Tag: occupation

Speaking for the Soldiers

Memorial Day 2008 In June 2005, Major General John Batiste, commander of the First Infantry Division in Iraq, leader of 22,000 troops fighting in the Sunni Triangle, passed up a third star, and quit the U.S. Army to speak out…

Cheney, McCain Give Happy Talk in Sad Country

U.S. Vice President Cheney, a major architect of the Bush regime’s invasion and occupation of Iraq, visited Baghdad Monday, and gave this assessment: So if you reflect back on those five years, I think it’s been a difficult, challenging, but…