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  • Scott McClellan vs. Terry Moran: Is the insurgency in Iraq in its last throes?
    20 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Q Scott, is the insurgency in Iraq in its last throes?
    MR. McCLELLAN: Terry, you have a desperate group of terrorists in Iraq that are doing everything they can to try to derail the transition to democracy. The Iraqi people have made it clear that they want a free and democratic and peaceful future.
    And that’s why we’re doing everything we can, along with other countries, to support the Iraqi people as they move forward. The fact that they are making great progress on the political front (…)

  • CONDI RICE SATIRE?
    20 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CONDI RICE SATIRE?
    By Peter Fredson
    June 20, 2005
    Today I saw a news item about Condoleezza Rice that had me wondering about her sincerity.
    Here are some quotes direct from the great George Bush sycophant:
    "We are all concerned for the future of Egypt’s reforms when peaceful supporters of democracy — men and women — are not free from violence. The day must come when the rule of law replaces emergency decrees, and when the independent judiciary replaces arbitrary justice," (…)

  • Editorials Grow Increasingly Skeptical of War
    20 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    NEW YORK It was a week when opinion polls showed a plunge in support for the Iraq war, and the Downing Street memos finally made it into hundreds of newspapers across the nation. The congressman who turned french fries into freedom fries on Capitol Hill revealed he’d had a change of heart on Iraq, and now was in favor of U.S. withdrawal. On Saturday, Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nevada told U.S. News, "Things aren’t getting better; they’re getting worse. The White House is completely (…)

  • President grossly delusional, should be removed from office
    20 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 06/19/05 — Speaking during his weekly radio address Saturday, George W. Bush told Americans that the U.S. was forced into the war in Iraq because of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
    "We went to war because we were attacked, and we are at war today because there are still people out there who want to harm our country and hurt our citizens," Bush said.
    In fact, there will always be people ’out there’ who want to harm (…)

  • A Nagasaki Report
    20 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Nagasaki Report By George Weller June 19, 2005 American George Weller was the first foreign reporter to enter Nagasaki following the U.S. atomic attack on the city on Aug. 9, 1945. Weller wrote a series of stories about what he saw in the city, but censors at the Occupation’s General Headquarters refused to allow the material to be printed. Weller’s stories, written in September 1945, can be found below.
    NAGASAKI, Sept.8 — The atomic bomb may be classified as a weapon capable of being (…)

  • Iraqi Union Leader Asks For Help To Force U.S. To Withdraw From Iraq
    20 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hassan Juma’a Awad and Faleh Abbood Umara took a quiet boat tour Friday through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, thousands of miles from the port city where they live and work in Basra, Iraq.
    Less than two weeks after allied forces entered the southern port city of Basra in 2003, Awad, Umara and other labor activists started the General Union of Oil Workers.
    Such unions were outlawed under Saddam Hussein’s rule. And the union still may be illegal, the pair explained after the (…)

  • A Soldier’s Thoughts. It Was Still Dark.......
    19 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Soldier’s Thoughts It Was Still Dark....... Zachary Scott-Singley May 04, 2005 It was still dark. I got dressed in that darkness. When I was ready I grabbed an MRE (meal ready to eat) and got in the truck. I was going to go line the truck up in preparation for the raid we were about to go on. The targets were three houses where RPG attacks had come from a few days prior. Sitting there in that darkness listening to the briefing on how we were to execute the mission, I let my mind wander (…)

  • JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED
    19 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Downing Street Minutes Hearings
    By Grace Reid
    This one is pretty hard to write. The title comes from Martin Luther King’s 1963, "Why We Can’t Wait." That, and his "Letter from a Birmhingam Jail" also 1963 are the sources for the quotes here.
    It has probably occurred to very few that the struggle to seek justice in the matter of the illegal war in Iraq, and the seeking of a Resolution of Inquiry into the impeachable offenses of GWB in the illegal war Iraq, have any correllaries (…)

  • Healing the wounds of Vietnam- Injured Marine hailed as a hero
    19 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Parma- Sirens blasted in the distance. "Welcome home" signs rose above the crowd. Children frantically waved American and Marine Corps flags.
    More than 200 people paced the sidewalk looking at their watches. It was almost time. When a police motorcade appeared in the distance, a woman screamed, "He’s here."
    A wounded Priestly returned from Iraq to a hero’s welcome on Saturday, as well-wishers - many wearing T-shirts bearing a photo of the Marine - crowded his Brookdale Avenue (…)

  • U.S. Used WMD in Iraq
    19 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A startling report has emerged yesterday that the U.S. has used napalm fire bombs in Iraq and then lied about it to the British government.
    Background
    Consider the sorts of weapons that international law generally prohibits: unconventional weapons used to attack the civilian population of a country, either directly or indirectly by leaving behind hazardous remnants.
    One example of such heinous weapons are those enriched with depleted uranium left over from either nuclear weapons or (…)