Cheney: Oops! Saddam had no link to 9/11. Oh well, I profited from this war!

What is it with all those Bush administration officials? As if it’s a game! Every time their terms end they show up and speak out loud about how they were mistaken regarding certain things. Wait, those things are not just things; they are decisions that created mayhem and horror.

After Bush’s first lying mate Collin Powell admitted on Meet the Press that Iraq did not have WMD, the ruthless former VP Dick Cheney confessed today that even Saddam had no link with al-Qaeda and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Hold on a sec here: let’s see, the two the main excuses for launching the Iraq war were the WMD and the link to 9/11! So basically the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and the more than 4,000 Americans who were killed in the war were because of two lies?

And yet, there are still some people who believed that Bush was fighting terror and his henchmen fit the job. I mean Cheney is basically saying, “Screw the Americans. I needed to profit from this war financially and I did”! What else does this thug have to say so that you believe he is a criminal?

47 million-year-old Missing Link Found

Before heading to work every morning, I turn on the TV to watch CNN's American Morning to get the latest news. This morning, I heard the most interesting news ever! The "Missing Link" is found!!!

A discovery of a 47 million-year-old fossil primate that is said to be a human ancestor was announced and unveiled Tuesday at a press conference in New York City.

Known as "Ida," the nearly complete transitional fossil is 20 times older than most fossils that provide evidence for human evolution.

It shows characteristics from the very primitive non-human evolutionary line (prosimians, such as lemurs), but is more related to the human evolutionary line (anthropoids, such as monkeys, apes and humans), said Norwegian paleontologist Jørn Hurum of the University of Oslo Natural History Museum. However, she is not really an anthropoid either, he said.

I have long been trying to find convincing proof of evolution. On one hand, the Quran says "We created man of the best stature," but then you think about the Neanderthal human and read the possibilities that he was not created in the "best stature."

I was leaning more to religion on that issue, but science has been proving several things that religion is not quite clear about.

Anti two-state demonstration in front of the White House

Anti two-state demonstration in front of the White House, originally uploaded by baghdadtreasure.

As I was heading out to get some lunch with my coworkers, I came across this anti two-state solution demonstration in front of the White House.

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Deputy PM's Tweeting

I'm following Iraqi deputy prime minister Barham Salih (@BarhamSalih) on Twitter and just read his latest tweet. A lot of people are talking about the improvements in Iraq, but there is a little coverage of the latest surge in violence. Apparently, Salih doesn't agree with the Majority now! Here is what he tweeted:

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New York Times Documentary: Girls Banned from School

This is a really interesting and chilling short documentary made by two New York Times reporters in the Swat Valley in Pakistan.

The documentary profiles an 11-year-old Pakistani girl on the last day before the Taliban close down her school. It is a shocking reminder to all of us that the Taliban need to be crushed by all means. Their barbarian actions are far from over.

Warning: this video includes some graphic images of people tortured and beheaded by the Taliban.



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Arabesque

Last night, I attended a concert performed by Iraq’s Maqam singer, Farida. The concert was part of Arabesque Festival: Arts of the Arab World which is organized by the John F. Kennedy Center from February 23 to March 15, 2009.

The below video was taken by my friend Omar.



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Abu Ghraib

After it was handed over to the Iraqi government, the notorious Abu Ghraib prison has been renovated and opened in a new shape. Its ill-remembered name has been changed as well. It is called Baghdad Central Prison now.

On this occasion, The New York Times’ Baghdad Bureau Blog featured its reporters and photographers narrating what they had seen as they covered stories inside that hellish jail from the horrific days when the Iraqi tyrant used to rule and the times when the prison fell in the US military’s control where Iraqi inmates were abused and tortured.

Titled “Abu Ghraib,” The New York Times blog post contains strong graphic images.

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