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March 19, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Scenes From Baghdad A Decade Later BAGHDAD -- To the first-time visitor, Baghdad might seem like a normal city. Well, almost normal: Pockmarked buildings and pervasive checkpoints serve as a stark reminder of the violence that nearly tore the country in the decade following the U.S.-led invasion, which began on March 20, 2003. Continue reading... Baghdad Hit By Wave Of Bombings On Eve Of Invasion Anniversary Syrian Rebels, Troops Trade Accusations Of Chemical Weapon Attack Bizarre NKorean Propaganda Video Shows Washington Under Attack Pentagon Issues Stern Warning To Pyongyang Indian Officials Suggest Swiss Tourist, Husband Partially To Blame For Gang Rape 'Never In My Life Has A Pope Kissed Me' Indian Officials Suggest Swiss Tourist, Husband Partially To Blame For Gang Rape Syria Accuses Rebels Of Firing Chemical Weapon Indian Officials Suggest Swiss Tourist, Husband Partially To Blame For Gang Rape Dozens Killed In India Bus Crash 'Never In My Life Has A Pope Kissed Me' AHMED SHIHAB-ELDIN Iraq, Drones & Islam's "Imminent Threat" To America: "Pre-empting" War By Waging It (Again) Ten years after the failed Iraq war, secret legal memos reveal Obama is using the same fear-mongering tactics of 'imminent threats' of evil to justify his drones program as Bush did to justify invading Iraq under his 'pre-emptive' doctrine. Continue reading... JOSEPH A. PALERMO Iraq: A Ten-Year Anniversary We'd Rather Forget Ten years ago our "leaders" in the government, the corporate media, and the "national security" establishment assured us that invading Iraq was in our national interest. Continue reading... BERNARD-HENRI LéVY Of Bread and Games, the War and Mali This operation, efficiently carried out, one confronting a multitude of dangers, is all the war in Iraq was not. This lightning war, conducted and won with the support of Malian troops, without one sensing even the possibility of the threat of a quagmire, is the opposite of the war in Afghanistan. Continue reading... RICHARD (RJ) ESKOW Cyprus Bank Panic: It Can't Happen Here -- Can It? A Cyprus-like incursion on people's savings seems unlikely here.  But if the past several years have taught us anything, it's to "never say never." Continue reading... BEVERLY BELL A Tale of Two NGOs: In Haiti, Disaster Aid or Aid Disaster? Anthropologist Mark Schuller's new book Killing with Kindness: Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs examines why abundant foreign aid dollars and agencies have not improved the socio-economic status or security of Haiti's people. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.