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  • Reclaiming Our Democracy, Our Country, and Our Soul. Keeping the Downing Street Drums Beating.
    19 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “You can’t just say the President is lying.” That was the opinion of New York Times reporter, Elizabeth Bumiller recently when discussing honesty in today’s press. It also highlights a serious flaw in the current logic with today’s press that has led to the erosion of any possible faith people have in media anymore. I would proffer that you most certainly can say the President has lied, if you meet one condition, that being he lied. It is a disservice to this country to have a media that (…)

  • An Open Letter to US Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq
    18 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I was a soldier for most of the time between 1970 and 1996. I signed out on my retirement from 3rd Special Forces in Ft. Bragg. I had also served in 7th Special Forces, on three Ranger assignments, with Delta for almost four years, as a Cavalry Scout for a while, and in the 82nd Airborne Division as an infantryman. I started my career in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade. I thugged around in eight different places in East Asia, Latin America, and Africa, where I pointed guns at (…)

  • There is no Justification for the Silence on DSM- Corporate Media complicit in war crimes
    18 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    One of the features of the newfound media interest in the Downing Street Memo is a profound defensiveness, as reporters scramble to explain why it received so little attention in the U.S. press. But the most familiar line—the memo wasn’t news because it contained no "new" information—only raises troubling questions about what journalists were doing when they should have been reporting on the gulf between official White House pronouncements and actual White House intentions.
    There are two (…)

  • Limbaugh worried: Attacks Kucinich exit plan "you don’t have a thing to say about this"
    18 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    RUSH: All right, get this.
    A" conservative, a moderate and a liberal and a Libertarian teamed up in the House yesterday to prod President Bush to set a timetable to withdraw from Iraq.
    This," as the Washington Post Mike Allen says, "strikes a rare tune of unity on a day when tensions about national security provoke marathon brawling on the floor.
    " What do you mean, unity? Four members out of a 435-member body is unity? "The resolution sponsored by representatives Walter Jones, Jr., (…)

  • Republican Strains Emerge Over Iraq-Republican in Senate not willing to put up with this much longer
    18 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON — As bad news continues to emerge from Iraq and the U.S. detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, some Republicans are starting to edge away from the White House on its policies in the war on terror.
    The strains were on display yesterday, at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Guantanamo Bay to address what Chairman Arlen Specter called the "crazy quilt" system that governs the treatment of about 520 suspected enemy combatants being held there. Mr. Specter, a Republican from (…)

  • Democrat Urges Inquiry on Bush, Iraq
    18 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By PETE YOST, Associated Press
    Congress should conduct an official inquiry to determine whether President Bush intentionally misled the nation about the reasons for toppling Saddam Hussein, a senior House Democrat suggested Thursday.
    New York Rep. Charles Rangel was among Democratic House members who participated in a forum to air demands that the White House provide more information about what led to the decision to go to war in Iraq.
    "Quite frankly, evidence that appears to be (…)

  • Conyers’ Hearing on The Memo: This evidence is so compelling, it must be investigated- period.
    17 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Yesterday’s phenomenal testimony at the John Conyers’ Hearing on the Downing Street Memo left many jaws gaping. All news organizations are now faced with a choice, are they going to continue to cover for the Bush Administration, or are they going to cover The Downing Street Memo story like it ought to be covered?
    For a taste of the hearing, download this audio clip- Ray McGovern’s opening statement. McGovern 6.5 min, 3mb mp3 (right-click > save as)
    Testimony was given by former (…)

  • US lied to Britain over use of napalm in Iraq war
    17 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    American officials lied to British ministers over the use of "internationally reviled" napalm-type firebombs in Iraq.
    Yesterday’s disclosure led to calls by MPs for a full statement to the Commons and opened ministers to allegations that they held back the facts until after the general election.
    Despite persistent rumours of injuries among Iraqis consistent with the use of incendiary weapons such as napalm, Adam Ingram, the Defence minister, assured Labour MPs in January that US forces (…)

  • This is democracy? Ignoring the will of the people in both US and Iraq, US launches attack on Iraqis
    17 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US military generals have admitted that 99% of insurgents are Iraqis fighting to defend their country...why does Fox News and our government continue lie to us? The growing disconnect between the Corporate News/govt and reality is starting to show them as being completely insane! And their assumption that we will believe anything they say...ludicrous! BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military launched a major combat operation Friday, sending 1,000 Marines and Iraqi soldiers to hunt for (…)

  • Rep. Jones, Resolving To Follow His Heart
    17 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It started at a military funeral about two years ago, this heartache that Republican Walter B. Jones says has gripped him and won’t let go.
    It’s the kind of pain that gnaws and prods. So much so that it pushed the North Carolina congressman to begin writing to other families of dead servicemen and women. (He’s up to at least 1,300.) Rep. Walter B. Jones (R-N.C.) with one of the posters of troops killed in Iraq on the wall outside his office.
    And to collect pictures of the fallen. (…)