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  • Pre-emptive Nuke attack part of new US plan
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to pre-empt an attack by a nation or terror group using weapons of mass destruction. The draft also includes the option of using nuclear arms to destroy known enemy stockpiles of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.
    The document, written by the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs staff but not yet approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, would (…)

  • Iran War Clouds On The Harvest Moon (Bush/Cheney False Flags Imminent Excuse To Nuke Iran)
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iran War Clouds On The Harvest Moon [ Post 293980003 ]
    Category: News & Opinion (General) Topic: Government Synopsis: Bush/Cheney False Flags Imminent Excuse To Nuke Iran Source: Rense.com Published: September 19, 2005 Author: Webster Griffin Tarpley
    Iran War Clouds On The Harvest Moon Rumsfeld 10-12 Is Imminent
    By Webster Griffin Tarpley 9-19-5
    WASHINGTON, DC — The Bush-Cheney war drive continues unabated, despite hurricane Katrina. The US government continues to (…)

  • Fewer Americans Trust Bush on Iraq
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    September 19, 2005
    (Angus Reid Global Scan) - Many adults in the United States are losing confidence in their president’s aptitude to make decisions connected with the coalition effort, according to a poll by the New York Times and CBS News. 63 per cent of respondents are uneasy about George W. Bush’s approach to the war in Iraq.
    The survey shows a 17-point drop in confidence on the American president since a survey conducted days before the war began.
    The coalition effort against (…)

  • Galloway 10 x Hitchens 0
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Well, the long-awaited “Grapple in the Big Apple,” as the Guardian dubbed it, has taken place. Here is the link Hitchens, that "drink-soaked, former Trotskyist popinjay," as MP George Galloway of the Respect Coalition party in Great Britain so memorably put it, apparently was on another planet. The event took place on September 14 in the Mason Hall at the Baruch College performing arts center in the Gramercy Park area of Manhattan. Baruch College is one of ten senior colleges of the (…)

  • SURVEY: SUPPORT FOR WAR AT ALL-TIME LOW; 52 PERCENT CALL FOR IMMEDIATE PULLOUT
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - With Hurricane Katrina already costing the federal government tens of billions of dollars, more than eight in 10 Americans are very or somewhat concerned that the $5 billion being spent each month on the war in Iraq is draining away money that could be used in the United States, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
    The poll also showed that nearly half of Americans say the war is distracting President Bush from addressing problems at home, though an equal (…)

  • We Must Take America Back
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
    Speech delivered at the Sierra Summit 2005 San Francisco, California
    I want to tell you how proud I am to accept the William O. Douglas Award.
    Two of my most poignant memories as a child involved Justice Douglas. One of them was when I was 11 years old I did a 20 mile hike with my little brother David and with Justice Douglas and my father, which was a bird watching hike on the C & O Canal which he played a critical role in protecting. We started at (…)

  • A Bright Spot in Bush World
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Amid the Miserable Failures on the Same Planet
    by Cindy Sheehan
    It has been one month and one week since I sat in a ditch in Crawford, Tx. I can hardly believe it when I think of it myself. So much has happened in that time, and really, so little.
    I got to Camp Casey III in Covington, La today, after getting up at 3am to head for the airport. Now it is 3am the next day and we are driving in a car to try and find a hotel to sleep anywhere around Jackson, Miss. I was prepared to be (…)

  • Congressional Coalition Calls For Expansion Of Plame Investigation to Bush’s Uranium Lies
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hinchey Leads Broad Congressional Coalition Calling For Expansion Of Plame Name Leak Investigation
    Forty-One Members Of Congress Ask Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald To Examine Bush Administration’s False Uranium Claims That Led To Disclosure Of CIA Operative’s Identity To Determine If Additional Federal Laws Were Broken Washington, D.C. - Troubled by what they see as violations of federal law that prohibit making false and fraudulent statements to Congress, Congressman Maurice Hinchey (…)

  • Many Iraqis believe ’suicide’ bombings done by US to start a civil war
    16 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ali Ghazi, also a Shia from the Iraqi deep south. "I believe it is the Americans who are doing this, pretending it is the Sunni, so there will be a civil war and they can control our wealth." Many survivors lying mangled by this morning’s bombs subscribed to a conspiracy theory according to which the US wants to rule Iraq by fomenting differences between Shia and Sunni.... many of those wounded denied there would be a war between Shia and Sunni. Mohammed Abdul Karim, an injured Shia at Noman (…)

  • LET’S INVADE VENEZUELA
    16 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Fredson
    The insolence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez toward U.S. President George Bush cannot be tolerated any longer by the neoconservatives of the U.S. Bush must not allow any inferior nation or race or person to challenge the U.S. bid for world domination. Bush, the darling of his God, the love of his remolded Republican Party, the Messiah of corporations, the apocalyptic leader of American Taliban Fundamentalists, has been insulted beyond any possible bounds of taste, (…)