A couple of us have been putting together a website for information about the war in Iraq. Our main focus has been to create a one-stop site for news, investigative reporting and most importantly the facts about the lies and “misconceptions” that permeated the period leading up to the war. We believe that as more people start to turn against the failed policies of the Bush cabal, a need for easily digested information is needed to keep the momentum going.
Although most of us have opposed this war from the start or shortly thereafter, many Americans are only as of late starting to see the folly in empire building Iraq has become. Our goal is to create an “Iraq War 101” for the newly converted and wavering to go to in order to be brought up to speed on events and policies they missed the first time around. Along with that, we would love the site to become a jumping off point for further investigation.
Here’s the pitch…
We’ve been working on the site for a little over a month now and have got the basic format up and running, but we’ve reached the point where we could use some fellow contributors to help move the process along. We could use the help of additional writers, researchers, and general input givers to get the site up to speed. Our goal is to try to position ourselves so that when (and I stress the word WHEN) the mainstream Democratic Party starts to catch up with public sentiment on the war and begins to make it’s case against it ..we will be in a position to be a resource that can be used to facilitate the spread of information about the war and the lies that led up to it. The fact that Rep. Conyers had to turn to the blog world back in June to help him put together a simple timeline of the events that led to war just goes to shows how behind on this topic our leaders really are.
Anyway….
If anyone is interested in helping in any way, or better yet …wishes to aid in this endeavor.. both the site link and my contact info are available in my profile here. If you’re so inclined, check out what we’ve got up so far ..see if it looks like something you’d be interested in working on and let me know..
General feedback on the site is more then welcome.. so feel free to tell us what you think of the site, the concept, the design, any input is welcome at this stage of devlopement.
PS: We realy do need the communities help on this so any type of feedback is welcome..positive or negative.
As per Cali Scribes’ suggestion:
Link available here: IraqFact
