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  • Everything You Need to Know About Michael Ledeen & America’s future
    18 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Would you be surprised to find that a man who was deeply involved in the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan Administration, a man who is the darling of the Bush White House and is an adviser to Karl Rove, a man who loves Machiavelli and studies him, a neo-conservative who has close ties to one of America’s leading "Christian" Dominionists - Pat Robertson, and a man who called Pearl Harbor "lucky" and a providentially inspired event-may be the man who is behind the forging of the Niger (…)

  • Why did the Administration endorse a forgery about Iraq’s nuclear program?
    18 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHO LIED TO WHOM? by SEYMOUR M. HERSH Why did the Administration endorse a forgery about Iraq’s nuclear program? Issue of 2003-03-31 Posted 2003-03-24
    Last September 24th, as Congress prepared to vote on the resolution authorizing President George W. Bush to wage war in Iraq, a group of senior intelligence officials, including George Tenet, the Director of Central Intelligence, briefed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Iraq’s weapons capability. It was an important presentation for (…)

  • Impeach Bush, Leave Iraq and Move On
    18 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In my last column I recommended impeachment of Bush as a first step toward repairing the damage we have done to Iraq. Since then Al Qaeda terrorists have attacked London and been swiftly identified with professionalism and civic smoothness by British law-enforcement, and Karl Rove has been revealed as the one who betrayed a CIA professional to punish her husband for criticizing Bush’s war on Iraq.
    I can hardly write fast enough for this one: by the time you read this Rove may be gone, and (…)

  • Will Stolen Iraq Oil Funds and Deals For Cronies Force Cheney Impeachment?
    18 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On June 27, a scandal large enough to lead to the impeachment of Vice President Richard Cheney, emerged when it was revealed at a hearing called by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, that the latest figures in questionable and unsupported charges to the Department of Defense by the Halliburton Corporation, had reached over $1.4 billion. There are already two criminal investigations by the Justice Department into Halliburton for fraudulent billings related to Iraq war contracts-each of (…)

  • The barbaric and the civilized
    18 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is unanimous that the dastardly bomb attacks in London on July 7, 2005 were a barbaric act. There is no other way of describing the planned, premeditated targeting of civilians. It is political violence of this sort that constitutes stark, naked terrorism.
    While all of us would regard the terrorist act that occurred on 7/7 as barbaric, some of us would be deeply disturbed by statements attributed to British and American leaders in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy which sought to (…)

  • Downing Street Memo Hearing: What was the real motivation for the Iraq War?
    17 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    This is a Partial Transcript form Conyers Downing Street Minutes Hearing June 16
    REP JIM MORAN: What I would like to do is to get back to why we did do it. We understand that the reasons that we were given were part of an endemic pattern of deceit. They were not the real reason. But what do you think was the real reason?
    It’s been suggested that the oil companies were concerned Saddam was giving contracts to Russia and France, and maybe that’s what it was, we wanted to get control over (…)

  • BUSH AND BLAIR FIND OLD THEORY OF WARFARE
    17 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE BUSH BLAIR THEORY OF WAR
    By Peter Fredson
    July 17, 2005
    President Bush recently addressed soldiers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina regarding his war on Iraq, as follows:
    “The soldiers and families of Fort Bragg have contributed mightily to our efforts to secure our country and promote peace. America is grateful, and so is your commander in chief. The troops here and across the world are fighting a global war on terror. The war reached our shores on September 11, 2001.” “The (…)

  • A majority of Iraqis oppose the occupation, yet we occupy. How is that liberation?
    17 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Number One Reason For Withdrawal: Iraqis Oppose U.S. Occupation by Chris Bowers
    (Via Donkey Rising). Don’t care what Americans think about withdrawal? Well, we should care what Iraqis think:
    The survey, conducted March 15-22 in 15 cities across all regions of Iraq, has been distributed to top officials at the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency and State Department. A copy was obtained by Bloomberg News.
    Professional pollsters cautioned about the reliability of data from (…)

  • If the US is planning on exiting Iraq, why are they planning a permanent presence?
    17 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Permanent Presence by Ari Berman
    In his first debate with President Bush, John Kerry made a surprisingly bold assertion about US policy toward Iraq: "I think a critical component of success in Iraq is being able to convince the Iraqis and the Arab world that the United States doesn’t have long-term designs on it," Kerry said. "As I understand it, we’re building some 14 military bases there now, and some people say they’ve got a rather permanent concept to them."
    Though the media (…)

  • Case for impeachment
    16 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Downing Street Memos have faded from the headlines, overshadowed by the furor over Karl Rove and whether he leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame to reporters.
    We know it’s tough for the Washington press corps to focus on more than one story at a time, but we’ll make it easy for them.
    Both the Downing Street Memos — the secret documents from Britain’s intelligence agency on the Bush administration’s preparations for invading Iraq — and the ongoing scandal involving President (…)