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  • Troops pressure Congress to back pullout from Iraq
    18 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    January 17, 2007
    BY RENEE SCHOOF
    MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
    WASHINGTON — Pressure on Congress intensified Tuesday to stop President George W. Bush’s plan to increase troops in Iraq, as about 1,000 active-duty soldiers and Marines urged lawmakers to support a quick withdrawal and antiwar groups planned to rally state legislatures.
    Although most Democrats and some Republicans oppose Bush’s 21,500-troop increase, Congress isn’t moving very fast to try to stop or alter the plan. Democratic (…)

  • Why Time is not on Bush’s Side
    17 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why Time is not on Bush’s Side: "Out of altitude, airspeed and ideas" By FRANKLIN SPINNEY January 17, 2007 The heart of any military strategy in the conduct of war is the art of placing your adversary under menacing pressure to make a decision, while denying him thetime to make sense out of the menacing conditions forcing that decision. The Baker Commission tried to buy time by throwing a life ring to the Decider-in-Chief, but he refused it and chose instead to squander two months of (…)

  • Paradoxes Doom Bush’s ‘New Strategy’ in Iraq
    16 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    President George W. Bush’s paradoxical “new strategy” in Iraq is doomed by its own contradictions as much as by Iraqi and regional paradoxes and would in no time prove that the U.S. president’s go-it-alone approach will only extend the failure of the 2003 military invasion in developing into a permanent occupation, amid wide spread world and American calls for withdrawal and political solution.
    “The new strategy I outline tonight will change America’s course in Iraq,” (…)

  • Can Hugo Chavez Beat The Devil?
    15 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Can Hugo Chavez Beat The Devil? Monday, 15 January 2007, 9:56 am Opinion: Sherwood Ross Can Hugo Chavez Beat The Devil?
    By Sherwood Ross
    After Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez told the United Nations he could smell the sulphur in the chamber where President Bush spoke the previous day, some angry Bostonians wanted to pull down the big CITGO neon sign in Kenmore Square, since CITGO oil is pumped in Chavez Country. The loquacious Chavez had the temerity to compare President Bush with the devil, (…)

  • we cant afford to leave a failed state, the iraqis might actually fix it then
    14 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    does anything else really need be said?

  • Land of Enchantment and Impeachment
    14 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David Swanson
    There is a decent chance that within the next month or two the New Mexico State Legislature will ask the U.S. House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush and Vice President Cheney. And there is the definite possibility that a Congress Member from New Mexico will take up the matter when it gets to Washington. The Jefferson Manual, rules used by the U.S. House, allows for impeachment to be begun in this manner. It only takes one state (…)

  • Bush is Loose Cannon, Must Be Removed
    13 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Press release from Central Ohio chapter of Military Families Speak Out :
    President Bush tells us that in the end, more bloodshed will justify that which has already come about.
    Most military families agree that this president proceeded with reckless indifference to the consequences of the troops, their families, and the people of Iraq. Mr. Bush is unwilling to accept advice that does not adhere to his insulated vision of Iraq. Our loved ones were there and we understand what kind of (…)

  • Bush Can Be Beaten in Iraq—The World Wins!
    12 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush’s "troop surge" is just a false tactic leading to WAR WITH IRAN.
    The goal is, and has always been, control of all of the Middle East’s oil — not just to grab Iraq’s.
    Personally, I see one thing clearly: An unprovoked nuclear attack on Iran by Israel or anyone else would mean that a STATE OF WAR exists between the state making the attack and THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. Nulear war is forever — it sets intolerable precedents worse than Hiroshima and makes large land masses uninhabitable (…)

  • Lex Americana: Breaking international law...
    11 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    According to the Spiegel
    http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausla... (in German) the Bush gang has ambushed the Iranian embassy in Arbil and has taken 6 Iranian diplomats into custody for interrogation (mean torture).
    If the UN and the international comunity doesn’t act now, when will the do it?

  • THE NEW POLICY OF MR BUSH
    11 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mr Bush is still behaving arrogantly, in spite of his loss in the last election. The new majority in congress and that of the American people are against increasing the troops in Iraq. However, Mr Bush is behaving like the losing gambler, who bids for higher money as he loses more.
    The problem in Iraq has been initiated by the occupation, and then started to turn into civil war by the action of militias belonging to Abdulaziz Al-Hakim and muktada Al-Sader. The USA troops in Iraq did not (…)