"Every such mission was approved."

In a debriefing for American and "Coalition" brass, U.S. Lieutenant General Michael Mosley confirmed that all air war commanders were required to get Rumsfeld's direct approval for any airstrike that would likely kill more than 30 innocent people, The New York Times reports. ( Read more... )

Chris Floyd in The Moscow Times

These military actions were sold to us as a war on behalf of the people of Iraq, to free them from a reign of violence and terror. But was this war not conducted, is it not being conducted even now, as a war of vengeance against demonized Arabs and Muslims?