Two policemen were injured and three protesters arrested as thousands marched under tight security through Sydney on Saturday in a protest against visiting US President George W. Bush and the Iraq war.
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Bombs killed 20 people in Iraq on Saturday.
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N. Korea announced it would be taken out of the axis of evil.
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It was reported that Iraq needs about $50 billion dollars to fix it’s oil and electrical infrastructure, a second British general criticized the US’ Iraq war strategy calling it a “fatally flawed” policy, a new independent assessment reported Iraq’s security forces will be unable to take control of the country in the next 18 months and Baghdad’s national police force is so rife with corruption it should be scrapped entirely, U.S. Representative Jon Porter warned that premature evacuation from Iraq would cause American gas prices to rise, and President Bush said we were kicking ass in Iraq. “We’re kicking ass,” he said.
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Arab tribes in Darfur were fighting over the spoils of war, killing hundreds of people and displacing tens of thousands.
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The British Army began withdrawing from its last base in Basra’s city center early Monday, a move that will leave Iraq’s second-largest city without foreign forces for the first time since the American-led invasion in 2003.
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Syria decided to stop letting in Iraqi refugees.
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The Bush administration prepared to ask Congress for an additional fifty billion dollars for the war in Iraq, a military jury exonerated the only officer facing trial for abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib, shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr Wednesday ordered a six-month shutdown of his militia in what his aides described as an attempt to reform the organization, President Bush said Tehran’s atomic ambitions could put the Middle East “under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust,” Iran rejected US accusations it was fomenting instability in Iraq, and northern Iraq was hit by major cholera outbreak.
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Opium production in Afghanistan is at record levels for the second consecutive year.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has lashed out at Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin for calling for his replacement. “I don’t agree with Hilary,” he said.
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The Associated Press reported the death toll for Iraqi civilians is double what it was a year ago.
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The CIA’s inspector general released a report recommending that former CIA director George Tenet and other senior officials be held accountable for failing to prepare for the threat of Al Qaeda before the September 11 attacks.
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President Bush tried to argue for staying in Iraq using Vietnam as a historical example. “Does he think we should have stayed in Vietnam?” asked Vietnam historian Stanley Karnow.
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A 1994 interview with Dick Cheney regarding the first Gulf war was released to the web in which he said we shouldn’t invade Baghdad.
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The governor of the province of Muthanna was killed in a roadside bombing, two key US senators suggested that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s government be replaced if it fails in a “last chance” bid for political reconciliation, a new study found that corporate news coverage of the Iraq war has dropped sharply in the last four months, Iraq’s Prime Minister made his first official visit to Syria to discuss security issues, a July Gallop poll found that 57% of the public consider the decision to invade Iraq a mistake, and new images have been released showing hundreds of Iraqi prisoners packed into cramped wire cages. “Those who are outside are no better than you, at least you have security,” the Iraqi Vice President said to prisoners.
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The Iraqi prime minister and president announced a new alliance of moderate Shiites and Kurds in a push to save the crumbing government Thursday, saying a key Sunni bloc refused to join but the door remained open to them.
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Iraq’s most senior Sunni politician accused Shiite militias of waging an unprecedented campaign of genocide against Iraq’s Sunni population, President al Maliki called for an emergency summit to end the political deadlock which has left less than half of the cabinet attending meetings, residents of the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniya said they fear an all-out war among rival Shiite factions after the local governor and police chief were assassinated, and the U.S. military claimed it had arrested 13 arms smugglers in Baghdad allegedly linked to Iran. Local resident Abu Rasoul described the U.S. raid, “They tied our hands and made us stand against the wall and gave each of us a number written on our shoulders and after that they entered the house and searched it thoroughly. They took away with them one million Iraqi dinars and 755,000 dinars. They arrested three of our sons and one of my nephew whose father is dead and my brother and his son,” he said.
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A roadside bomb killed the governor and police chief of an Iraqi southern province, the UN voted to expand its role in Iraq, US military deaths resulting from the Iraq War were at 3,684, President Bush’s new war adviser said it “made sense” to consider a draft, and Bush said his new strategy in Iraq was producing good results.
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President Bush said we don’t torture.
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Former anti-war leader Cindy Sheehan announced on Thursday that in 2008 she will run as an independent candidate against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). “I dedicate my candidacy to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan,” Sheehan said, weeping.
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