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• Media Black Out Downing Street Minutes
  1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  Aggressive followers and participants in U.S. politics often have strong opinions about the Downing Street Minutes. Most other Americans have not heard of or are not clear about what the Downing Street Minutes are.
  How is this possible? Here we have the official government minutes from a meeting of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top national security officials, including a briefing by Richard Dearlove, then-director of Britain’s CIA equivalent, MI-6, who had just returned from (…)

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• Fox News finally reports on Minutes/Memo-"Downing Street Memo Mostly Ignored in U.S."
  1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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  WASHINGTON - A British government memo that critics say proves the Bush administration manipulated evidence about weapons of mass destruction in order to carry out a plan to overthrow Saddam Hussein (search) has received little attention in the mainstream media, frustrating opponents of the Iraq war.
  The "Downing Street Memo" - first published by The Sunday Times of London on May 1 - summarizes a high-level meeting between Prime Minister Tony Blair (search) and his senior national security (…)

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• My Own Recent Conversations With U.S. Soldiers
  1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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  This is an essay containing my own reflections of conversations I had this spring with active duty military persoonnel who have served in Iraq.
  I am a Navy Veteran. I served on the U.S.S. Yosemite, and in 1991 was deployed to the Persian gulf as a part of Operation Desert Shield. I recieved an honorable discharge in March of 1993.
  At some point during my service in the U.S. military, I realized that my own patriotism was being used against me to do the bidding of the rich elite that had (…)

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• Galloway Wary Of Staged Terror Attack As Pretext For Iran Invasion
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  George Galloway made worldwide headlines on May 17th when he appeared in front of a Senate committee on investigations, after its members accused him of profiteering from Saddam Hussein’s regime by receiving vouchers for oil, despite the fact that such allegations against Galloway had already been proven to be based on forged documents.
  Galloway did what no American on Capitol Hill could, he told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
  Galloway turned the tables and put the (…)

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• The Girlie-Bush Nuclear Option
  1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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  For the edification of a young writer on the BellaCiao website: "Ratification" is nowhere near the same word nor does it have anywhere near the same meaning as "Declaration." Remember The Constitution? "Congress SHALL declare war." The word "shall" does not allow any wiggle room, at all, but our cowardly Congress has found ways of squirming for more than 50 years, now. The last war that was legally declared by The United States of America was World War II when CONGRESS DECLARED WAR!! (…)

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• Minutes, not "memo"
  1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  AfterDowningStreet.org is calling them minutes, not memo...
  "THE DOWNING STREET MINUTES
  If any one looked objectively they would know.
  If anyone used a dictionary they would know.
  If anyone asked a secretary they would know.
  If anyone studied judiciously they would know.
  A memo is an inter-office communication.
  Minutes are the real-time record of a meeting, whose veracity is checked by all members attending, and are given to all members attending, and must be kept by all (…)

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• Military history of Hawaii...
  1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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  Warning for tourists.
  If you here about the Hawaiian Islands you assume this environment is tropical and not polluted.
  You think! Wrong!!!
  The military occupies huge chunks of the islands keeping Nukes and vast weapons in store.
  On the Big Island of Hawaii the have used Agent Orange and also Depleted Uranium.
  A corrupt government supports the military installations. And guess what our govenor
  Linda Linge is Jewish.
  The land was stolen from the native people of Hawaii and U.S. is (…)

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• The desecration of the Holy Quraan by USA troops
  31 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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  The desecration of the Holly Quraan by USA troops
  The issue of desecrating the holly Quraan by USA soldiers in Quantanamo prison is of a major concern to the muslim world . This incident reveals the attitude of the new conservative politicians in the US and shows how they look to the muslim symbols. . Whether the Newsweek journal declines or retards from certifying its former report, it should be asked , how a reputable journal can publish a report before it takes all measures to be (…)

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• National Catholic Reporter on The Downing Street Memo- Democracy Demands we Ask Questions
  31 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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  Back to the basic question on Iraq
  Perhaps it is unrealistic to expect a country hip deep in a war that seems to defy explanation — and that is going far worse than the Bush administration had ever anticipated — to stop and ask questions at this late date about why we are there.
  Asking such questions would mean retracing so many steps that feinted past so many obstacles that it would be difficult to establish what really happened. It’s much easier to simply buy the line that has evolved, (…)

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• Both Insurgents And US Forces Inflict Misery On Iraqis
  31 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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  Both Insurgents And US Forces Inflict Misery On Iraqis Fatih Abdulsalam May 29, 2005 Car bombs are the terrorists’ most dangerous weapon in Iraq. They have come to complement US troops’ crimes in humiliating Iraqis and violating their rights at home, on the street, at school and university.
  The terrorist scheme being implemented on our land is primarily directed against Iraqis.
  The shattered corpses of innocent Iraqis dotting streets in Baghdad and other places are not part of (…)

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