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  • Bush Is Going To Leave Iraq For The Next President To Clean Up
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Is Going To Leave Iraq For The Next President To Clean Up Warwick McFadyen August 25, 2006 "WE’RE not leaving, so long as I’m the President." There in nine words is the exit strategy for the United States involvement in Iraq. Depending on your viewpoint, it’s either a commitment or an admission of defeat.
    George Bush has another 26 months to run on his presidency, which means that by November 2008, the US will have been in Iraq for almost six years. In a couple of months, America (…)

  • Olbermann Our New Murrow
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    Olbermann Our New Murrow By Larry C Johnson Wednesday, 30 August 2006 at 22:43 If you missed Keith Olbermann’s commentary on Donald Rumsfeld’s accusation that Americans who criticize the Bush Policy in Iraq are basically traitors, then you missed a chance to witness history. Olbermann’s courage and genius should be celebrated and cherished. God bless him. The man has a set of stones.
    The following is posted at Keith’s blog. If you don’t want to read it, check out the video posted at (…)

  • Our Lesson From Rummy (transcript?)
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    Yesterday, Aug 30th 2006, Donald Rumsfeld delivered an erudite and foreceful speech to the Republican Veterans of War (membership 16 men). Here is a transcript:
    Good Evening:
    Today we are fighting a new kind of war. We went to Afghanistan and then to Iraq to strike back at those who attacked us on 9/11,and to find and destroy WMDs, which we know are still to be located beneath the burning sands. These monsters in turbans, these Neo-Nazi Muslim extremist Islamo-Fascists use terrible (…)

  • UN slams Israel’s use of cluster bombs in Lebanon
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    UN slams Israel’s use of cluster bombs in Lebanon
    8/30/2006 8:00:00 PM GMT
    The United Nations’ humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, slammed Israel for its “completely immoral” use of cluster bombs in Lebanon, the BBC reported.
    UN efforts to clear cluster bombs in Lebanon have been under way since the Israeli offensive ended two weeks ago.
    According to Egeland, the UN Mine Action Co-ordination Centrehad had found "nearly 85 percent of bombed areas in south Lebanon" and identified "359 (…)

  • Behind the plan to bomb Iran
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    Behind the plan to bomb Iran By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
    Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say.
    It is no longer a secret that the administration of US President George W Bush has been methodically paving the way toward a bombing strike against Iran. The administration’s plans of an aerial military attack against that country have recently been exposed by a number of reliable sources. [1]
    There is strong evidence that the US (…)

  • Gathering nuclear storm
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    Gathering nuclear storm By Arnaud de Borchgrave August 29, 2006
    Just days before the United Nations Security Council deadline for Iran to cease and desist enriching uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave the West the Iranian bird. By inaugurating a "heavy-water" reactor, Iran instantly doubled its chances of acquiring nuclear weapons. Adding insult to injury, the military mullahs test-fired a new long-range missile — the Thaqeb, or Saturn, a submarine-to-surface weapon.
    The new (…)

  • Italian Islamic groups forced to sign a Statement of Values
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Shaping opinions by constriction
    By Mary Rizzo
    In a functional democracy, one of the basic principals is that there should be the recognition of the right of individuals to hold their own opinion. This is often extended to groups, as is natural, since groups are nothing more than individuals who share things in common. The right to hold an opinion also entails the right to express that opinion, even if it is in dissent from the dominant or majority one. There are many ways to express an (…)

  • Towards the Truth Regarding War Crimes Committed in Lebanon
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lebanon has been victim of what the French government has called a ‘disproportionate’ act of war committed by Israel. This war has violated international law which stipulates that all attacks should be in keeping with proportionality and a limited use of violence against only military objectives. In addition, Israeli military operations contravened the First Additional Protocol of the Geneva Conventions, which stipulates that collective punishments and actions against the civilian (…)

  • Bush to Launch Series of Speeches on War
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    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — President Bush is kicking off another series of speeches to counter opposition to the war in Iraq, impatience with the rising U.S. death toll and anxiety about possible terrorist attacks.
    Bush delivers the first speech Thursday to the annual American Legion convention in Salt Lake City. The appearances will continue through the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and culminate on Sept. 19 when Bush addresses the U.N. Security Council.
    It is the third time (…)

  • A Father’s Ode to His Lost Son
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Haim Watzman
    David Grossman, a leading Israeli novelist and peace activist, lost his soldier-son, Uri, earlier this month. Uri was serving on the front lines in Lebanon and was killed two days before the U.N.-brokered cease-fire. He died two weeks before his 21st birthday. His father delivered these remarks at his funeral on Aug. 16.
    My Dearest Uri,
    For the last three days, almost every thought has had a "won’t" in it. He won’t come home, we won’t talk, we won’t laugh. That boy with (…)