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  • Flashback: Senate told Saddam had WMDs and a fleet of UAVs capable of hitting the East Coast
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senator Ben Nelson
    I, along with nearly every Senator in this Chamber, in that secure room of this Capitol complex, was not only told there were weapons of mass destruction—specifically chemical and biological—but I was looked at straight in the face and told that Saddam Hussein had the means of delivering those biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction by unmanned drones, called UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles. Further, I was looked at straight in the face and told that UAVs (…)

  • America’s S.O.S to the IDF
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Amir Oren
    At the end of last month, Brigadier General Joseph Votel, a boyish-looking, tall and smiling American, made an urgent request to an old friend of his from Washington − also a brigadier general, but in the Golani Brigade rather than the Rangers − Nitzan Nuriel, the chief of the foreign liaison department of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. So urgent was the message that the Pentagon didn’t even update their military attache in Tel Aviv. Votel implored Nuriel to (…)

  • Not Doing Enough For Veterans
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The sad reality is that many of the soldiers serving today in Iraq and Afghanistan will join the ranks of those who call the streets of America home.
    by Nikos A. Leverenz
    On this Veteran’s Day, Americans are serving abroad far away from their friends and loved ones. Hopefully, each of them will return home safely, finish their commitments to the military, and move on to rewarding civilian lives.
    But the sad reality is that many of today’s service members, including those currently (…)

  • The Predators who rule the world
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Who are the neoliberals?
    The robber barons of old ruled their world. Today’s robber barons are much more powerful than those earlier titans, and they appear to be all but unbeatable.
    The planet is owned and ruled by the same people; not the heads of State, but the owners of the capital. State governments, if unyielding to the superior power of the capitals, run the risk of becoming figureheads in the claws of the neoliberals. Do what we tell you to do or we will unmask the vacuum behind (…)

  • Ex-Powell Aide Suggests Pre-War Memo Was Kept From Bush
    12 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Marc Perelman
    A former top official in the Bush administration is suggesting that a White House memo outlining the need for hundreds of thousands of troops for the Iraq invasion was kept from the president. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to then-secretary of state Colin Powell during President Bush’s first term, said in a November 7 speech that the National Security Council had prepared a pre-war memo recommending that hundreds of thousands of troops and other security (…)

  • Bush Forcibly Attacks Iraq Critics ‘rewriting history’ - what about the UAVs Mr. Bush?
    12 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The truth is that virtually everything Bush says is the exact opposite of the truth. The Patriots fighting to stop this war, this killing for profit, are not rewriting history- Bush is. Bush claims he didn’t lie, they used the best intelligence... bull- they lied, here’s some proof.
    1. "Someone" took the Senators into a closed door session and told them Saddam had UAVs capable of hitting the East Coast... shortly after they voted on the Resolution.
    Senator Bill Nelson (FL): I, along with (…)

  • Cheney’s Big Lie in 2002: Saddam’s Son in Law told us about Nukes- lie exposed before war
    12 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From the transcript of Conyers June 16th Downing Street Memo Hearing.
    27 Year CIA Veteran Ray McGovern:
    I would like to publicly thank the patriotic, courageous whistle-blowers who made available these documents because through them and through of all people Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times we know the answers to a lot of these questions.
    By now you know what the Downing Street minutes say. Let me focus in on the phase the intelligence facts were fixed around the policy. How exactly is (…)

  • A Year Later, Arafat Mourners Are Subdued
    11 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By GREG MYRE
    RAMALLAH, West Bank, Nov. 11 - One year after Yasir Arafat died and was buried in a tumultuous funeral, the crowd was far smaller and the mood subdued today at a commemoration service next to the former Palestinian leader’s grave.
    Mr. Arafat was the dominant Palestinian figure for nearly four decades, and his legacy lives on. His photo still hangs in government offices and shops, and many Palestinians describe him as a father figure.
    Yet public tributes and references to (…)

  • The Other Iraq
    10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.theotheriraq.com/images/...
    FINAL SCRIPTS “THE OTHER IRAQ” TELEVISION SPOTS U.S. SPOT # 1 “THANK YOU”
    VO NARRATOR:
    Saddam’s goal was to bury every living Kurd...
    He failed.
    KURD CITIZENS:
    “Thank you.”
    “Thank you, America.”
    “Thank you.”
    VO NARRATOR:
    The Kurds of Iraqi Kurdistan just want to say ‘thank you’...
    for helping us win our freedom.
    KURD CITIZENS:
    “Thank you for democracy.”
    “Thank you, America.”
    KURDISH HERO GIRL:
    “Thank you.”
    U.K. SPOT # 1 “THANK (…)

  • U.S. Reports Iraqi Civilian Casualties in Anti-Insurgent Sweep
    10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By KIRK SEMPLE and SABRINA TAVERNISE Published: November 10, 2005
    HUSAYBA, Iraq, Nov. 9 - The American military command revealed Wednesday that civilians had been killed and wounded in heavy fighting here in the past few days, the first such acknowledgment of civilian casualties since the anti-insurgent sweep of this town in western Iraq began last Saturday.
    The Marines said that, according to a witness, rebels broke into a family’s home, killed two of the occupants and locked the rest (…)