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  • Former UN Weapons Inspector: Don’t Rule Out Staged Government Terror
    25 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former United Nations weapons inspector and Marine Scott Ritter appeared on The Alex Jones Show and stated that he wouldn’t rule out the possibility of the Bush administration staging a terror attack in order to jolt a wavering foreign policy agenda back on track.
    Ritter compared the atmosphere within the administration to that during the time of Watergate, where Nixon considered utilizing America’s nuclear arsenal to create a devastating diversion from domestic calamity.
    "Nothing this (…)

  • Give them a chance to breathe free
    25 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    from die WELT:
    by Jeffrey Gedmin, Director, Aspen Institute Berlin
    After attending in Paris recently a meeting of pro-democracy Syrians, I returned sheepishly to Berlin. That’s because I have the strong impression that a majority of Germans think like Peter Scholl Latour, namely that a) the Middle East does not want democracy; b) the outside world could not help anyway; and c) that the Amis should definitely not interfere.
    I always wondered why Chancellor Schroeder would pile on his (…)

  • Disinformation about Iraq war
    25 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    October 22, 2005 The occupation of Iraq, the primary target in the "war of terror," is unraveling. The arrest and subsequent "rescue" of two British SAS agents provocateur has made evident what has until now been widely rumored on the Iraq street: that the American and British occupation forces are engaging in covert acts of terror in order to maintain chaos and perpetuate the occupation.
    This is not surprising. Since late 2002 it’s been reported (UPI, Los Angeles Times and elsewhere) (…)

  • Repeat the lie enough and people will think it is the truth
    25 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Repeat the lie enough and people will think it is the truth
    JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - U.S. envoy Karen Hughes on Friday defended Washington’s decision to go to war against Iraq in front of a skeptical audience, saying Saddam Hussein had gassed to death "hundreds of thousands" of his own people. A State Department official later said she misspoke about the number.
    Hughes, undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, made the comment before a group of Indonesian students who repeatedly (…)

  • Fitzgerald must Broaden Investigation: Did Bush Admin deliberately mislead Congress about the war?
    24 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, D.C. - In light of recent developments in the CIA leak investigation and other recent revelations, Congressman Jerrold Nadler today called for Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to expand his investigation to include a criminal investigation to examine whether the President, the Vice President, and members of the White House Iraq Group conspired to deliberately deceive Congress into authorizing the war in Iraq.
    “The CIA leak issue is only the tip of the iceberg,” Congressman (…)

  • Forged Niger Documents: Fitzgerald Launches International Investigation
    24 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    =================== Walker’s World: Bush at bay
    By MARTIN WALKER UPI Editor
    WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) — The CIA leak inquiry that threatens senior White House aides has now widened to include the forgery of documents on African uranium that started the investigation, according to NAT0 intelligence sources.
    This suggests the inquiry by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald into the leaking of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame has now widened to embrace part of the (…)

  • Plamegate: The Republican Big Lie
    24 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Plamegate: The Republican Big Lie
    Hinderaker’s Folly
    Special to Crooks and Liars by Larry Johnson If ignorance is bliss, then John Hinderaker is one happy fellow when it comes to talking about Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame. According to Hinderaker, who was appearing on Howard Kurtz’s CNN show about the media, he trots out once again the big lie of Republican talking points by claiming that Joe Wilson lied in his July 2003 op-ed. Hinderaker says that Wilson, "reported to the CIA (…)

  • Secret (UK) MoD poll: 82% of Iraqis want troops out
    24 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Millions of Iraqis believe that suicide attacks against British troops are justified, a secret military poll commissioned by senior officers has revealed.
    The poll, undertaken for the Ministry of Defence and seen by The Sunday Telegraph, shows that up to 65 per cent of Iraqi citizens support attacks and fewer than one per cent think Allied military involvement is helping to improve security in their country.
    It demonstrates for the first time the true strength of anti-Western feeling in (…)

  • A Natural Inspiration
    23 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Natural Inspiration
    Just for a moment, can we all jump ahead, say one or two years from now, into what could be a very real scenario. The draft has been reinstated. Our sons and daughters are faced with the choice of going to war or jail. Parents are in shock. They can’t believe this has happened to their very own. Shock turns to anger and confusion. Their former lack of concern and awareness of their government’s imperialistic agenda is starting to become the biggest mistake of their (…)

  • Bush publication ban lifted
    22 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By matthew burrows
    Publish Date: 20-Oct-2005
    A Vancouver lawyer has won a procedural victory in her attempt to prosecute U.S. President George W. Bush under the Criminal Code.
    Gail Davidson, cofounder of an international group of jurists called Lawyers Against the War, expressed her delight on October 18 following the lifting of a publication ban on court proceedings against the U.S. president.
    “It’s great news, but really they had no choice,” Davidson told the Georgia Straight. (…)