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  • Moral Cowards In Hiding
    16 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Moral Cowards In Hiding Butler Shaffer July 11, 2005 “Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.” -Thomas Jefferson Many Americans are acting like members of a lynch mob who later become aware of their viciousness and attempt to disguise their involvement. When President Bush finally got his long-planned Middle East war games going, most Americans hid their erstwhile (…)

  • Who Benefits from the Suicide Attacks in Iraq?
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    ’It is time for all Iraqis to unite’
    The murder of several children reveals the depravity of the ongoing insurgency
    Saturday July 16, 2005 The Guardian
    Jordan Times Editorial, July 15-16
    "What kind of demons possessed those who on Wednesday deliberately killed [at least 27] children and wounded [up to 25] others? What made them orchestrate and carry out a suicide bombing in a Baghdad neighbourhood while the children were assembled near US soldiers to receive sweets?
    "This and (…)

  • The war in Iraq is illegal:We must hold accountable the leaders who planned & launched this disaster
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    War in Iraq violates international law
    By TOM KREBSBACH GUEST COLUMNIST
    More than two grueling years have passed since U.S. and coalition forces stormed into the sovereign nation of Iraq. Still there has been little discussion in this country about the legal standing of the invasion.
    Perhaps that is because most Americans are reluctant to admit this inconvenient but certain fact: The United States/United Kingdom invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a war of aggression, a crime against the (…)

  • Our Wars Over the War
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    from http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200507150804.asp
    July 15, 2005, 8:04 a.m. Our Wars Over the War “The fault is not in our stars.”
    Ever since September 11, there has been an alternative narrative about this war embraced by the Left. In this mythology, the attack on September 11 had in some vague way something to do with American culpability.
    Either we were unfairly tilting toward Israel, or had been unkind to Muslims. Perhaps, as Sen. Patty Murray intoned, we needed to (…)

  • US should pull out of Iraq now says former CIA chief John Deutch
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    WASHINGTON (AFX) - The US should cut its losses, pull out of Iraq promptly and never again use its military might to build a nation according to its own values, former CIA chief John Deutch wrote in The New York Times.
    US military presence in Iraq is harming US interests in the Arab world, detracts attention from other ’important security challenges... North Korea, Iran and international terrorism,’ and weakens the US military, said Deutch, who before heading the Central Intelligence (…)

  • War and Ideology
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    7-15-07 WAR AND IDEOLOGY By Husayn Al-Kurdi and Dr. June Scorza Terpstra
    The London bombings have brought about a renewed round by the imperial media hand puppets of the claim that their terrifying wars to rule the world are ideology wars. They contrast their spread of democracy and freedom with the necessarily evil intentions of those who resist them. They are right in one thing. It is one war, as heads of both the CIA and Mossad have confirmed. They both refer to it accurately as (…)

  • The Question that’s BIGGER than "Who told Rove?"
    15 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    O.K. People have been asking for a simple moniker for this very important developing story. I suggest the "Orange Alert Scandal". If we’re lucky — this naming, if it catches on, will hopefully, at the very least, prevent the neocons from using this security system for political purposes ever again. It is looking more and more like Tom Ridge’s leak for GOP political gain during the DNC in July 2004 may have helped the London Bombing occurr.
    From Pakistani intelligence officials to AP: (…)

  • Iraq War Veteran speaks out on why he became a Conscientious Objector
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    The text is the partial transcript of Iraq War Veteran Aidan Delgado’s slideshow presentation. The three mp3s contain more information than is transcribed here, and the video even more.
    Aidan I
    My name is Aidan Joshua Delgado, I’m 23 years old, I’m a veteran of the 2nd Iraq war, I served one year in Iraq- 6 months in Nasiriya, 6 months in Baghdad correction facility at Abu Ghraib.
    I just want to say that I’m not a politician, I’m not a general- I was an E4 specialist, I was the least (…)

  • IT’S THE OCCUPATION, NOT THE FUNDAMENTALISM
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    Last month, Scott McConnell caught up with Associate Professor Robert Pape of the University of Chicago, whose book on suicide terrorism, Dying to Win, is beginning to receive wide notice. Pape has found that the most common American perceptions about who the terrorists are and what motivates them are off by a wide margin. In his office is the world’s largest database of information about suicide terrorists, rows and rows of manila folders containing articles and biographical snippets in (…)

  • Rumsfeld Fails to deliver benchmarks, in contempt of congress
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    DEFENSE SECRETARY DON RUMSFELD FAILS TO GIVE WAR PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
    Under the provisions of the defense bill, Rumsfeld was supposed to give performance numbers
    WASHINGTON POST — President Bush is facing an early legal deadline to deliver what he has been most resistant to providing: a set of specific benchmarks for measuring progress toward military and political stability in Iraq.
    Two weeks ago, David Broder pointed out that the Bush administration would soon face a (…)