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  • Brits Abandon Major Southern Iraq Base
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by M.J. Akbar
    WASHINGTON — On Friday, Aug. 25, the Washington Post published a startling story from its Baghdad bureau. I can do no better than to quote its opening paragraph: "British troops abandoned a major base in southern Iraq on Thursday and prepared to wage guerrilla warfare along the Iranian border to combat weapons smuggling, a move that anti-American cleric Moqtada Sadr called the first expulsion of US-led coalition forces from an Iraqi urban center. ’This is the first Iraqi city (…)

  • A Little Reminder To Secy. Rumsfeld From The Memory Hole
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Little Reminder To Secy. Rumsfeld From The Memory Hole By Southern Beale 08/30/2006 01:06:40 PM CST This week Defense Secy. Rumsfeld compared critics of the Iraq war to Nazi appeasers prior to WWII. He said we have not "learned the lessons of history." A yes, history. Such a funny thing:
    Rumsfeld’s handshake deal with Saddam is indeed a history lesson more Americans need to remember.
    Oh, and by the way: a message to President Bush, Karl Rove, and the rest of the Republicans who are (…)

  • An Exit Strategy For Iraq
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An Exit Strategy For Iraq By The Veteran Voice 08/31/2006 07:39:05 PM CST One of my veteran buddies, U.S. Attorney Bob Coleman has proposed an exit strategy for Iraq that I personally wish I had thought of myself. But jealousy aside, I do think it is one worth considering. Bob, a Korean War Air Force vet, proposes that the United Nations send an peace-keeping force to Iraq composed of armed forces from moderate Islamic nations such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emerates, Jordan (…)

  • Selective Prosecution Of War Crimes
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Selective Prosecution Of War Crimes By Ivan Eland Thursday, August 31, 2006
    In Saddam Hussein’s war crimes trial for the 1988 Iraqi “Anfal” campaign that gassed Kurdish villages, his defense lawyers have argued that Iraqi forces were really attempting to strike Iranian forces and the Iraqi Kurdish pesh merga militias that were in and supported by the hamlets. In other words, the lawyers are asserting that the innocent Kurds who were killed were collateral damage in an effort by the Iraqi (…)

  • Rummy, Wanna Call The Majority Of Americans Names?
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rummy, Wanna Call The Majority Of Americans Names? By SusanUnPC Wednesday, 30 August 2006 at 06:12 You want to call the majority of Americans "appeasers," as you did in your speech yesterday at the American Legion National Convention?
    Here are a couple names for you. You’re a jingo. Worse, you’re a fucking loser.
    You loser: You’ve lost your precious war in Iraq. You’ve lost the trust of the American people including a great many Republicans (particularly patriotic conservatives). (…)

  • Spiegel Interview With Salman Rushdie. "Terror Is Glamour"
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Spiegel Interview With Salman Rushdie "Terror Is Glamour" By Erich Follath August 28, 2006, 04:20 PM Salman Rushdie, 59, has spent many years thinking and writing about terrorism. He spoke with SPIEGEL about why apparently normal young men turn to terror, the dangers of religion, and whether the US has turned into an authoritarian state.
    SPIEGEL: Mr. Rushdie, as an expert on terrorism you ...
    Rushdie: What gives me that honor? I don’t see myself as such at all.
    SPIEGEL: Your book (…)

  • Why Are We In Iraq?
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Why Are We In Iraq? By Michael S. Rozeff August 30, 2006 Defeat In Iraq
    Have the President and his men accomplished their objectives in Iraq? Saddam Hussein is no longer a threat to Saudi Arabia or the region. However, since he was contained before the war, little has been gained on that score. Oil is no more secure than before. In fact, Iran threatens to disrupt supply. Oil prices have risen sharply. The U.S. has not yet restored Iraq’s oil production, and issues relating to restoring (…)

  • You Break It, You Own It
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    You Break It, You Own It By Munir Daair, Yemen Times August 24 - 27 Issue In his book ‘Plan of Attack’, Bob Woodward wrote that Colin Powel warned George Bush of the consequences of occupying Iraq. Powell called it the pottery barn rule, ‘you break it, you own it’. But then, military generals advising politicians is anathema, especially draft dodging politicians. One wonders how General John Abuzaid manages around Bush, Cheney, and Rice. Especially with American laser bombs falling on (…)

  • Iraq Letter "Suppressed" By Downer
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq Letter "Suppressed" By Downer Marian Wilkinson August 31, 2006 A DAMNING six-page letter on the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was suppressed by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, according to a former senior diplomat.
    Dr John Gee, a world-renowned expert on chemical weapons, worked with the US-led weapons hunt, the Iraq Survey Group, after the war and wrote the critical letter when he decided to resign.
    In it he warned the Australian Government the hunt was (…)

  • The New GOP Buzzword: Fascism
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The New GOP Buzzword: Fascism CNN.com August 30, 2006 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush in recent days has recast the global war on terror into a "war against Islamic fascism." Fascism, in fact, seems to be the new buzz word for Republicans in an election season dominated by an unpopular war in Iraq.
    Bush used the term earlier this month in talking about the arrest of suspected terrorists in Britain, and spoke of "Islamic fascists" in a later speech in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Spokesman Tony (…)