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  • US ’blocking Arab freedom report’
    26 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The editor of a UN survey of freedom and governance in Arab societies says the US has impeded its publication.
    Nader Fergani said the US objected to sections of the document on Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
    He said it had been threatening to cut its contribution to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
    A US spokesman denied that his country had asked for a postponement of publication. The UNDP said reports of threats to its funding were inaccurate.
    But Mr (…)

  • U.S. Army historian cites lack of Iraq post-war plan
    26 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The United States invaded Iraq without a formal plan for occupying and stabilizing the country and this continues to undercut the military effort there, the Washington Post on Saturday quoted a U.S. Army historian as saying.
    The newspaper quoted Maj. Isaiah Wilson, an official historian of the Iraq campaign, as saying the overall performance of the U.S. Army in Iraq has been "mediocre" and it failed to recognize it is engaged in a "people’s war."
    As a result, the United States is (…)

  • Falluja Returnees Angry, ’City Unfit for Animals’
    25 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Fadil al-Badrani
    FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqis reacted with anger, frustration and resentment Friday after many returned to Falluja to discover their homes in rubble and their livelihoods ruined following last month’s U.S. offensive.
    "I saw the city and al-Andalus destroyed," said Ali Mahmood, 35, referring to the district of the city he returned to briefly Thursday but now plans to leave after seeing the mess.
    "My house is completely destroyed. There is nothing left for me to (…)

  • Think tanks slam US Iraq strategy
    25 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Two influential thinktanks have roundly criticised US strategy in Iraq.
    The Wasington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIC) said on Wednesday that the US is facing increasingly deadly attacks in Iraq because it has failed to honestly assess facts on the ground.
    And in a report published on the same day, the Brussels-based International Crisis Group said Iraqi hostility towards the US-led "occupation" means that Washington can no longer achieve its pre-war goals. (…)

  • An Open Letter to Our Leaders From a Concerned Iraq War Soldier
    25 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Monica Benderman
    I am writing to you because you have been elected to serve the people. I am one of those people, my family is one family in America. We are just a family, we care about each other, we work hard and we believe in good things. We have a modest income, not much, but enough to give us what we need. Like most American families, we struggle with the way things are these days. We try to justify that our votes have mattered, our voices are heard, our opinions count, all the (…)

  • Hold the Bush Administration accountable for its use of torture
    24 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We must hold the Bush Administration accountable for its use of torture
    By Angie Pratt
    You want to know why when news of prisoner torture percolated up the channels of the government nothing was done? The answer is quite simple. They condoned the actions. In fact, we now know that they were following an executive order from George W. Bush. This isn’t based on hearsay. This isn’t a figment of some Massachusetts liberal’s imagination. This allegation is based on an internal FBI document (…)

  • You Keep Using That Word...
    23 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    You keep using that word . . . 2004’s top changes to the American lexicon
    By Ulysses S. Taxpayer
    December 23, 2004-What would the end of a year be without a seemingly endless offering of lists categorizing that year’s most blank blanks? Here’s one more. Over the past year, the American vocabulary has undergone several significant changes. We are told we live in a divided country, hopefully by trying to understand what others are trying to communicate we can seek to bridge this divide. (…)

  • War Crimes
    23 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Washingtonpost
    THANKS TO a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union and other human rights groups, thousands of pages of government documents released this month have confirmed some of the painful truths about the abuse of foreign detainees by the U.S. military and the CIA — truths the Bush administration implacably has refused to acknowledge.
    Since the publication of photographs of abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison in the spring the administration’s whitewashers — led by Defense (…)

  • Rumsfeld and Myers are lying about the attack in Mosul Iraq- It was not a suicide bomber
    23 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Insurgents have fired mortars at the chow hall more than 30 times this year. One round killed a female soldier with the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division in the summer as she scrambled for cover in one of the concrete bomb shelters. Workers are building a new steel and concrete chow hall for the soldiers just down the dusty dirt road.
    Reporter Provides Account of Mosul Attack
    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Published: December 21, 2004
    Filed at 11:25 a.m. ET
    FORWARD OPERATING BASE MAREZ, (…)

  • MANiac OF THE YEAR
    23 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HITLER, STALIN, BUSH .. MEN OF OUR TIME
    by Brian Reade
    BEFORE you lash the big bird in the bin and stick your head in the oven instead, let’s put Time magazine’s declaration of George Bush as the Man of the Year in perspective.
    In 1938 the same august organ gave the accolade to Adolf Hitler. A year later this most prestigious award went to another deranged mass-murderer, called Joseph Stalin. So maybe we should applaud Time’s consistency in lowering Bush on to the same pedestal. (…)