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  • Iran, Turkey discuss British sailors’ illegal crossing
    30 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan late Thursday discussed over phone the recent illegal crossing of British sailors and marines into Iranian waters in the Persian Gulf region.
    Fifteen British sailors and marines, who had entered Iranian territory, were arrested by Iranian coastal guards on Friday, March 23.
    According to the Press Bureau of the presidential office, the telephone conversation was on an initiative by the Turkish premier.
    During (…)

  • To President Bush, “You can’t always get what you want”
    29 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Mary MacElveen
    In listening to a debate that took place on Scarborough Country after the Senate passed the $120 billion dollar war appropriations bill with a dead line to bring this war to an end attached to it, MSNBC pundit, Pat Buchanan made certain remarks concerning the Democratic Party.
    Buchanan stated, “Joe, it is exactly the problem the Democrats are going to have. After the president vetoes it, and then they go back, his veto‘s going to be sustained in both houses. And then (…)

  • No Tampering with History: Chirac’s Multi-faceted Personality
    28 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By José Fort
    The French president’s clear statements on dark memorial issues have repeatedly confounded friends and foes alike. Jacques Chirac will be remembered as the president who recognized the responsibility of the collaborationist Vichy government during Nazi Occupation.
    General de Gaulle maintained that France could not be held responsible for the policies of the Vichy regime during the Occupation; François Mitterrand likewise stubbornly opposed acknowledging France’s (…)

  • Damn it, 40 Years of Chirac are Enough!
    28 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Marc de Miramon
    In announcing that he does not aspire to a third term, Jacques Chirac brings an end to his steadfastly right-wing political life, which has been marked by betrayals.
    “A tough young politician […], extremely ambitious […], unencumbered by the Gaullist rhetoric…” When an American diplomat wrote this fairly true to life portrait (1) of Jacques Chirac in 1974, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing had just become Prime Minister. His dazzling career path and his precocious talent for (…)

  • NO GUTS! NO GLORY!
    28 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If one can be found the Nation will be saved! Articles of Impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. - - ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (…)

  • Diogenes and His Lamp: George W. Bush’s Latin American Odyssey
    28 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Flávio Américo dos Reis, Worldpress.org contributing editor, March 23, 2007
    Bush listens to questions from the press under a portrait of Simón Bolívar at the presidential palace in Bogota. (Photo: Mandel Ngan / AFP-Getty Images)
    According to the American Heritage Dictionary, besides being Homer’s second epic poem—retelling the wanderings and adventures of the cunning king of Ithaca, Odysseus, a leader of the Greeks, after the fall of Troy—the word" odyssey" has taken on (…)

  • WHY?,Mister Bush...WHY?
    26 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mr. Bush
    I am alone in my room, home at last. I look in the mirror and I don’t know myself. I’ve done terrible things in Iraq; I’ve killed innocent women and children. I cannot live with myself anymore. My wife will understand. I have a gun ready to do what must be done to save my soul.
    I am in Walter Reed Hospital. They say I’ll never walk again. What about all those prosthetic legs I see on TV? Nobody seems to care if I get all the care I need. Mr. Bush, I killed for your liberation. (…)

  • Bush’s ominous statement in 2000: "They have not led. We will,"
    26 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush’s ominous statement in 2000: "They have not led. We will," By Mary MacElveen March 26, 2007
    In reading these comments as reported by ZeeNews.com in which they wrote that Vice President Dick Cheney, “has assured political allies that an early withdrawal of US forces from Iraq would not be allowed, despite efforts by Congress to impose a deadline on US combat operations there.” I am reminded of what someone said on one of the political lists that I belong to that both Bush and Cheney (…)

  • Nine Heroes in Congress Make a Stand for Peace
    25 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David Swanson
    Here are the results of the March 23, 2007, vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to give Bush and Cheney over $100 billion more for war. The bill passed with exactly the 218 votes required. Almost all of the Republicans and six Democrats voted No for the wrong reasons. One Democrat voted "Present". But eight Democrats voted No because they oppose further funding of this war. These eight are the beginning of a movement for peace, and the first indication that some (…)

  • Ahmadinejad cancels U.N. Security Council visit
    24 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ahmadinejad cancels U.N. Security Council visit
    CNN – March 23, 2007
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has canceled a planned visit to the United Nations, and Tehran’s U.N. ambassador, Javad Zarif, on Friday blamed a delay in U.S. visas being issued to the crew of his airplane.
    Ahmadinejad wanted to speak to the U.N. Security Council before a vote, scheduled for Saturday, on sanctions against Iran.
    Iran, which contends the proposed sanctions are politically motivated, says it (…)