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  • US should pull out of Iraq now says former CIA chief John Deutch
    15 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON (AFX) - The US should cut its losses, pull out of Iraq promptly and never again use its military might to build a nation according to its own values, former CIA chief John Deutch wrote in The New York Times.
    US military presence in Iraq is harming US interests in the Arab world, detracts attention from other ’important security challenges... North Korea, Iran and international terrorism,’ and weakens the US military, said Deutch, who before heading the Central Intelligence (…)

  • IT’S THE OCCUPATION, NOT THE FUNDAMENTALISM
    15 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last month, Scott McConnell caught up with Associate Professor Robert Pape of the University of Chicago, whose book on suicide terrorism, Dying to Win, is beginning to receive wide notice. Pape has found that the most common American perceptions about who the terrorists are and what motivates them are off by a wide margin. In his office is the world’s largest database of information about suicide terrorists, rows and rows of manila folders containing articles and biographical snippets in (…)

  • Rumsfeld Fails to deliver benchmarks, in contempt of congress
    15 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    DEFENSE SECRETARY DON RUMSFELD FAILS TO GIVE WAR PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
    Under the provisions of the defense bill, Rumsfeld was supposed to give performance numbers
    WASHINGTON POST — President Bush is facing an early legal deadline to deliver what he has been most resistant to providing: a set of specific benchmarks for measuring progress toward military and political stability in Iraq.
    Two weeks ago, David Broder pointed out that the Bush administration would soon face a (…)

  • Blood Of The Innocents 32 CHILDREN KILLED IN BAGHDAD CAR BOMBING US Soldier Handing Out Sweets
    15 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Blood Of The Innocents 32 CHILDREN KILLED IN BAGHDAD CAR BOMBING US Soldier Handing Out Sweets
    By Grace Reid
    What is wrong with this picture?
    Yesterday a suicide bomber targeted an American soldier who was busy distributing candy to Iraqi children during a bomb alert. The soldier, the bomber and twenty four children were killed.
    This is the US armed forces, this is not the Red Cross/Red Crescent. Why would a US soldier be handing out sweets in the middle of a bomb alert? Why is (…)

  • CIA Veteran Ray McGovern: Cheney Caught in a Lie
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    From the transcript of Conyers June 16th Downing Street Memo Hearing.
    27 Year CIA Veteran Ray McGovern:
    I would like to publicly thank the patriotic, courageous whistle-blowers who made available these documents because through them and through of all people Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times we know the answers to a lot of these questions.
    By now you know what the Downing Street minutes say. Let me focus in on the phase the intelligence facts were fixed around the policy. How exactly is (…)

  • KARL ROVE Shows Osama: Bush Can’t Keep Word [w/ cartoon]
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush promised to fire whomever outted CIA operative Valerie Plame Bush. Karl Rove has been exposed as that person and Bush refuses to fire him. How good is Bush’s word to Osama bin Laden, Kim Jong Il (N. Korea), Hu Jintao (China) — or the American people?
    Bush said on February 10, 2004: "There are too many leaks of classified information in Washington. If there’s leaks out of my administration, I want to know who it is, and if the person has violated the law, the person will be (…)

  • War Crimes - Dahr Jamail - World Tribunal on Iraq
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In May of 2004 I was interviewing a man who had just been released from Abu Ghraib. Like so many I interviewed from various US military detention facilities who’d been tortured horrifically, he still managed to maintain his sense of humor.
    Beat prisoners
    He began laughing when telling of how US soldiers made him beat other prisoners. He laughed because he told me he had been beaten himself prior to this, and was so tired that all he could do to beat other detained Iraqis was to lift his (…)

  • JOE WILSON: ’The President should fire Rove’!
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Blogged by Brad on 7/13/2005 @ 2:45pm PT...
    The Ambassador Strikes Back, Answers to the Right Wing Spin Machine *** A BRAD BLOG EXCLUSIVE ***
    Ambassador Joseph Wilson fired back today at the Rightwing Spin Machine, which, having been issued marching orders late yesterday in a set of talking points from the RNC, is once again hoping to distract from the potentially treasonous crimes that George W. Bush’s top political operative and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove is being alleged to have (…)

  • Global Eye: Dark Waters
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last Friday, the former physician of ex-President George H.W. Bush wrote a guest column for The Washington Post. Two days later, the attorney general appointed by current President George W. Bush made a surprise visit to Baghdad. These seemingly unrelated events are not only inextricably linked; together they form a portrait of a nation gone wretchedly astray, hurtling into a moral void from which there may be no return.
    There was nothing unusual about the physician, Dr. Burton Lee III, (…)

  • Global Monetary System Is The Rrip-Off Of The Millenniun
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Did you really think that the rich world is/was recovering lately or perhaps did you miss this excellent essay put up on this site last Aril and entitlled: The New Slavery - The American dream” has been replaced by a whip?
    Whatever your response, excuses will not do you any justice whatsoever. Good, now that I have gotten you attention, let’s take a deep breath and take a glance at the true state of the world economy in a few headlines...
    Total America’s Debt, liabilities included: (…)