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  • The Bush Iran Policy for Dummies
    1 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A quick primer, so simple anyone can understand.
    THE BUSH IRAN POLICY
    1. Insist that Iran stop all uranium enrichment programs.
    2. Refuse to talk to them, period.
    3. Agree to talk IF Iran will first agree to stop all enrichment.
    4. Ask UN for sanctions,and when Russia and China abstain or say "no".....
    5. Institute independent sanctions in conjunction with some of the "Coalition of the Willing"
    6. Sanctions are said not to work and Cheney and Co. insist Iran is only a few weeks (…)

  • A TIME FOR MUTINY?
    1 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert S. Finnegan OP-ED Southeast Asia News 05/31/2006
    Haditha.
    The United States Marine Corps was already on it’s last legs as an elite fighting force, our reputation sullied by the dishonorable and sometimes criminal actions perpetrated by bottom of the barrel Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers in Iraq. Now this. We are now observing the death throes of the oldest fighting force in America.
    We had a good run, from November 10, 1775 to 2006. These dates may now (…)

  • IN FALLUJAH, WHERE WE FELL
    31 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (Based on an old Civil War Poem,from the Confederate side) In Fallujah, where we fell, there nothing grows. Between the ruins,row on row a marked disgrace. And in the sky the vultures,squawking,darkly fly, scarce heard amid the dust below. We are the dead. Short days ago we lived and thrived, saw sunrise glow, loved,embraced, and now we lie in Fallujah,where we fell. We took the quarrel to the foe! to them from ghostly hands we threw the curse of pure defeat,yes,that we cried... And (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan condemns Australian prime minister as an “illegal combatant”
    31 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Richard Phillips
    US antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan denounced the Australian government for its participation in the Iraq war and called for the release of David Hicks from Guantánamo Bay and the closure of the notorious US military prison camp at a demonstration in Melbourne last Friday.
    Sheehan rejected US and Australian government claims that Guantánamo inmates “did not deserve civil rights” because they were “illegal enemy combatants”. The four-and-a-half-year incarceration of (…)

  • Neocons in the Democratic Party
    30 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Like Kennedy and Truman, Democratic neocons want to beef up the military and won’t run from a fight.
    By Jacob Heilbrunn, Jacob Heilbrunn, a former Times editorial writer, is writing a book on neoconservatism.
    DON’T LOOK now, but neoconservatism is making a comeback - and not among the Republicans who have made it famous but in the Democratic Party.
    A host of pundits and young national security experts associated with the party are calling for a return to the Cold War precepts of (…)

  • Massacre at Haditha: how the occupation turned an Iraqi town into hell
    30 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Simon Assaf
    The Iraqi town of Haditha will now forever be linked with the blood and terror of the US occupation. For many it will be Iraq’s equivalent of Vietnam’s My Lai, a symbol of the violence of imperialism.
    Before the war the sleepy town of 70,000 on the banks of the River Euphrates was known mainly for its date growing.
    Now it is known for a massacre. And that massacre has underlined the much wider process of invasion, and the urgent necessity for every one of the US and (…)

  • U.S. policy was to shoot Korean refugees
    30 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By CHARLES J. HANLEY and MARTHA MENDOZA
    More than a half-century after hostilities ended in Korea, a document from the war’s chaotic early days has come to light - a letter from the U.S. ambassador to Seoul, informing the State Department that American soldiers would shoot refugees approaching their lines.
    The letter - dated the day of the Army’s mass killing of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri in 1950 - is the strongest indication yet that such a policy existed for all U.S. forces in (…)

  • Fresh evidence of ’executions’ by rogue US marines in Iraq
    30 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New photographs lend weight to allegations of revenge killings by US unit under attack in which 24 unarmed civilians died
    by Paul Harris in Washington and David Smith in Basra
    Fresh photographic evidence seen by US investigators is believed to reveal that some of the 24 unarmed Iraqis killed in the Iraqi town of Haditha after an American died in a roadside bomb in November were in effect executed, it was reported yesterday.
    According to Congressional and defence officials quoted by the (…)

  • The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    30 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ray Bennett
    A Ken Loach film about the British in Ireland always has the potential for controversy, but his historical drama "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" is unlikely to inflame passions on either side.
    Atmospheric but pedestrian, it is a retelling of the classic tragedy of all civil wars, from the U.S. to Vietnam to England, where brother is pitched against brother.
    The film looks handsomely authentic, and the familiar characters are engaging, but the story is predictable and (…)

  • Bush at West Point: Vows Long Middle Eastern War, Spreads the Fallacy of the Cold War Analogy
    30 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Matthew Rothschild At West Point’s graduation ceremony, President Bush gave a none too subtle hint that the United States will be waging war in the Middle East for years and years to come. And not just in Iraq.
    “So long as the Middle East remains a place where freedom does not flourish, it will remain a place where terrorists foment resentment and threaten American security,” he said. He added, a few sentences later, “The message has spread from Damascus to Tehran that the future (…)