On Iraq,this article taken from the Toronto Star describes how the US media has largely ignored the huge destruction that's happening in Iraq these past weeks.


Look at this picture of a protest on 9/11. Not in Iraq or the Middle East, not France or elsewhere in Europe but right in the homeland.

Further news regarding Uzbekistan unrest- aftermath as Uzbeks bury their dead. Their president Karimov actually said "no order had been given to troops to fire in Andizhan". Sure, I bet he did. There's been a little condemnation or reproach towards this event from the US, which isn't surprising given that Uzbekistan has been an ally ever since the "War on terror" was declared after 9/11.

This is a good article in the Guardian of the UK describing the favorable relationship between the US and Uzbekistan which includes use of facilities and "interrogators" in return for financial support by the US and also, looking the other way at the oppression and abuses commited by the Uzbek government, which the article gives a better idea of as well. Indeed, the Uzbekistan dictator Karimov seems to have taken a page out of the US foreign policy playbook when he oppresses his people and tries to destroy the opposition movements while justifying his actions as crushing Islamic extremisn, in other words "terrorism".