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......Despite his brave face, kind heart, and upbeat disposition, even Ali eventually shared his concerns with me. One morning, when we met for work, I asked him about the latest news. “Same old, same old,” he replied, “Kidnappings, killings, rapes. Same old, same old. This is our life now, everyday.”

“The lack of hope for the future is our biggest problem today,” he explained. He went on to say something that also qualified eerily as another version of the “same old, same old.” I had heard similar words from countless Iraqis back in the fall of 2003, as violence and chaos first began to engulf the country. “All we want is to live in peace, and have security, and have a normal life,” he said, “to be able to enjoy the sweetness of life.” This time, however, there wasn’t even a trace of his usual cheer, and not even a hint of gallows humor.

“All Iraq has had these last 10 years is violence, chaos, and suffering. For 13 years before that we were starved and deprived by [U.N. and U.S.] sanctions. Before that, the Kuwait War, and before that, the Iran War. At least I experienced some of my childhood without knowing war. I’ve achieved a job and have my family, but for my daughters, what will they have here in this country? Will they ever get to live without war? I don’t think so.”

http://dahrjamail.net/living-with-no-future-iraq-10-years-later

Über Dahr Jamail Biography

http://dahrjamail.net/about

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....The power elite, especially the liberal elite, has always been willing to sacrifice integrity and truth for power, personal advancement, foundation grants, awards, tenured professorships, columns, book contracts, television appearances, generous lecture fees and social status. They know what they need to say. They know which ideology they have to serve. They know what lies must be told—the biggest being that they take moral stances on issues that aren’t safe and anodyne. They have been at this game a long time. And they will, should their careers require it, happily sell us out again.

Leslie Gelb, in the magazine Foreign Affairs, spelled it out after the invasion of Iraq.

“My initial support for the war was symptomatic of unfortunate tendencies within the foreign policy community, namely the disposition and incentives to support wars to retain political and professional credibility,” he wrote. “We ‘experts’ have a lot to fix about ourselves, even as we ‘perfect’ the media. We must redouble our commitment to independent thought, and embrace, rather than cast aside, opinions and facts that blow the common—often wrong—wisdom apart. Our democracy requires nothing less.” ........

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_treason_of_the_intellectuals_20130331/

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Im letzten Irak-Krieg verschossen die Alliierten hunderte von Tonnen uranhaltiger Munition. Die panzerbrechende Waffe wirkt noch nach Jahren. Um Basra, im Süden des Landes, beträgt die Strahlenbelastung nach Messungen unabhängiger Experten das 20fache des Normalwertes. Vor allem Kinder, die auf den irakischen Panzerwracks spielen, erkranken. Die Zahl der Missbildungen bei Neugeborenen nimmt zu. Eine Reportage über die Spätfolgen des Krieges von Thomas Aders, ARD Kairo.

http://www.daserste.de/information/politik-weltgeschehen/weltspiegel/sendung/swr/2013/irak-uranmunition-100.html

Irak Uranmunition - das strahlende Vermächtnis [ARD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMOkHTj9RXA

Deadly Dust – Todesstaub durch Uranmonition

Diese Dokumentation von Frieder Wagner erzählt von einem Kriegsverbrechen: dem Einsatz der Uranmunition im Irak, im Bosnienkrieg und im Kosovo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OPY-MSLohU

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Der australischer Journalis John Pilger http://johnpilger.com/biography ist für mich einer die Besten Frei Journalist der es gibt .Die video Dokumentation beschreibt wie die Usa und engländer Medien Manipuliert ihre Bevölkerung um konsens für neuer Kriege zu beginnen .
Er Erzhält uns wie die Medien uns Lügen wenn sie über Irak , Afgahfnistan und Palästina Sprechen .

http://vimeo.com/67739294

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Two teams struggle to find an olive under one of the 11 cups displayed on a tray. The traditional game sin-u-serf (tray and cup in Kurdish) is only played during the Muslim fasting month. In one of Iraq’s most violent cities, it is nothing less than a challenge to death.

“Every night we block the entrance of the street with our vehicles to protect ourselves against car bombs and the like. There are also several policemen in plain clothes among us,” says Haukar, the owner of this teahouse in Kirkuk’s northern district Sorja. Around 50 have gathered here to play the game after ending the daylong fast.

Disputed by Arabs and Kurds, this oil rich city 230 km northwest Baghdad remains in limbo between control from Erbil, administrative capital of the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq, and Baghdad.

http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/07/kirkuk-plays-dice-with-violence/

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For more than two decades, Iraq has been the subject of a large-scale toxic warfare experiment. Operation Desert Storm, fought in 1991, was the first time in military history that depleted uranium (DU)—a nuclear waste by-product—was systematically employed against both military and civilian targets. US forces used DU on a much larger scale during the war and occupation that started in 2003.

http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/13537/the-toxicity-of-everyday-survival-in-iraq

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Like characters from The Great Gatsby, Britain and the US have arrogantly turned their backs and left a country in ruins

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/26/iraqis-cant-turn-backs-on-deadly-legacy

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Die WHO ablehnen Öffentlich zu machen der Bericht über Krebs und Geburt Verformungen in Iraq die Uranmunition Verursacht macht

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has categorically refused in defiance of its own mandate to share evidence uncovered in Iraq that US military use of Depleted Uranium and other weapons have not only killed many civilians, but continue to result in the birth of deformed babies.

A United Nations that is no longer corrupted by the five Permanent Members of the Security Council is what is needed.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-refuses-to-publish-report-on-cancers-and-birth-defects-in-iraq-caused-by-depleted-uranium-ammunition/5349556

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Nouri al-Maliki is meeting Barack Obama to ask for help 'fighting terrorism' .But it's the regime's own militias that Iraqis fear

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/01/no-more-arms-to-iraq-obama-nouri-al-maliki

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The future of Iraq as a united and independent country is endangered by sectarian Shia-Sunni hostility says Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia religious leader whose Mehdi Army militia fought the US and British armies and who remains a powerful figure in Iraqi politics. He warns of the danger that “the Iraqi people will disintegrate, its government will disintegrate, and it will be easy for external powers to control the country”.

In an interview in the holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south-west of Baghdad – the first interview Mr Sadr has given face-to-face with a Western journalist for almost 10 years – he expressed pessimism about the immediate prospects for Iraq, saying: “The near future is dark.”

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/29/an-interview-with-muqtada-al-sadr/