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  • Kalashnikov says Iraq shows his gun is still best
    23 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the world’s most popular assault rifle, says that U.S. soldiers in Iraq are using his invention in preference to their own weapons, proving that his gun is still the best.
    "Even after lying in a swamp you can pick up this rifle, aim it and shoot. That’s the best job description there is for a gun. Real soldiers know that and understand it," the 86-year-old gunmaker told a weekend news conference in Moscow.
    "In Vietnam, American soldiers (…)

  • NYT ’S FRIEDMAN MONGERS FOR WAR WITH IRAN
    23 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The ebullient warmonger , Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times, wants war with Iran.......... The Iranians are in his estimate a group of sullen dullards unable to `screw on a light bulb ’- yet simultaneously vicious and cunning enough to construct a nuclear bomb - despite the ubiquitous presence of UN inspectors that the zionist warmonger convienently pretends do not exist....... He has to pretend they do not exist because Zionist Warmonger Thomas L. Friedman knows that these UN (…)

  • OSAMA PROVES SUDAN IS CROSSROADS OF CONFLICT
    23 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NATO must act now to help millions of black African Christians who are the subject of GENOCIDE in SUDAN. OSAMA BIN LADEN has just acknowledged that this is a major battle ground for his forces in his latest video.
    NATO accept the responsibility requested by the US.
    Sooner or later you will have to face this conflict. Better to start now then wait until it is too late. If lives are not important enough for you, perhaps you will do it for the oil.
    NATO your current assistance in SUDAN is (…)

  • Conversations with Cindy Sheehan
    23 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Recently there has been some debate between Cindy Sheehan and Scott Ritter on the success (or lack there of) of the peace movement. Cindy Sheehan took offence at Ritter dissing the peace movement, but as everyone can see, we have gotten nowhere. A clear majority are now against this war. A clear majority want Bush impeached immediately. We are beyond critical mass, and yet the war drums are now beating for Iran. What has gone wrong?
    While the ’peace movement’ is distracted by talking (…)

  • Military faces huge maintenance tab and spending to replace depleted equipment
    23 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    War costs approach $10 billion a month
    by Jonathan Weisman
    Washington — Annual war expenditures in Iraq will almost certainly come close to doubling since the U.S. invasion, as the military confronts the rapidly escalating cost of repairing, rebuilding and replacing equipment chewed up by three years of combat.
    The cost of the war in U.S. fatalities has declined this year, but the cost in treasure continues to rise — from $48 billion in 2003 to $59 billion in 2004 to $81 billion in (…)

  • Rice Puts Reputation on the Line Over Iraq
    23 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ANNE GEARAN
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Months of political haggling in Iraq that sapped the American public’s support for the war may be nearing an end, offering hope amid rising sectarian carnage.
    It also leaves Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a more visible role as the Bush administration tries to steady a country at the brink of civil war.
    Iraqi Shiite politicians agreed Friday to nominate a new candidate for prime minister, replacing an incumbent who had become an obstacle in the (…)

  • Afghan Insurgency Said Won’t Slow
    23 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By PAUL GARWOOD
    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban militants and other armed anti-U.S. groups will continue their violent opposition to Afghan and American-led forces until a genuine dialogue is held to solve Afghanistan’s problems, the former hard-line regime’s ambassador to Pakistan said.
    But Afghan and U.S. officials on Friday rejected the idea of dealing with extremists who have blood on their hands, stressing the military option was the only way to bring them to justice.
    Abdul (…)

  • Congress Clueless About Iran’s Nuclear Threat
    23 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States doesn’t have enough good intelligence to know whether or not Iran will be capable of producing nuclear weapons in the near future, top congressional intelligence committee members said on Sunday.
    Iran said earlier on Sunday it would not abandon its work on nuclear enrichment, which the United Nations has demanded it halt, and was prepared to face sanctions from abroad.
    Asked on Fox News Sunday when Iran might be capable of producing nuclear (…)

  • US state terrorism & Bush victims include 60,000 post-2001 AMERICAN opioid drug deaths
    23 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    US state terrorism is only possible because of lying by omission by unethical Anglo-American media and politicians.
    IGNORING mass mortality simply ensures its continuance and also constitutes utterly repugnant holocaust denial - but that is exactly what Anglo-American Mainstream Media are doing in relation to the Iraqi, Afghan and domestic AMERICAN victims of the Bush Wars.
    US Mainstream Media utterly ignore 2.3 million post-invasion Iraqi and Afghan avoidable (excess) deaths - and (…)

  • DID CONDI RICE LEAK CLASSIFIED DATA TO AIPAC ?
    22 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The former head of AIPAC , Steve Rosen , has claimed in a filing issued with the federal court trying his case that former NSC advisor Condoleezza Rice leaked classified information to AIPAC superstar’ Rosen .........Did she actually leak this data or is Rosen trying to save his ass ?........ I have no idea as to the truth or falsity of the charge.......... I can tell you that one of AIPAC’s self-confessed moles in the Pentagon , Col. Larry Franklin, was emboldened to allegedly transfer (…)