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  • 42,000 troops deployed in six `rings’ to carry out pullout
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Amos Harel
    At midnight on Sunday, the Kissufim crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip will be closed to all Israeli civilian traffic, and on August 15, early Monday morning, a year and a half after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced his plan, the disengagement will begin.
    About 42,000 soldiers and police officers, divided into at least five divisional command centers, will be deployed. The total number of people involved in the operation could reach 53,000 if additional units (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan : the Amazing Hypocrites
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Cindy Sheehan
    Wednesday 22 March 2005 - This past weekend was the two-year anniversary of the beginning of "shock and awe" of the US Government’s aggression in Iraq. If all you did was watch CNN, FOX News, or MSNBC, you would never have known.
    There were protests all across our nation. CNN called the over 800 protest events "barely a ripple." I spoke at a protest in Fayetteville, North Carolina where there (…)

  • Bush and Blair in the Land of Make Believe - Iraq: the Unwinnable War
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By PATRICK COCKBURN
    The Duke of Wellington, warning hawkish politicians in Britain against ill-considered military intervention abroad, once said: "Great nations do not have small wars." He meant that supposedly limited conflicts can inflict terrible damage on powerful states. Having seen what a small war in Spain had done to Napoleon, he knew what he was talking about.
    The war in Iraq is now joining the Boer War in 1899 and the Suez crisis in 1956 as ill-considered ventures that have (…)

  • Psychoanalyst Stephen Soldz on Torture at Abu Ghraib
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Welcome to Talk Nation Radio produced in New England at WHUS Storrs.
    Talk Nation.org for news and discussion on politics, human rights, and the environment.
    I’m Dori Smith
    Our guest today is
    Stephen Soldz of Roslindale Neighbors for Peace and Justice.
    He describes himself as a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, and social activist, and while teaching at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis he also finds time to write and perform research duties on a web page he (…)

  • The Iraqi People Stand With Cindy Sheehan- End The Occupation Now!
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Majorities of both Sunni Arabs (82%) and Shiites (69%)
    Favor U.S. forces withdrawing either immediately or after
    an elected government is in place."
    http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.... Zogby Poll
    The crowd responded by chanting: "Yes, yes to elections! No, no to occupation!"
    "What our religious leadership is doing today is at the heart of its mandate," cleric Faras al-Tatrasani, 36, said. "We are http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/... demanding democracy. And that’s what (…)

  • Vacation From Reality
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Bush is on vacation in Crawford, Texas, taking the same August-long break that he did in the summer before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The appeal of Crawford appears to be that it provides the President with an opportunity to put aside all the troubles of the world and to focus on fixing fences and clearing brush. After all, it was during his previous vacation that Bush ignored an August 6, 2001, briefing document titled: "Bin (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan’s Message Repudiates George Bush — and Howard Dean
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In 1972, after many years of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg wrote: “In that time, I have seen it first as a problem; then as a stalemate; then as a crime.”
    That aptly describes three key American perspectives now brought to bear on U.S. involvement in Iraq.
    The moral clarity and political impacts of Cindy Sheehan’s vigil in Crawford are greatly enhanced by the basic position that she is taking: U.S. troops should not be in Iraq.
    Sheehan’s (…)

  • Smearing Cindy Sheehan
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Conservatives are attacking her as a dupe of the left who’s exploiting her dead son. Some relatives have piled on too. But the grieving mother says her well-timed Crawford visit is "my idea, my mission, my vision."
    By Farhad Manjoo
    Aug. 13, 2005 | August was supposed to have been a quiet month for George W. Bush. Last year, the president cut short his customary weekslong vacation in order to campaign for reelection, so this year, unencumbered, he’d planned to spend more than a month in (…)

  • It is not only Iraq that is occupied. America is too
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My country is in the grip of a president surrounded by thugs in suits
    By Howard Zinn
    08/12/05 "The Guardian" — — It has quickly become clear that Iraq is not a liberated country, but an occupied country. We became familiar with that term during the second world war. We talked of German-occupied France, German-occupied Europe. And after the war we spoke of Soviet-occupied Hungary, Czechoslovakia, eastern Europe. It was the Nazis, the Soviets, who occupied countries. The United States (…)

  • The Murder of Casey Sheehan
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Marjorie Cohn
    For seven days, Cindy Sheehan has been camped down the road from George Bush’s Crawford ranch where the President is on a five-week vacation. Cindy says she will never enjoy a vacation again. Her heart is broken. Her precious son Casey was murdered in George Bush’s war on Iraq.
    Cindy Sheehan is a patient woman. She will wait until Bush comes out and talks to her. She will wait until the man who ordered the invasion of a country that posed no threat to us explains why (…)