by Naomi Klein
When President Bush appointed former Secretary of State James Baker III as his envoy on Iraq’s debt on December 5, 2003, he called Baker’s job "a noble mission." At the time, there was widespread concern about whether Baker’s extensive business dealings in the Middle East would compromise that mission, which is to meet with heads of state and persuade them to forgive the debts owed to them by Iraq. Of particular concern was his relationship with merchant bank and defense (...)
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James Baker’s Double Life : A Special Investigation
14 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Germany Softens Stance on Sending Troops to Iraq
13 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By Erik Kirschbaum
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany said Wednesday it could not rule out sending troops to Iraq, dropping its firm refusal to consider any deployment to the country whose invasion last year it staunchly opposed.
Defense Minister Peter Struck said in an interview with the Financial Times newspaper that Germany might deploy troops if conditions in the country, now riven by insurgency, changed.
"At present I rule out the deployment of German troops in Iraq," Struck told the (...) -
Beheadings now routine for Iraqi pathologist
13 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By Michael Georgy
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The beheading of hostage Ken Bigley horrified the world. It sickened Iraq’s top pathologist too, but he is getting used to seeing severed heads.
"It was barbaric, but we see all kinds of things here in forensic pathology and beheadings are on the rise. It is the biggest trend by far. Iraq is totally out of control," Faik Bakr told Reuters at his morgue in Baghdad.
Bigley, a 62-year-old engineer, was beheaded with a knife on Thursday after his (...) -
An exhibition of Iraq war
13 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentAn exhibit that speaks directly to our hearts and reminds us of the human cost of war.
by Mary Ellen McNish
Over 1,000 pairs of empty combat boots tagged with the names of U.S. soldiers who died in the Iraq war will be displayed, together with a 24-foot “wall” of names and incidents identifying Iraqi civilian deaths.
The Eyes Wide Open exhibition is a multimedia journey through the words, images, and sounds of the Iraq war. Visitors move through a vivid memorial to the war’s (...) -
Bush and Cheney on Iraq intel: FALSE
13 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Bush and Cheney seem to be following Rumsfeld in his creativement faux mea culpa.
by Michael Berglin
The administration is trying to pass off a faux mea culpa in telling the US and the world that the intel on Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction was bogus. Layer by layer, the administration’s justifications for the war in Iraq are crumbling. More intel has surfaced to indicate that Iraq’s WDM program had been sunset as early as 1991.
Even as late as one week ago, both Bush and Cheney (...) -
Carlton Sherwood said Dems ’gleeful’ over US casualties in Iraq, in Nov 2003
13 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
11 commentsHere’s some fresh background on Carlton Sherwood. He’s the producer of ’Stolen Honor’, the documentary attacking John Kerry which is due to get an airing on the 62 TV stations owned by Bush-friendly media conglomerate Sinclair Broadcast Group - just a few days before the election.
Not a lot of people know this:
* Sherwood had a post in the Reagan administration. * In Nov 2003, Sherwood said in a radio program that Democratic presidential primary candidates were ’carping gleefully’ (...) -
Iraq Disaster Will Haunt Future Generations
12 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Unforgivable Betrayals and Broken Promises
by ROBERT FISK
I am writing a book about our need to escape from history—or rather about our inability to escape the effects of the decisions taken by our fathers and grandfathers. My father was a soldier in the First World War or, as it says on the back of his campaign medal, "The Great War for Civilisation’’—which is the title I’ve chosen for my book. In the space of just 17 months after my father’s war ended, the victors had drawn the (...) -
REALITY CHECK : John Kerry’s Iraq attack
12 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby PHILIP GOUREVITCH
Despite a pre-debate “memorandum of understanding” between the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign that there would be no televised “cutaways” or reaction shots, more than sixty-two million Americans watched George W. Bush appear to come unglued while hearing, for the first time, John Kerry’s forceful voice of opposition.
Bush’s face betrayed him on the very first cutaway. He had insisted that the focus of his initial encounter with Kerry, in Coral Gables, (...) -
Report Cites U.S. Profits in Sale of Iraqi Oil Under Hussein
11 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By JUDITH MILLER and ERIC LIPTON
Major American oil companies and a Texas oil investor were among those who received lucrative vouchers that enabled them to buy Iraqi oil under the United Nations oil-for-food program, according to a report prepared by the chief arms inspector for the Central Intelligence Agency.
The 918-page report says that four American oil companies - Chevron, Mobil, Texaco and Bay Oil - and three individuals including Oscar S. Wyatt Jr. of Houston were given (...) -
Republicans Love Red China
11 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsby Erik Fortman
Yes, I said it. The Republicans love Communist China. It was Nixon who turned public opinion in support of their terroristic, Communist regime. In modern times, the Bush Pentagon’s new “world map” indicates that China is our military ally! What the heck is going on here? I understand that Bush is better than Kerry. In this case, lesser-evilism still wreaks mucho evil.
It was a Democrat who took us to fight China’s onslaught into Vietnam, and a Republican who retreated. (...)