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  • The first, not the last throes
    26 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "The insurgency in Iraq is in its last throes." Vice President Dick Cheney, in May
    Even the Central Intelligence Agency now admits that Iraq is the new Afghanistan - breeding a new, lethal generation of jihadis. Iraq has also been the new Vietnam since the day the resistance was born, April 18, 2003, in front of the Abu Hanifa mosque in Baghdad. Iraq as the new Vietnam replays - in a new setting - the movie of a superpower being subdued by a guerrilla war. Remember former Iraqi deputy (…)

  • A former US Air Force pilot called on US troops in Iraq to "resist"
    25 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ISTANBUL (AFP, June 25, 2005)
    The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), an anti-war grouping of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), intellectuals and writers, heard witnesses condemn the United States for rights abuses and the worsening plight of Iraqi women.
    A former US Air Force pilot called on US troops in Iraq to "resist" the orders of their superior officers in an "illegal war" .../...
    World Tribunal on Iraq - http://www.worldtribunal.org/
    See also:
    – US caused more deaths in Iraq (…)

  • Cheney Delusional: We will succeed in Iraq, just like we did in Afghanistan
    25 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cheney: "We will succeed in Iraq, just like we did in Afghanistan"
    Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday defended his recent comment that the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes," insisting that progress being made in setting up a new Iraqi government and establishing democracy there will indeed end the violence — eventually.
    However, in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Cheney said he thinks there still will be "a lot of bloodshed" in the coming months, as the (…)

  • Beyond Impeachment: The Bush Administration as War Criminals
    25 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the wake of the Downing Street Memo and other leaked British documents created before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, many have begun to question the legality of the Bush administration’s actions. In particular, families of soldiers, a few Democratic senators, and hundreds of thousands of outraged Americans, are calling for an independent investigation of the Bush administration’s manipulation and outright fabrication of intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. The word "impeachment" (…)

  • Bush Says Iraqi Insurgents Fail to Stop Democracy From Emerging
    25 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    June 25 (Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush, previewing his speech next week to mark the anniversary of Iraq reclaiming its sovereignty, said insurgents in that country have consistently failed to undermine its emerging democracy.
    The terrorists’ objective is to break the will of America and of the Iraqi people before democracy can take root,’’ Bush said in his weekly radio address today.Insurgents have tried to achieve that goal before’’ and ``failed.’’
    U.S. forces have struggled to (…)

  • CAPITOL KABUKI
    25 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Fisher
    Senator Joe Biden has always been a favorite of mine. The Delaware Democrat is one of our most knowledgeable voices in foreign affairs. And he speaks plain English, not John Kerryish Senate-speak.
    Part of Biden’s ‘solution’ to our Iraq problem is his plea to President Bush to ‘level with the American people’. The president, he says, should go on primetime national television and tell us the truth about what’s going on in Iraq, what it means, what’s required of our (…)

  • Karl Rove is a liar
    25 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    In attacking liberals’ reaction to Sept. 11, Bush’s senior advisor once again resorts to McCarthy-style tactics.
    Karl Rove is a liar and a scoundrel. He is not a patriot but a pure partisan, as his own record proved long before now.
    The other night Rove lied about the liberal reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks and again exploited patriotism for narrow partisan advantage in a time of war. He seeks to divert public opinion from the failures of the Bush administration by suppressing dissent, (…)

  • Student Unions [in Iraq] Call for Withdrawal of Occupation Troops
    25 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Damn those ungrateful liberal commies, we’re freedomizing them!" - white house fly
    Friday, June 24, 2005
    Gilbert Achcar kindly sends along his translation of this newspaper article:
    ’ Student Unions [in Iraq] Call for Withdrawal of Occupation Troops
    Baghdad - Abdel-Wahed Tohmeh - Al-Hayat, June 24, 2005
    11 Student Unions approved the call made on al-Jaafari’s Government to set a timetable for the withdrawal of multinational forces and considered that the request made [by the (…)

  • Story of Inventing Insurgents Creates Allergic Reaction in the Press
    25 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I want to thank Liz Burbank for giving me the heads up on this story.
    June 24, 2005
    The stark but informative site Cryptome.org < http://cryptome.org/ > is carrying a story with photos of how a Marine unit gathered the bodies of teenage boys from a soccer field, and rounded up nearby living teenaged boys, and posed them all with weapons that the Marines already had ( http://cryptome.org/bkz/buhriz-kill02.htm ) .
    Before I riff a bit on this, let me suggest we cluster-blog these (…)

  • Iraqi PM is a US puppet- Opposed to US troop withdrawal deadline while Iraqi people want US to leave
    25 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq would like to see United States forces withdraw as soon as feasible, but setting a date for their departure would be a mistake, Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said in an interview published on Friday.
    "We would like to see the withdrawal of American forces as quickly as possible, because the presence of any foreign troops on our land means there is a weakness that we cannot by ourselves control the security situation," Jaafari said in an interview with The Washington Post. (…)