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  • Iraq: American Contractor Arrested with Explosives in Car
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An American described as a security contractor arrested by police in a northern Iraqi town was carrying weapons in his car, a provincial official said.
    Abdullah Jebara, the Deputy Governor of Salahaddin province, told Reuters the man was arrested in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit on Monday. He was removed from the provincial government building by U.S. forces on Tuesday, Jebara said.
    The Joint Coordination Center between the U.S. and Iraqi military in Tikrit said (…)

  • Chief Joseph and the "Rule of Law"
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop,free to work,free to trade where I choose,free to choose my own teachers,free to follow the religion of my fathers,free to talk, think and react for myself....and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty"...Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce.
    Note that the wisdom of this great Native American icon most closely parallels the basic tenets of our US Constitution. Of particular interest is that last statement "I will obey every law...." (…)

  • THE RAPING OF IRAQ
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE RAPING OF IRAQ
    By Peter Fredson
    March 14, 2006
    Years ago, in Central Park, a young woman was jogging when a gang of thugs waylaid her. They beat her, then raped her, and stole whatever she had of value. They felt victorious and gleefully encouraged their companions to rape her again. A truly jolly crew.
    They were eventually brought to justice, but meanwhile no jogger felt safe.
    There is an analogous situation with the Bush cabinet and Iraq. The Bush thugs waylaid Iraq, beat (…)

  • The Real Cost of the Iraq War
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Mark Engler
    In the center of the CostOfWar.com home page, an upward-racing ticker, presented in a large, red font, keeps a steady tally of the money spent for the U.S. war in Iraq. Every time I visit, it takes a moment to sort through the counter’s decimal places and make sense of it. The hundreds of dollars fly by too quickly to track. The thousands change a little faster than once a second. As I write, the ticker reads $239,302,273,144.
    It is worth staring at the site for a while to (…)

  • Cheney’s Coup
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sidney Blumenthal
    A three-year-old executive order that vastly expanded his powers illuminates how the vice president and his minions led us into war.
    After shooting Austin lawyer Harry Whittington, Dick Cheney’s immediate impulse was to control the intelligence. Rather than call the president directly, he ordered an aide to inform White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card that there had been an accident but not that Cheney was its cause. Then a host of surrogates attacked the victim for (…)

  • Nuclear panic
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jonathan Power
    LONDON Proliferation Lost somewhere in the mists of history is the knowledge that it was the pro-American Shah of Iran who initiated Iran’s quest to build a nuclear bomb. And it was the anti-American revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeini that initially suspended work on the bomb.
    Fanning the panic of proliferation has been a mainstay of the Bush administration, supported in the wings by the British government and more recently France’s president, Jacques Chirac. It is (…)

  • Democrats may unite on plan to pull troops
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rick Klein
    WASHINGTON — After months of trying unsuccessfully to develop a common message on the war in Iraq, Democratic Party leaders are beginning to coalesce around a broad plan to begin a quick withdrawal of US troops and install them elsewhere in the region, where they could respond to emergencies in Iraq and help fight terrorism in other countries.
    The concept, dubbed ’’strategic redeployment," is outlined in a slim, nine-page report coauthored by a former Reagan administration (…)

  • Meeting at the Church of the Good Shepherd, NYC - March 15, 2006
    13 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Meeting at the Church of the Good Shepherd, NYC - March 15, 2006 1. The recent ‘reporting’ of Iran to the UN Security Council follows three years of political and economic pressure by the US on the EU-3, other Board members of the IAEA, and China and Russia in particular.
    2. The resolution has no legal basis: it preempted the March 6th final report of the IAEA investigation and thus tried to influence and frame the final decision improperly.
    3. It has no technical basis: it has (…)

  • DOES IRAN GAIN FROM CIVIL WAR ?
    13 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://son-of-a-bush.blogspot.com With an allied government preparing to assume control , why would Iran blow up the central governing authority ? When the US installs a puppet regime , they move heaven and Earth to butress the legitimacy of that government , not seek to destroy it. All countries seeking the role as hegemon over a region ( or the world) reward allies and subvert foes ...

  • THE BUSH SHIP OF FOOLS : A TITANIC DISASTER
    13 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If you read the commentary of Bush’s Middle East foreign policy advisors , it is not hard to understand how "Amurka" reached this parlous state ..... Michael Ledeen supports "Total War" ... "Creative Destruction".... He wants earnestly to spread the "creativity" to Iran... "Faster.. please ! " . ..... Bush advisor Daniel Pipes thinks civil war in Iraq would be a "humanitarian disaster" but a "strategic victory" All those AYE- RABS killing each other off ... Yummy-Yum.... In (…)