The rush to war in Iraq echoes Reagan’s Iran- contra scandal
Sidney Blumenthal
"History? We won’t know," George Bush tells Bob Woodward. "We’ll all be dead." But in his book, Plan of Attack, Woodward’s facts move the past from the shadows, adding significant new documentation to the story of the rush to war in Iraq.
The serious constitutional issues and governmental abuses, the methods and even the continuity of some personnel that Woodward catalogues evoke memories of the Reagan (...)
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What Colin Powell saw but didn’t say
25 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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IRAQ: at least 80 foreign mercenaries have been killed in the past eight days
19 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Scores of Dead
"The Star" Baghdad - At least 80 foreign mercenaries - security guards recruited from the United States, Europe and South Africa and working for American companies - have been killed in the past eight days in Iraq.
Lieutenant-General Mark Kimmitt admitted on Tuesday that "about 70"
American and other Western troops had died during the Iraqi insurgency since April 1 but he made no mention of the mercenaries, apparently fearful that the full total of Western dead would (...) -
Sharon’s "Courageous" Plan Bush Legitimizes Terrorism
18 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsSo President George Bush tears up the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and that’s okay. Israeli settlements for Jews and Jews only on the West Bank. That’s okay. Taking land from Palestinians who have owned that land for generations, that’s okay. UN Security Council Resolution 242 says that land cannot be acquired by war. Forget it. That’s okay.
Does President George Bush actually work for al-Qa’ida? What does this mean? That George Bush cares more about his re-election than he does (...) -
Shut Up, War Critics
15 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsJust shut up. That’s the new foreign policy line of our masters. When Senator Edward Kennedy dubbed Iraq "George Bush’s Vietnam", US Secretary of State Colin Powell told him to be "a little more restrained and careful" in his comments. I recall that when the US commenced its bombing of Afghanistan, the White House spokesman claimed that some journalists were "asking questions that the American people wouldn’t want asked". Back in the early 1980s, when I reported on the Iranian (...)
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Iraq will never be sorted out until Mr Blair and President Bush admit their mistakes
14 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Independent
Robin Cook The coalition needs to find a model of reconstruction that gives priority to jobs in Iraq over profits in Texas. IT is almost exactly a year since a triumphalist President Bush in combat fatigues swooped on to the deck of an aircraft carrier to announce that "major combat operations" were over in Iraq. Yet for the past week television bulletins have been carrying violent images from Iraq that look suspiciously like major combat operations. Conquering Iraq (...) -
New Reports on U.S. Planting WMDs in Iraq
13 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsBASRA, April 12 (MNA) — Fifty days after the first reports that the U.S. forces were unloading weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in southern Iraq, new reports about the movement of these weapons have been disclosed.
Sources in Iraq speculate that occupation forces are using the recent unrest in Iraq to divert attention from their surreptitious shipments of WMD into the country.
An Iraqi source close to the Basra Governor’s Office told the MNA that new information shows that a large (...) -
Bloodbath a bad omen for coalition forces
6 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
The Star (S.Africa)
http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=393104
To the horror of the occupying powers in Iraq, the country’s ever more bloody insurgency has at last spilled over into the majority Shi’ite Muslim community.
Coalition soldiers fought gunmen in the holy city of Najaf yesterday with the loss of at least 20 lives.
The shooting started after protesters gathered at the Spanish base on the outskirts of the city following the arrest of an aide to (...) -
Only an ’uptick’ in violence
6 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
http://www.dawn.com/2004/04/04/op.htm#2
What has happened to the ’Coalition Provisional Authority’, also known as the occupying power? Things are getting worse, much worse in Iraq. Last week’s horrors proved that.
Yet just a day earlier, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, America’s deputy director of military operations, assured us that there was only an "uptick" in violence in Iraq . Not a sudden wave of violence, mark you, not a down-to-earth increase, not even a "spike" in violence - (...) -
Occupiers Spend Millions on Private Army of Security Men
1 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Coalition of the Mercenaries
The Independent (UK)
An army of thousands of mercenaries has appeared in Iraq’s major cities, many of them former British and American soldiers hired by the occupying Anglo-American authorities and by dozens of companies who fear for the lives of their employees.
Many of the armed Britons are former SAS soldiers and heavily armed South Africans are also working for the occupation. "My people know how to use weapons and they’re all SAS," said the British (...) -
One Year On - War Without End
17 March 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Saddam may be gone but peace has not come. Robert Fisk was in Baghdad when the tyrant was in his pomp and when the first bombs fell on 19 March 2003. His acclaimed reports revealed the suffering of the Iraqi people. Now, as the anniversary of the war approaches, he returns to a land riven by chaos, where liberation is a myth.
The Independent (UK) March 14, 2004 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/story.jsp?story=501026
The surviving Iraqi employees of the United Nations (...)