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  • John Rendon - The Man Who Sold the War
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I find this very frightening.... The Man Who Sold the War Meet John Rendon, Bush’s general in the propaganda war By JAMES BAMFORD
    The road to war in Iraq led through many unlikely places. One of them was a chic hotel nestled among the strip bars and brothels that cater to foreigners in the town of Pattaya, on the Gulf of Thailand.
    On December 17th, 2001, in a small room within the sound of the crashing tide, a CIA officer attached metal electrodes to the ring and index fingers of a man (…)

  • Sen. Clinton says immediate withdrawal would be mistake - Newsday AP
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sen. Clinton says immediate withdrawal would be mistake By JIM FITZGERALD Associated Press Writer
    November 21, 2005, 6:11 PM EST
    RYE BROOK, N.Y. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would be "a big mistake."
    While professing "the greatest respect" for Rep. Jack Murtha of Pennsylvania, the ex-Marine who called for a troop pullout last week, Clinton said, "I think that would cause more problems for us in America."
    On the other hand, (…)

  • How U.S. Fell Under the Spell of ’Curveball’
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Iraqi informant’s German handlers say they had told U.S. officials that his information was ’not proven,’ and were shocked when President Bush and Colin L. Powell used it in key prewar speeches. By Bob Drogin and John Goetz Special to The Times
    November 20, 2005
    BERLIN - The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein’s suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush administration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated his (…)

  • The right to rule ourselves
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Faced with US torture, killing and collective punishment of civilians, support for the Iraqi resistance is growing
    by Haifa Zangana
    The photograph of an elderly Iraqi carrying the burned body of a child at Falluja, widely shown during the chemical weapons controversy of recent days, is almost a copy of an earlier one that Iraqis remember - from Halabja in March 1988. Both children were victims of chemical weapons: the first killed by a dictator who had no respect for democracy and human (…)

  • Break Up Cheney’s Cabal
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith
    Americans disapprove of the way President Bush is handling the situation in Iraq by nearly two to one, according to a new Gallop poll. A majority want US troops withdrawn from Iraq within twelve months—a higher proportion than wanted to withdraw from Vietnam in the summer of 1970. Catering to public sentiment, on November 15 the Senate voted 79 to 19 for a Republican resolution saying 2006 should be a year of "significant transition" for US withdrawal (…)

  • Kucinich Calls For Congressional Hearings On Vice President Cheney’s False Statements On The War
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - November 21 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich sent the following letter to Tom Davis, Chairman of the House Government Reform Committee:
    Dear Chairman Davis:
    I am requesting that the Government Reform Committee hold a hearing on the war in Iraq and specifically the role that Vice President Richard Cheney, and his staff, played in leading this nation to war.
    We now know that the Vice President, and his aides, were at the forefront of the Administration planning and execution (…)

  • Iraq fraud arrests expose criminality of US occupation
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The arrest this week of a private contractor and a former US government official in connection with a multimillion-dollar contract-rigging and bribery scandal has exposed a piece of the corruption and criminality that is pervasive in America’s continuing military occupation of Iraq. It has likewise offered a glimpse of the layer of con men and profiteers who have flooded into the country in the name of reconstruction and democracy.
    Formally charged on Thursday were Philip H. Bloom, a US (…)

  • Former soldier wins landmark case over Gulf War Syndrome
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A former guardsman suffering from Gulf War Syndrome has won a landmark legal case against the Ministry of Defence.
    Daniel Martin, 35, who has suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome, memory loss and impaired concentration since the 1991 conflict, will receive a disability award under the "umbrella term" of Gulf War Syndrome.
    He is one of 1,500 soldiers who made a claim for a disablement pension because of the syndrome, which, for the past 14 years, the MoD has said does not exist.
    A war (…)

  • Bush Misled by Chinese Door: Exit Plan Fails
    20 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President George W Bush tried to make a quick exit from a news conference in Beijing on Sunday - only to find himself thwarted by locked doors.
    The president strode away from reporters looking annoyed after one said he appeared "off his game".
    President Bush tugged at both handles on the double doors before admitting: "I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn’t work."
    Mr Bush flies to Mongolia on Monday to complete his East Asia tour.
    ’Jet lag’
    The president had called the news (…)

  • Neo-con wants to cut friendly ties with Saudi Arabia
    20 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — Former Department of Defense adviser Richard Perle, the immensely influential godfather of the neo-conservative movement, launched a public broadside against the alleged corruption of the Saudi Arabian government Thursday, and called on the United States to cease its friendly relations with Riyadh. Perle claimed Saudi Arabia was no ally of the United States and that the Saudi royal family had allowed terrorist ideology to flourish within its borders and beyond. He (…)