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  • Flashback: ’Iraq-Vietnam redux? A handy checklist’
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rich Procter: ’Iraq - Vietnam redux? A handy checklist’
    Smug, self-righteous, ideologues wielding unproven cocktail party geo-political theories to coerce reluctant Americans into war? Check.
    Original premise of war proven to be bogus long after country commits to ruinous quagmire? Check.
    Old men wave flag, young men die? Check.
    Sons (and daughters) of "Old Man Flag Waving Brigade" in government mysteriously absent from serving in military? Check.
    Leaders promise war as show of (…)

  • Why aren’t 350 bombs exploding simultaneously big news?
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By S. Rowan Wolf, Ph.D.
    August 23, 2005 (Uncommon Thought Journal)-On Wednesday August 17, 350 bombs exploded simultaneously across Bangladesh. The U.S. corporate media did a sound bite and the story disappeared. Even most of the international media have given the story short shrift.
    I am baffled as one would think that this would be top line news. Setting off 350 explosions in 50 cities across a country at the same time would seem to require a relatively large network of bombers and a (…)

  • MoveOn.org Should Listen to Their Members and Oppose the War
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tuesday, August 23, 2005
    Contacts:
    Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty@greens.org
    Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@greens.org
    While its members protest the Iraq occupation along with Cindy Sheehan, MoveOn.org itself favors continued occupation, say Greens.
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Green Party leaders are challenging MoveOn.org to support an immediate pullout of troops from Iraq.
    "MoveOn has done an admirable job of rallying people (…)

  • SPINNING THE WHEELS
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SPINNING THE WHEELS (A diffuse Rant)
    By Peter Fredson
    August 23, 2005
    It is not only Lance Armstrong that makes wheels spin. George Bush has determined not to let reality intrude on his fantasy in Iraq, so he and his thugs engage in spinning the truth like Whirling Dervishes. He has decided to wage an intensive personality campaign, manic in intensity, in which he struts, swaggers, grins, smiles broadly, gives bear-hugs, stares intensely to show sincerity, and does his level best to (…)

  • Why Are We In Iraq?
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The invasion not only killed innocents and decimated the country, it also empowered tyrants - so why are we still there?
    by Justin Raimondo
    The ugliness of the regime we have installed in Iraq has finally bubbled up to the surface, like the outbreak of an oozing syphilitic sore, and spilled over onto the front page of the Washington Post:
    "Shi’ite and Kurdish militias, often operating as part of Iraqi government security forces, have carried out a wave of abductions, assassinations, (…)

  • Prosecuting Bush in Canada for Torture
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On November 30 2004 Gail Davidson, co-chair of Lawyers against the War (LAW), filed an Informational Brief in the Provincial Court of B.C. charging George W. Bush as President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces with torture.
    When Davidson went to court on December 6th to secure a date for a process hearing, the Attorney General applied to declare the information a nullity on the grounds that, as head of state, Mr. Bush was immune from prosecution. In an (…)

  • I’ll sacrifice my whole family
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "If I have to sacrifice my whole family for the sake of our whole country and world, other countries that want freedom, I’ll do that."
    These are the dramatic words of former Marine Gary Qualls, whose son, Marine Lance Cpl. Louis Wayne Qualls, died in Iraq last fall at the age of 20. Qualls is a friend of Crawford gift shop owner Bill Johnson, who established the pro-Bush/pro-war camp that is now opposing Camp Casey in Crawford, Texas.
    Qualls, you’ll recall, is the man who removed the (…)

  • Is it Treason?
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Norman Grigg August 19, 2005
    Is public criticism of the Iraq occupation "treason," as the Bush administration’s most ardent defenders insist?
    "There are men walking around the streets tonight who ought to be taken out at sunrise tomorrow and shot for treason," complained former Secretary of War Elihu Root in late 1917. A close adviser to President Woodrow Wilson, Root was infuriated by the fact that some Americans opposed U.S. entry into World War I. Earlier that same year, (…)

  • Republican Senator Says U.S. Needs Iraq Exit Strategy Now
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Republican Senator Says U.S. Needs Iraq Exit Strategy Now The war has destabilized the Mideast and created a potential Vietnam, Nebraska’s Chuck Hagel says. Other lawmakers express frustration.
    By Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writer
    WASHINGTON - As President Bush prepared to hit the road this week to bolster public support for his policies in Iraq, a senior Republican senator said Sunday that the United States needed to craft an exit strategy because its continued presence had created a (…)

  • Iraq Dispatches: Urgent Humanitarian Crisis in Western Iraq
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    This is an appeal written by Iraqi Doctors concerning what is happening in western Iraq. It is both extremely informative as well as an important appeal. Operations in many of these areas are ongoing today, despite the fact that this press release is a week old:
    DOCTORS FOR IRAQ WARNS OF URGENT HUMANITARIAN CRISIS AS US/IRAQI MILITARY ATTACKS CONTINUE IN THE WEST OF IRAQ
    As US/ Iraqi military attacks continue in Haditha, Rawa, Parwana and Heet in the West of Iraq, Doctors for Iraq is (…)