Dahr Jamail is an American hero of unselfish initiative, heroism and truth-telling in this era of dross lies, spins, and twists that president and corporate media have used to promote fear, hate, invasion and occupation. He should be a role model for us and our children.

A good review and assessment of the reporting by Dhar Jamail, a true American hero. I have been reading Dhar's blog and reports since 2003. I saw the photos he posted of the people our troops burned to death from wht it turned out was white phospherous, but at the time he and doctors thought was napalm. I read his reports of wht actual Iraqis were saying, including seeing the photos he took of them and posted on his site. His reporting is exactly opposite of the so called mainstream reporters who seldom, if ever give us names of Iraqis or tell their stories. A couple weeks after his book, "Beyond the Green Zone" came out, I went to Borders, but they did not even have it, though I was able to order it. I was good to finially ... More »

There is both weakness and strength that comes from choosing the perspective from the ground, of ordinary Iraqis still reeling from their world being turned upside down, trying to survive and to protect their families, while still testing narratives that can make sense of their lived experiences.

Just silly hate Bush and hate American B.S. The same types complain that we support dictators in the Middle East. They would protest no matter what we do.

This opinion piece is so one-sided it is hard to take it seriously as journalism. Saddam Hussein was the worst mass-murderer in Middle Eastern History, with a toll of more than a million of his people, continuing right up to when Iraq was liberated. This is not a U.S. story, this is what the French found and published in a comprehensive report in 2005. Saddam has chemical weapons used against his people and in invasions (plural) of neighboring countries. The French, the Russians, the British, the U.N. all thought he had WMD in 2003, and he is thought to have moved some of them to Syria as the liberation began. Saddam had a Stalinist state (and Stalin was one of his heroes), where there was no free press (or web or cellphone ... More »

This article contains the rantings of all the deranged leftists even including the fictitious white phosphorous lie. Why is Truthout even linked to here? I am being to distrust NewsTrust's ability to even pick a decent story to review.