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  • More in Congress want Iraq exit strategy
    12 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — Faced with plummeting public support for the war in Iraq, a growing number of members of Congress from both parties are reevaluating the reasons for the invasion and demanding the Bush administration produce a plan for withdrawing US troops. Article Tools
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  • GULAG, SHMOOLAG
    12 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Fisher
    When Amnesty International described U.S. anti-terrorist prisons as “the Gulag of our time”, it gave the Bush Administration the ideal gift for the politician who has nothing: An opportunity to change the subject.
    Its over-the-top and historically dubious language allowed the president, the vice-president, the secretary of defense and many other Bushies to get everyone focused on syntax and away from the prisoner abuse issue.
    This is the second goodie the (…)

  • French hostage released in Iraq
    12 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A French journalist and her Iraqi driver were released after being held hostage for five months in Iraq, France’s foreign ministry said on Sunday.
    "Florence Aubenas is on her way to France," a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry told Reuters, adding the reporter would arrive at Villacoublay airport outside Paris later in the day.
    Her Iraqi driver Hussein Hanun al-Saadi was also released, she said. He would stay in Iraq with his family.
    Aubenas, who works for French newspaper (…)

  • Twenty five U.S. soldiers killed this week in Iraq
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Twenty five U.S. troops have died this week in separate incidents in war-torn Iraq.
    Five U.S. Marines, most in their early 20s, were killed in a roadside blast in western Iraq Thursday.
    The attack came in the Anbar province where 17 Iraqis had been blindfolded and executed. Their bodies were found on Friday.
    U.S. officials said the Marines killed were engaged in combat operations in Haqlaniya.
    They were Lance Cpl. Dustin V. Birch, 22, of Saint Anthony, Idaho, Lance Cpl. Daniel (…)

  • Kucinich/Abercrombie need help addressing concerns about Iraq Withdrawal
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Now’s the chance to explain to some congresscritters how you feel about the need to bring the troops home, and the truth about what is happening in Iraq. Some congresscritters are evil, true...however some are good people who blindly trusted the president. They have been watching too much Corporate News and have no clue what is really happening. These are the people we need to reach...in a respectful manner. Many are probably incredibly embarrassed they have been lied to and have been (…)

  • When Will Americans Punish Bush For His Errors?
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When Will Americans Punish Bush For His Errors? M’Hamed Ben Youssef Tunis Hebdo - June 6-June 12 Issue The question on lips everywhere lately, since the number of daily deadly attacks is rising rapidly, is “where is Iraq going?” According to a secret Pentagon report that appeared in the Cairo paper “El Isboui,” more than 15,000 guerilla attacks against coalition units have been recorded in nine months (from July 2004 to March 2005). The capital of Baghdad alone has seen nearly 3,500 (…)

  • Marines "Beat US Workers" In Iraq
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Marines "Beat US Workers" In Iraq Jamie Wilson in Washington Thursday June 9, 2005 A group of American security guards in Iraq have alleged they were beaten, stripped and threatened with a snarling dog by US marines when they were detained after an alleged shooting incident outside Falluja last month. "I never in my career have treated anybody so inhumane," one of the contractors, Rick Blanchard, a former Florida state trooper, wrote in an email quoted in the Los Angeles Times. "They (…)

  • Bush’s Politics of Fear: Neocon-Patriotism Only Acceptable Ism
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Knowledge is the antidote to fear." Emerson
    Two years ago, shortly after American troops "had taken" Baghdad, Stefan, my Greek economist-friend and former classmate at UCLA, paid me a short visit. During his stay, the topic of Bush’s lunacy occupied much of our time together and, for once, found us in synchronized agreement as to this folly?s likely outcome.
    Not my intent, however, to recount our castigation of Iraq’s invasion, or the prophetic pronouncements we both made on the WMD (…)

  • What Did Bush Decide and When Did He Decide It?
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Downing Street Memo reported that in a July 23, 2002 meeting between Prime Minister Blair and his war cabinet, attendees of the meeting discussed the fact that President Bush had already made up his mind to attack Iraq. According to the minutes of the meeting:
    “There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action.”
    Yet, as the record below proves, President Bush claimed over and over after July (…)

  • US Army hhires firms to sway Afghans and Iraqis with outsourced Propaganda
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Friday, June 10, 2005 by the Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia) Psychological Warfare Effort to be Outsourced Army command hires three firms to sway Afghans and Iraqis by James W Crawley WASHINGTON — The U.S. Special Operations Command has hired three firms to produce newspaper stories, television broadcasts and Web sites to spread American propaganda overseas.
    The Tampa-based military headquarters, which oversees commandos and psychological warfare, may spend up to (…)