This is the part of the interview on Iraq, and the last throes. You can see how uncomfortable he is without being in his cocoon...
James Wolcott (http://jameswolcott.com/archives/20...) writes exactly what I was thinking. What the hell was with all that blinking? (song lyrics?)
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Wolcott: But was more fascinating that Bush’s imperial tone was the fact that during these answers, he was blinking furiously. There’s nothing like a tight (…)
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Bush ITV interview, pre-G8 summit - You can see how uncomfortable he is: Video/Text
6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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"Pre-emptive" Terrorism
6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentJuly 5, 2005 - On March 16, 2003, Bush, Blair and Aznar of Spain met on the Portuguese island of Terceira in the Azores and declared war on Iraq at a time of their "choosing" unless President Saddam Hussein and his two sons leave Iraq. On March 20, 2003, without explicit authorisation of the UN Security Council and in violation of international law, and against the majority of the world public opinion, the US and Britain attacked Iraq "pre-emptively".
The violent attack was one of the most (…) -
The Zarqawi Phenomenon
6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentA remarkable proportion of the violence taking place in Iraq is regularly credited to the Jordanian Ahmad al-Khalayleh, better known as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and his organization Al Qaeda in Iraq. Sometimes it seems no car bomb goes off, no ambush occurs that isn’t claimed in his name or attributed to him by the Bush administration. Bush and his top officials have, in fact, made good use of him, lifting his reputed feats of terrorism to epic, even mythic, proportions (much aided by various (…)
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Iraq War Deserters Speak Out From Canada
6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsFirst Person Commentaries, Paolo Pontoniere, Pacific News Service, Jul 05, 2005 Editor’s Note: Three U.S. servicemen living in Canada tell why they refused to serve in Iraq.
Jeremy Hinzman, 26
TORONTO—My name is Jeremy Hinzman. I was a specialist with the 82nd Airborne division.
I’m from South Dakota, from an area where there were not many jobs. I went through school believing that you got to be part of something bigger than yourself. I was also looking for structure and a sense of (…) -
Shock and Awe: Aerial Bombardment, American Style
6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
NASA Landsat 7 image showing effects of Coalition bombing in Baghdad, 2 April 2003.
Before the 2003 American invasion the Bush administration declared that the strategy of "Shock and Awe" bombing would be used to assault Iraq. Driving through Baghdad during my stay here in the last month has allowed me to see some of the destruction caused by the aerial bombardment, which preceded the US invasion. One thing that struck me as odd was a bombed out government run shopping mall, which (…) -
Iraq: Imperial Quagmire- We’re fighting people that we’re supposed to help, in fact they hate us
6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsJeremy Hinzman, 26
TORONTO—My name is Jeremy Hinzman. I was a specialist with the 82nd Airborne division. U.S. Army deserter Joshua Key (L) with his daughter Anna and wife Brandi (R) during a meeting of the War Resistants movement and U.S. Army deserters in Toronto, Canada. The 27-year old Key, a father of four children is seeking asylum in Canada. Photo by Jochen Siegle/Polaris Images
I’m from South Dakota, from an area where there were not many jobs. I went through school believing (…) -
Disgraced Tony Blair
5 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsThe disgraced British Prime Minister Tony Blair is using the G8 for his personal PR and to distract attention from his crimes against humanity in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. As he speaks for the African poor, his troops and aircraft are killing the poor in Afghanistan and Iraq. His men are torturing innocent in US secret prisons around the world. British businesses are busy stealing others’ wealth and resources. Blair is worst than Bush because Bush is honestly stupid. Americans elect (…)
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Rove, worse then bin laden: With friends like Karl, who needs terrorists?
5 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
NEW YORK—In war collaborators are more dangerous than enemy forces, for they betray with intimate knowledge in painful detail and demoralize by their cynical example. This explains why, at the end of occupations, the newly liberated exact vengeance upon their treasonous countrymen even they allow foreign troops to conduct an orderly withdrawal.
If, as state-controlled media insists, there is such a creature as a Global War on Terrorism, our enemies are underground Islamist organizations (…) -
Indefensible: Bush and Blair’s Secret Air War that Began in 2002
5 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentGlobal Eye Heaven’s Gate
By Chris Floyd
This week, President George W. Bush gave a big speech "explaining" the Iraq war to the American people. It was the usual load of lying blather and false piety — deeply, even murderously cynical. But there’s no point in wasting a single thought over these clown shows anymore. Bush is a nasty little moral cretin fronting a gang of elitist thugs whose only concerns are loot and power. Nothing he says has the slightest credibility. Only his actions — (…) -
What’s To Celebrate?
5 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentAnother July 4th is upon us. Many of my neighbors are hoarding up on the fireworks, the barbecue specialties, and the booze. “Its Independence Day” they exclaim...“This is America, with much to celebrate!” Yeah, right!
Too bad most of America is oblivious to the Downing Street Memo. A few years back, almost one half of those polled thought that Clinton should be impeached from office for lying about sex. Never a Clinton supporter, this writer laughed at the presumptiveness of the charge. (…)