AP
By PATRICK QUINN – 1 day ago
BAGHDAD (AP) — The United States inaugurated its largest embassy ever on Monday, officially opening a fortress-like compound in the heart of the Green Zone as a testament to America’s commitment to Iraq.

AlterNet
By Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway, The Daily Beast
Posted on January 3, 2009, Printed on January 3, 2009
The Bush administration’s infatuation with presidential power has finally pushed the country over a constitutional precipice. As of New Year’s Day, ongoing combat in Iraq is illegal under US law.
In authorizing an invasion in 2002, Congress [...]

http://www.consortiumnews.com…
Jason Leopold
A high-ranking CIA official warned Condoleezza Rice in September 2002 that allegations about Iraq seeking yellowcake uranium from Niger were untrue and that she, as national security adviser, should stop President George W. Bush from citing the claim in making his case against Saddam Hussein’s regime, according to new evidence released by a House [...]

http://www.guardian.co.uk…
Scott Ritter
The Guardian
Despite the facts, the vice-president still insists that Saddam Hussein could have produced weapons of mass destruction

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I caught this yesterday. (Should I be ashamed that it made my day? I don’t think so. I’m amazed someone hasn’t done it before!)
Several other bloggers have mentioned it already but what the heck, I have to admit [...]

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Noah Shachtman
An Army contractor accused of being a spy for Saddam is now free on bond.
Since 2003, the FBI has been investigating allegations that Issam Hamama spent a dozen years, passing information  to Saddam Hussein’s intelligence operatives in Washington, D.C. But despite the investigations, Hamama was somehow able to secure a position as a translator [...]

http://crooksandliars.com…
David Neiwert
“John Venners, a Washington D.C. based public relations man who aided an influence effort to ease international economic sanctions against the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, made $40,000 in campaign contributions since 2004 to the Republican House and Senate Campaign Committees, according to public records.
Venners was a partner in the influence venture on behalf [...]

http://www.alternet.org…
By Robert Fisk, Independent UK
Posted on October 25, 2008, Printed on October 25, 2008
Iraqi secret police believed that the notorious Palestinian assassin Abu Nidal was working for the Americans as well as Egypt and Kuwait when they interrogated him in Baghdad only months before the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. Hitherto secret documents which are now [...]

http://www.informationliberation.com…
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Washington has seized $5 billion as blood money for the ouster of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi security official has revealed.
The Bush administration used the past three years to trace Saddam’s assets in Europe and has thus been able to confiscate $5 billion, according to Ali al-Baghdadi.
Saddam Hussein was ousted in 2003 by US [...]

http://www.antiwar.com/…
by Gareth Porter
Journalist Ron Suskind’s revelation that Saddam Hussein’s intelligence chief was a prewar intelligence source reporting to the British that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) adds yet another dimension to the systematic effort by then Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet to quash any evidence – no matter how credible [...]