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  • Time Coming For Bush To Pay The Piper
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Time Coming For Bush To Pay The Piper As Things Get Progressively Worse For US Troops In Iraq, The American People Will Exact Their Price On A Republican Administration That Has Split The United States In Two M’Hamed Ben Youssef June 27-July 3 Issue Things are getting worse and worse in Iraq where, according to an official report from the American Central Intelligence Agency - in flagrant contradiction to the optimistic declarations of the Republican administration - this country is (…)

  • TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE U.S. ARMED FORCES:
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I hope every single member of the U.S. Armed forces will soon get to come home. You should all be home right now, and I wish all of you a safe return.
    However, I do NOT support what any of you are doing right now. I DO support your well-being and your good intentions, though. You all signed on to do a legitimate and honorable job - to defend the U.S. Constitution and the United States homeland from enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC. And, many of you believe that is what you are doing. However, (…)

  • Bush’s Uranium Lies: The Case For A Special Prosecutor That Could Lead To Impeachment
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    It is clear that the Bush Administration made fraudulent statements about the threat that Iraq posed. However, there has been little analysis as to whether specific fraudulent statements about Iraq violated any specific criminal statutes, and thus are worthy of impeachment. A 23-page memorandum provides an analysis of one of the Bush Administration’s fraudulent claims, the claim that Iraq had recently sought uranium for a nuclear weapon.
    In summary that analysis of the current public (…)

  • Rich Procter: ’Iraq - Vietnam redux? A handy checklist’
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    Smug, self-righteous, ideologues wielding unproven cocktail party geo-political theories to coerce reluctant Americans into war? Check.
    Original premise of war proven to be bogus long after country commits to ruinous quagmire? Check.
    Old men wave flag, young men die? Check.
    Sons (and daughters) of "Old Man Flag Waving Brigade" in government mysteriously absent from serving in military? Check.
    Leaders promise war as show of American strength, expose to the world our powerlessness? (…)

  • ’To abandon Viet Nam would be wrong’ - Text of speech by President Lyndon Johnson, April 7, 1965
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    President Urges Patience on War — but it’s LBJ, in 1965 "To abandon this small and brave nation to its enemies, and to the terror that must follow, would be an unforgivable wrong," Johnson said. "To withdraw from one battlefield means only to prepare for the next." At that moment, only 400 American boys had died in the rice paddies. Here’s the complete text.
    By Greg Mitchell
    (June 29, 2005) — As the press continues to argue over what President Bush said, didn’t say or should have said (…)

  • Fool Me Once: Saddam Recycled as Nine Eleven Perp
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    Indeed, our Congress critters take us for morons. Obviously, we will believe anything these people tell us, as is evident by the fact most Americans bought the ludicrous Iraq invasion pretext hook, line, and sinker, hardly any questions asked. Now, in the wake of Bush’s speech, once again linking Iraq to the “war on terrorism” fantasy story, we are told by people supposedly in the know that Saddam was behind nine eleven, even though this has been repeatedly debunked as neocon nonsense. (…)

  • USA TODAY Founder "best way to support our troops in Iraq is to bring them home"
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What Iraq needs is a Walter Cronkite
    President Bush went on the air this week to pretend again that things are OK in Iraq. Shades of President Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam nearly 40 years ago.
    The most important similarity between Iraq and Vietnam is that both Democratic and Republican presidents lied to us in wartime. To refresh your memory, here’s how we got out of the Vietnam quagmire:
    • Walter Cronkite, CBS-TV news anchor known as "the most trusted man in America," after a combat (…)

  • Wake up Calls
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    The jury of conscience has just released it’s recommendations after the culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq came to its conclusion. I’ll post the news story I wrote on this later, which will provide more details.
    I will add now, as a preface to a letter I received just now from an Iraqi who asked me to pass it on to the American people, that the jury made the following recommendations:
    “The recommendations made by the jury included the demand for an immediate, unconditional (…)

  • Journalist killed after investigating US-backed death squads in Iraq
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    On June 24, Yasser Salihee, an Iraqi special correspondent for the news agency Knight Ridder, was killed by a single bullet to the head as he approached a checkpoint that had been thrown up near his home in western Baghdad by US and Iraqi troops. It is believed that the shot was fired by an American sniper. According to eyewitnesses, no warning shots were fired.
    The US military has announced it is conducting an investigation into Salihee’s killing. Knight Ridder has already declared, (…)

  • "Jeffrey Goldberg is the guy who almost single-handedly created the Halabja poison gas story..."
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Commentator Hal C. points out that:
    "Jeffrey Goldberg is the guy who almost single-handedly created the Halabja poison gas story into its present form. His was the story that Bush made famous. (Halabja appears to have been caught in the crossfire of two armies using gas in the Iran/Iraq war and was unintentional collateral damage in an obscene war)."
    The Goldberg story is called "The Great Terror". Hal C. refers to Jude Wanniski’s "Memo on the Margin" on the subject. Wanniski has been (…)