"Today, I Weep For My Country"

The speech given by Sen. Robert Byrd
Exactly five years ago, on the afternoon of March 19, 2003, mere hours before bombs began falling in Baghdad, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., gave a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate condemning the use of military force in Iraq. As soon as Byrd was finished speaking, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., delivered a response defending the Bush administration's decision to go to war.

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There Must Be A Reckoning For This Day Of Infamy

By Seumas Milne
Those who insist that the immolation of Iraq was the consequence of errors in the execution of an otherwise defensible policy are simply evading their own responsibility and culpability.

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'We Live in a Nightmare. Death and Carnage is Everywhere'

By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Baghdad
"We came, his friends, me and Hassan and Hadi, and washed him and put him in a shroud. You know I am too emotional I cry very quickly. For six months I didn't talk to anyone, I was just sad and silent.
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Five Years of Genocide

By Zuheir Kseibat
In the long night and the epic of forgotten genocide, only Bush hallucinates about victory... All the politicians of Iraq hallucinate about democracy-deception. It is the long night of genocide.

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Death, Destruction and Reparations

What Do We Owe Iraq?

One thing we do not owe Iraq is another "public relations coup" but that's what appears to be up ahead as the war de-accelerates. Youngsters maimed by the aggression that Professor Feldman rationalizes will be flown to the U.S. by "humanitarian" aid scams and faith-based Christian charities to massage the collective guilt of America for having slept through the massacre into coughing up big bucks.

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