The Independent Return to Fallujah Three years after the devastating US assault, our correspondent enters besieged Iraqi city left without clean water, electricity and medicine By Patrick Cockburn Fallujah is more difficult to enter than any city in the world. On the road from Baghdad I counted 27 checkpoints, all manned by well-armed soldiers and…
“Reality Is Totally Different” Iraqis on “Success” and “Progress” in Their Country By: Dahr Jamail This March 19 will be the fifth anniversary of the shock-and-awe air assault on Baghdad that signaled the opening of the invasion of Iraq, and when it comes to the American occupation of that country, no end is yet in…
[The following e-mail was sent out by Rep. Robert Wexler today] Tonight, President Bush will issue what will thankfully be his final State of the Union address; but, little of what he says can be trusted. For the past seven years, we have watched as America has moved steadily backwards. We have become a nation…
The Philadelphia Inqurer Elizabeth Holtzman served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1981 Since mid-December, members of the House Judiciary Committee Robert Wexler (D., Fla.), Luis Gutierrez (D., Ill.) and Tammy Baldwin (D., Wis.) have called for hearings on the impeachment of Vice President Cheney. This should not be surprising, given the…
