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  • USA TODAY Founder "best way to support our troops in Iraq is to bring them home"
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What Iraq needs is a Walter Cronkite
    President Bush went on the air this week to pretend again that things are OK in Iraq. Shades of President Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam nearly 40 years ago.
    The most important similarity between Iraq and Vietnam is that both Democratic and Republican presidents lied to us in wartime. To refresh your memory, here’s how we got out of the Vietnam quagmire:
    • Walter Cronkite, CBS-TV news anchor known as "the most trusted man in America," after a combat (…)

  • I Hope I Die Before The Next Re-Fill
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Friday, July 1, 2005 A July 4th note from Greg Palast’s journal
    I was in the drug store today out here in Podunk. Some old guy in front of me was picking up his little paper bag of prescription medicine. The lady behind the counter handed him a credit card slip and said, "I’m sorry."
    She was sorry because the bill was over $1,200. The old man stared at the charge card receipt and stared at it some more. Hesitating, he signed, then said, "I hope I die before I have to pay for the next (…)

  • Wake up Calls
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The jury of conscience has just released it’s recommendations after the culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq came to its conclusion. I’ll post the news story I wrote on this later, which will provide more details.
    I will add now, as a preface to a letter I received just now from an Iraqi who asked me to pass it on to the American people, that the jury made the following recommendations:
    “The recommendations made by the jury included the demand for an immediate, unconditional (…)

  • Journalist killed after investigating US-backed death squads in Iraq
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On June 24, Yasser Salihee, an Iraqi special correspondent for the news agency Knight Ridder, was killed by a single bullet to the head as he approached a checkpoint that had been thrown up near his home in western Baghdad by US and Iraqi troops. It is believed that the shot was fired by an American sniper. According to eyewitnesses, no warning shots were fired.
    The US military has announced it is conducting an investigation into Salihee’s killing. Knight Ridder has already declared, (…)

  • ACLU Calls on California Governor to End Surveillance of Peaceful Protesters
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    National Guard Terrorist Unit Reportedly Targeted Mother’s Day Peace Rally
    SAN FRANCISCO — Following revelations that an intelligence unit recently spied on a peace rally organized by families of slain American soldiers, the American Civil Liberties Union today called on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to take immediate steps to stop the California National Guard from spying on people who engage in peaceful protest. The ACLU also filed a California Public Records Act request with both the (…)

  • Halliburton has received 52% of the $25.4 billion that the Pentagon has paid private contractors
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Halliburton Hearing Unearths New Abuse
    Every morning 120 trucks line up at the Kuwait-Iraq border to deliver gasoline from Kuwaiti refineries. The drivers, mostly poor South Asian men from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, must cross at dawn because if they wait too long, the managers from Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), a subsidiary of Texas-based Halliburton, who operate the border post during the day, will subject them to rigorous checks that effectively shut down the deliveries.
    "The (…)

  • WHATEVER HAPPENED TO?
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WHATEVER HAPPENED TO?
    By Peter Fredson
    July 1, 2005
    The Price of Gasoline? Should we worry about it?
    The National Deficit? Should we worry about it?
    Those awful Weapons of Mass Destruction that Saddam had “imminently” poised to nuke the U.S. and destroy whole cities? Should we worry about them?
    Compassionate Conservatism? Should we worry about it?
    The Senate as a branch of the Oval Office? Should we worry about it?
    The extreme partisanship of Congress, with overt bullying, (…)

  • The Stain of Torture
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Having served as a doctor in the Army Medical Corps early in my career and as presidential physician to George H.W. Bush for four years, I might be expected to bring a skeptical and partisan perspective to allegations of torture and abuse by U.S. forces. I might even be expected to join those who, on the one hand, deny that U.S. personnel have engaged in systematic use of torture while, on the other, claiming that such abuse is justified. But I cannot do so.
    It’s precisely because of my (…)

  • Poll: 42% Want Impeachment for Bush Lies
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No Bounce: Bush Job Approval Unchanged by War Speech; Question on Impeachment Shows Polarization of Nation; Americans Tired of Divisiveness in Congress-Want Bi-Partisan Solutions-New Zogby Poll
    President Bush’s televised address to the nation produced no noticeable bounce in his approval numbers, with his job approval rating slipping a point from a week ago, to 43%, in the latest Zogby International poll. And, in a sign of continuing polarization, more than two-in-five voters (42%) say (…)

  • Unbelievable...
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Not only can they not find WMD in Iraq,” I commented to E. as we listened to the Bush speech, “But they have disappeared from his speeches too!” I was listening to the voiceover on Arabiya, translating his speech to Arabic. He was recycling bits and pieces of various speeches he used over two years.
    E., a younger cousin, and I were sitting around in the living room, sprawled on the relatively cool tiled floor. The electricity had been out for 3 hours and we couldn’t turn on the air (…)