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  • America’s Covert War in Iraq, by Mike Whitney
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Max Fuller has written the most disturbing and thought provoking article of the year. In his “Crying Wolf: Media Disinformation and Death Squads in Occupied Iraq”, (Global Research) Fuller painstakingly lays out the details and documentation to prove that the United States intelligence agencies are behind the vast incidents of murder and torture being carried out in Iraq today. If Fuller’s thesis is correct, then the War on Terror, that mighty engine of imperial carnage, is nothing more than (…)

  • Halliburton (KBR) workers in Iraq paid 50 cents an hour
    2 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) — While the United States spends billions on troop support in Iraq, the people serving the meals, scooping the ice cream, and washing the dishes make as little as 50 cents an hour.
    The U.S. military has paid Halliburton subsidiary KBR about $12 billion so far for so-called logistics support to U.S. military personnel in Iraq, the largest contract of its kind ever. Around 80,000 troops are served meals at dining facilities every day under the contract — the other (…)

  • Ex-Rep. Findley: “It’s Time to Exit Iraq!”
    2 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Hughes
    Washington, D.C. - On Dec. 1, 2005, a public hearing, sponsored by the Council for the National Interest, (CNI), was held on Capitol Hill, in Room SC-4 of the Capitol Building. (1) It dealt primarily with how the U.S. should exit from the immoral and unjust Iraqi War, which was launched based on a pack of lies. (2) The blood stained conflict has already taken the lives of 2,110 American military personnel, over 100,000 Iraqi civilians, and has cost the U.S. taxpayers (…)

  • Cabal of Criminality
    1 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Taken from www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    The Cabal of Criminality and Iraq
    The disaster in Iraq has continued to regress with the same velocity and intensity as when it first started, raging onwards in a classical resistance, guerilla-style form of urban warfare that usually befalls occupying invaders of alien lands, yet as 2005 ends and 2006 gets set to begin, in the minds of millions of Americans finally out of the hypnotic, denial-laced clouds of 9/11, the time has finally (…)

  • What Lost Iraq? How Ragtag Insurgents Beat The World’s Sole Superpower
    1 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    What Lost Iraq? How Ragtag Insurgents Beat The World’s Sole Superpower Ted Rall November 22, 2005 Most Americans were unaware that we had botched Afghanistan; most still are. I watched the Pentagon send in a miniscule 8,000-troop complement where, according to its top strategists, at least half a million occupation soldiers (stationed for at least 20 years) would have been needed to control the nation’s roads, pacify the provinces and establish the security essential for building an (…)

  • U.S Military Covertly Pays To Run Stories In Iraqi Press
    1 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S Military Covertly Pays To Run Stories In Iraqi Press Troops Write Articles Presented As News Reports. Some Officers Object To The Practice By Mark Mazzetti and Borzou Daragahi, Times Staff Writers November 30, 2005 Washington - As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
    The articles, written by U.S. military "information (…)

  • Only Chickenhawks Squawk for More War in Iraq
    30 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From KOS * johninwisconsin’s diary :: :: * Posted by: http://prissypatriot.blogspot.com
    Note: The ones yelling the loudest have never seen combat themselves.
    MILITARY SERVICE RECORDS
    DEMOCRATS:
    Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71. David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72. Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72. Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.
    Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g . Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, (…)

  • Hypocritical Democrats for the War After All
    30 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Democrats had devoted 100% of their energy to making us believe they were against the war and against Bush. It seemed that their extremely vigorous and self righteous assurances meant to many that they knew what they were talking about, and even that they had a plan to end the war one way or the other. They tricked a huge part of the electorate into thinking they were right. The Commander in Chief’s approval rating even went way down to around 36% while his troops are bleeding and dying (…)

  • Corrupt Congressman Cunningham illustrates how US ended up in Iraq
    29 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Crying in Public, Congressman Cunningham hoping to gain sympathy for his crimes against humanity, admits to taking bribes and resigns from congress. Does anyone believe this display of regret would have occured had he not been caught?
    from Washington Post
    Prosecutors said Cunningham, an eight-term House member, “demanded, sought and received” illicit payments in the form of cash, home payments, furnishings, cars and vacations from four co-conspirators, including two defense (…)

  • Military ethics scholar ’suicided’ in Iraq?"He’s the last person who would commit suicide"
    29 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - One hot, dusty day in June, Col. Ted Westhusing was found dead in a trailer at a military base near the Baghdad airport, a single gunshot wound to the head.
    The Army would conclude that he committed suicide with his service pistol. At the time, he was the highest-ranking officer to die in Iraq.
    The Army closed its case. But the questions surrounding Westhusing’s death continue.
    Westhusing, 44, was no ordinary officer. He was one of the Army’s leading scholars of military (…)