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  • Pentagon Plans to Send More Troops to Iraq
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ROBERT BURNS
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Anticipating a new burst of insurgent violence, the Pentagon plans to expand the U.S. force in Iraq to improve security for a planned October referendum and a December election.
    Although much public attention has been focused recently on the prospect of reducing U.S. forces next spring and summer, defense officials foresee the likelihood of first increasing troop levels.
    Lawrence Di Rita, spokesman for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, noted Monday (…)

  • BUSH FLEES US??
    8 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Flees United States for Saudi Arabia as Israel Accelerates Attack Timetable in Continuing Secret War with America, US Prepares For Martial Law
    By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers
    Russian FSB reports circulating today among Intelligence Analysts are reporting that the Saudi Arabia Government has surrounded with Military Forces a large area of their capital city Riyadh, including the United States, British and Russian Embassies, in order to protect the America (…)

  • It’s a grand Old Hoax
    8 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s a Grand Old Hoax (sung to It’s a Grand Old Flag)
    It’s a grand old hoax Full of daggers and cloaks One the press may forever supress When the towers fell They did not dwell On why George remained in that class Or how they came straight down All the way to the ground Just as if the demo was planned The evidence does not support The story they told this land
    For the next surprise That was greeting our eyes Saw the pentagon burning in flames The key to our defense Breached without (…)

  • Forces trained in Britain’s dirty war in Northern Ireland involved in de Menezes killing
    8 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Julie Hyland
    The admission that army special forces were involved in the police execution of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes confirms that the techniques perfected in the dirty war conducted by British imperialism in Northern Ireland are now being employed on the streets of Britain.
    The Guardian reported August 4 that “a new army special forces regiment was involved in the operation” that resulted in de Menezes being killed with eight bullets, seven to the head, in a London subway (…)

  • Articles of impeachment and indictment for high crimes and misdemeanors
    8 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David R. Hoffman legal Editor of Pravda.Ru
    During the build-up to the illegal invasion of Iraq, some, particularly in the foreign media, accused Bush of wanting war simply for the sake of war
    Prologue
    As I was researching and preparing notes for this article, the bombings in London occurred. In the wake of these tragic events, I became outraged by the number of right-wing warmongers in America who callously exploited these attacks in a vacuous attempt to justify the Bush (…)

  • Galloway says Blair and Bush ’have blood on their hands’
    8 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tony Blair and George Bush have "far more blood on their hands" than the terrorists who carried out the London tube bombings, George Galloway said today.
    Mr Galloway, Respect MP for Bethnal Green, said that the attacks on the capital by Islamic extremists could not be separated from the invasion of Iraq and Britain’s treatment of the Muslim world.
    He said that the "al-Qaida phenomenon" had arisen directly as a result of western policies in the Middle East.
    Mr Galloway had already (…)

  • Bush Refuses To Meet With Sheehan
    8 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Aides say ’Bush really cares’ [about avoiding her]
    CRAWFORD, TX - Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004, met with two Bush administration aides Saturday after president George W. Bush refused to come out to meet her.
    Sheehan, 48 (shown here), traveled to the president’s Crawford ranch after Bush said that fallen U.S. troops had died for a ’noble cause’ and that the mission must be completed.
    "I want to ask the president, ’Why did you kill my (…)

  • Suggested Chant for Antiwar Demonstrations, from Michael P. Wright
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Michael P. Wright Norman, Oklahoma USA mpwright9@aol.com
    In the 1960s, this was a popular chant for antiwar demonstrations against U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson:
    "Hey, hey, LBJ.
    How many kids did you kill today?"
    In alignment with this tradition, I suggest the current similar chant for today’s antiwar demonstrations. The chant addresses George W. Bush:
    "Excuse me, GWB.
    How many coffins will there be?"
    My memoirs about the Vietnam war years and antiwar activism are online at (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan at the Veterans for Peace National Convention
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Veterans for Peace National Convention wraps up today at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas.
    Thursday and Friday saw the vets check-in, and attend workshops that varied from Stan Goff’s ‘Gender & Militarism’ to ‘Speaking Truth to Power’ which featured Ann Wright, Coleen Rowley, and Jesselyn Radack.
    Friday night featured keynote speakers and entertainers at Lynch Hall, on campus. They all had great things to say, and Cindy Sheehan was no exception.
    Here is what she had to (…)

  • Iraq War Veteran Tells the Truth about Bush’s War
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We now know most of the information given to us by the current Administration concerning Iraq, if not all the information, was false. This was information given to the American people to justify a war.
    The information about weapons of mass destruction and a link to Osama Bin Laden scared the American people into supporting the war in Iraq.
    They presented an atmosphere of intimidation that suggested if we did not act immediately there was the possibility of another ! attack. Bush said (…)