OMNI NEWSLETTER ON IRAQ
MARCH 19, 2013: 10th ANNIVERSARY
OF US
INVASION OF IRAQ 2003
For a full list of US military deaths in Iraq
and Afghanistan Iraq
GLOBAL IS LOCAL, LOCAL GLOBAL
“Conflicts in our age have become
both local and global, blurring the distinction between the two. We can no longer speak of local and national
conflicts without considering their international implications, nor can we
ignore the impact of global trends and relations on local issues.” Ibrahim Kalin, “Islam and Peace,” in Crescent and Dove, ed. by Qamar-ul Huda
(USIP, 2010, p. 30).
My blog: War
Department/Peace Department
My Newsletters:
Index:
See OMNI Patriotism Forum, Patriot Day
Nos. 10, 11 at end.
Contents #12, March 19, 2012, Invasion Anniversary
Dick Bennett, Harms of Iraq
Wars, Embargo, Occupation
Google References
Contents #13
LOOKING BACK
Best Novel about Iraq
War? The Yellow Birds
Falluja Massacre
Miller, Blood Money
IVAW Trauma Posters
Wikileaks
Schwartz, War Without End
Powell’s New Book: No Debate by Bush Admin.
New Film on Cheney, War Criminal
Suicides
Photos of Iraq
Tutu Urges Bush/Blair Prosecution
Contents
#14 , March 19, 2013
Mass Killing in the Two Invasions
Abdul Haq al-Ani, Tarik al-Ani: Genocide, Gulf War, Decade of Sanctions 1990s, 2003 Invasion, Occupation
New Film on Fallujah Massacre
Dick, Cost of the War, Fraudulent Hidden Costs
Al-Ani and Baker:
Book on Uranium Poisoning
Faith Positions
Episcopal Church
Independent Photo-journalists Report War
Breen, the Suffering of Individual Iraqis
Dick: Reporting
Iraq in the Arkansas
Google Search:
Commemorating Invasion of Iraq
Contents
#15
Payne: Operation Desert
Storm, First Iraq
David Hare’s Play, Stuff Happens
Bennis, Challenging
Empire
Tomas Young, Last Letter to Bush, Cheney, March 18,
2013
Young Documentary, “Body of War”
Young, Google Search May 4, 2013
Khawaja, Failure and Complicity of US Media
Kamber, Photojournalists Tell Untold Stories
The Yellow
Birds, Google
Search
Davies, CIA and Other War Crimes
2013 Violence Highest Since 2008
WRL, Reparations and Healing
OPERATION DESERT STORM, CHAPTER 4,
RICHARD PAYNE, THE CLASH WITH DISTANT
CULTURES
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David Hare's Stuff Happens is a play about the events that led up to the
2003 Iraq War, beginning at about the time of George W. Bush's election in America
2.
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Apr 14, 2006 - This invigorating new
production of David Hare's drama about the road to
war in Iraq
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crucial because Hare avoids the trap of agitprop by ...
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Apr 14, 2006 - That's the conclusion I
reached at David Hare's Stuff
Happens, which opened April 13 at New York
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Theater
Talk: Playwright David Hare on "Stuff
Happens"; and "The ...
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Rating: 3.6 - 131 votes
Oct 1, 2005 - Stuff Happens has 131 ratings and 13
reviews. Phil said: I thought this was an ok play. I mean, its approach was
interesting and the ...
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'Stuff Happens': The Iraq War as History Play : NPR
Jun 30, 2005 - The dark comedy by David Hare chronicles the tangle of
diplomatic ...Stuff Happens, the controversial
British play about the lead-up to the Iraq
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Stuff Happens - David Hare - Complete Review
A review, and links to other information
about and reviews of Stuff Happens by David Hare.
Searches related to David Hare, Stuff Happens
CHALLENGING
EMPIRE BY PHYLLIS BENNIS
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Bennis, Phyllis. Challenging Empire:
How People, Governments and ...
Sep 16, 2012 - However flawed the UN of
the 21st century may still be, it remains a crucial part of any potentially
successful effort to mount a serious challenge ...
On
Third Anniversary of Global Protest Against Iraq
War, A Look at "Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN
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Today marks the third anniversary of the
February 15th global anti-war protest, the day tens of millions of people took
to the streets in some 600 cities around the world to protest the Bush
Administration’s plans to invade Iraq
Hundreds of marches and rallies took place in
up to 60 countries. In Rome London , Madrid and Barcelona New York City San Francisco Australia ,
Johannesburg , Tel Aviv, Syria , Tokyo , Bangladesh , South
Korea , Hong Kong , Thailand , Puerto
Rico , Brazil
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Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington
DC , specializing in Middle
East and United Nations issues. She is the author of several
books. Her newest book is "Challenging Empire: How People, Governments,
and the UN Defy U.S. Power.
TRANSCRIPT
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its final form.
AMY GOODMAN: Phyllis Bennis has a new book, arguing the anti-war
movement has evolved into a major force for global change. The book is called Challenging Empire: How People,
Governments and the U.N. Defy U.S.
PHYLLIS BENNIS: Thanks, Amy. Good to be with you.
AMY GOODMAN: It’s good to have you with us, Phyllis. Talk about the
significance of this movement. The subtitle of your book is How
People, Governments, and the UN Defy U.S. U.S.
is deeply involved in the occupation and war in Iraq
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Tomas Young, Dying Iraq
The Huffington Post | By Nick
Wing Posted: 03/19/2013 1:31 pm
EDT | Updated: 03/19/2013 10:59 pm EDT
[A friend, Gil S, sent me this article with
Young’s statement after the March 19 posting of my 2013 anniversary
newsletter. But the excellent statement
is just as relevant today and deserves a wide readership. Perhaps it will arouse the public to demand
trial of Bush and Cheney for war crimes.
–Dick]
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Days after
the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Tomas Young, then a 22-year-old from Kansas City , Mo.
Less than three years later, Young's
Army service placed him not in Afghanistan -- where then-President George W.
Bush had told the nation the terrorist plot had originated -- but in Iraq. On
April 4, 2004, just five days into his first tour, Young's convoy was attacked by insurgents. A bullet from an AK-47
severed his spine. Another struck his knee. Young would never walk again, and
in fact, for the next nearly nine years, he would suffer a number of medical
setbacks that allowed him to survive only with the help of extensive medical
procedures and the care of his wife, Claudia.
The incident turned Young into one of
the most vocal veteran critics of the Iraq War. He has, however, saved his most
powerful criticism for what he claims will be his last. Young says he'll die
soon, but not before writing a letter to Bush and former Vice President Cheney
on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War.
From Young's letter, published on TruthDig:
I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr.
Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral
consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I
write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I,
and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my
fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East ,
know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our
eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of
murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow
veterans—whose future you stole.
Young goes
on to attack the "cowardice" of Bush and Cheney for avoiding military
service themselves, and to encourage them to "stand before the American
public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for
forgiveness."
Young was the subject of the 2007 documentary "Body of War," which was about his recovery process and the Iraq War. At a
February screening of the film, Young told the audience that he planned to end his life in April.
According to the Ridgefield Press,
Young announced that he would stop taking all nourishment and life-extending
medications at that time. He's since said that the deterioration to his body
from the injury and ensuing complications would make it physically impossible
for him to commit suicide in any other way.
"It's
time," he told the audience over Skype, while seated beside his wife.
"When I go I want be alert and aware."
Young spoke more about his decision
in a recent interview with journalist and Iraq War critic
Chris Hedges.
“I made
the decision to go on hospice care, to stop feeding and fade away," he
said. "This way, instead of committing the conventional suicide and I am
out of the picture, people have a way to stop by or call and say their
goodbyes. I felt this was a fairer way to treat people than to just go out with
a note."
For the rest of Hedges'
interview with Young, click here. For the
rest of The Huffington Post's coverage on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq
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Body of War is Tomas’
coming home story as he evolves into a new person, coming to terms with his
disability and finding his own unique and passionate voice against the war. The
film is produced and directed by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro, and features two
original songs by Eddie Vedder. Body of War is a naked and honest portrayal of
what it’s like inside the body, heart and soul of this extraordinary and heroic
young man.
Body of War unfolds on two
parallel tracks. On the one hand, we see Tomas evolving into a powerful voice
against the war as he struggles to deal with the complexities of a paralyzed
body. And on the other, we see the historic debate unfolding in the Congress
about going to war in Iraq
The film opens as Tomas and his fiancé Brie prepare for their
wedding. However, because of his disability, we see how the simple everyday
activities for Tomas are involved and challenging. War is personal and the film
takes us into the skin and bones of what it means to have no control over basic
bodily functions. In many remarkable scenes, we directly experience how
vulnerable and open Tomas is as he interacts with his wife, family, and
friends.
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Apr 15, 2013 – Tomas Young returned severely
injured from Iraq
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John Bruhns: A Pledge to Iraq War Veteran Tomas Young
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history when an American combat veteran must resort to such an ... A Pledge to Iraq
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Tomas Young (born November 30, 1979)
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After Years Of Struggle, Veteran Chooses To
End His Life : NPR
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and emotional pain is ... suicide eight years ago, three
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were involved in spreading the lies that led to the colossal disaster in Iraq Iraq
“Lies of the Iraq War” the 10th anniversary of
the Iraq Iraq
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The Untold Stories
from Iraq
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Michael Kamber
Introduction
by Dexter Filkins
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visceral, previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness accounts from the
front lines, three dozen of the world’s leading photojournalists reveal the
inside and untold stories of the Iraq
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With previously
unpublished photographs by an incredibly diverse group of the world’s top news
photographers, Photojournalists on Warpresents a groundbreaking new
visual and oral history of America’s nine-year conflict in the Middle East.
Michael Kamber interviewed photojournalists from many leading news
organizations, including Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, the Guardian,
the Los Angeles Times, Magnum, Newsweek, the New York Times, Paris Match, Reuters, Time,
the Times of London, VII Photo Agency, and the Washington
Post, to create the most comprehensive collection of eyewitness
accounts of the Iraq War yet published. These in-depth interviews offer
first-person, frontline reports of the war as it unfolded, including key
moments such as the battle for Fallujah, the toppling of Saddam’s statue, and
the Haditha massacre. The photographers also vividly describe the often
shocking and sometimes heroic actions that journalists undertook in trying to
cover the war, as they discuss the role of the media and issues of censorship.
These hard-hitting accounts and photographs, rare in the annals of any war,
reveal the inside and untold stories behind the headlines in Iraq
[The excerpt from the book’s Introduction published in Columbia Journalism Review (May/June
2013) emphasizes
censorship as “the starting point for this book,” both official (dead troops,
Iraqi prisoners, et al., off limits) and professional (editors of media as
censors). –Dick]
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celebrated books of 2012: It won the ...
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Poetic, precise, and moving, The Yellow Birds is a work of fiercest
principle, ... and the nightmare
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Review by MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Sep 6, 2012 - "The Yellow Birds," a brilliantly
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War Crimes as Policy
The CIA: Keepers of the Hit Lists
by DOUGLAS VALENTINE and NICOLAS J.S. DAVIES
In February
the Guardian and BBC Arabic unveiled a documentary exploring the role of
retired Colonel James Steele in the recruitment, training and initial
deployments of the CIA advised and funded Special Police Commandos in Iraq
The
documentary tells how the Commandos tortured and murdered tens of thousands of
Iraqi men and boys. But the Commandos were only one of America ’s many weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
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Contents of #10
Support the Lee Bill
Occupation and Resistance in Iraq
and Afghanistan
Pew Poll of US Troops: War Not Worth It
Kucinich Steadfast
Bennis: Iraq
100 Poets Against the War
Violence Follows Withdrawal?
Leave Iraq
Van Buren: We Meant Well?
Contents of #11 Feb. 9, 2012
Haditha Films
IVAW Winter Soldier Film
Four Articles from HAW
Engelhardt: US Weakness
Cindy Sheehan on Leaving Iraq
WRL on Iraq ’s
Future
Cockburn, Lost Battle
Against IEDs
Hedges and Al-Arian on Killing Innocents
Van Buren, on US Aid
Shear, Novel About Returned Marine
Zunes, Those Responsible
Hayden, Sectarian Future
Vets for Peace: Obama Declares End of War
Casualties and Deaths
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