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  • The Lies and theTruth About the U.S. War on Iraq
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Facing growing criticism about the Iraq war from high-level politicians as well as from the public (a just-released Zogby poll found that 53 percent of people surveyed favored impeachment if Bush lied about the reasons for going to war with Iraq), the Bush regime has been snarling back. Vice President Cheney said that the charge that the Bush administration "purposely misled the American people on prewar intelligence is one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in this (…)

  • Three Who See the War Clearly Reps. McKinney, Serrano and Wexler
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By BC Co-Publishers Glen Ford and Peter Gamble
    Only three Democrats voted on the issue of the Iraq war, last Friday. The rest followed Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s directives, a continuation of her "strategy" of insulating the pro-war wing of the party, centered in the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), from the wrath of the party’s base, which is now overwhelmingly anti-war. For the DLC’s sake, Pelosi smothers the party’s progressive wing - of which she was once a proud member. Thus, (…)

  • Antiwar Protesters Arrested Near Bush Ranch
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ordinance Limits Parking, Camping
    By Rosalind S. Helderman
    CRAWFORD, Tex., - About a dozen antiwar protesters, including Daniel Ellsberg and the sister of Cindy Sheehan, were arrested Wednesday morning while camping on a roadside near President Bush’s ranch in violation of a new county ordinance.
    The group returned this week as Bush arrived at his Texas home to celebrate Thanksgiving with his family. They came in hopes of reigniting the international attention they attracted in August, (…)

  • Hillary, You’re Not Listening
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jeff Cohen "Part of my job is being a good listener," Hillary Clinton wrote, in the first line of her letter received today. As a New Yorker, I’m represented by Hillary in the U.S. Senate. Along with her two-page fundraising letter, I received a four-page "2005 Critical National Issues Survey."
    But something was missing — something Hillary obviously doesn’t want to hear about: IRAQ. Nowhere in the letter or the questionnaire was that four-letter word.
    Hillary’s first question asked (…)

  • Cheney’s Trouble with Truth
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Scheer
    You’ve got to hand it to Dick Cheney; no other modern politician has come so close to perfecting the theater of the absurd. Even as he protests his innocence of lying about matters of state, he lies about matters of state.
    In speeches Friday and Monday, the vice president, who has long insisted Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda were allies, Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, we would be greeted as liberators in Baghdad, and that the Iraqi insurgency is in its ’’last (…)

  • America’s Covert War in Iraq, by Mike Whitney
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Max Fuller has written the most disturbing and thought provoking article of the year. In his “Crying Wolf: Media Disinformation and Death Squads in Occupied Iraq”, (Global Research) Fuller painstakingly lays out the details and documentation to prove that the United States intelligence agencies are behind the vast incidents of murder and torture being carried out in Iraq today. If Fuller’s thesis is correct, then the War on Terror, that mighty engine of imperial carnage, is nothing more than (…)

  • Ex-Rep. Findley: “It’s Time to Exit Iraq!”
    2 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Hughes
    Washington, D.C. - On Dec. 1, 2005, a public hearing, sponsored by the Council for the National Interest, (CNI), was held on Capitol Hill, in Room SC-4 of the Capitol Building. (1) It dealt primarily with how the U.S. should exit from the immoral and unjust Iraqi War, which was launched based on a pack of lies. (2) The blood stained conflict has already taken the lives of 2,110 American military personnel, over 100,000 Iraqi civilians, and has cost the U.S. taxpayers (…)

  • Cabal of Criminality
    1 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Taken from www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    The Cabal of Criminality and Iraq
    The disaster in Iraq has continued to regress with the same velocity and intensity as when it first started, raging onwards in a classical resistance, guerilla-style form of urban warfare that usually befalls occupying invaders of alien lands, yet as 2005 ends and 2006 gets set to begin, in the minds of millions of Americans finally out of the hypnotic, denial-laced clouds of 9/11, the time has finally (…)

  • What Lost Iraq? How Ragtag Insurgents Beat The World’s Sole Superpower
    1 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    What Lost Iraq? How Ragtag Insurgents Beat The World’s Sole Superpower Ted Rall November 22, 2005 Most Americans were unaware that we had botched Afghanistan; most still are. I watched the Pentagon send in a miniscule 8,000-troop complement where, according to its top strategists, at least half a million occupation soldiers (stationed for at least 20 years) would have been needed to control the nation’s roads, pacify the provinces and establish the security essential for building an (…)

  • U.S Military Covertly Pays To Run Stories In Iraqi Press
    1 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S Military Covertly Pays To Run Stories In Iraqi Press Troops Write Articles Presented As News Reports. Some Officers Object To The Practice By Mark Mazzetti and Borzou Daragahi, Times Staff Writers November 30, 2005 Washington - As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
    The articles, written by U.S. military "information (…)