-worsening' crisis for Iraqi civilians; most doctors have left and civilians are scared to travel to the remaining doctors AND this BBC report agrees with them

**43% of Iraqis live in absolute poverty

*More marketplace bombings, over 150 deaths...many Iraqis are blaming the Americans

If Bush and Co. think Iraq is better off without Saddam...prove it.  Visit, stay awhile.  This guy will even pay your way.

**Afghan children die as US drops one-tonne bombs (Oops sorry about that, killed more of your kids.  But it's necessary, we are trying to find Wmds..no find Bin Laden...no...stop the Taliban...noo...destroy the heroin fields...noo...)

*Death squad activity up over 70 percent in a month (The troop surge is working I see..)

*Many more children in Iraq are now malnurished thanks to the US

***Articles, stories & eye-witness accounts from inside Iraq

British soldier talks about the horrible conditions in Basra and says they need to leave

*Iraqis want the Saddam statue back up: "Better than the Americans"

*Afghanies say how they are worse off since US invaded their country

***Number 1 ally Britian pulling out, Iraqi citizens being treated like prisoners, and over 60% of Iraqis favor attacks on US and their allies

******Iraq's death toll is far worse than our leaders admit; The US and Britain have triggered an episode more deadly than the Rwandan genocide ("How can the US and Britain pretend they understand the level of resentment in Iraq if they are not sure if, on average, one in 80 families have lost a household member, or one in seven, as our study suggests?" And their study is the highly respected Lancet with John Hopkins U.)

**The perpetual propaganda by US officials and the worsening of the Iraqi masses...US justifies an artillery barrage in a "bad" neighborhood...which is still a neighborhood ("Reminicent of the observation made by an Army Colonel at the time of the capture and subsequent destruction of the Vietnamese village Ben Tre during the war in Viet Nam: "We had to destroy the city in order to save it."")

*****A Saddam hating Iraqi exile tells how the US and Co. is lying and the escalating attacks are not usually aimed at civilians, but are a direct response to the brutal actions of US-led troops.  Women are now fighting which was previously unheard of and Brookings, the independent US research institute, says 92% of recorded attacks are against occupiers and the police--NOT a civil war.

**Suicide truck bomb collapses major bridge in Baghdad; at least 10 killed...or was it a "truck bomb"???  (read comments)  Either way, the US is lying about something.

****Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, a widely respected advisor to the U.S. military, has released a blistering report on the current situation in Iraq.  He estimates that 3,000 Iraqi citizens are murdered each month.  His full report inside.

Some words from the front lines

Chaos as Iraq's borders re-open; people escaping at over-whelming speed

Attacks against coalition forces in Iraq averaged nearly 180 a day in January '07, the highest level since major combat operations ended and more than double the rate one year ago, according to intelligence officials

*Turkey mulls 'invading' Iraq ("When an ally's parliament is debating invading a portion of the country you allegedly occupy because you can't create security there, you know the situation's bad!")

*Records continue to fall every month it seems: January 22: One of the Deadliest Weekends since the beginning of the War (the shiite death squads are killing Sunnis in their homes, and the US news refers to the Sunnis as insurgents...)

***Leo Docherty, an Army officer who was eye-witness to many american atrocities and failures in Afghanistan, was heavily reprimanded for whistleblowing

*****Bush is demented: ""(The) Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude." O RLY? RUSIRS? Huge increases in starvation, poverty, lack of water, lack of electricity, Iraqi children Picking garbage, killed dismantling ordinances, or being sold into brothels, O OKAY THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT!

*IRAQ: Children living without limbs lack support (how dare they complain! We gave them democracy!)

**Senator Chuck Hagel (republican) vehemetly bails out on Bush on the (part 2) state of the war and Iraq 

*Baghdad gun battle rages for seven hours ("One soldier describes the fighting as the "most intense" Baghdad battle yet")

*****You know your country is in trouble when...and some personal accounts of Iraqi tragedy

******Excellent on-the-ground coverage of woman's lives in Afghanistan

**US Forces support Afghan Narcotics (heroin) Trade: Multibillion dollar earnings for organized crime and Western financial Institutions

*Some personal tales of the Civil War going on in Iraq (to me, it sounds like people started fighting for control to establish their way of life, but then the extremists with no tolerance for others' beliefs, and apparently not feint of heart, went out of control...sort of like if there was a(nother) civil war here and the racist hateful version of "rednecks" decided to kill everyone who didn't agree with them..so thank you US government for breaking things down enough so those people could run wild)

*Iraq War resistance fighting "diary"

MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT gives description of what is really going on in Iraq...it is a violent Civil War

****Iraq as a Living Hell; with eye-witness journalism; reports from Iraqi citizens and US military

***Uniformed gunmen kidnap 150 in Iraq (your tax dollars are paying for this, you have a right to know what is going on)

*A comprehensive (and slighty confusing) look at the political mess in Iraq and Saudi's involvment

Iraqis get a curfew because of an apparent coup attempt...which means they felt better under Saddam

Violence drives 250,000 Iraqis to refugee camps

*****Bush Co. finally caught by Seymour Hersh (video 1 and video 2) and others in the mainstream media funding "terrorists" groups

Iraqi Government Freezes Labor Union Bank Accounts (sounds like they are building a true neo-con 'democracy', one without any opposition)

Heads found in boxes in Iraq

Evils of the Taliban and Afghanis thinking the US soldiers are no better

*Contrary to what the administration says, general says Few Signs of Infiltration by Foreign Fighters in Iraq

****Video of a convoy in Iraq ambushed, people murdered, Halliburton guy who got shot and survived fired for getting shot

*Kandahar: A lost town...US's failure in Afghanistan

*Iraq, attacks increasing, they want us out, US covering up the facts, US becomes more fascist

Afghanistan close to anarchy, warns general

The once semi-peaceful Basra now falling apart

You people who aren't screaming about the war are sick. Sick mindless people. Now our military is planning on destroying another part of Iraq while they themselves live in miserable conditions. All while the corporations and government officials rake in the profits. What the hell is wrong with you people!

Oct. 12, 06: Iraq Is Rapidly Deteriorating

More examples of how Iraq is already in a Civil War

Who is winning this war?? Did protests help prevent the same atrocities that occured during the first gulf war?

"Civil War" in Iraq getting worse

Iraq worse off for reporters and the citizens, thanks in part to DU (we are the ones using WMDs!)

*****Video footage of the mass graves and the ruined streets and houses in Fallujah that the media never reported on. Centered around an interview with a solider who describes what he saw and the conversations he had with Iraqi citizens

Blair forced to claim Dannatt's criticisms (about the Iraq failure) are 'absolutely right'

After a billion dollars and many civilian and military causalties, the Taliban in Afghanistan only got worse

Take a look at some Iraqi children: Your tax dollars are making them suffer

Women in Iraq worse off now than under Saddam

Summary/review of how we made Iraq a lot worse than it was

Half of UK's special forces going to Afghanistan (things must be going really well!)

We're making civilian's lives miserable in Afghanistan as well

Baghdad still not "mission accomplished", worse than it was, more examples of how Iraq was better off under Saddam

Life in Afghanistan