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  • Torture Scandal: High level officers encouraged mistreatment of detainees
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FORT HOOD, Tex., Jan. 16 - The Army reservist accused of being the ringleader of the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison failed to convince a jury he was following orders when he mistreated detainees, but higher-ranked officers still may be prosecuted, military officials and lawyers for the officers say.
    The reservist, Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr., who was sentenced here on Saturday to 10 years in prison, could offer no witnesses or evidence to prove that higher-ups authorized the treatment (…)

  • Bush Says Election Ratified Iraq Policy
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jim VandeHei and Michael A. Fletcher
    President Bush said the public’s decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath.
    "We had an accountability moment, and that’s called the 2004 elections," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. "The American people listened to different assessments made (…)

  • US To Try 20 More Troops For Iraq Abuse
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Suzanne Goldenberg
    The Pentagon plans to put at least 20 more US troops before military courts for abuse of detainees in the wake of last week’s high profile trial of the ringleader in the Abu Ghraib scandal, military spokesmen said yesterday.
    The various prosecutions of soldiers accused of mistreating and, in some cases, murdering detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay have been in the works for months, but have been largely overshadowed by the trial of the man who became (…)

  • Prez Never Has To Say He’s Sorry
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Prez Never Has To Say He’s Sorry Michael Harris January 14, 2005 Quit his anchor job over a bad story call? I think Dan would rather not. But he did.
    Quit his job over a war launched by a fiction? It wouldn’t cross Dubya’s mind. And he won’t.
    Accountability in journalism, none in the barnyards of power.
    This week even the looniest of neo-cons and chicken hawks that surround this bellicose president finally gave up on the weapons of mass destruction whopper that has cost thousands (…)

  • Did Expatriate and SoldierVote Get LEFT BeHind?
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    corporate dominance | election fraud | human & civil rights
    Scandal: Did Expatriate & SoldierVote COUNT?
    author: CultureJamCleveland U.S. CitiZeNs; ON The FrontLines Of Int. Relations- DID Expat. & SoldierVote get Left Behind?
    A Pivotal, Hotly contested ’election of a lifetime’ spurring Worldwide interest saw OverSeas Voters registration increase fourfold as these Americans are the Country’s spokespeople, and best face forward. Recalcitrant insistence on conflict (…)

  • Eddy around American Undercover mission in Iran
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    According to a report of the American star reporter US special-purpose forces penetrated and identify Seymour Hersh secretly into Iran goals for a possible attack. The white house disclaims and says, the report is "full inaccuracies".
    Berlin - the US journalist Seymour Hersh is famous for his searches: From the My-Lai-massacre during the Viet Nam war up to the Folterorgie in Abu Ghureib the reporter scandals uncovered, which shook the American society.
    In the newest expenditure of the (…)

  • US Ignored Warning On Iraqi Oil Smuggling
    16 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Claudio Gatti For months, the US Congress has been investigating activities that violated the United Nations oil-for-food programme and helped Saddam Hussein build secret funds to acquire arms and buy influence. President George W. Bush has linked future US funding of the international body to a clear account of what went on under the multi-billion dollar programme. But a joint investigation by the Financial Times and Il Sole 24 Ore, the Italian business daily, shows that the single (…)

  • A letter to President Bush
    15 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    November 20, 2004 To: George W. Bush From: SGT Kevin M. Benderman
    When are you going to tell the truth to the people of the United States?
    Why don’t you tell them why you want to be in Iraq so bad?
    I was there for six months and I did not see the first weapon of mass destruction. I did receive orders from the company commander to shoot children if they threw small rocks at us and that was when I figured out that the entire thing was way over the line.
    Over 1200 soldiers have died in (…)

  • Collective Punishment: 1st hand accounts of war crimes in Iraq
    15 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s not a new tactic here in Iraq. The US military has been doing it for well over a year now. Last January 3rd, in the Al-Dora rural region on the outskirts of Baghdad, where beautiful farms of date palms and orange trees line the banks of the Tigris, I visited a farm where occupation forces had lobbed several mortars.
    The military claimed they had been attacked by fighters in the area, while the locals denied any knowledge of harboring resistance fighters.
    Standing in a field full of (…)

  • This is an Unjust, Evil and Futile War
    15 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Excerpts from Martin Luther King’s speech on Vietnam- every word is true today, only the names have changed. Audio mp3s of this speech linked below. I will be discussing today one of the most controversial issues confronting our nation. I’m using as a subject from which to preach, why I am opposed to the war in Vietnam.
    Now let me make it clear in the beginning, that I see this war as an unjust, evil and futile war. I preach to you today on the war in Vietnam because my conscience leaves (…)