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  • Help Stop Military Recruiters and the Draft
    27 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Friend:
    As we gear up for the next phase of the struggle against the war in Iraq, we urge you to help us with the publication of an important book, We Wont Go: A Guide to Counter-Recruiting and Draft Resistance. What you do now can help make a big difference in the choices facing our youth and it can help to bring an end to the war.
    Despite all of the the Pentagon’s high-tech equipment, the fact remains that they cannot fight their war without soldiers on the ground. This is (…)

  • Iraq: Bush’s Vietnam. We are coming together to build real unity in mass protest on September 24
    27 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq: Bush’s Vietnam. We are coming together to build real unity in mass protest on September 24
    The "Vietnam Syndrome" - that strange malady in which the people of the U.S. turn decisively against a U.S. war of aggression in a far away third-world country - is coming back, and the White House knows it. The warmakers today will learn, as they did during Vietnam, that it is impossible to sustain such a war as the people of the U.S. turn the issue of the war into an unending "domestic (…)

  • HALLIDAY: ’’TO TOP OFF THE U.S./BRITISH LIES WAS THE CHARGE OF ATTACK ON THOSE TWIN TOWERS OF...
    27 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    HALLIDAY: ’’TO TOP OFF THE U.S./BRITISH LIES WAS THE CHARGE OF ATTACK ON THOSE TWIN TOWERS OF CAPITALISTIC GREED IN NEW YORK CITY’’
    ISTANBUL, June 26 - Denis Halliday, who served between 1994-98 as Assistant Secretary-General of United Nations, and was appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the post of UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, said on Saturday, ’’to top off the U.S./British lies and rubbish was the charge of a close Iraqi linkage to ’al Qaeda’ and the attack on those Twin (…)

  • The War Before The War
    26 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John Prados
    John Prados is a senior fellow with the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C. He is author of Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War (The New Press).
    The now-notorious Downing Street memos make it necessary to reframe the story of the aerial operations that took place before the war, with significant new conclusions emerging. It now appears that the United States, dragging a reluctant Great Britain behind it, executed a deliberate, purposeful (…)

  • Rumsfeld on Iraq: Insurgency can "go on for four, eight, 10, 12, 15 years, whatever"
    26 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush’s Credibility Takes a Direct Hit From Friendly Fire
    For months, President Bush has struggled to maintain public support for the war in Iraq in the face of periodic setbacks on the battlefield. Now he faces a second front in the battle for public opinion: charges that the administration is not telling the truth about how the war is going.
    Bush and his aides have delivered a positive, if carefully calibrated, message. The war is not yet won, they acknowledge, but steady progress is (…)

  • NUCLEAR WAR IN IRAQ
    26 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A new kind of Nuclear War
    While we were brushing our teeth this morning, or staring into the refrigerator to decide what to have for breakfast, contemplating whether to get a new ring tone for the phone, and going about yet another uneventful day in our mundane, but hopefully pleasant, existance spare a thought for what was going on during those very moments of domestic routine in a land far away both geographically and mentally.
    A nuclear war is being waged - not your typical nuclear (…)

  • [WTI News] Iraq is now worse than it was under Saddam
    26 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ’’IRAQ IS NOW WORSE THAN IT WAS UNDER SADDAM,’’
    Iraqi Witness at the World Tribunal on Iraq
    Istanbul, 26th June 2005 - Witnesses of the ongoing atrocities in Iraq testified before the Jury of Conscience at the World Tribunal on Iraq on the second day of the Tribunal. Their exposure of the impact of this war on Iraqis revealed a country that is facing worse conditions than under Saddam Hussein. In the words of Amal Sawadi, an Iraqi lawyer working for the defenceless in Iraq, ’ (…)

  • General admits to secret air war
    26 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    THE American general who commanded allied air forces during the Iraq war appears to have admitted in a briefing to American and British officers that coalition aircraft waged a secret air war against Iraq from the middle of 2002, nine months before the invasion began.
    Addressing a briefing on lessons learnt from the Iraq war Lieutenant-General Michael Moseley said that in 2002 and early 2003 allied aircraft flew 21,736 sorties, dropping more than 600 bombs on 391 “carefully selected (…)

  • BUSH’S IMPEACHABLE OFFENCES
    26 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Compiled by "Son of a Bush"
    1) The now famous Downing Street Memo, along with the testimony of former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neil constitute direct evidence of a decision by Bush to invade a sovereign foreign nation on entirely specious grounds.
    2) The decision to deploy chemical weapons in Fallujah came from Rumsfeld who no doubt covered his ass by receiving assent from Bush to use these banned weapons
    3) The decision by Bush to dig up dirt on UN diplomats when the General Assembly (…)

  • The first, not the last throes
    26 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "The insurgency in Iraq is in its last throes." Vice President Dick Cheney, in May
    Even the Central Intelligence Agency now admits that Iraq is the new Afghanistan - breeding a new, lethal generation of jihadis. Iraq has also been the new Vietnam since the day the resistance was born, April 18, 2003, in front of the Abu Hanifa mosque in Baghdad. Iraq as the new Vietnam replays - in a new setting - the movie of a superpower being subdued by a guerrilla war. Remember former Iraqi deputy (…)