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  • Sen. John McCain doesn’t "agree with" the British minutes saying"intelligence and facts were fixed"
    16 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    McCain: I don’t agree with British war memo Leaked document says U.S. set up conditions for Iraq invasion
    WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. John McCain said Sunday he doesn’t "agree with" the secret minutes of a high-level British meeting in 2002 saying "intelligence and facts were being fixed" to support a U.S.-led war in Iraq — well before the president sought approval on the war from Congress.
    The memo was made public earlier this month by the Times of London newspaper. British officials did (…)

  • BP Faces Huge Fines Related To Unreported Oil Spills in Alaska; Is ANWR Next?
    16 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    While the hacks working for mainstream news organizations were busy chasing the story about the Runaway Bride late last month, a real scandal was just beginning to unfold as Congress inched closer to approving a controversial measure to open up a couple thousand acres of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration.
    It was then, unbeknownst to the federal lawmakers who debated the merits of drilling in ANWR, that the Alaska Department of Environmental (…)

  • Torture’s Dirty Secret: It Works
    14 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Torture’s true purpose is to terrorize. It may not work as an interrogation tool, but as an intimidation tactic, its success is clear.
    I recently caught a glimpse of the effects of torture in action at an event honoring Maher Arar. The Syrian-born Canadian is the world’s most famous victim of "rendition," the process by which US officials outsource torture to foreign countries. Arar was switching planes in New York when U.S. interrogators detained him and "rendered" him to Syria, where he (…)

  • Campaign of propaganda, lies, cover-up can’t be ignored
    14 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What do an Army Pfc., a well-known volunteer Army Ranger and a National Guard Brigadier General have in common?
    All three are victims of the Bush administration’s campaign of propaganda, lies and cover-up about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and about the mismanagement by generals and civilian Pentagon officials.
    You probably know all about Pfc. Lynndie England, the National Guard soldier from West Virginia who went to Iraq to fight Saddam’s army. She was photographed humiliating (…)

  • Prisoners detained by the U.S. in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay still at risk of torture
    14 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    London - Prisoners detained by the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere are still at risk of torture and ill-treatment, Amnesty International said on Friday.
    A year after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal caused an international uproar when US guards were photographed abusing detainees, the human rights group said the Bush administration has shown a chilling disregard for international law.
    "The conditions to facilitate torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading (…)

  • 51 House members call on Gonzales to appoint special counsel on alleged U.S. ’war crimes’
    14 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Congressman John Conyers will be issuing a letter cosigned by roughly 50 House members calling for a special prosecutor to investigate claims that the U.S. has violated the War Crimes Act at secret detention facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, RAW STORY has learned.
    The following letter will be issued shortly.
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    May 12, 2005
    The Honorable Alberto R. Gonzales Attorney General of the United States U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC (…)

  • The Democrats have No Clothes: ’Leaders’ Silent on The British Memo
    13 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ​ ​​​​ Just like the $9 billion ’lost’ and the 52 warnings prior to 9/11, the Democratic ’Leadership’ is silent on the most important news of the day. The current earth-shattering news is The Memo revealing that Bush and Blair agreed to go to war in April 2002, that they ’fixed the facts’ to scare us into war.
    This news should turn American politics upside down. It should cause all Americans, even Republicans, to be outraged, really F#@%ing pissed off that WE’VE BEEN LIED TO !!!
    We (…)

  • War is Hell: 18 Marines Trapped in burning vehicle with mortar rounds, rockets exploding
    13 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Marines of Kilo Company were on the fourth day of an offensive against insurgents in western Iraq, but they had seen little action Wednesday until a loud boom rocked this Euphrates River village, followed by the frantic screams of young troops.
    They stopped their convoy and looked back to see an amphibious vehicle engulfed in flames. They knew that about 18 Marines from Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment, were in the vehicle.
    Within minutes, the vehicle’s gas tanks (…)

  • Colonel who authorized use of dogs for interogation found guilty- fined $8,000 (wow)
    13 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The US colonel who authorised the use of dogs to interrogate prisoners at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison has been relieved of command after he was found guilty of dereliction of duty.
    Colonel Thomas Pappas, who headed the prison’s military intelligence operations, also received a written reprimand and was fined US$8000 (A$10500) for his involvement in the prisoner abuse scandal.
    A statement issued by the military said Pappas did not keep his personnel "adequately informed of, trained upon and (…)

  • Fools and Fanatics
    13 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "If it were my say, I’d have him [Sgt Kevin Benderman] gassed, and publicly executed to set the example that America is not a nation of fools." This is but one sentence in an email sent by a no-nothing 17 year old to Sgt Kevin Benderman (the entire letter is at the end of this commentary). Is the young man that wrote those words to blame for his mindlessness? Or is the blame with an older generation which is teaching this nation’s youth a mindless ideology that preaches nothing but (…)