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  • Republican Rep. Coble agrees with Rep. Kucinich- Bring the troops home
    9 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. Rep. Coble says Iraq pullout should be considered
    By Stan Swofford
    GREENSBORO, N.C. - U.S. Rep. Howard Coble, a Greensboro Republican and close ally of President Bush, says the United States should consider pulling out of war-ravaged Iraq.
    Coble is one of the first members of Congress to suggest a withdrawal publicly.
    The 10-term congressman said in an interview with the News & Record of Greensboro that he’s "fed up with picking up the newspaper and reading that we’ve lost (…)

  • US drops bomb on wrong house killing 14 and injuring 6- AP lies in headline to coverup atrocity
    9 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why does AP lie in their headlines?
    U.S. Says Airstrike on Iraq House Kills 5
    By NICK WADHAMS, Associated Press Writer
    BAGHDAD, Iraq - The United States military acknowledged dropping a 500-pound bomb on the wrong house outside the northern city of Mosul on Saturday, killing five people. But the man who owned the house said the bomb killed 14 people - including seven children.
    The strike in the town of Aitha, 30 miles south of Mosul, came hours before a senior U.S. Embassy official (…)

  • Bush insists Iraq Election will bring peace
    8 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ... the elections could deepen the conflict by leading to greater alienation of the Sunni minority from the Shia and Kurds.
    Asked if he shared that view, Mr Bush replied: “Quite the opposite. I think elections will be such an incredibly hopeful experience for the Iraqi people.
    ... “I think we’re making great progress,” Mr Bush said, making no reference to the rapidly mounting death toll among US troops and Iraqi security forces.
    Reiterating what he has referred to before as his (…)

  • Iraqi Elections: a cynical deception
    8 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Alan Woods
    While the whole world mourns the fate of the thousands killed and made homeless by a natural disaster in Asia, a man-made disaster is continuing to spread death, destruction and misery in an ancient country on the banks of the Euphrates and Tigris.
    Bush, Blair, Rumsfeld and Powell shed crocodile tears over the victims of the tsunami and wring their hands in public. They send a few millions in “aid” to demonstrate their “humanitarianism”, but are spending tens of billions on (…)

  • The Triumvirate of Evil
    8 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Thompson A rather ignorant speechwriter for the intellectually challenged President of the USA, with little respect for the meaning of words, whose name I understand to be David Frum, invented the expression "Axis of Evil" without thinking very deeply as to either what an axis was or for that matter how one can define evil. However, the world can now see a triumvirate of evil on course towards its aim to hand over all power to its corporate sponsors. Each of the two pillars (…)

  • Memo reveals Bush authorized torture
    8 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tim Wheeler
    WASHINGTON During confirmation hearings on Alberto Gonzales nomination as Attorney General, senators should question him about a recently uncovered memo that George W. Bush ordered the torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and other military prisons around the world, several human rights groups suggested last month.
    The groups, who joined in an ACLU Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit, which won release of the memo and other incriminating documents, are (…)

  • Yes, you must pull out - but also pay for the damage
    7 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The US isn’t protecting or feeding Iraqis, it’s stoking violence and hardship
    by Naomi Klein
    Colin Powell invoked it before the invasion, telling aides that if the US went into Iraq "you’re going to be owning this place". John Kerry pledged his allegiance to it during the first presidential debate, saying: "Now, if you break it, you made a mistake. It’s the wrong thing to do. But you own it."
    It’s the so-called Pottery Barn rule: "You break it, you own it." Pottery Barn, a chain of (…)

  • Tsunamis and this Thing Called Humanity
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Manuel Valenzuela
    From the Oceans, Indiscriminate Devastation
    As if to burst the bubble of human grandeur, infallibility and perceived omnipotence, Earth has once again thundered powerful vibrations onto her once pristine surface, in a sudden instant of horrific oceanic energy killing hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings and laying waste to vast coastlines throughout Asiatic lands bordering the Indian Ocean. In one brief moment the fantasies of Hollywood fictions fused with (…)

  • IRAQ: Death in Fallujah rising, doctors say
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    FALLUJAH, - "It was really distressing picking up dead bodies from destroyed homes, especially children. It is the most depressing situation I have ever been in since the war started," Dr Rafa’ah al-Iyssaue, director of the main hospital in Fallujah city, some 60 km west of Baghdad, told IRIN.
    According to al-Iyssaue, the hospital emergency team has recovered more than 700 bodies from rubble where houses and shops once stood, adding that more than 550 were women and children. He said a (…)

  • Army Sergeant may refuse return to Iraq: Last time I was orderded to shoot at children
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ft. Stewart Georgia, “Rock of the Marne” — This morning Sergeant Kevin Benderman, U.S. Army awoke to face what will probably be one of the most important decisions of his life: whether or not to accept or refuse re-deployment to Iraq to participate in a war that has been increasingly questioned by the American public, and the world. A war that has been ruled illegal by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and has come under increasing fire from both Republicans and Democrats alike who (…)