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  • Clueless Americans on Democracy
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    October 2nd, 2005
    “The U.S. public is deeply skeptical about the priority President George W. Bush has put on promoting democracy abroad, and its experience in Iraq has made it more so, according to a detailed new survey released Thursday by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations (CCFR) and the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) of the University of Maryland,” writes Jim Lobe. “Only 35 percent of the 808 randomly selected respondents said they favored the use of military (…)

  • For No Good Reason
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    You never want to say that brave troops in Iraq died for the mindless fantasies spun by a gang of inept politicians. But what else did they die for?
    For No Good Reason By Bob Herbert
    Monday 03 October 2005
    "You can keep the flowers blooming on their graves forever. It won’t change the fact that they died for nothing." Anti-war protester, circa 1969 It’s finally becoming clear on Capitol Hill, and maybe even in the White House, that the United States cannot win the war in Iraq. The (…)

  • In New Book Ex-Chaplain at Guantánamo Tells of Torture
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    October 3, 2005 In New Book Ex-Chaplain at Guantánamo Tells of Abuses By NEIL A. LEWIS WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 - James J. Yee, a former Muslim chaplain at the Guantánamo Bay detention center, says in a new book that military authorities knowingly created an atmosphere in which guards would feel free to abuse prisoners.
    Mr. Yee, 37, is a former Army captain and a West Point graduate who was arrested and imprisoned in 2003 on suspicion of espionage. It was a case that, in the end, proved (…)

  • Iran War Clouds On the Harvest Moon - RUMSFELD: “10/12” IS IMMINENT
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Webster Griffin Tarpley
    Washington DC, Sept. 18 - The Bush-Cheney war drive continues unabated, despite hurricane Katrina. The US government continues to operate under Cheney’s order to prepare in the short term for the nuclear bombing of Iran in the wake of a new 9/11 of state sponsored, false flag synthetic terrorism, as revealed in late July by Philip Giraldi in The American Conservative.
    But Iran is not the only possible target in the wake of a new 9/11. Venezuelan President Hugo (…)

  • Reuters says U.S. troops obstruct reporting of Iraq
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The conduct of U.S. troops in Iraq, including increasing detention and accidental shootings of journalists, is preventing full coverage of the war reaching the American public, Reuters said on Wednesday.
    In a letter to Virginia Republican Sen. John Warner, head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Reuters said U.S. forces were limiting the ability of independent journalists to operate. The letter from Reuters Global Managing Editor David Schlesinger called on (…)

  • There Is No Iraq By Cenk Uygur
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Everyone is wrong — from the arrogant neo-clowns who brought you this war to the mindless bureaucrats who maintain it to the well-intentioned intellectuals that are grasping for a decent and humane way out. Humpty Dumpty has fallen off the wall and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Iraq back together again.
    Whether people want to leave or stay, the assumption is that they have what is best for Iraq in mind.
    But there is no Iraq.
    Today General Casey and General (…)

  • Ike Was Right About War Machine
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (CBS) The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney. It was first broadcast Oct. 2, 2005.
    I’m not really clear how much a billion dollars is but the United States - our United States - is spending $5.6 billion a month fighting this war in Iraq that we never should have gotten into.
    We still have 139,000 soldiers in Iraq today.
    Almost 2,000 Americans have died there. For what?
    Now we have the hurricanes to pay for. One way our government pays (…)

  • The Anti War Rally Failed at Sending a Message
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mary MacElveen
    As a person that is against the war in Iraq, I must say that I am disappointed with that anti war protest that took place this past weekend in Washington, D.C. In my opinion it failed in its objective for several reasons.
    As I viewed the front page of Truthout.org, they have featured on it a video feed of a woman who is bare breasted who marched with several other women also not wearing tops stating how they appeared was more natural than the killings that are taking (…)

  • Shock and awe: the night Baghdad burned. Exclusive extract from Robert Fisk’s new book
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In an exclusive extract from his powerful new book about the Middle East, Robert Fisk watches in the Iraqi capital as the US air offensive begins in March 2003
    by Robert Fisk
    A pulsating, minute-long roar of sound brought President George W Bush’s crusade against "terrorism" to Baghdad. There was a thrashing of tracer on the horizon from the Baghdad air defences and then a series of tremendous vibrations that had the ground shaking under us, the walls moving, the sound waves clapping (…)

  • 23% Belong to Anti-War Movement
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Survey of 1,000 Adults
    September 26-27, 2005
    Do you consider yourself part of the anti-war movement? Yes 23% No 61%
    RasmussenReports.com
    From a political point of view, would you say that most members of the anti-war movement are... Very Liberal 31% Somewhat Liberal 26% Moderate 28% Somewhat Conservative 6% Very Conservative 1%
    RasmussenReports.com
    September 28, 2005—Twenty-three percent (23%) of Americans consider themselves part of the anti-War movement. A Rasmussen (…)