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  • The Scalping Party (updated)
    27 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    [Introduction by Tom Engelhardt: It didn’t take long for the war crimes to begin — in Afghanistan, in Guantánamo, in Iraq. By November 2003, Mike Davis was writing about them for Tomdispatch. And in introducing his piece, "The Scalping Party," I suggested that the seeds of our future were well-planted and already beginning to sprout their monstrous crop. I wrote on that November 14th, over a year and a half ago:
    "Operation Iron Hammer" just went into its second night in Baghdad with the (…)

  • Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda, according to government records and current and former officials with firsthand knowledge of the matter.
    The (…)

  • WHOSE WAR WAS IT?
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHOSE WAR WAS IT?
    By Peter Fredson
    November 26, 2005
    Whose war was it really? Was it Bush’s War? Dick Cheney’s War? Karl Rove’s War?
    There is an honest debate among bloggers and reporters about which person in the Bush administration decided that invading Iraq, for whatever reason, was a good idea. All three are neocons immersed in the philosophy of preemption, domination, and aggressivity as means to imperial glory. Any one of the three were certainly capable of putting forth (…)

  • The End Of The War
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert B. Reich
    The War in Iraq may end sooner rather than later - not because prominent congressmen or military experts say we should get out, and not because the American public is losing patience. It will end relatively soon because we can’t afford the price tag of recruiting enough soldiers to fight it.
    Our soldiers comprise what’s called an "all-volunteer" army. But the job of soldiering is "voluntary" the same way any paid job is voluntary. You’re not forced to do it. You’re (…)

  • Secret EU report launches scathing attack on Israel
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
    European governments should consider direct intervention in an attempt to curb the systematic measures being undertaken by Israel to increase its control and population in the historically - and legally - Arab eastern sector of Jerusalem, a highly sensitive EU report concludes.
    The confidential report, prepared by top diplomats representing the 25 EU governments in the city, warns that the chances of a two-state solution are being eroded by Israel’s (…)

  • Democratic lawmakers lament Iraq war vote
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ANDREW MIGA
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Three years ago, Massachusetts congressmen Martin Meehan, Stephen Lynch and Edward Markey bucked their state Democratic colleagues and cast votes to give President Bush a green light to go to war in Iraq.
    Since then, the three have renounced their votes and emerged as critics of the way Bush has handled the war.
    Unlike the dramatic public change of heart by Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., a decorated Marine veteran who served in Korea and Vietnam, the three (…)

  • Red, White, and Blue Dawn in Iraq
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    COUNTERPUNCH November 23, 2005
    What a Bad Hollywood Film Can Teach Americans About Life Under Occupation:
    Red, White and Blue Dawn
    By STAN COX
    Striking parallels between the current US occupation of Iraq and events depicted in the movie The Battle of Algiers have been widely discussed. The 1965 classic, a dramatization of anticolonial struggle, was even shown at the Pentagon back in 2003, apparently as an instructional film.
    But, as a few commentators have noted, there is (…)

  • QATAR: AL JAZEERA JOURNALIST’S WIDOW MAY SUE U.S.
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    London, 24 Nov. (AKI) - The widow of Tariq Ayyoub, the journalist from satellite TV network Al Jazeera, who was killed when the station’s Baghdad offices were bombed in 2003, says she is considering sueing the US government over his death. The revelation follows reports in British newspaper The Daily Mirror, that US president George W. Bush planned to bomb Al Jazeera’s headquarters in Qatar but was talked out of it by British prime minister Tony Blair.
    Dima Tahboub, wife of the 35-year-old (…)

  • The Specter of a Zarqawi Takeover Is As False As Saddam’s Mushroom Cloud
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When the White House misled Congress and the American public to support an unprovoked attack on Iraq, they stressed frightening images of vast stockpiles of WMD and the threat of a mushroom cloud from Saddam’s unchecked nuclear program. Of course, that all turned out to be false. But the White House is up to its old propaganda tricks again, this time to mislead Congress and the public to back the continued occupation of Iraq, which has already cost over 2,000 American lives, tens of (…)

  • Is Bush lying about his lies?
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Not only did the Bush administration deceive the American people about the reasons for invading Iraq, it is now deceiving them about the deceptions. In a burst of political tantrums, the president and the vice president have shouted that it was "irresponsible" to assert that there had been deception and it was unfair to the troops fighting in Iraq.
    Is the administration lying about its lies? That many of the arguments in favor of the war were false is beyond question. Nor can there be any (…)