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  • Why Are We In Iraq?
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The invasion not only killed innocents and decimated the country, it also empowered tyrants - so why are we still there?
    by Justin Raimondo
    The ugliness of the regime we have installed in Iraq has finally bubbled up to the surface, like the outbreak of an oozing syphilitic sore, and spilled over onto the front page of the Washington Post:
    "Shi’ite and Kurdish militias, often operating as part of Iraqi government security forces, have carried out a wave of abductions, assassinations, (…)

  • Prosecuting Bush in Canada for Torture
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On November 30 2004 Gail Davidson, co-chair of Lawyers against the War (LAW), filed an Informational Brief in the Provincial Court of B.C. charging George W. Bush as President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces with torture.
    When Davidson went to court on December 6th to secure a date for a process hearing, the Attorney General applied to declare the information a nullity on the grounds that, as head of state, Mr. Bush was immune from prosecution. In an (…)

  • I’ll sacrifice my whole family
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "If I have to sacrifice my whole family for the sake of our whole country and world, other countries that want freedom, I’ll do that."
    These are the dramatic words of former Marine Gary Qualls, whose son, Marine Lance Cpl. Louis Wayne Qualls, died in Iraq last fall at the age of 20. Qualls is a friend of Crawford gift shop owner Bill Johnson, who established the pro-Bush/pro-war camp that is now opposing Camp Casey in Crawford, Texas.
    Qualls, you’ll recall, is the man who removed the (…)

  • The President’s Greatest Fear
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The President’s Greatest Fear
    By Doug Soderstrom
    22 August, 2005
    It has been said that "Love hath no fear" which I believe means that if one is committed to finding the truth, that one wants to understand, wants to know the truth more than anything else in the world, then through such conviction one will find the courage, the fearlessness, to pursue what must be done.
    Next to the president’s Crawford, Texas vacation compound Cindy Sheehan has indicated that she will not leave until (…)

  • Is it Treason?
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Norman Grigg August 19, 2005
    Is public criticism of the Iraq occupation "treason," as the Bush administration’s most ardent defenders insist?
    "There are men walking around the streets tonight who ought to be taken out at sunrise tomorrow and shot for treason," complained former Secretary of War Elihu Root in late 1917. A close adviser to President Woodrow Wilson, Root was infuriated by the fact that some Americans opposed U.S. entry into World War I. Earlier that same year, (…)

  • Republican Senator Says U.S. Needs Iraq Exit Strategy Now
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Republican Senator Says U.S. Needs Iraq Exit Strategy Now The war has destabilized the Mideast and created a potential Vietnam, Nebraska’s Chuck Hagel says. Other lawmakers express frustration.
    By Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writer
    WASHINGTON - As President Bush prepared to hit the road this week to bolster public support for his policies in Iraq, a senior Republican senator said Sunday that the United States needed to craft an exit strategy because its continued presence had created a (…)

  • Iraq Dispatches: Urgent Humanitarian Crisis in Western Iraq
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    This is an appeal written by Iraqi Doctors concerning what is happening in western Iraq. It is both extremely informative as well as an important appeal. Operations in many of these areas are ongoing today, despite the fact that this press release is a week old:
    DOCTORS FOR IRAQ WARNS OF URGENT HUMANITARIAN CRISIS AS US/IRAQI MILITARY ATTACKS CONTINUE IN THE WEST OF IRAQ
    As US/ Iraqi military attacks continue in Haditha, Rawa, Parwana and Heet in the West of Iraq, Doctors for Iraq is (…)

  • Sometimes I Wonder If There Will Be A Moment When Reality And Myth, Truth And Lies, Will Collide
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What Does Democracy Really Mean In The Middle East? Whatever The West Decides
    by Robert Fisk
    It makes you want to scream. I have been driving the dingy, dangerous, oven-like streets of Baghdad all week, ever more infested with insurgents and their informers, the American troops driving terrified over the traffic islands, turning their guns on all of us if we approach within 50 metres.
    In the weird, space-ship isolation of Saddam’s old republican palace, the Kurds and the Shia have been (…)

  • The Trillion-Dollar War
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By LINDA BILMES
    Cambridge, Mass.
    THE human cost of the more than 2,000 American military personnel killed and 14,500 wounded so far in Iraq and Afghanistan is all too apparent. But the financial toll is still largely hidden from public view and, like the suffering of those who have lost loved ones, will persist long after the fighting is over.
    The cost goes well beyond the more than $250 billion already spent on military operations and reconstruction. Basic running costs of the current (…)

  • Rep. Lynn Woolsey to hold hearing on strategy for disengagement from Iraq September 15
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    More Statesmanship, Less Salesmanship, Please . . . by Rep. Lynn Woolsey The war in Iraq, now entering its 30th month, seemingly brings a new atrocity or source of shame every day. The American death toll is approaching 2,000, with August on track to be one of the war’s deadliest months.
    And let’s not forget the wounded, the victims of post-traumatic stress syndrome and the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians senselessly killed so that their nation could be ‘liberated’.
    Throughout (…)