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  • The deserters: Awol crisis hits the US forces
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    As the death toll of troops mounts in Iraq and Afghanistan, America’s military recruiting figures have plummeted to an all-time low. Thousands of US servicemen and women are now refusing to serve their country. Andrew Buncombe reports
    16 May 2005 - Sergeant Kevin Benderman cannot shake the images from his head. There are bombed villages and desperate people. There are dogs eating corpses thrown into a mass grave. And most unremitting of all, there is the image of a young Iraqi girl, no (…)

  • Cracks in Bush War Congressional Support Becoming Evident
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Remember the blue dress?
    Some Republicans Secretly Meeting About Bush Lies and Exit Strategy
    Democrats Demand Explanation for Bush ’Fixing’ Intelligence
    Occupation-related violence increases US and Iraqi Deaths
    Time for Impeachment?
    The last few weeks have not been good ones for the war effort. Despite being given every huge military budget he has requested by Congress, President Bush can no longer credibly claim to be winning the war. ABC News reported last week that an unnamed (…)

  • 21 days left before war with Iran
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Are we going to stand idly by as more sovereign countries are attacked? This farce has nothing to do with getting rid of nuclear weapons in the Middle East or else the US would shut down the billions of dollars of aid that Israel receives. Money that is funneled into its massive chemical, biological and nuclear arsenal, which is turning Israel into a dominant superpower. Their military & political might remains unchecked. They are in firm control of the world’s remaining superpower, the (…)

  • Time for U.S. to withdraw from Iraq
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Forty-one months after the United States entered World War II, we had achieved victory in Europe. We’ve been in Iraq for over half that period. What reasonable person would say we have reached the halfway point in Iraq?
    Today’s troops are just as brave, patriotic and capable as their WWII predecessors. They have already accomplished much. They deposed and imprisoned a tyrant. They have given ordinary Iraqis the chance to shape their country’s destiny.
    Nevertheless, the military (…)

  • What is the Downing St. Memo?
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Nobody wants to go to war. We trust our leaders to shed blood in our name only when absolutely necessary. Two years after the start of the Iraq War, on March 20, 2003, Americans are just learning that our government was dead set on taking our nation to war, even while it claimed to be pursuing diplomacy.
    The Downing Street Memo, recently leaked, reveals that President George W. Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in summer 2002 and?determined to ensure that U.S. (…)

  • Bush Sold the War on WMDs, Not Regime Change
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    With embarassing new revelations on WMDs emerging, and Bush poll numbers slipping, the president’s supporters in the press argue that he actually sold the war to the public on the basis of freedom for the Iraqis, not on a WMD threat to Americans. A look at Bush’s final messages to the public and to Congress just before the war began prove otherwise.
    By Greg Mitchell
    (May 15, 2005) — Ever since it became apparent, almost two years ago, that Saddam Hussein held no weapons of mass (…)

  • DIPLOMACY WITH IRAN IS OVER
    16 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Diplomacy’s Over
    NATIONAL REVIEW MAG.
    (http://www.nationalreview.com/editorial/editors200505161044.asp)
    For a brief moment last week it looked as though Europe’s tireless efforts to bribe Iran into giving up key parts of its nuclear program had finally come to an end. After the latest round of negotiations concluded in deadlock, Iran threatened to resume suspended fuel-cycle activities, prompting the Europeans to suggest they were ready to get tough. “...We certainly will support (…)

  • Newsweek report on Quran matches many earlier accounts
    16 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    RAW STORY
    Contrary to White House assertions, the allegations of religious desecration at Guantanamo published by Newsweek May 6 are common among ex-prisoners and have been widely reported outside the United States, RAW STORY has learned.
    Advertisement Several former detainees at the Guantanamo and Bagram airbase prisons have reported instances of their handlers sitting or standing on the Quran, throwing or kicking it in toilets, and urinating on it.
    Where the Newsweek report likely (…)

  • American’s Right to Know War News
    16 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sunday, May 15, 2005 - An astonishing message came forth on May 12, 2005 from ABC News political unit’s The Note. I shall quote verbatim from Mark Halperin and his associate editors: "We say with all the genuine apolitical and non-partisan human concern that we can muster that the death and carnage in Iraq is truly staggering. And/but we are sort of resigned to the Notion that it simply isn’t going to break through to American news organizations, or, for the most part, Americans." (…)

  • Iraq is a bloody no man’s land. America has failed to win the war.
    16 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq is a bloody no man’s land. America has failed to win the war. But has it lost it?
    Ten US troops were killed in action across Iraq last week. The fighting is now sustained and ferocious. Patrick Cockburn, winner of the Martha Gellhorn prize for journalism, reports from the frontline of America’s war on terror
    15 May 2005
    "The battlefield is a great place for liars," Stonewall Jackson once said on viewing the aftermath of a battle in the American civil war.
    The great general meant (…)