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  • We Gotta Get Out Of This Place:Insider Says Troops Want Out of Iraq Now
    5 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Nov 27, 2005 by egrass, Stevegilliard.blogspot.com [Excerpt]
    I’m back from Thanksgiving with my wife’s family and I’ve got some first-hand feedback from the troops on Iraq, leaving Iraq, and Murtha.
    You see, my wife is a former military officer and her brother is an active-duty Major, decorated Army Ranger, and West Point graduate with more than 15 years in and about to ship out to Afghanistan. My wife is a good liberal on military issues, while my brother-in-law has always been a (…)

  • Iraq’s largest Sunni Muslim group calls for release of hostages
    5 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Baghad - Iraq’s largest Sunni Muslim party called Saturday for the release of Western hostages in Iraq, saying such kidnappings tarnish the image of Islam and will have negative effect on those who call for ending the U.S. military presence.
    The Iraqi Islamic party cited the four members of the Chicago-based Christian Peacemaker Teams - two Canadians, a Briton and an American - who were taken hostage in Baghdad on Nov. 26. The kidnappers have threatened to kill them on Thursday if Iraqi (…)

  • Al Qaeda - The Database
    4 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Wayne Madsen Report - November 18, 2005
    Shortly before his untimely death, former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook told the House of Commons that "Al Qaeda" is not really a terrorist group but a database of international mujaheddin and arms smugglers used by the CIA and Saudis to funnel guerrillas, arms, and money into Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. Courtesy of World Affairs, a journal based in New Delhi, WMR can bring you an important excerpt from an Apr.-Jun. 2004 article by (…)

  • IRAQ: Strategic City Stabilization Initiative (Worth $1,020,000,000.00)
    4 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Just found this application on HuffPo. Thought it was interesting. Anyone out there looking for work? I did notice the last sentence under the "Description" regarding "no funds available yet".
    _ FGO for Applicants
    AID logo IRAQ: Strategic City Stabilization Initiative (SCSI)
    General Information Document Type: Grants Notice Funding Opportunity Number: RFA 267-06-001 Posted Date: Nov 30, 2005 Original Due Date for Applications: Jan 31, 2006 The Request for (…)

  • An Arab-American Priest, Depleted Uranium, and Iraq
    4 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Hirschfield
    TRAVELING around southern Iraq in the late 1990s to investigate the effects of U.N. economic sanctions on ordinary Iraqis, Jesuit Father Simon Harak stopped at a hospital in Basra. Meeting with him and his colleagues from the anti-sanction group Voices in the Wilderness, Dr. Jenan Hassan briefed them about the medical horrors she and other doctors were confronting as a result of the use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons by the U.S. Army in southern Iraq during the 1991 (…)

  • US: White phosphorus use legitimate
    4 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The top US general has defended the use of white phosphorus munitions in combat against Iraqi fighters as a legitimate tool of the military.
    Allegations that civilians were victims of white phosphorus bombs in the Falluja battle last year has put the spotlight on a weapon that showers down incendiary particles that burn right through skin.
    "A bullet goes through skin even faster than white phosphorus does," General Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a Pentagon (…)

  • FBI Reopens Inquiry Into Forged Niger Documents
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FBI Is Taking Another Look at Forged Prewar Intelligence By Peter Wallsten, Tom Hamburger and Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writers
    WASHINGTON - The FBI has reopened an inquiry into one of the most intriguing aspects of the pre-Iraq war intelligence fiasco: how the Bush administration came to rely on forged documents linking Iraq to nuclear weapons materials as part of its justification for the invasion.
    The documents inspired intense U.S. interest in the buildup to the war - and they led the (…)

  • Bush’s Bloody Strategy for Victory
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Matthew Rothschild
    We’re beginning to see the outlines of Bush’s military strategy in Iraq. It’s not withdrawal. Don’t kid yourself.
    Bush intends to prevail.
    While he may, under domestic pressure, bring 10,000 or 20,000 or even 50,000 troops home, he has no intention of ending this war.
    As Seymour Hersh notes in the latest issue of The New Yorker, Bush plans on replacing a reliance on U.S. troops with a reliance on U.S. bombers.
    "Departing American troops will be replaced by (…)

  • Is It Madness or Merely More Lying? The Hallucinations of Joe Lieberman
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By KEVIN ZEESE
    In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on November 28, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) put forward an argument for staying the course in Iraq. Of course, his argument in "Our Troops Must Stay" was filled with false information.
    Lieberman describes "real progress" and "self-securing nationhood." What are the facts? Rep. Murtha laid them out clearly saying the "war in Iraq is not going as advertised" and, more specifically:
    "Oil production and energy production are below (…)

  • It’s the Beginning of the End-For the Empire, Not Just the War
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Kim Scipes
    This past September, I wanted to write something about the juxtaposition of the extremely successful mobilization against the war in Iraq on September 24th with the failed mobilization the following day in support of the war. A phrase kept running in my head from someone progressives do not generally quote: Winston Churchill. After the British defeat of the German Afrika Korps in Egypt in November 1942, during World War II, Churchill stated, "Now this is not the end. It (…)