Home > Keywords > International > International

International

  • Timetable: Six More Years In Iraq
    24 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Timetable: Six More Years In Iraq Richard Reeves June 23, 2005 NEW YORK - The words are almost always the same: "threat" ... "atrocities" ... "secret intelligence" ... "mission" ... "preventive" ... "fog" ... "brave" ... "terrorists" ... "Support our troops" ... "Stay the course" ... "waste"... "treason" ... "timetable" ... "withdraw" ... "tragedy." It usually takes about nine years to say them all. Americans said them about Vietnam between 1964 and 1973. The Soviets said them about (…)

  • The war president
    24 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    In this former imperial capital, every square seems to contain a giant statue of a Habsburg on horseback, posing as a conquering hero. America’s founders knew all too well how war appeals to the vanity of rulers and their thirst for glory. That’s why they took care to deny presidents the kingly privilege of making war at their own discretion. But after 9/11 President George W. Bush, with obvious relish, declared himself a "war president." And he kept the nation focused on martial matters (…)

  • Grilled Rumsfeld Anyone?
    24 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    Rarely in recent years has Washington seen so dramatic a clash between the legislative and executive branches as was witnessed Thursday, when U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, D-Masschusetts, went after Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the question of whether the Pentagon chief should resign for mismanaging the war in Iraq.
    "This war has been consistently and grossly mismanaged. And we are now in a seemingly intractable quagmire. Our troops are dying. And there really is no end in (…)

  • Anatomy of a Coverup
    24 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    June 23, 2005 - On May 1 the London _Sunday Times_ published leaked minutes — the Downing Street Memo — of a high-level British cabinet meeting held on 23 July 2002 that discussed contingencies, political and military, for invading Iraq.
    In the Cabinet meeting, C [the head of MI6, Richard Dearlove] ’reported on his recent talks in Washington’, where ’military action was now seen as inevitable’ and ’the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.’ In other words, the books (…)

  • Psychological Armor
    24 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    June 23, 2005
    JB Campbell
    Here’s one reason that so many American soldiers and marines have died in Iraq...
    Back in 1981, I was the head of a bulletproof car company in Monterey, California. We’d construct a box made of Lexgard inside a limo or regular car. It was pretty effective but difficult to install. Lexgard is General Electric’s transparent polycarbonate armor, very effective at stopping handgun bullets. If you put a hard surface in front of it, such as glass or sheet metal, it (…)

  • The Downing Street heroes: Couple’s web site kept issue percolating
    24 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON, June 23, 2004 — It began as a leaked commentary on the Bush administration’s confrontation with Iraq. In recent weeks, however, the so-called Downing Street Memo has become a rallying cry for critics of the war and the way the American news media have covered it.
    The memo, which some regard as evidence that the U.S. trumped up intelligence to justify its invasion of Iraq, might have been largely forgotten in the U.S. if not for a few people who took action while many in the (…)

  • Highest Ranking US Officer Killed in Iraq Was An Apparent Suicide
    24 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    8 comments

    Having followed the story of the death of Col. Ted S. Westhusing, the highest-ranking US officer killed so far in the Iraq, since June 5, the date he died, it is with a heavy heart and much trepidation that I have finally arrived at the conclusion you read in the headline, that Ted’s death was a suicide. Westhusing was a professor in the English Department at the US Military Academy at West Point who volunteered to go to Iraq.
    Officially, Ted died of a non-combat injury at Camp Dublin near (…)

  • Ann Wright on the Follies of Bush’s War
    24 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    One of the unsung heroes of the opposition to the Iraqi War is Ann Wright. Rather than support the war, she resigned her position with the State Dept. on March 19, 2003. Ms. Wright, a career diplomat for over 16 years, who had also served in the military, believes the Downing Street Memos have plenty of ammunition in them to support impeachment proceeding against President George W. Bush and criminal charges against others in his administration. On March 19, 2003, President George W. (…)

  • Censorship
    24 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    5 comments

    At long last, the culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq is upon us. As a witness providing testimony, like the other witnesses I’m being interviewed by many outlets. Today, one of them was by reporters for one of the larger newspapers in Turkey, the Yeni Safak Newspaper.
    I’ll leave the reporters nameless, for reasons you’ll soon see.
    The newspaper has been translating various articles of mine into Turkish and running them, particularly those concerning the most recent (…)

  • ’The lies of war can no longer be ignored by the press’
    24 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    3 comments

    Is the tide finally turning?
    Americans are now starting to learn what was in the Downing Street Memos. The memos provide confirmation for what those who opposed the war against Iraq knew from the start: the Bush administration wanted to invade Iraq even before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and the White House was simply looking for enough rhetorical fig leaves to cover their naked aggression.
    The Associated Press, the primary source of news for most of America’s print and broadcast media, (…)