by Ward Reilly
While our president rushed us into an unnecessary war, many people around our nation worked to expose the truth about what was to come in Iraq—citizens of great character,and a deep love of our nation. It is a long, long list of citizens, some that have risked their careers, and even their lives, in order to tell the truth about the Bush Administration’s catastrophic rush into war in the Middle East. Real Heroes.
Thank you, Scott Ritter—the weapons inspector who knew (...)
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Thanks To Some REAL National Heroes
14 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Iraqi officials resign over US ’aggression’
13 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Several Iraqi officials working within the interim government have resigned in protest of the US-led assault on Najaf and Kut.
Sixteen of Najaf’s 30-member provincial council resigned in protest at the US-led assault on the Najaf as fighting between the Mahdi Army loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr and US occupation forces entered its eighth day.
"We have decided to resign due to what has befallen Najaf and all of Iraq from the hasty US invasion and bombardment of Najaf," the council said in a (...) -
Thai troops begin withdrawal from Iraq
11 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Thailand has started to withdraw its military unit from Iraq just short of its one-year commitment, a spokesman said on Tuesday. The last of the 443 Thai soldiers, originally scheduled to return to Thailand by Sept. 20, will be out of Iraq by the end of August, Gen. Pisanu Urailert said.
But military spokesman Maj. Gen. Palangoon Klaharn said the move did not amount to an early pull-out. "This is not regarded as moving out early, but a step-by-step process," he said, adding that the Thai (...) -
My God! My Country Is Using Poison Gas In Iraq: We’ve Weaponized Uranium Gas
9 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
by Bob Nichols
Radioactive, poison gas made from uranium was recommended to the American Military in 1943 during World War II by atom bomb builders working on the Manhattan Project run by Gen Leslie Groves.
Sixty-one years later deadly, radioactive, poisonous, weaponized uranium oxide gas plays a vital role in implementing the "Total Worldwide Domination Plan" as practiced by the NeoCons and President Bush. It is entitled "Rebuilding America’s Defenses" and was written in September (...) -
Humiliation and Destabilisation or concerted plans
7 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Robert Thompson
We are all reeling from the shock of seeing on our television screens the horrific and inhuman ritual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners who have had the ill fortune to find themselves in an establishment run by the armed forces of the U.S.A. Immediately following on from this we have seen re-runs of the sight of a swaggering Mr George W. Bush on 1st May 2003, after he had landed on an aircraft-carrier under a banner reading "Mission Accomplished", somewhat prematurely (...) -
Saddam’s cameraman is still haunted by images of war
6 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsby Robert Fisk
"I vomited," Mouffak Fathi Daoud says, and you have to understand why. Three young soldiers were brought to the trees on the hills outside Sulimaniyah. They had been retreating from the great battle against the Iranians on Jebel Maout. Saddam had ordered that all deserters should be shot. Daoud was one of the Iraqi army’s top newsreel cameramen. He didn’t have to watch. But he was a witness.
"They were between 20 and 26 years old. All of them said the same thing, ’Our (...) -
Torture, for fun
5 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Bush regime sinks lower by the day
That US soldiers serving the Bush regime considered that the systematic torture of prisoners of war was fun, no big deal, to vent their frustration, not serious and just joking around, does not surprise anyone any longer.
The face of the great American heroine, Private Lynndie England, cigarette hanging from the corner of her mouth, giving the thumbs-up sign while standing over or beside a pile of abused, terrified (...) -
Iraqi Women and Torture, Part III Violence and Virtual Violence
5 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Despite a well-documented picture of under-reported sexualized violence, the major media has not shown any interest in pursuing cases of rape or abuse of Iraqi women by the US military. Instead, two stories about hoaxes or more accurately apparent hoaxes made the rounds earlier this year. They’re worth looking at to better understand what’s behind the seemingly artless way in which hoaxes and allegations of hoaxes creep into the factual history of abuse in Iraq.
On May 4, 2004, just when (...) -
Key Iraqi oil pipeline blown up
4 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Kirkuk
A major attack on the main pipeline connecting the oilfields of Kirkuk with the Turkish port of Jihan has halted limited exports from northern Iraq, a Northern Oil Company official said.
"An improvised explosive device was placed close to a network of pipelines at the level of al-Fatiha, west of Kirkuk, causing a big explosion and huge fires that damaged the main pipeline running to Jihan and stopped exports," said Nasir Qasim, a logistics and security official with the (...) -
’Can’t Blair see that this country is about to explode? Can’t Bush?’
2 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Robert Fisk
The war is a fraud. I’m not talking about the weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist. Nor the links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa’ida which didn’t exist. Nor all the other lies upon which we went to war. I’m talking about the new lies.
For just as, before the war, our governments warned us of threats that did not exist, now they hide from us the threats that do exist. Much of Iraq has fallen outside the control of America’s puppet government in Baghdad but we (...)