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  • Retired general: Iraq invasion was ’strategic disaster’
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    September 29, 2005
    WASHINGTON — The invasion of Iraq was the "greatest strategic disaster in United States history," a retired Army general said yesterday, strengthening an effort in Congress to force an American withdrawal beginning next year., Retired Army Lt. Gen. William Odom, a Vietnam veteran, said the invasion of Iraq alienated America’s Middle East allies, making it harder to prosecute a war against terrorists.
    The U.S. should withdraw from Iraq, he said, and reposition its (…)

  • (Karen) Hughes screws the pooch
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    For a good example of why foreigners hate or resent the U.S. government, one need look no further than Karen Hughes, Bush’s former political advisor who Bush hired as a U.S. government public-relations representative whose mission, ironically, is supposed to be improve the image of the U.S. government among foreigners.
    Hughes has been in Saudi Arabia lecturing Saudi women on why their way of life is not as good as that of women in the United States and why it would behoove them to copy the (…)

  • Global Eye: Captain Courageous
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published: September 30, 2005
    Quietly, firmly, relentlessly, the good captain laid out the list of atrocities committed at the order of the enemies of freedom: "Death threats, beatings, broken bones, murder, exposure to elements, extreme forced physical exertion, hostage-taking, stripping, sleep deprivation and degrading treatment." A catalogue of depravity, all of it designed — with diabolical sophistry — by self-exalted men cloaking their violent perversions with sham piety and righteous (…)

  • Israel Aid Escapes Cut in GOP Committee Proposal
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Israel Aid Escapes Cut in GOP Committee Proposal
    Post-Gaza aid not on agenda, but annual aid to Israel weathers storm
    Annual U.S. aid to Israel appears unlikely to fall despite the costs associated with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, but an extra aid package to smooth Israel’s Gaza Strip withdrawal is off the table for now. Yossi Bachar, director general of Israel’s Finance Ministry said Israel pulled its additional request for as much as $2.2 billion in post-Gaza aid because it would seem (…)

  • I stumbled across the PNAC, honestly thinking at the time it was someone’s idea of a bad gag
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Katrina Wilcox: An Interview with Mark Drolette
    Special BRAD BLOG / Velvet Revolution coverage
    of the Sep 24-26 Rally in D.C.
    Guest blogged by Katrina Wilcox
    We’re off to see our Representative today. While we’re away - here’s another interview for you. When I was desperately searching for something that would hold this administration accountable, I came across The March of the Madder’n Hells by Mark Drolette.
    http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=21662
    1. What caused you (…)

  • Congress Gives the Bushies $50 Billion For War (without even being asked)
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senate measure would push Iraq, Afghanistan war costs to $400 billion
    By Liz Sidoti The Associated Press
    WASHINGTON - The Senate would give President Bush $50 billion more for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of a $440 billion defense-spending measure a panel approved yesterday.
    The House already has approved $45 billion more for the wars as part of its $409 billion version of the bill providing money for the Defense Department for the budget year that begins Oct. 1.
    Both the (…)

  • Walter Wolfgang: ’We have been lied to about the war. I dared to speak the truth’
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Walter Wolfgang
    My case is not important. But what happened to me when I was ejected from the Labour conference - simply for a one-word protest during Jack Straw’s speech this week - tells us there is something deeply wrong with the culture of our Government under Tony Blair.
    We have been lied to about the war. But not only that. The party has been manipulated so that it has not been allowed to discuss the issue properly.
    Indeed, the Labour leaders have got so nervous of criticism (…)

  • What Opposition Party?
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    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 and civil liberties on the chopping block, with the Supreme Court being packed with right-wing judges.
    New Orleans, just drying out from (…)

  • John Nichols: GOP doves once cooed exit strategy
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s anti-war quiz time.
    Who made the following statement: "I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now."
    Was it: A. Cindy Sheehan? B. Phil Donahue? C. Michael Moore? D. A prominent politician who was not afraid to dissent in a time of war?
    Answer: D.
    Defenders of the occupation of Iraq have responded to last weekend’s large anti-war demonstrations - which saw (…)

  • The U.S. Has Plans to Invade Iran Before Bush’s Term Ends
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Gulf factor key to PM’s Iran vote decision
    Top-ranking Americans have told equally top-ranking Indians in recent weeks that the US has plans to invade Iran before Bush’s term ends. In 2002, a year before the US invaded Iraq, high-ranking Americans had similarly shared their definitive vision of a post-Saddam Iraq, making it clear that they would change the regime in Baghdad.
    http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050926/asp/nation/story_5284580.asp
    RECALL: US ’planned attack on Taleban’ (…)