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  • UK’s Galloway puts US Senators to Shame: Delivers passionate speech exposing the real corruption
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Galloway had vowed to give US senators "both barrels" and after sitting - coiled - through an hour-and-half of testimony against him, he unloaded all his ammunition.
    Far from displaying the forelock-tugging deference to which senators are accustomed, Mr Galloway went on the attack.
    He rubbished committee chairman Norm Coleman’s dossier of evidence and stared him in the eye.
    "Now I know that standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington, but for a lawyer, you are (…)

  • US ’backed illegal Iraqi oil deals’
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Report claims blind eye was turned to sanctions busting by American firms
    Julian Borger and Jamie Wilson in Washington Tuesday May 17, 2005 The Guardian
    The United States administration turned a blind eye to extensive sanctions-busting in the prewar sale of Iraqi oil, according to a new Senate investigation.
    A report released last night by Democratic staff on a Senate investigations committee presents documentary evidence that the Bush administration was made aware of illegal oil sales (…)

  • The American News Media - Tools and Fools and Scapegoats
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. Marie Beyle
    The media must have been flipping out recently. Terri Schiavo was gone, Scott Peterson was in jail, Martha Stewart was out of jail and Michael Jackson could only make news when he showed up for court in his jammies. My gawd! What are we gonna report on?
    “Well, the President’s numbers are way down.”
    “Uh-huh...what else ya got?”
    “Um, the insurgency in Iraq is getting (…)

  • BUSH ON TRIAL
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tuesday May 17, 2005, Brussels - Today, representatives of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) delivered a law summon and invitation letter addressed to President Bush at the US Embassy in Brussels. It was part of a global action day, as similar actions took place in Japan, Sweden, Turkey and the United States. The WTI representatives invited George Bush to the final hearing of the World Tribunal on Iraq that will take place in Istanbul between 23-27 of June 2005.
    In Brussels a number of (…)

  • White House challenges UK Iraq memo
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON (CNN) — Claims in a recently uncovered British memo that intelligence was "being fixed" to support the Iraq war as early as mid-2002 are "flat out wrong," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Monday.
    McClellan insisted the process leading up to the decision to go to war was "very public" — and that the decision to invade in March 2003 was taken only after Iraq refused to comply with its "international obligations."
    "The president of the United States, in a very (…)

  • Another fake document by US government-Forgery shows Galloway’s name pasted on UN Oil For Food paper
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rebel MP George Galloway’s Respect Party claimed today that evidence that he profited from Saddam Hussein’s regime was forged.
    Ahead of Mr Galloway’s appearance in front of a committee of US senators in Washington, his party said the committee was relying on a counterfeit document created in Baghdad.
    It said Mr Galloway’s name had been pasted on to a list of people and companies alleged to have made money out of the Oil For Food programme.
    His name appeared in a different typeface to (…)

  • A “Welcome Parade” of Blood and Seething Anger
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    As if to add insult to injury, with over 400 Iraqis killed in violence during the first two weeks of the newly sworn in Iraqi “government,” US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice made a surprise one day visit to the newest US colony.
    After visiting northern Iraq which has been spared the brunt of the ongoing violence, Rice traveled to the heavily entrenched “green zone” in central Baghdad where the U.S. “embassy” is located. She addressed a crowd in the former Republican Palace, the perfect (…)

  • The deserters: Awol crisis hits the US forces
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    As the death toll of troops mounts in Iraq and Afghanistan, America’s military recruiting figures have plummeted to an all-time low. Thousands of US servicemen and women are now refusing to serve their country. Andrew Buncombe reports
    16 May 2005 - Sergeant Kevin Benderman cannot shake the images from his head. There are bombed villages and desperate people. There are dogs eating corpses thrown into a mass grave. And most unremitting of all, there is the image of a young Iraqi girl, no (…)

  • Cracks in Bush War Congressional Support Becoming Evident
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Remember the blue dress?
    Some Republicans Secretly Meeting About Bush Lies and Exit Strategy
    Democrats Demand Explanation for Bush ’Fixing’ Intelligence
    Occupation-related violence increases US and Iraqi Deaths
    Time for Impeachment?
    The last few weeks have not been good ones for the war effort. Despite being given every huge military budget he has requested by Congress, President Bush can no longer credibly claim to be winning the war. ABC News reported last week that an unnamed (…)

  • Bush Urges Development of Alternative Fuels-Needs ideas for reducing gas prices
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush today hailed biodiesel as "one of our nation’s most promising alternative fuel sources" as he stepped up pressure on a divided Senate to pass his energy bill.
    He said the energy measure would reverse America’s fast-growing dependence on foreign oil. But he conceded, as he has in the past, that there was little he could do in the short term to drive down gasoline prices.
    "I wish I could just wave a magic wand and lower the price at the pump," he said in a speech here. (…)