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  • Make EVERY Street DOWNING ST. Campaign & Other Activism
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hello boys and girls.
    Well, we had a brief glorious father’s day weekend when AP, USA Today, MSNBC, & ABC (among other MSM) broke-through and provided us with front-page coverage of The Downing Street Minutes and Briefings.
    How sweet it was!
    Now comes the really hard part — Keeping the DSM in the spotlight until George W. Bush is impeached. Already, there have been popular publications dismissing The Downing Street Memos as "old news" and pretending that there is "nothing to see (…)

  • Walter Jones, Patriot for Peace: Antiwar insurgency in the GOP
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The sounds of mortar fire punctuated the American soldiers’ words as he spoke in code over the radio: "Red on red." It was another day of Operation Thunderbolt, now ongoing near the Iraqi-Syrian border, but the insurgents weren’t firing at the Americans - they were battling each other.
    It’s red-on-red in America, too, as the split in the Republican party widens: what we’re seeing is the beginning of a political insurgency against the war coming from the Right. As our (…)

  • New report by Dahr Jamail: “Iraqi hospitals ailing under occupation”
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    * This report is submitted as evidence to the Jury of conscience during the culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq, Istanbul 23-27 June
    New report by Dahr Jamail: “Iraqi hospitals ailing under occupation”
    Bert De Belder
    From April, 2004 through January, 2005, Dahr Jamail surveyed 13 hospitals in Iraq in order to research how the healthcare system was faring under the US-led occupation. While the horrendous security situation in Iraq caused him to confine the survey to (…)

  • Former Unocal Official Zalmay Khalizad vows to crush Iraqi resistance
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New US ambassador vows to crush Iraq’s insurgency
    by Beth Potter- Baghdad
    The new US ambassador to Iraq said Tuesday he would work with the population to crush the insurgency that is throttling much of the country despite massive operations against the rebels.
    "I will work with Iraqis to break the back of the insurgency," said Zalmay Khalilzad, who presented his credentials to President Jalal Talabani on the way to Brussels for an international conference on rebuilding Iraq.
    "Foreign (…)

  • Why We Will Lose the War in Iraq
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Douglas Herman June 20, 2005
    Before the war in Iraq began—the covert black operation known as Operation Iraq Freedom—then-Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill predicted a cost of approximately $200 billion for the operation. The media storm that greeted his forecast cost O’Neill his job. Unfortunately, the meter’s still running, while the war machine idles at the curb, like an overheated Abrams tank. Now the estimate is $300 billion and rising.
    I’d rather be a Pollyanna than a Cassandra. (…)

  • Letter to Dana Milbank about the Downing Street Memo and Corporate Media Complicity in War Crimes
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To: milbankd@washpost.com, Sketch@washpost.com, ombudsman@washpost.com
    Mr. Milbank---
    Regarding Friday’s WashingtonSketch ("Democrats Play House To Rally Against the War"): what an offensive, intelligence-insulting, childish rant, totally lacking in professionalism and propreity. Give me a break.
    First of all, the Washington Post--- as well as much of the mainstream press--- seems more than a bit confused about the Downing Street Memo. (In this age where apparently the words (…)

  • Iraqi Lawmakers demand US forces withdraw from Iraq
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraqi lawmakers from across the political spectrum called for the withdrawal of foreign forces from their country in a letter released to the media June 19.
    The move comes as U.S. President George W. Bush is under increasing domestic pressure to set a timetable for the pullout of American forces in the face of an increasing death toll at the hands of insurgents.
    Eighty-two Shiite, Kurdish, Sunni Arab, Christian and communist deputies made the call in a letter sent by Falah Hassan (…)

  • Ending the farce
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is clear the insurgency, contrary to the Bush administration’s view, is homegrown and is exacerbated by every week longer that the U.S. occupies Iraq. American troops are still dying daily and the security situation in Iraq is still a mess two years after Saddam’s ouster.
    It is also clear now that ousting Saddam wasn’t the primary goal.
    The Bush administration has steadfastly refused to tell Americans the real reasons for invading Iraq: having a permanent U.S. military presence in the (…)

  • We’ve seen enough to impeach Bush
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As I said in this space two weeks ago, if Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about having sex with an intern, then George Bush needs to be impeached for the deliberate lies he and his cabal told to start a war that has now taken the lives of more than 1,700 young American men and women and countless Iraqi citizens, plus threatens to bankrupt the country.
    One of our "Sound Off" callers insisted last week that only "Bush haters" would say such things.
    Another took to task the Wisconsin (…)

  • US Asks Japan For Half A Billion Dollars For Missile Defense
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Asks Japan For Half A Billion Dollars For Missile Defense The Yomiuri Shimbun June 20, 2005 The United States has asked Japan to contribute 58 billion yen toward a joint missile defense development project expected to begin in fiscal 2006, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Sunday.
    The U.S. government estimates it will spend a total of 545 million dollars (about 58.3 billion yen) on the project by fiscal 2011 and it has requested Japan make an equal contribution.
    Japan contributed 26.2 (…)