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  • The Roller Coaster Ride
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Monica Benderman
    In an amusement park that I used to take our kids to, there was a roller coaster ride called the “Corkscrew.” It turned, and twisted and even reversed itself and went backwards after the first full cycle of track was completed. We would stand in line for an hour just to have a 3 minute ride, only to get back in the hour long line and do it again. We paid for this, and at the end of the day, I wondered why as we left the park with heads spinning and knees trying to (…)

  • In the Struggle Over the Iraq War, Women Are on the Front Line
    30 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ELISABETH BUMILLER
    WASHINGTON
    As President Bush traveled around the country last week, he got caught up in a battle of women.
    Women - mothers and widows of men killed in Iraq - were the most vocal leaders of antiwar protests in Texas, Idaho and Utah that dogged Mr. Bush all week. Another woman, Tammy Pruett, whose husband and five sons have served in Iraq, was showcased by the White House as a pro-war counterpoint.
    The tableau was a striking change from the 1960’s protests against (…)

  • UNTANGLING THE BALL OF BUSH LIES
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UNTANGLING SOME BUSH LIES
    By Peter Fredson
    Let me see if I can untangle the huge knot of lies that Bush has made into a large sticky ball.
    He has claimed a dozen or so times that he "wants to stay the course."
    By that he means he intends to stay in Iraq, a foreign country which up until a few years ago was a sovereign country. Bush says that he must "stay the course" because he has to kill "insurgents" in Iraq, before they decide to come here. He wants to attract them to Iraq, by (…)

  • Dear Settlers : "Dear" in the most literal sense
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    At long last it must be spelled out, without hypocritical pity, without "if" and "but".
    We have paid billions of shekels in order to settle you in the Gaza Strip. We have paid billions to keep you there, and most of you have lived there at our expense. We paid billions to defend you, and dozens of soldiers, male and female, lost their lives doing this. Now we are paying billions (Eight? Ten? Twelve?) to get you out of there and pay you generous compensation.
    But all this (…)

  • CIA Faked Lockerbie ’Evidence’
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former Scottish police chief confirms U.S. wrote the script to incriminate Libya
    by Jennifer Monroe
    EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND — (OfficialWire) — 08/29/05 — A retired Scottish police officer has come forward to provide a signed statement corroborating the belief that vital evidence used to convict Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi for mass murder in 2001 was fabricated.
    Al-Megrahi was found guilty for the murder of 270 people who died when on December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over (…)

  • Exclusive: Downing Street reporter dissects pre-war Iraq intelligence
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Michael Smith
    Details ’chill factor’ imposed around Iraq intelligence; Putting Downing Street docs in perspective
    LONDON — "The [U.S. WMD] Commission found no evidence of political pressure to influence the Intelligence Community’s pre-war assessment of Iraq’s weapons programs."
    That is only one of a number of strange conclusions by those charged with investigating the way flaky intelligence was used to justify the 2003 Iraq War.
    The most vociferous advocates of an attack on Iraq (…)

  • Impeach the criminal-in-chief
    27 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    August 26, 2005-Although the revelation received predictably little attention in America’s corporate media on May 1, the Times of London reported on a top secret internal British government memo that proves that George W. Bush was lying through his teeth when he took this nation to war in Iraq.
    The leaked memo is now known as the "Downing Street Memo," referring to the prime minister’s residence. Its authenticity has not been (…)

  • URGENT: House Investigation of Downing Street Minutes Nears Vote Deadline
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

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    Reported on Wednesday, August 24, by a meager number of media outlets (a search on Google News produced all of ONE result, this, from Political Affairs Magazine) Congressman Jim Leach (R) of Iowa has become the first Republican to publicly announce that he would cosponsor the bill (H. Res. 375) by representative Barbara Lee (D) of California.
    The bill, a resolution of inquiry, introduced by Lee in the House of Representatives on July 20, 2005 and referred to the Committee on (…)

  • SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, FEEL NO PAIN
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, FEEL NO PAIN : CAUSE WE KILLED ALL THEM EVIL INGRATE MUSLIMS.
    By Peter Fredson
    A Slight Satire
    I once lived in Texas and know what them Bush whacker critters in Crawford think. Fer instance:
    Yeah, we brought them Iraqi bastards freedom and democracy, and got precious little thanks for it. We did it with 140,000 soldiers, Humvees, helicopters, fighter jets, cruise missiles, heavy tanks, large cannon, grenades, automatic rifles and all that other peacemaking (…)

  • ’Protesters embolden terror’: Bush - it
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    comment: Now Bush is dishonoring Iraq veterans that speak out who are fighting his wars of agression. What a guy! So why doesn’t he say that to Cindy’s face? Coward.
    US President George W. Bush contrasted a military mother whose five sons and husband have served in Iraq with anti-war protestors he said risked emboldening terrorists.
    "There are few things in life more difficult than seeing a loved one go off to war. Here, in Idaho, a mom named Tammy Pruett ... knows that feeling six times (…)