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  • Representative Strickland to Bush "Just asking America to stay the course won’t cut it anymore"
    30 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    As public support for the war in Iraq wanes, the majority of Ohio’s congressional delegation would not give a direct answer about whether the war has been worth the costs, according to a newspaper’s survey. However, following Tuesday’s national address made by President Bush, U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland, D-Dover, called for the president to answer the nation’s questions about the war.
    "Tonight, President Bush told America what we already know," said Strickland Tuesday. "Unfortunately, the (…)

  • Iraq memo has serious implications about war
    30 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Earlier this month, a piece of documentation relating to the war in Iraq was uncovered: The Downing Street memo; it is the most convincing proof yet that military action in Iraq was based on faulty, possibly nonexistent intelligence. Worst of all, the memo makes it perfectly clear that the lack of concrete information pertaining to Saddam Hussein’s possession of weapons of mass destruction was no secret to
    President Bush.
    The memo details British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s report on a (…)

  • Turd Blossom’s 9/11 stink bomb takes out dazed neoliberals, misses everything and everyone else
    29 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    June 29, 2005-In a June 22 speech to the New York State Conservative Party, White House Propaganda Minister Karl "Turd Blossom" Rove attacked what he defines as "liberals" for responding timidly to 9/11, while lauding what he calls "conservatives" for immediately going to war ("brandishing steel").
    "Conservatives," Rove said, "saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war. Liberals saw the savagery of the attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and (…)

  • Bush’s Speech: Let’s Count the Lies
    29 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Swanson, AfterDowningStreet.org
    In the coming free 30 minutes of uninterrupted airtime that ABC News and the Disney Corporation will no doubt give to a spokesperson for the majority of Americans who believe that the war on Iraq was a mistake, I expect we’ll see some of the following points made about the speech that Bush just gave.
    First, it was curious to see Bush adopt usage of the French language, in particular his repeated usage of the word "oui." At one point, he said "Oui, (…)

  • BUSH WAS WARNED IN 2004 NOT TO "STAY THE COURSE"
    29 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Grace Reid
    We found the smoking bullet in the smoking gun of the Downing Street Memos, that being the massive pre-war bombing campaign intended to provoke Saddam into war. Now here is the “massive intelligence failure." Bush and Rumsfeld had the intelligence and it came from the Pentagon. But they failed to read it, and they failed to understand it. George Bush himself is the “massive intelligence failure.”
    This following is one you can bank on. It is the Pentagon’s own Defence (…)

  • A.N.S.W.E.R.’s response to Bush: Hit the Streets September 24!
    29 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Recognizing that the people of the United States have turned dramatically against the war and occupation of Iraq, Bush went on national television tonight to defend his imperial foreign policy. He repeatedly invoked September 11 as a pretext for the criminal and illegal war against Iraq. Bush took to the airwaves tonight because the antiwar movement is growing in strength. Our power poses a major political obstacle to the continuation of the war and occupation. Now Bush has taken on the (…)

  • Republicans Begin to Question War In Iraq
    29 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    (CBS 5) President Bush spoke to the nation Tuesday night in an attempt to address many concerns about the war in Iraq.
    But among those questioning U.S. policy are a number of Republicans.
    "I don’t see a direction out of him in terms of where he’s trying to take the country," said Jeff Werolin, 44, a Republican and a real estate agent in Folsom.
    Werolin voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, but says the president’s message on the war has gotten muddy since November 2nd.
    "I just (…)

  • Israeli soldier is convicted of killing British student
    29 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Eric Silver in Jerusalem
    A former Israeli soldier has been found guilty by a military court of shooting dead the British student Tom Hurndall while he acted as a human shield for Palestinian children amid gunfire in the Gaza Strip.
    Anthony Hurndall, Tom’s father, welcomed the outcome, but said he was disappointed the Israeli judges had not investigated higher up the chain of command.
    Tom, 22, a photography student, was shot in the head with a single round in April 2003. The three (…)

  • The Perfect Storm: the World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul
    29 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Walden Bello* It was on the second day that I got the sense that things were coming together in a way akin to that whereby several climatic disturbances fuse to create what meteorologists have called the “perfect storm.”
    It was probably the combination of eyewitness accounts that made clear beyond a shadow of doubt that the siege of Fallujah in November 2004 was a case of collective punishment; a damning expose of how the so-called reconstruction of Iraq was actually meant to (…)

  • ZERO HOUR
    29 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Apian
    There’s been a lot of reckoning about the cost of Bush’s illegal war in Iraq. That’s right, as of two days ago, when the public withdrew support for Mr. Bush’s war (not President Bush, as he stole that, too) More than 50% of the population says that it was Mr. Bush who provoked Saddam into war. More than 50% of the population do not support him. This should be an interesting night.
    When reckoning the cost of the illegal war in Iraq, we count 1,700 US killed in action, more (…)