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  • Walter Jones, Patriot for Peace: Antiwar insurgency in the GOP
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The sounds of mortar fire punctuated the American soldiers’ words as he spoke in code over the radio: "Red on red." It was another day of Operation Thunderbolt, now ongoing near the Iraqi-Syrian border, but the insurgents weren’t firing at the Americans - they were battling each other.
    It’s red-on-red in America, too, as the split in the Republican party widens: what we’re seeing is the beginning of a political insurgency against the war coming from the Right. As our (…)

  • The New Fighters of Faith and Reason
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    It often seems like the religious left won’t realize it has a dog in the fight against fanaticism until the right’s pit bulls are lunging at its timid throat. For too long, Christian moderates have been invisible, submissively surrendering and allowing the most destructive elements in America to claim the mantle of God. Fortunately, it appears that people of faith and reason are finally awakening from their long scriptural slumber.
    In last week’s New York Times, former (…)

  • NO TIME FOR DESPAIR
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Shel Silverstein cartoon of a few decades past depicts two prisoners, shackled to the wall of an ancient dungeon. One says to the other, “Now here is my plan.”
    One must admire the prisoner’s indomitable will, however unrealistic. Fortunately, the present political situation in the United States is not hopeless, though one might think so to read some of the e-mail responses to our essays:
    The fact of the matter is, the new Republican Party is in power, and it will (…)

  • New report by Dahr Jamail: “Iraqi hospitals ailing under occupation”
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    * This report is submitted as evidence to the Jury of conscience during the culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq, Istanbul 23-27 June
    New report by Dahr Jamail: “Iraqi hospitals ailing under occupation”
    Bert De Belder
    From April, 2004 through January, 2005, Dahr Jamail surveyed 13 hospitals in Iraq in order to research how the healthcare system was faring under the US-led occupation. While the horrendous security situation in Iraq caused him to confine the survey to (…)

  • Former Unocal Official Zalmay Khalizad vows to crush Iraqi resistance
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New US ambassador vows to crush Iraq’s insurgency
    by Beth Potter- Baghdad
    The new US ambassador to Iraq said Tuesday he would work with the population to crush the insurgency that is throttling much of the country despite massive operations against the rebels.
    "I will work with Iraqis to break the back of the insurgency," said Zalmay Khalilzad, who presented his credentials to President Jalal Talabani on the way to Brussels for an international conference on rebuilding Iraq.
    "Foreign (…)

  • Homeland Security Solicits Help! [SPY ON YOUR NEIGHBORS]
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by John Newby June 19, 2005
    I’m not here to discuss the merits of the new Homeland Security mirage. I must admit that having served in the Military for 10 years, I was always taught the duty of the Defense Department was to protect the homeland. But now we can all take comfort in the fact that our newly alloted tax dollars are well at work. Our fearless Homeland Security Leader Michael Chertoff believes using Americans to spy on each other is a great idea. We just ask non-profits to report (…)

  • Why We Will Lose the War in Iraq
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Douglas Herman June 20, 2005
    Before the war in Iraq began—the covert black operation known as Operation Iraq Freedom—then-Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill predicted a cost of approximately $200 billion for the operation. The media storm that greeted his forecast cost O’Neill his job. Unfortunately, the meter’s still running, while the war machine idles at the curb, like an overheated Abrams tank. Now the estimate is $300 billion and rising.
    I’d rather be a Pollyanna than a Cassandra. (…)

  • Letter to Dana Milbank about the Downing Street Memo and Corporate Media Complicity in War Crimes
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To: milbankd@washpost.com, Sketch@washpost.com, ombudsman@washpost.com
    Mr. Milbank---
    Regarding Friday’s WashingtonSketch ("Democrats Play House To Rally Against the War"): what an offensive, intelligence-insulting, childish rant, totally lacking in professionalism and propreity. Give me a break.
    First of all, the Washington Post--- as well as much of the mainstream press--- seems more than a bit confused about the Downing Street Memo. (In this age where apparently the words (…)

  • Iraqi Lawmakers demand US forces withdraw from Iraq
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraqi lawmakers from across the political spectrum called for the withdrawal of foreign forces from their country in a letter released to the media June 19.
    The move comes as U.S. President George W. Bush is under increasing domestic pressure to set a timetable for the pullout of American forces in the face of an increasing death toll at the hands of insurgents.
    Eighty-two Shiite, Kurdish, Sunni Arab, Christian and communist deputies made the call in a letter sent by Falah Hassan (…)

  • Ending the farce
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is clear the insurgency, contrary to the Bush administration’s view, is homegrown and is exacerbated by every week longer that the U.S. occupies Iraq. American troops are still dying daily and the security situation in Iraq is still a mess two years after Saddam’s ouster.
    It is also clear now that ousting Saddam wasn’t the primary goal.
    The Bush administration has steadfastly refused to tell Americans the real reasons for invading Iraq: having a permanent U.S. military presence in the (…)