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  • Not In Our Name, Mr. President
    23 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Not In Our Name, Mr. President 02-21-2005 An opportunity for productive social outreach looms on the horizon. A day is coming - maybe in weeks, maybe in months or maybe in years - when President Bush’s true-believers hit the wall of credibility. They have been led to believe our “war on terror,” as the president calls it, pits the forces of good vs. the forces of evil. Unfortunately, every report of the United States inhumanely abusing prisoners in its care tarnishes our gold star and (…)

  • Invasion Anniversary Next Month Is Date Of Campaign Kickoff
    22 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Evelyn Nieves Washington Post Staff Writer
    On Feb. 15, 2003, as millions of people worldwide took to the streets to protest the imminent U.S. invasion of Iraq, Marine Lance Cpl. Michael Hoffman was in Kuwait, awaiting deployment to Baghdad.
    Two years later, Hoffman, 25, is a civilian on the lecture circuit, introducing himself as an Iraq Veteran Against the War. On March 19, when war opponents plan to converge near Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C., to mark the date of the invasion, (…)

  • SCOTT RITTER SAYS U.S. PLANS JUNE ATTACK ON IRAN, ‘COOKED’ JAN. 30 IRAQI ELECTION RESULTS
    21 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Scott Ritter, appearing with journalist Dahr Jamail yesterday in Washington State, dropped two shocking bombshells in a talk delivered to a packed house in Olympia’s Capitol Theater. The ex-Marine turned UNSCOM weapons inspector said that George W. Bush has "signed off" on plans to bomb Iran in June 2005, and claimed the U.S. manipulated the results of the recent Jan. 30 elections in Iraq.
    Olympians like to call the Capitol Theater "historic," but it’s doubtful whether the eighty-year-old (…)

  • Congressman tells GOP crowd we really did find WMD in Iraq
    21 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — It’s a good thing I went to the Conservative Political Action Conference this year. Otherwise I never would have known that, despite the findings of the authoritative David Kay report and every reputable media outlet on earth, the United States actually discovered weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, vindicating all of George W. Bush’s pre-war predictions. The revelation came not from some crank at Free Republic or hustler from Talon News, but from a congressman surrounded by (…)

  • Rice chooses Richard Jones for top Iraq position to reward him for helping steal millions?
    20 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Unanswered Questions Remain on Rice’s Iraq Pick
    WASHINGTON — February 17 — Today Rep. Waxman asked for a full explanation of the role of Ambassador Richard Jones, Secretary of State Rice’s choice to head U.S. Iraq policy, in the steering of a lucrative fuel contract to an obscure Kuwaiti company. The text of the letter follows:
    February 17, 2005
    The Honorable Condoleezza Rice Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20520
    Dear Madam Secretary: (…)

  • How America’s response to 9/11 unleashed an obscene nightmare
    20 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mark Danner - toiling through official reports and transcripts of interviews with prisoners and witnesses, as well as conducting his own investigation in Iraq - has exposed the false piety in disavowals of responsibility by Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, and established official complicity in the abuse. Five days after 9/11, Vice-President Cheney emerged from the fortified burrow in which he’d been awaiting Armageddon and - glowering as blackly as the oil he no doubt dreams of - explained how the (…)

  • Iran, Beware of the Attack Dog
    20 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    "Naive people believe that after all this, Bush would not risk more adventures of this kind. They are wrong."
    It is not very flattering to be paraded like a Rottweiler on a leash, whose master threatens to let him loose on his enemies. But this is our situation now.
    Vice President Dick Cheney threatened a few weeks ago that if Iran continues to develop its nuclear capabilities, Israel might attack her.
    This week, President George Bush repeated this threat. If he were (…)

  • Leave our country now
    19 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We lived through dark days under Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship. When the regime fell, people wanted a new life: a life without shackles and terror; a life where we could rebuild our country and enjoy its natural wealth. Instead, our communities have been attacked with chemicals and cluster bombs, and our people tortured, raped and killed in our homes.
    Saddam’s secret police used to creep over the roofs into our homes at night; occupation troops now break down our doors in broad daylight. (…)

  • Regaining My Humanity - Conscientious Objector released from prison
    18 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We were delighted to receive a phone call yesterday, February 15, from Camilo Mejia, letting us know that he has just been released from prison. Some of you might remember Camilo, a courageous soldier who spent more than 7 years in the military, 8 months fighting in Iraq, came home for a 2-week furlough, and decided that he could not-in good conscience-return to Iraq. He applied for Conscientious Objector status, and was declared a Prisoner of Conscience by Amnesty International. But the US (…)

  • Intelligence whistleblower shows pretext for Iraq invasion totally fabricated
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The justification to War In Iraq was totally fabricated.
    Secrets and Lies
    by Liz Jackson
    Broadcast: ABC TV (Australia) 14/02/2005
    He lives quietly in Canberra’s outer suburbs. He comes and goes a lot. When he is home he may be seen tending his roses in the front yard.
    This unobtrusive, quietly spoken man has been privilege to some of the world’s best-kept secrets for two decades. He knows from long personal experience how intelligence agencies and big defence bureaucracies operate. (…)