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  • Military Comes Clean To Mom. Years After Son’s Death, She Gets Truth, Learns Suspect Is Held
    23 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Military Comes Clean To Mom 2 Years After Son’s Death, She Gets Truth, Learns Suspect Is Held Henry K. Lee, Matthew B. Stannard, Jim Doyle, Chronicle Staff Writers Thursday, June 22, 2006 Fellow soldiers knew within minutes on June 22, 2004, that California National Guard Spc. Patrick McCaffrey and 1st Lt. Andre D. Tyson had been killed by supposedly allied Iraqi soldiers who were patrolling alongside them. Army investigators reached the same conclusion in 2005.
    But it wasn’t until (…)

  • "Cut And Run": A Winning Slogan And Strategy If The Democrats Are Serious About Wanting To Win
    23 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Cut And Run": A Winning Slogan And Strategy If The Democrats Are Serious About Wanting To Win By David Lindorff Thursday, June 22, 2006
    The Democrats in Congress are having trouble coming up with a position on the War in Iraq because they are so afraid of Republican charges that they are the "cut and run" party.
    It’s a pathetic spectacle, and they should give it up. The way I see it "cut and run" is the slogan the Democrats should adopt as their own for the 2006 election year. (…)

  • Peace Has No Borders AWOL Videos
    23 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Rally in Support of Iraq War Resisters AWOL in Canada
    Featuring Cindy Sheehan, Ann Wright, Iraq Veterans Against the War & AWOL Vets Against the War.
    4 out of 5 videos of this event are online now. 3 are seperate interviews with AWOL soldiers, 1 is a rally highlight reel. There will be at least 1 more to be released this week.
    Watch the Videos Here
    Crossing the border into Canada for the Peace Has No Borders rally on Saturday; it quickly became apparent that those attending (…)

  • Iraqi Troops Are Turning on Their American Counterparts
    22 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Friendly Fire Ambush
    By MARJORIE COHN
    Sergeant Patrick R. McCaffrey, Sr. and First Lieutenant Andre D. Tyson died on this day two years ago in Balad, Iraq. Back then, military officials reported that enemy insurgents ambushed them. The Army subsequently conducted an investigation and learned the men were targeted and killed by Iraqi troops they were training.
    Although the Army completed its investigation on September 30, 2005, it failed to clarify the initial notification to the (…)

  • SANTORUM TOUTS `WMD FIND"
    22 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Yesterday the Neocon extremist , Sen . Rick Santorum (R-Pa), appeared before the floor of the United States Senate and proceeded to make quite the ass of himself .... Little Ricky , down 18 % points in his pathetic ’06 re-election bid , claimed tidings of great joy : WMD found in Iraq ! ..... The ’pro-life’ Senator failed to note the small detail that the miraculous discoveries’ were , in point of fact , nothing more than the chemical residue contained within severley decayed (…)

  • Troops Echo Frustration Over War In Iraq
    22 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Troops Echo Frustration Over War In Iraq By KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press Writer June 21, 2006, 7:58 AM EDT JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - While Staff Sgt. Randy Myers was dodging roadside bombs in Iraq, his congressman was calling the war a lost cause.
    Sixteen-term Rep. John Murtha, a decorated Vietnam veteran and military hawk, has become the face of the Democrats’ anti-war movement since he called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops last fall. His oft-repeated criticism of the Bush (…)

  • Is This Really War?
    22 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is This Really War? By Sheldon Richman June 16, 2006 In 1985, Wilson Goode became the first U.S. mayor to bomb his own city. In an effort to rid a West Philadelphia neighborhood of a ragtag, violent, back-to-nature organization called Move, which had engaged in a shootout with police, Goode ordered explosives dropped on the Move house from a helicopter. The whole block of row houses burned, 61 homes in all. Eleven people were killed, five of them children. Some 250 people lost their homes. (…)

  • The Only People Who May Miss Al-Zarqawi Are The Pro-War Neocons, Who Claimed He Was Part Of Al-Qaida
    22 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Final Say The Only People Who May Miss Al-Zarqawi Are The Pro-War Neocons, Who Claimed He Was Part Of Al-Qaida To Justify The Invasion Of Iraq By Eric Margolis June 11, 2006 "Zarqawi will be dead soon," two of his disgruntled Jordanian supporters told me in March. "He will be betrayed by his own men."
    And that’s likely what happened last week. Tipped off that Iraq’s most wanted man was in a rural house, U.S. aircraft bombed it, killing some of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s top aides, a (…)

  • Cut and Run or Gut and Ruin?
    22 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak. Giambattista Vico
    In the latest polls, Bush rose four percent. Is there anyone knowledgeable enough out there who would explain the mercurial rise, fall, and then rise again of an irrefutably failed Administration? How is it that one morning Joe Six Pack gets up and decides, yes by God I’m now positive about the President’s performance? Did he hear a (…)

  • Seeking a Better Debate
    21 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Seeking a Better Debate By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective
    Tuesday 20 June 2006
    The Republican majority in Congress labored mightily last week to derail and distract any discussion of an exit strategy from Iraq. In the House of Representatives, a debate aimed at whether or not to establish a timetable for withdrawal collapsed under a rhetorical onslaught from the Right. In order to adequately describe the experience of watching the so-called House "debate" on June (…)