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  • Sixteen Representatives in House ask Bush to Bring Troops Home
    15 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Woolsey Leads 15 Members in Asking President to Bring Troops Home
    January 12, 2005
    PETALUMA, CA — U.S. Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma) today led 15 Members of Congress in sending a letter to President Bush requesting that U.S. soldiers come home. Last week, she released a press statement calling for the return of U.S. troops from Iraq.
    The following is Rep. Woolsey’s letter to President Bush calling for him to take immediate steps towards a withdrawal from Iraq:
    January 12, (…)

  • Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales should be prosecuted for war crimes
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER
    Human Rights Watch Wants War Crimes Prosecution of Bush Administration
    19 Corporate Crime Reporter 3(3), January 13, 2005
    Human Rights Watch today called for a war crimes prosecution of high-ranking officials in the Bush administration.
    Kenneth Roth, the group’s executive director, called on the Bush administration to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate any U.S. officials who participated in, ordered, or had command responsibility for torture or (…)

  • Dubya: "Wish I Hadn’t Said That"
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dubya: "Wish I Hadn’t Said That" Staff and Wire Reports Jan 14, 2005 President Bush says he now sees that tough talk can have an "unintended consequence."
    During a round-table interview with reporters from 14 newspapers, the president, who not long ago declined to identify any mistakes he’d made during his first term, expressed misgivings for two of his most famous expressions: "Bring ’em on," in reference to Iraqis attacking U.S. troops, and his vow to get Osama bin Laden "dead or (…)

  • Brian Reade on Michael Moore
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We live in fictitious times, where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president.
    “We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons”
    When Michael Moore delivered those words in March 2003, he outraged not just the millionaires in the Los Angeles audience, but also the self sytled patriots on both sides of the Atlantic.
    Our boys about to go to war they said, and all this dirty commie bastard can do is abuse the freedoms they are (…)

  • Washington’s Gunpoint Democracy
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE U.S. always claims that its wars and occupations “promote democracy.” But Washington is behind elections in Iraq and Palestine this month that will do the opposite—ignore the democratic will of the people, while furthering the U.S. agenda for the Middle East.
    That’s because elections under occupation help the occupiers, not the people living under occupation.
    In Iraq, the U.S. project of “imposing democracy at gunpoint” is taking an enormous human toll. In order to give elections set (…)

  • Bush’s Insult to Tsunami Victims
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Strings attached to Washington’s disaster relief Bush’s insult to tsunami victims By Alan Maass | January 14, 2005 |
    WHAT THEY give with one hand, they take away with the other. U.S. government aid to the desperate victims of the Indian Ocean tsunamis is finally arriving. But it has strings attached.
    As badly as the money is needed to keep people alive and rebuild, Washington’s conditions for disaster relief will make people’s lives worse in these countries—while helping to expand U.S. (…)

  • More Dissent In Pentagon Ranks Over Iraq War
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    More Dissent In Pentagon Ranks Over Iraq War Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (IPS) - For the second time in as many months, a report by a key Pentagon advisory group has implicitly taken the administration of President George W. Bush to task for major failures in pre-war planning, particularly with respect to Iraq.
    A 220-page report, quietly released late last month by the Defense Science Board (DSB), concludes that the administration clearly underestimated the number of troops and cost (…)

  • Don’t Lose Sight Of The Real Scandal
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Don’t Lose Sight Of The Real Scandal Sean Gonsalves January 10, 2005 I’m a dawg. But I don’t like red herring. The word smiths at Merriam-Webster define a red-herring argument or fact as "something that distracts attention from the real issue."
    As for origins, the dictionary people point out the following: A herring is a soft-finned fish that is often preserved through a salting and slow smoking process. That’s what gives herring a red or dark brown hue. It’s also what makes them smell (…)

  • Drug Addicted US Troops Sent To Scotland For Help
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Drug Addicted US Troops Sent To Scotland For Help Iraq Veterans In Rehab With NHS Patients Liam McDougall, Health Correspondent 09 January 2005 A PICTURESQUE Scottish hospital is being used by the US military as a base to treat drug and alcohol addicted troops who have fought in Iraq, the Sunday Herald can reveal. The US department of defence is sending up to 40 damaged servicemen and women a year - including marines, army and airforce personnel - to Castle Craig rehabilitation clinic to (…)

  • What Bush Said About Iraq’s So-Called WMD
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What Bush Said About Iraq’s So-Called WMD Staff and Wire Reports Jan 13, 2005 Statements by the Bush administration before and after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 on Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs:
    BEFORE THE WAR
    "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." - Vice President Dick Cheney, Aug. 26, 2002.
    "The problem here is that (…)