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  • Support Our Troops: Bring Them Home
    23 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By HOWARD ZINN
    We must withdraw our military from Iraq, the sooner the better. The reason is simple: Our presence there is a disaster for the American people and an even bigger disaster for the Iraqi people.
    It is a strange logic to declare, as so many in Washington do, that it was wrong for us to invade Iraq but right for us to remain. A recent New York Times editorial sums up the situation accurately: Some 21 months after the American invasion, United States military forces remain (…)

  • Knight Ridder Analysis Speaks Frankly: U.S. Losing in Iraq
    23 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Knight Ridder Analysis Speaks Frankly: U.S. Losing in Iraq
    Published: January 22, 2005 10:00 AM ET
    NEW YORK In a startling new analysis, Knight Ridder reporters Tom Lasseter and Jonathan S. Landay, who have done some of the best reporting on Iraq during the past two years, declare that unless something “dramatic” changes, “the United States is heading toward losing the war in Iraq.”
    The lengthy article, distributed Saturday, is based on what the reporters call an analysis of U.S. (…)

  • Why I’ll Refuse to Fight in this Immoral War
    22 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Every individual soldier has the moral right to decide whether he will put his life on the line
    By George Solomou
    Earlier this week, I came out publicly against the war in Iraq. I’m not the only member of the Labour Party to be opposed to our military participation in this American-led adventure, nor am I the only soldier. In fact, there growing vocal minority within the Territorial Army that is against the war. Nonetheless I am the first one to make it clear, in public, that if called (…)

  • What Happened To The Women Held At Abu Ghraib? The Government Isn’t Talking. But Some Of The Women A
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Unusual Suspects What Happened To The Women Held At Abu Ghraib? The Government Isn’t Talking. But Some Of The Women Are Tara McKelvey Issue Date: 02.04.05 On the morning of September 24, 2003 — five weeks after the suicide bombing of a United Nations compound in Baghdad killed 23 people, including top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello, signaling an intensified phase of Iraqi insurgency — a group of American soldiers burst into Selwa’s villa near the banks of the Tigris River in Samarra, Iraq. (…)

  • $17M slated for inaugural security would be better spent on armoring the troops
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Their sons killed in Iraq, women speak out on whether $17M slated for inaugural security would be better spent on armoring the troops BY MARTIN C. EVANS STAFF WRITER
    January 20, 2005
    In November, Jeanette Urbina’s soldier son telephoned from Iraq with a simple request.
    It was cold there, Army Spc. Wilfredo F. Urbina told her. Could she send him a sweater?
    Three days later, he was dead. An explosive device had sliced into his Humvee while he was patrolling in Baghdad.
    Yesterday, (…)

  • No Takers As US Offers Forgiveness To Insurgents
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    No Takers As US Offers Forgiveness To Insurgents Aamer Madhani, Tribune staff reporter January 19, 2005
    BAQOUBA, Iraq - The plan was a hopeful one: Some of those siding with the insurgency in this restive city would be offered a chance to drop their weapons and vow not to sabotage the elections.
    U.S. military commanders invited suspected insurgents and religious and tribal leaders sympathetic to the resistance to gather Tuesday for a conference with Iraqi government and military (…)

  • Western Military Train But No Longer Mentor Iraqi Police
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Western Military Train But No Longer Mentor Iraqi Police SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM January 20, 2005 BAGHDAD - Iraqi police no longer work with Western mentors due to fears insurgents have infiltrated the Iraqi security agenices. Officials said Western mentors were withdrawn from police units in late 2004. They said the lack of mentors has hampered the operations of five police academies established by the United States to help create an effective Iraqi security force.
    The Iraqi (…)

  • Iraqi Freedom: Mother and Father Shot in front of children
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It was a routine foot patrol. As we made our way up a broad boulevard, in the distance I could see a car making its way toward us. As a defence against potential car bombs, it is now standard practice for foot patrols to stop oncoming vehicles, particularly after dark.
    "We have a car coming," someone called out, as we entered an intersection. We could see the car about 100 metres away. It kept coming; I could hear its engine now, a high whine that sounded more like acceleration than (…)

  • Voter Turnout Won’t Be Enough To Legitimise Election...
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Voter Turnout Won’t Be Enough To Legitimise Election As The US Tries To Cook The Books, Iraq May Be Heading For Civil War Paul McGeough January 21, 2005 There is something truly remarkable about the Iraqi human spirit. Cast around for a comparison of the numbers that might vote next Sunday and Afghanistan is a good choice.
    There, more than 10.5 million signed up last year in a security environment that made a mockery of the international observance of fragile polls when only a handful of (…)

  • Story Of Husband’s Execution Contradicted By Relatives Who Say He Is Alive
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Threads Unravel In Iraqi’s Tale Story Of Husband’s Execution Contradicted By Relatives Who Say He Is Alive Peter Finn Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, January 20, 2005 An Iraqi woman who was granted refugee status in the United States after telling The Washington Post and U.S. officials that she had been imprisoned, tortured and sexually assaulted in Iraq during the 1990s appears to have made false claims about her past, according to a fresh examination of her statements.
    Jumana (…)