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  • GOOD REASONS WHY BUSH INVADED IRAQ
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHY BUSH INVADED IRAQ
    By Peter Fredson
    I looked at some of my files on the Bush War with Iraq. I wanted to find good reasons why Bush, or anyone, would declare war, cause death and destruction, incur enormous expense, and generate endless hatred and revenge. I don’t know how many are “legitimate”, if any, but here are some reasons I found in the news, on blogs, and in commentaries.
    TOP REASONS THAT GEORGE W. BUSH INVADED IRAQ Because he couldn’t catch Osama bin Laden Because he didn’t (…)

  • Former aide: Powell WMD speech ’lowest point in my life’
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (CNN) — A former top aide to Colin Powell says his involvement in the former secretary of state’s presentation to the United Nations on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was "the lowest point" in his life.
    "I wish I had not been involved in it," says Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, a longtime Powell adviser who served as his chief of staff from 2002 through 2005. "I look back on it, and I still say it was the lowest point in my life."
    Wilkerson is one of several insiders interviewed for the (…)

  • We continue to be part of the vigil at Crawford, Texas, even as Cindy Sheehan had to leave to be with her mother
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Julieanna,
    We continue to be part of the vigil at Crawford, Texas, even as Cindy Sheehan had to leave to be with her mother, who suffered a stroke. We pray for her mother’s recovery and for Cindy’s return.
    On Thursday, we had a wonderful “mother’s day” at the camp where all day long, women at the vigil and around the country wrote letters to Laura Bush asking her to intercede with her husband on Cindy’s behalf. In just 24 hours after putting out the call, we received over 500 (…)

  • John Roberts and Enemy Combatants
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Chris Floyd
    The United States long ago ceased to be anything like a living, thriving republic. But it retained the legal form of a republic, and that counted for something: as long as the legal form still existed, even as a gutted shell, there was hope it might be filled again one day with substance.
    But now the very legal structures of the Republic are being dismantled. The principle of arbitrary rule by an autocratic leader is being openly established, through a series of (…)

  • Death of Iraqi brothers sparks anti-U.S. rage
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michael Georgy
    BAGHDAD - An angry Iraqi crowd carried coffins through a Baghdad district on Thursday and threw rocks at American soldiers, accusing U.S. troops of killing three innocent middle-aged brothers, one of them in a wheelchair.
    The U.S. military said they had killed three "terrorists".
    "They call everybody terrorists but they just commit terrorist acts whenever they want," said Mohsen Thabit, a friend of the men whom neighbours found shot in the head at home after a raid by (…)

  • At Least They’re Honest
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Force Ministries mixes killing & Christianity
    by Greg Lloyd Smith
    SAN DIEGO, CA — (OfficialWire) — 08/20/05 — Throughout history, religion has been the single greatest source of human-caused wars, suffering, and misery. Without exception, in the name of God, more suffering has been inflicted than by any other manmade cause.
    So it should not surprise you to learn of Force Ministries, a San Diego-based organization that purports to be aligned to the Christian-faith, albeit one that (…)

  • The Neo-cons Never Accounted for the Cindy Sheehans of America
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Neo-cons Never Accounted for the Cindy Sheehans of America
    by Stan Moore (Thursday August 18 2005)
    "Empires are never benevolent enterprises. Empires are expressions of force, usually for reasons of accumulating wealth and power. Empires take lives from their own citizens and from those they rule."
    The Neo-cons thought they had in all figured out when they planned their Pax Americana. They were going to rule the entire world, taking strategic resources for America, keeping (…)

  • Leaving Camp Casey :My Mom
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Leaving Camp Casey
    The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford
    Today started out okay. I did my usual stint with Mark and Mark on the Morning Sedition on Air America Radio. I always love talking to them because they are so funny and smart. We have a 7:10am time. Nightline was also following me to do a "Day in the Life of Cindy Sheehan" piece so they got there nice and early to mic me up. I gave two interviews early this morning where I said that the Camp Casey Peace Movement has taken on a life (…)

  • Like Old Times: U.S. Warns Latin Americans Against Leftists
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DAVID S. CLOUD
    LIMA, Peru, - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s visit this week to South America had the throwback feel of a mission during the cold war, when American officials saw their main job as bolstering the hemisphere’s governments against leftist insurgencies and Communist infiltration.
    During stops in Paraguay and Peru, Mr. Rumsfeld and his aides warned of what they consider to be troublemaking by President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Washington’s old cold war foe, (…)

  • Exclusive Interview with Cindy Sheehan After Mother’s Stroke: "I Want to Get Back As Soon As Possible"
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Crawford Vigil Is Not Over
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    Cindy Sheehan had to leave Crawford temporarily after her mother suffered a stroke. She spoke with Democracy Now! in the airport on her way to Los Angeles. She said that also she left her vigil without meeting with President Bush, she said, "This Camp Casey movement is bigger than me. It’s growing, it’s bigger than any of us."
    Cindy Sheehan went on, "I believe that it is (…)