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  • Iraq Prime minister: Iran not interfering in Iraq
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Someone give Cheney the memo before he invades.
    Iran not interfering in Iraq-Iraqi prime minister 06 Oct 2005 13:12:13 GMT
    Source: Reuters (Adds quotes, background)
    TEHRAN, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Iraq’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari on Thursday rejected accusations that Shi’ite Muslim Iran was interfering in Iraq’s internal affairs.
    Asked about accusations that Iran was interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq, Jaafari told Iranian state television: "Such accusations are baseless (…)

  • George Bush: ’God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq’
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President told Palestinians God also talked to him about Middle East peace
    Ewen MacAskill Friday October 7, 2005 The Guardian
    George Bush believes he is on a mission from God, according to the politician Nabil Shaath. Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP
    George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month. Mr Bush revealed the (…)

  • THE PRO-TORTURE NINE
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Worth reminding people who their names are:
    Allard (R-CO)
    Bond (R-MO)
    Coburn (R-OK)
    Cochran (R-MS)
    Cornyn (R-TX)
    Inhofe (R-OK)
    Roberts (R-KS)
    Sessions (R-AL)
    Stevens (R-AK)
    Keep this list. And tell your children and grandchildren.
    http://www.andrewsullivan.com/index...

  • General: U.S. ’Lacks Moral Authority’ In Iraq
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The only way to be sure Iraq does not become the threat it was posited to be before the war, a safe haven for terrorists, is to raise the standard of living and the expectations of the people, creating a country of "haves" who don’t tolerate terrorists and thugs, and who have confidence their government and security force will back them up. by Pamela Hess
    UPI Pentagon Correspondent Baghdad (UPI) Oct 05, 2005
    "I don’t know if I have the moral authority to send troops into combat (…)

  • Soldier Reports More Abuses to Senator
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ERIC SCHMITT
    WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 - An Army captain who has reported new allegations of detainee abuse in Iraq met Tuesday with Senator John McCain and staff aides on the House Armed Services Committee and gave them additional accounts of abuse in Iraq that other soldiers had sent him in recent days, Congressional aides said.
    The officer, Capt. Ian Fishback, in a brief interview after his half-hour meeting with Mr. McCain declined to describe the new information he gave the senator or, (…)

  • Incredibly stupid and ignorant Americans caught on tape!
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Incredibly stupid and ignorant Americans caught on tape!
    During the past 30 years Americans in general have been seriously dumbed-down by the USA educational system. This is one reason why the Bush Administration warmongers are getting away with their war crimes in Iraq. Below is a video tape showing a number of Americans being randomly interviewed on the street. They were asked, "In terms of the war on terrorism, which country should the USA invade next?" Their answers will astound you! (…)

  • Reaping the Bounty of Imperial Arrogance
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tuesday, October 04, 2005
    The occupation of Iraq by U.S. forces "fuels the insurgency." What’s more, the U.S. military occupation of Iraq foments terrorism throughout the entire Middle East.
    Think those are the conclusions of some Bush-hating, pinko-commie liberal? Perhaps, but think again. In fact, those were the assessments of Army General George Casey during his testimony to Congress on September 29, 2005. In his prepared remarks to the Senate Armed Services Committee, the top U.S. (…)

  • Unwinnable War
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The so-called war against terrorism is unwinnable. It was designed to be unwinnable so that it can be carried on for an indefinite duration and thus support the vast military-industrial-anti-terrorism complex. The end of the Cold War scared this complex half to death. It can only survive with an enemy at the gates.
    Conventional wars can be won because they are fought against governments. Either the enemy government can be destroyed or it is made to pay such a high price in casualties and (…)

  • A Second Take on Scooter-gate. It’s all about treason
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Justin Raimondo
    Editorial note: The original version of this column, which ran on October 3, contained a number of errors involving dates, which I have now corrected. I have also added a significant amount of new material, so much that it is, for all intents and purposes, quite a different piece from the original.
    It isn’t generally known that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff - now revealed as New York Times reporter Judith Miller’s source in the (…)

  • Editorial: Bush’s Third Quarter
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Editorial: The Third Quarter October 04, 2005
    While President George W. Bush’s debacle in Iraq has largely been pushed off the front pages by a pair of Gulf Coast hurricanes and, prior to that, a missing young white girl on the Caribbean island of Aruba, brave American men and women have been needlessly dying there each and every day.
    Over the past three months, a total of 188 have been killed in action, and another 1,595 have been maimed, with many of those losing arms, legs and eyes. (…)