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  • Iran War Clouds On the Harvest Moon - RUMSFELD: “10/12” IS IMMINENT
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Webster Griffin Tarpley
    Washington DC, Sept. 18 - The Bush-Cheney war drive continues unabated, despite hurricane Katrina. The US government continues to operate under Cheney’s order to prepare in the short term for the nuclear bombing of Iran in the wake of a new 9/11 of state sponsored, false flag synthetic terrorism, as revealed in late July by Philip Giraldi in The American Conservative.
    But Iran is not the only possible target in the wake of a new 9/11. Venezuelan President Hugo (…)

  • Reuters says U.S. troops obstruct reporting of Iraq
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The conduct of U.S. troops in Iraq, including increasing detention and accidental shootings of journalists, is preventing full coverage of the war reaching the American public, Reuters said on Wednesday.
    In a letter to Virginia Republican Sen. John Warner, head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Reuters said U.S. forces were limiting the ability of independent journalists to operate. The letter from Reuters Global Managing Editor David Schlesinger called on (…)

  • There Is No Iraq By Cenk Uygur
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Everyone is wrong — from the arrogant neo-clowns who brought you this war to the mindless bureaucrats who maintain it to the well-intentioned intellectuals that are grasping for a decent and humane way out. Humpty Dumpty has fallen off the wall and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Iraq back together again.
    Whether people want to leave or stay, the assumption is that they have what is best for Iraq in mind.
    But there is no Iraq.
    Today General Casey and General (…)

  • Ike Was Right About War Machine
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (CBS) The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney. It was first broadcast Oct. 2, 2005.
    I’m not really clear how much a billion dollars is but the United States - our United States - is spending $5.6 billion a month fighting this war in Iraq that we never should have gotten into.
    We still have 139,000 soldiers in Iraq today.
    Almost 2,000 Americans have died there. For what?
    Now we have the hurricanes to pay for. One way our government pays (…)

  • Shock and awe: the night Baghdad burned. Exclusive extract from Robert Fisk’s new book
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In an exclusive extract from his powerful new book about the Middle East, Robert Fisk watches in the Iraqi capital as the US air offensive begins in March 2003
    by Robert Fisk
    A pulsating, minute-long roar of sound brought President George W Bush’s crusade against "terrorism" to Baghdad. There was a thrashing of tracer on the horizon from the Baghdad air defences and then a series of tremendous vibrations that had the ground shaking under us, the walls moving, the sound waves clapping (…)

  • Bombers didn’t need al-Qaeda
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Burke
    It is tempting to see the bombs in Bali yesterday as part of the wave of attacks launched by the supposedly still omnipresent al-Qaeda. But Islamic militancy in Indonesia, and in the Far East generally, is not new. It certanly far pre-dates Osama bin Laden.
    Islam was a rallying flag for resistance to Dutch colonisation in the 17th century. Frequent suicide attacks involved young men charging headlong into the enemy ranks to kill as many as possible before being ’martyred’. (…)

  • Spineless, Tired and Uninspired. What Opposition Party?
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dave Lindorff
    Iraq War going to hell, with U.S casualties approaching 2000 dead and 25,000 wounded, at a cost of $200 billion and rising.
    Poverty in America on the rise in a period of supposed economic growth.
    Republican Party a cesspool of corruption.
    White House being investigated for outing undercover CIA agent.
    Abortion rights under serious threat, with the Supreme Court being packed with right-wing judges.
    New Orleans, just drying out from disastrous flood, being raped by (…)

  • Democrats Sink Deeper into the Ooze
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by ALEXANDER COCKBURN and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
    Away to prison for three years goes Lynndie England, her pleas for mercy ignored by the military judge in Fort Hood, Texas. So who are the penalized thus far to indicate America’s revulsion over the systematic use of torture by its own forces? It tots up to a handful of rednecks.
    Scot-free go those who inherited a secret system of torture that goes back decades and who ensured that its relentless and widening application would soon bring the (…)

  • On the recent killing "al-Zarqawi’s 2nd in command"
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ​​​"Does Zarqawi have an infinite supply of lieutenants/deputies/aides/associates/second-in-commands/etc., or do we just arbitrarily declare that every 100th insurgent we capture or kill is "a top aide" to Zarqawi? Below is an almost comprehensive list (I’m sure I missed a few) of Zarqawi’s "top lieutenants" we’ve captured, killed, or acknowledged over the last two and a half years. I count 33."
    Kiss of Death September 27, 2005
    Some ’Intelligence’ are intelligent enough to question this (…)

  • Flashback: Iraq war stories play tricks on the mind
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq war stories play tricks on the mind Anna Salleh ABC Science Online Monday, 7 March 2005
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    Many press reports during the Iraq war were later retracted (Image: iStockphoto) Research on the way people processed media reports about the Iraq war tells us more about how we create our beliefs and memories.
    Psychologist Professor Stephan Lewandowsky of the University of Western Australia and team report their study of more than 800 people from Australia, the US and Germany, in the (…)