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  • US mly presence in Kyrgyzstan will end
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    MOSCOW: There is "no doubt" that the US military presence in Kyrgyzstan will end as the new leadership in the Central Asian state does not intend to allow it to continue indefinitely, a top Russian lawmaker said on Friday.
    "In the eyes of the new Kyrgyz leadership, the issue of the withdrawal of the Americans must be resolved when the time comes," Sergei Mironov, leader of the upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, told a small group of journalists.
    For the (…)

  • GOOD REASONS WHY BUSH INVADED IRAQ
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHY BUSH INVADED IRAQ
    By Peter Fredson
    I looked at some of my files on the Bush War with Iraq. I wanted to find good reasons why Bush, or anyone, would declare war, cause death and destruction, incur enormous expense, and generate endless hatred and revenge. I don’t know how many are “legitimate”, if any, but here are some reasons I found in the news, on blogs, and in commentaries.
    TOP REASONS THAT GEORGE W. BUSH INVADED IRAQ Because he couldn’t catch Osama bin Laden Because he didn’t (…)

  • Former aide: Powell WMD speech ’lowest point in my life’
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (CNN) — A former top aide to Colin Powell says his involvement in the former secretary of state’s presentation to the United Nations on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was "the lowest point" in his life.
    "I wish I had not been involved in it," says Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, a longtime Powell adviser who served as his chief of staff from 2002 through 2005. "I look back on it, and I still say it was the lowest point in my life."
    Wilkerson is one of several insiders interviewed for the (…)

  • Death of Iraqi brothers sparks anti-U.S. rage
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michael Georgy
    BAGHDAD - An angry Iraqi crowd carried coffins through a Baghdad district on Thursday and threw rocks at American soldiers, accusing U.S. troops of killing three innocent middle-aged brothers, one of them in a wheelchair.
    The U.S. military said they had killed three "terrorists".
    "They call everybody terrorists but they just commit terrorist acts whenever they want," said Mohsen Thabit, a friend of the men whom neighbours found shot in the head at home after a raid by (…)

  • Make sure ’Gaza first’ is not ’Gaza last’
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mustafa Barghouthi
    RAMALLAH, West Bank As Palestinian factions vie for credit for Israel’s disengagement from Gaza, many forget that the success really belongs to the ordinary men, women and children of Palestine who have remained in their homeland during 38 years of devastating occupation and clung to the belief in the justice of their cause. The disengagement is a direct result of their patience and resilience, and now the occupation has only one direction to go - backward. Serious (…)

  • Vietnam, Reloaded
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Steven LaTulippe
    Scanning the news these past few weeks has been somewhat of a surreal experience. Our cowboy president has been holed up in his Texas ranch trying to put a positive spin on his seemingly endless military conflict in the East. Jane Fonda has been taking flak for her planned antiwar bus excursion, and the Rolling Stones are kicking off a huge summer concert tour.
    It’s like we’re all living inside an episode of a new tragic sitcom called That 60s Show. One could even (…)

  • Mother of soldier killed in Iraq launches bid for war legality inquiry
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The mother of a Scots soldier killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq has helped launch a legal bid to secure an independent inquiry into the legality of the war. Rose Gentle, whose son Gordon was just 19 when he died, joined the families of 17 other servicemen at the High Court in London where they are seeking a judicial review of the Government’s decision to refuse an inquiry.
    In war, casualties can be expected, but the parents at the High Court today believe the war in Iraq was illegal and (…)

  • Politics of War Could Pivot on Mother’s Vigil
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy Sheehan is filling a void for those opposed to Bush’s Iraq policies. But he may benefit too.
    By Ronald Brownstein, Times Staff Writer
    WASHINGTON - The high-profile vigil near President Bush’s Texas ranch by Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq last year, could scramble the politics of the war as much for her allies as for the target of her protest.
    An immediate effect may be to increase the pressure on liberal activist groups and Democrats - who have focused (…)

  • New Abuse Photos Could Spark Riots, US General Warns
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    Civil libertarians and the Pentagon appear headed for yet another trainwreck in the ongoing dispute over the so-called second batch of photos from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
    In response to a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Centre for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and a number of medical and veterans groups demanding release of 87 new videos and photographs depicting detainee abuse at the now infamous prison, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of (…)

  • Bush: Victory Means Exit Strategy
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President must explain why he changed his mind
    by Jennifer Monroe
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 08/18/05 — In 1999, George W. Bush criticized then-President Bill Clinton for not setting a timetable for exiting Kosovo, and yet he refuses to apply the same standard to his administration’s illegal war.
    "Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." —George W. Bush, Houston Chronicle April 9, 1999
    "If we (…)