Surprise, Surprise: Iraq War Was About Oil

Surprise, Surprise: Iraq War Was About Oil
Ray McGovern, Consortium News: "Afghanistan may be the graveyard of empires, but Iraq is home to a graveyard sense of humor. Iraqis wonder aloud whether the U.S. and Britain would have invaded Iraq if its main export had been cabbages instead of oil. However obvious the answer, a remarkable array of American pundits and pseudo-savants have resisted giving the oil factor any pride of place among the motives behind the U.S./U.K. decision to invade Iraq in 2003. To this day, the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) continues to play its accustomed role as government accomplice suppressing unwelcome news."
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Honor Killing in Italy:Mom Dies Protecting Daughter

Begum Shahnaz (left) was killed by her husband Ahmad Khan Butt because she defended her daughter Nosheen (right) who refused an arranged marriage. Photo: EPA

I posted this article yesterday in Italian -- here are the horrific details:

A Pakistani woman has died in Italy after her husband beat her with a brick for opposing the arranged marriage of her daughter, triggering a wave of outrage among Italian politicians on Monday. (Telegraph here) hat tip Kris

The daughter, 20-year-old Nosheen Butt, was admitted to hospital with a cranial traumatism and a broken arm after her 19-year-old brother beat her with a stick in the courtyard of their building in Novi, near the north Italy city of Modena.
According to Modena prosecutors' initial findings, the father Ahmad Khan Butt, a 53-year-old construction worker, threw his wife to the ground and beat her with a brick while the brother Umair attacked his sister.
..She said that the father ....was the owner of the local mosque.

Mosque owner and honor killer.

Don't expect Dhimmane Sawyer to cover this on World News Tonight.

BTW, if you see a picture of these poor victims of Islamic teachings, please send along. They never run pictures of the victims. Afraid to humanize them. Media evil.