[PICK YOUR POISON] :: IRAQ :: CALI GUB'L RACE :: MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT

"Never has there been a good war or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin
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"An uninformed public in a democracy is a sure-fire way
to end up with little or no democracy at all."
- Michael Moore (Bowling For Columbine)
2003 COALITION FORCES INVADE IRAQ
Media / Trade Articles
General
$87 Billion in Perspective
Denial and Deception
Not Just For The Record (Recording Iraq Body Counts)
Satellite Images of Iraq For Sale
Anti-War Protesters Target U.S. Cities
Trans-Atlantic Illusions: NATO should have gone out of business a decade ago.
Triple Veto Threat Caught White House by Surprise (re: France, Germany, Russia)
Postwar Profits: How a handful of construction firms got an early invitation to rebuild Iraq
Oil/Gas
Factsheet on International Energy Agency (IEA) Oil Stocks & Response Potential
2003 IEA Oil Market Highlights
Bush Sr. in Business With Bin Laden Family Conglomerate Through Carlyle Group
Is The Proposed Russia-China-India (Afghanistan) Pipeline Feasible?
Women Protest UNOCAL’s Negotiations With Taliban Regime in Afghanistan (Proposed Pipeline)
OPEC Countries Contemplate Possibility of Oversupply
U.S. May Seize Iraq Oil Revenues to Pay War Bill
With Mideast uncertainty, US turns to Africa for oil
Top 10 Exporters of Crude Oil to the U.S. (chart)
Iraqi & World Oil (chart)
U.S. Conventional Wisdom and Natural Gas
Natural Gas Marketing Chain
Oil Markets (.pdf - Adobe Acrobat file)
Are We Running Out of Oil?
Military
U.S. military employs Israeli technology against Iraq
U.S. Accuses Russia of Helping Iraq Militarily
1,000 Air Strikes, 1,000 Missiles Fired At Iraq
Attack Was 48 Hours Old When It 'Began'
War Casualties
Forces: U.S. & Coalition Casualities (list of names)
David Bloom's Last Ride (NBC Anchor)
This is the reality of war. We bomb. They suffer.
77 Civilians Killed In Basra, 366 Wounded: Iraq
Dead, Captured U.S. Soldiers Shown On Iraqi TV
Fourth British Military Aircraft In Three Days Crashes
The Environment Can Be Weapon of War
Trade / Academic Essays
Saddam Husayn Between His Power Base & The International Community
Tehran (Iran), Washington, and Terror: No Agreement to Differ
Saudi Arabia & The United States 1931-2002
The Kurds of Northern Iraq
North Korea's Nuclear Program, 2003
The Changing of the Guard: United States abdicates its power as world leader 2003
White Papers / Transcripts / Reports / Responses
Transcript: Bush Speech - March 18
Transcript: State of the Union Address - January 28, 2003
Transcript: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell Addresses the U.N. Security Council
>> Analysis of Colin Powell's U.N. Security Council Presentation
UNMOVIC (Hans Blix) Inspection Reports to the UN
IAEA (Mohamed Elbaradei) Inspection Reports to the UN
>> Response to Hans Blix (UNMOVIC) and Mohamed Elbaradei (IAEA) U.N. Security Council Presentation
Iraq - its infrastructure of concealment, deception and intimidation (British Gov't Dossier)
>> Response to The British Dossier on Iraq's Intelligence Infrastructure
A Decade of Deception & Defiance (in Iraq)-(U.S. Gov't Documentation)
Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction ProgramS (US Gov't Documentation)
Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (British Gov't Dossier - 55 pages .PDF file)
>> (Counter Dossier II) Claims and evaluations of Iraq's proscribed weapons
Charts (Flash)
Top 10 Exporters of Crude Oil to the U.S. (Barrels/%)
Iraqi & World Oil
Israel's Nuclear Arsenal
Iraq's Military
North Korea's Nuclear Facilities
Commentary/Humour/The Arts
(Editorials/Letters/Emails, etc.)
Commentary
My Oscar "Backlash": "Stupid White Men" Back At #1, "Bowling" Breaks New Records (Michael Moore)
I'd Like to Thank the Vatican... (Michael Moore)
A Positive View (Dr. Robert Muller)
Deep Concerns (Professor Noam Chomsky)
...Disappointment in Move to War (Walter Cronkite)
Bearing Witness to a Monstrous Wrong: Why Protest? Why Write? (Prof. Bruce Jackson)
Gulf War Myths, Gulf War Realities (William D. Hartung)

Triple Axel of Evil (Bruce Labruce on Condaleeza Rice, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld)
Terry Tempest Williams (letter)
Quote by Hermann Goering, Hitler's Reich-Marshall at the
Nurenberg Trials after WW II
Humour
The Paragraph
Late Night Thoughts on the War
The Debate Scene That Never Happened (Unknown)
Letter to The Observer (Monty Python)
Military Promises 'Huge Numbers' For Gulf War II:
The Vengeance (The Onion)
Antidote For A Depressing Week (War-wise)
The Arts
Chicago Celebrates at Oscars (Celebrity Peace Comments)
Pray For Peace (poem)
Iraqi Art (by Jeward Salim)
Web Site Links (various)
Gov't Orgs (GOs)
U.K. Ministry of Defence
Non-Gov't Orgs (NGOs) / Int'l Orgs (IOs), etc.
United Nations Daily Briefings
United Nations Situation Iraq
World Special Weapons Guide (Chemical/Bio/Nuclear)
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
OpenSecrets.org
IraqBodyCount.net
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Miscellaneous
Digital Globe (Satellite Earth Images)
Media
CNN
BBC
NPR
Financial Review: Iraq
The Arts
The Lysistrata Project (Theatre Artists Against War)
Anti-War Quotes
Gallery of Images
World Protests
Satire/Humour
Al Qaeda & Iraq Connection
Oil Companies
Fact Sheets / Background Information / Guides
U.S. Department of Defence 55 Most Wanted Iraqis (deck of cards)
USAID Notes $105 Million in U.S. Funding for Aid to Iraq
Iraqi Women Under Saddam's Regime
Coalition Forces: Who's who?
Iraq: Who is who?
Iraq's Security & Intelligence Network: A Guide & Analysis
A Chemical Weapons Atlas
Welcome to my archive of information pulled from various sources - reports, articles, white papers, briefings, essays, commentary, etc. - gathered to provide a more comprehensive perspective of the current world climate as it pertains to the U.S.-led coalition against Iraq. Read. Enjoy. Share. Argue. Whatever...Just Get Informed. - MJSM