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  • MEET THE" FIGHTING DEMOCRATS" : DLC POSEURS
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If Americans wish to support Democratic candidates in the coming elections to demonstrate their outrage at Bush’s insane policies , that is a recourse open to them... .... Will Democratic takeover of Congress finnally cause Bush to Stop the Madness ?... It’s possible . Not Likely...... If a citizen chooses to vote (D) , it must be noted that in competitive races the "progressive" alternative is very likely no better - and in some instances actually worse - than his Republican (…)

  • DESCENT INTO HELL : AMERICA’ S DIRTY WAR
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The bloodbath taking place in "liberated" Iraq is not the product of hubris, miscalculation , or as the DLC "neocrats" constantly maintain , a matter of "incompetence".... More evidence rolls in ... The killing fields of Bloody Iraq spring from the execution of conscious "strategery" (a combination of Strategy and Treachery ) .... The death squads are our death squads... ... ITEM : Rumsfeld’s `New Approach ’ . " ... in some cases , according to Pentagon advisors , local (…)

  • SUICIDAL
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A soldier is hunkered down behind a shell pocked wall in Ramadi. He is shaking and obviously disturbed. He has a .45 pressed against his forehead.
    His C.O. approaches him. "What are you doing?", he asks with deep concern.
    "I’m going to end it" replies the soldier, "I can’t take it anymore!"
    The C.O. puts his arm around the young private and says: "Have you forgotten why we’re here? We came deceived by lies, to launch an illegal war, to rape and pillage, torture and steal. We came to (…)

  • Aid agencies unable to enter Samarra Report, IRIN, 22 March 2006
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BAGHDAD — Aid agencies say thay have been prevented from entering the city of Samarra, in central Iraq, where a major US and Iraqi military operation is underway.
    "Our convoys sent on Sunday and Monday have been prevented from entering the city by US troops and our information from inside is that families are without food, power and potable water, particularly because they cannot leave their homes," noted Abdel Hameed, a spokesperson for the Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS).
    This, they (…)

  • Requests to Build Big U.S. Bases in Iraq Raise Concern Peter Spiegel, LA Times Staff Writer
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 23, 2006
    WASHINGTON - Even as military planners look to withdraw significant numbers of American troops from Iraq in the coming year, the Bush administration continues to request hundreds of millions of dollars for large bases there, raising concerns over whether they are intended as permanent homes for U.S. forces.
    Questions on Capitol Hill about the future of the bases have been prompted by the new emergency spending bill for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, which (…)

  • Iraq: Neocon Strategy Is One of Civil War by John Walsh
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Arab News, March 24, 2006
    One of the abiding myths about the war on Iraq is that the neocons were too stupid to realize that they would confront an unrelenting, indigenous resistance to their occupation of Iraq. Unwittingly, the story line goes, they led the US into a conflict which has now produced a civil war.
    But this simply does not fit the facts. The neocons clearly anticipated such an outcome before they launched their war as Stephen Zunes documents in Antiwar.com: "Top analysts in (…)

  • On the Third Anniversary By Cindy Sheehan (AlterNet)
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Monday 20 March 2006 "More fighting and sacrifice will be required to achieve this victory, and for some, the temptation to retreat and abandon our commitments is strong." George Bush, Radio Address, March 18, 2006
    On March 19, 2003, George Bush "shocked and awed" the world by his premature, if not wholly unnecessary, invasion of Iraq. I can remember that night when he came on to tell us that he had begun his war crimes against Iraq in earnest. I was sitting on my couch sobbing for the (…)

  • Iraq War as Unpopular as Vietnam: Experts
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    Published on Thursday, March 23, 2006 by Agence France Presse
    WASHINGTON - The Iraq war is now as unpopular at home as the Vietnam war was in 1968, but in the absence of a military draft and a clear way out, Americans are not taking to the streets, analysts say.
    Protests marking the third anniversary of the war drew less than 10,000 people in major US cities over the weekend, according to reporters and police counts-despite polls showing broad public displeasure with the war.
    Compared (…)

  • Israel Lobby Dictates U.S. Policy, Study Charges by Emad Mekay
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Thursday, March 23, 2006 by Inter Press Service
    WASHINGTON - "This situation has no equal in American political history," says the 83-page study, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy".
    "Why has the United States been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of another state?" ask authors John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (…)

  • The Anti- Empire Report By William Blum, ICH
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens." Friedrich Schiller "With stupidity, even the gods struggle in vain."
    03/23/06 "ich" — — I’m often told by readers of their encounters with Americans who support the outrages of US foreign policy no matter what facts are presented to them, no matter what arguments are made, no matter how much the government’s statements are shown to be false. They include amongst their number those who still believe that Iraq had a direct involvement in (…)