How the West armed Saddam, fed him intelligence on his ’enemies’, equipped him for atrocities - and then made sure he wouldn’t squeal
by Robert Fisk
We’ve shut him up. The moment Saddam’s hooded executioner pulled the lever of the trapdoor in Baghdad yesterday morning, Washington’s secrets were safe. The shameless, outrageous, covert military support which the United States - and Britain - gave to Saddam for more than a decade remains the one terrible story which our presidents and prime (…)
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Full video of Saddam Hussein execution - Robert Fisk: He takes his secrets to the grave. Our complicity dies with him
2 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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Poll for Military Papers Finds Troops’ Support for War Plunging
2 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsby E&P Staff
NEW YORK It’s often written or said in the media that, despite public opposition to the Iraq war here at home, military personnel strongly back President Bush’s handling of the conflict. But a poll for the Military Times newspapers, released Friday, shows that more troops disapprove of the president’s handling of the war than approve of it.
It came on the day that at least four more Americans died in the war, pushing the monthly total to 107, the high point for the year (…) -
3,000 Dead: So Who’s Counting?
2 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
8 commentsby Cindy Sheehan
Gerald Ford, an incompetent, never-elected past president, is being memorialized today by one of his good buddies and close confidantes, Dastardly Dick. The execution of Saddam Hussein is being celebrated by a bloodthirsty media and another never-elected, execution-happy, incompetent president. Dozens, if not hundreds, more innocent Iraqis were killed today, and more than likely, the 3,000th soldier crossed the threshold from life into the next world.
We have seen this (…) -
Execution Video Meant to Cause Shia-Sunni Conflict
1 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
The leaking of the videotape of hanging of Saddam and the dialogue that was exchanged between Saddam and his executioners, handpicked by Americans, and the subsequent planting of stories in mainstream media that Saddam’s hanging will be seen by Shia’s as a welcome sacrifice on one of the Holiest days of Islam was a deliberate act meant to create a backlash by Muslims and a Shia-Sunni conflict in the Muslim world.
Americans have perfected the art of movies in which actors act out the (…) -
Former Longtime Confidant Accuses Ariel Sharon of Assassinating Yasser Arafat
30 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
Former Longtime Confidant Accuses Ariel Sharon of Assassinating Yasser Arafat - by Stephen Lendman
Longtime and now recently deceased confidant to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Uri Dan, published a book in France that may have been his 2006 one titled Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait in which he accused the former prime minister of assassinating Palestinian Authority (PA) President Yasser Arafat by poisoning him. Dan claimed Sharon got approval from George Bush by phone (…) -
Pope Benedict: Free the Enslaved, the Opressed & the Victims of War
27 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentWorld Leaders Call for Peace on Holiday By TARIQ PANJA
(AP) Christian nuns pray inside the Grotto, the site where Christians believe Jesus was born, within the...
LONDON (AP) - From soldiers who donned red Santa hats in Afghanistan to devoted worshippers visiting Bethlehem, Christians around the world celebrated Christmas with the sobering thoughts of peace and tolerance even as open war flared in Somalia.
Pope Benedict XVI used his Christmas Day address at the Vatican to call for a (…) -
Top Ten Things Not to Do in Iraq
27 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
by Ivan Eland
Ever since the Iraq Study Group (ISG) issued its recommendations, the debate in Washington has swirled around what to do about the mess in Iraq. Unfortunately, both the recommendations of the study group and the contradictory inclinations of the Bush administration are “bridges to nowhere.” Both groups are in denial about the chaos in Iraq and are not yet ready to offer the tough solutions that could stabilize the country. Perhaps they should accept the top ten things not to (…) -
It is up to Democrats to end President Bush’s addiction to war
26 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Mary MacElveen
December 26, 2006
I was going to write a Christmas message to all of my readers, but an error occurred which prevented me from posting any message on my blog. As I see now, it has cleared itself.
With that said, I do hope that all of my readers enjoyed this special day with family and friends. I also hope that our soldiers still deployed over in Iraq and Afghanistan entered our minds as we celebrated a day so full of life. They should have been home amongst their (…) -
Happy new year
26 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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The BUSHISTA are NOT buffoons!!
25 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentAs Iraqi society descends further and further into mayhem, comedians, satirists and commentators of all kinds have made great hay from the supposed incompetence and stupidity of our leaders.This would be the Mass Media Spin.
But as the Canadian Spectator suggested recently, if it should happen that the United States is not run by buffoons, “one must conclude that chaos, impoverishment and civil war in the Muslim world…far from being the unintended consequences, are precisely the objectives (…)