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  • Why are they not in front of their cameras calling Bush a butcher?
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    I first want to thank Mark Parent and LiveJournal.com for bringing this video feed to the attention of many (English Version from Italian TV): US Chemical Weapons Attack on Iraqi Civilians.
    But before you watch this video which is 27 minutes in length, I want to strongly caution you that what you are about to see is so horrific and if you have children, under no circumstances are they to view this feed.
    While I have seen graphic photos of the “Bush War” in Iraq, I (…)

  • Civil Rights Focus Shift Roils Staff At Justice. Veterans Exit Division as Traditional Cases Decline
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dan Eggen
    The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which has enforced the nation’s anti-discrimination laws for nearly half a century, is in the midst of an upheaval that has driven away dozens of veteran lawyers and has damaged morale for many of those who remain, according to former and current career employees.
    Nearly 20 percent of the division’s lawyers left in fiscal 2005, in part because of a buyout program that some lawyers believe was aimed at pushing out those who did (…)

  • Students rebuffing military recruiters. More high schoolers in state opt out of lists
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Maria Sacchetti and Jenna Russell
    More than 5,000 high school students in five of the state’s largest school districts have removed their names from military recruitment lists, a trend driven by continuing casualties in Iraq and a well-organized peace movement that has urged students to avoid contact with recruiters.
    The number of students removing their names has jumped significantly over the past year, especially in school systems with many low-income and minority students, where (…)

  • Sen. Clinton: I support W. Bank fence, PA must fight terrorism
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Lily Galili and Roni Singer, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service
    U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday that she supports the separation fence Israel is building along the edges of the West Bank, and that the onus is on the Palestinian Authority to fight terrorism.
    "This is not against the Palestinian people," Clinton, a New York Democrat, said during a tour of a section of the barrier being built around Jerusalem.
    "This is against the terrorists. The Palestinian people have (…)

  • Rove and Cheney Are Now Caught In Fitzgerald’s Web. Will they Go Down too?
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The June 10th INR memo cited in the Libby indictment was written by Carl Ford, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research for Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman at the request of John Bolton, then Undersecretary of State for Arms Control who was asked to do so by Libby. Ford is the person who testified before a senate committee convened to question Bolton during his United Nations confirmation hearing that Bolton was a “bully.”
    by Jason Leopold
    Now it’s about the Niger (…)

  • Wake Up America
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Monica Benderman
    Wake up, America... stop believing in the illusion
    Americans blindly move through the fog, running from themselves, believing in saviors who will pull them above the fray just before they go over the edge. We don’t face anything head-on. When the going gets tough, Americans go drinking. We have Prozac, Zyprexa, Ambien, Xanex - and a world of chemicals to thicken the fog. There’s the building on the hill where we gather to pray for forgiveness from our sins and (…)

  • Bush Administration rewriting history won’t change reality or restore credibility
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush and his national security adviser have answered critics of the Iraq war in recent days with a two-pronged argument: that Congress saw the same intelligence the administration did before the war, and that independent commissions have determined that the administration did not misrepresent the intelligence.
    Neither assertion is wholly accurate.
    The administration’s overarching point is true: Intelligence agencies overwhelmingly believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of (…)

  • Flashback: Senate told Saddam had WMDs and a fleet of UAVs capable of hitting the East Coast
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senator Ben Nelson
    I, along with nearly every Senator in this Chamber, in that secure room of this Capitol complex, was not only told there were weapons of mass destruction—specifically chemical and biological—but I was looked at straight in the face and told that Saddam Hussein had the means of delivering those biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction by unmanned drones, called UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles. Further, I was looked at straight in the face and told that UAVs (…)

  • America’s S.O.S to the IDF
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Amir Oren
    At the end of last month, Brigadier General Joseph Votel, a boyish-looking, tall and smiling American, made an urgent request to an old friend of his from Washington − also a brigadier general, but in the Golani Brigade rather than the Rangers − Nitzan Nuriel, the chief of the foreign liaison department of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. So urgent was the message that the Pentagon didn’t even update their military attache in Tel Aviv. Votel implored Nuriel to (…)

  • Not Doing Enough For Veterans
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The sad reality is that many of the soldiers serving today in Iraq and Afghanistan will join the ranks of those who call the streets of America home.
    by Nikos A. Leverenz
    On this Veteran’s Day, Americans are serving abroad far away from their friends and loved ones. Hopefully, each of them will return home safely, finish their commitments to the military, and move on to rewarding civilian lives.
    But the sad reality is that many of today’s service members, including those currently (…)