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  • SUICIDAL
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A soldier is hunkered down behind a shell pocked wall in Ramadi. He is shaking and obviously disturbed. He has a .45 pressed against his forehead.
    His C.O. approaches him. "What are you doing?", he asks with deep concern.
    "I’m going to end it" replies the soldier, "I can’t take it anymore!"
    The C.O. puts his arm around the young private and says: "Have you forgotten why we’re here? We came deceived by lies, to launch an illegal war, to rape and pillage, torture and steal. We came to (…)

  • Aid agencies unable to enter Samarra Report, IRIN, 22 March 2006
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BAGHDAD — Aid agencies say thay have been prevented from entering the city of Samarra, in central Iraq, where a major US and Iraqi military operation is underway.
    "Our convoys sent on Sunday and Monday have been prevented from entering the city by US troops and our information from inside is that families are without food, power and potable water, particularly because they cannot leave their homes," noted Abdel Hameed, a spokesperson for the Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS).
    This, they (…)

  • Requests to Build Big U.S. Bases in Iraq Raise Concern Peter Spiegel, LA Times Staff Writer
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 23, 2006
    WASHINGTON - Even as military planners look to withdraw significant numbers of American troops from Iraq in the coming year, the Bush administration continues to request hundreds of millions of dollars for large bases there, raising concerns over whether they are intended as permanent homes for U.S. forces.
    Questions on Capitol Hill about the future of the bases have been prompted by the new emergency spending bill for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, which (…)

  • On the Third Anniversary By Cindy Sheehan (AlterNet)
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Monday 20 March 2006 "More fighting and sacrifice will be required to achieve this victory, and for some, the temptation to retreat and abandon our commitments is strong." George Bush, Radio Address, March 18, 2006
    On March 19, 2003, George Bush "shocked and awed" the world by his premature, if not wholly unnecessary, invasion of Iraq. I can remember that night when he came on to tell us that he had begun his war crimes against Iraq in earnest. I was sitting on my couch sobbing for the (…)

  • Iraq War as Unpopular as Vietnam: Experts
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    Published on Thursday, March 23, 2006 by Agence France Presse
    WASHINGTON - The Iraq war is now as unpopular at home as the Vietnam war was in 1968, but in the absence of a military draft and a clear way out, Americans are not taking to the streets, analysts say.
    Protests marking the third anniversary of the war drew less than 10,000 people in major US cities over the weekend, according to reporters and police counts-despite polls showing broad public displeasure with the war.
    Compared (…)

  • Israel Lobby Dictates U.S. Policy, Study Charges by Emad Mekay
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Thursday, March 23, 2006 by Inter Press Service
    WASHINGTON - "This situation has no equal in American political history," says the 83-page study, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy".
    "Why has the United States been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of another state?" ask authors John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (…)

  • It’s criminal By Scott Ritter
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    03/22/06 "Alternet" — — As America reaches the third anniversary of President Bush’s decision to invade and occupy Iraq, there is for the first time the unsettling realization brought about by the clarity of acts that emerges only after the passage of time that something horrible has happened.
    This awakening of collective awareness on the part of the American people is reflected not only in the numerous polls which show President Bush’s popularity plummeting to all-time lows, largely (…)

  • The War Lovers By John Pilger 03/23/06
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ICH - NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON CNN
    — - -The war lovers I have known in real wars have usually been harmless, except to themselves. They were attracted to Vietnam and Cambodia, where drugs were plentiful. Bosnia, with its roulette of death, was another favorite. A few would say they were there "to tell the world"; the honest ones would say they loved it. "War is fun!" one of them had scratched on his arm. He stood on a land mine.
    I sometimes remember these almost endearing fools when I (…)

  • In The Name of God by Anwaar Hussain
    23 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    In a screaming instance of a heart rending paradox in the Muslim world, an Afghan convert to Christianity is to be tried in a Kabul court for apostasy, a ’crime’ that is punishable by death in that country. Despite clear injunctions in the Quran that "there is no compulsion in religion" and "to you your own religion and to me, mine", an innocent man may be executed while we stand by and watch this gruesome charade in the name of God. The Muslim moderates, of course, continue to remain (…)

  • March 23, 2006 — White House insiders report
    23 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 18, 2006 — More testimony on Custer Battles fraud in Iraq involving the Iraqi Currency Exchange (ICE) project. Testimony of retired General Hugh Tant and others prove damaging to GOP-linked contracting firm. Details of Custer Battles Enron-like offshore subsidiaries revealed. A tangled web of shady firms with names like Laru, Custer Battles Levant, Relief Solutions, Blue Sky, Red Sea Cabins, Saudi Arabian Trading Company (SATCO), MT Holdings, and a relationship between Custer Battles (…)