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  • Soldier Reports More Abuses to Senator
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ERIC SCHMITT
    WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 - An Army captain who has reported new allegations of detainee abuse in Iraq met Tuesday with Senator John McCain and staff aides on the House Armed Services Committee and gave them additional accounts of abuse in Iraq that other soldiers had sent him in recent days, Congressional aides said.
    The officer, Capt. Ian Fishback, in a brief interview after his half-hour meeting with Mr. McCain declined to describe the new information he gave the senator or, (…)

  • Reaping the Bounty of Imperial Arrogance
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tuesday, October 04, 2005
    The occupation of Iraq by U.S. forces "fuels the insurgency." What’s more, the U.S. military occupation of Iraq foments terrorism throughout the entire Middle East.
    Think those are the conclusions of some Bush-hating, pinko-commie liberal? Perhaps, but think again. In fact, those were the assessments of Army General George Casey during his testimony to Congress on September 29, 2005. In his prepared remarks to the Senate Armed Services Committee, the top U.S. (…)

  • Unwinnable War
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The so-called war against terrorism is unwinnable. It was designed to be unwinnable so that it can be carried on for an indefinite duration and thus support the vast military-industrial-anti-terrorism complex. The end of the Cold War scared this complex half to death. It can only survive with an enemy at the gates.
    Conventional wars can be won because they are fought against governments. Either the enemy government can be destroyed or it is made to pay such a high price in casualties and (…)

  • New Avian Flu Coordinator Grossly Overstates Possible Death Toll First Day In Office
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHO Backs Away From 150 Million Flu Deaths The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday 2-7.4 million deaths was a reasonable working forecast for a global influenza pandemic — distancing itself from a top UN official’s figure of up to 150 million.
    Dr. David Nabarro, named on Thursday as the UN coordinator for global readiness against an outbreak, had said that the world response would determine whether a flu virus ends up killing 5 million or as many as 150 million.
    "There is (…)

  • How the world was duped: the race to invade Iraq
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How the world was duped: the race to invade Iraq.
    Exclusive extract from Robert Fisk’s new book (short version)
    When Colin Powell made his notorious final pitch for war at the UN Security Council, Robert Fisk was there. In the latest extract from his explosive new book, he recalls a tragi-comic occasion
    Published: 03 October 2005
    Read more exclusive extracts this week in The Independent
    The 5th of February 2003 was a snow-blasted day in New York, the steam whirling out of the road (…)

  • The Bush administration’s Top 40 Lies about war and terrorism
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    1) The administration was not bent on war with Iraq from 9/11 onward.
    Throughout the year leading up to war, the White House publicly maintained that the U.S. took weapons inspections seriously, that diplomacy would get its chance, that Saddam had the opportunity to prevent a U.S. invasion. The most pungent and concise evidence to the contrary comes from the president’s own mouth. According to Time’s March 31 road-to-war story, Bush popped in on national security adviser Condi Rice one day (…)

  • Top 10 Bad Reasons for "Staying the Course" in Iraq (and One Good One)
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jeff Huber 03 October 2005
    10. Democracy takes time. America needed 13 years to write its Constitution. The American Revolution analogy is ludicrous. Britain did not invade the American colonies in order to liberate us, and we did not ask them to stick around for more than a decade to help us form our government.
    9. If we leave now, we’ll embolden the terrorists. They’re not exactly shrinking violets now. The longer we’ve stayed, the bolder they’ve become.
    8. Withdrawing will show (…)

  • HOW MANY MORE FOR BUSH’S WAR?
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BRING THEM ALL HOME NOW!
    Marine Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder, left, and Lance Cpl. Christopher Dyer, far right, and unidentified Marines patrol through the city of Kubaysah in 2005 in western Iraq.
    Dyer and Schroder, members of 1st Squad, 3rd Platoon, Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment, were killed, along with nine other members of 1st Squad, in a roadside bombing near the city of Haditha on Aug. 3, 2005. This picture was provided by Capt. Christopher Toland, 3rd platoon (…)

  • Bush’s Stay out of Jail Card
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush’s Stay out of Jail Card
    In the high stakes game of Supreme Court Hold ’Em, Dubya has made a decisive and bold, yet defensive move. Has has gone "all in" and nominated his former personal lawyer, Harriet Miers, for the Supreme Court. What better way to avoid jail for war crimes, profiteering and conspiracy. Appoint your own lawyer to the bench. A truly brilliant maneouver even if Alberto’s really disappointed. Bush’s cronies can stop sweating now.
    ABC News: Who Is Harriet Miers? (…)

  • History of the War Machine
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This presentation comes from a wealth of sources, but I want to acknowledge the outstanding contribution by David Callahan, author of Dangerous Capabilities. For the sake of audio recordings, some of what I say will undoubtedly paraphrase his work, and-lest there be any misunderstanding-whatever overlap occurs between his work and my notes is to his credit and not mine.
    Today’s presentation provides information surrounding the co-opting of Cold War policies by post-Cold War (…)