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  • CNN discusses Impeachment- Is lying about the reason for a war an impeachable offense?
    13 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President George W. Bush has got a very serious problem. Before asking Congress for a joint resolution authorizing the use of U.S. military forces in Iraq, he made a number of unequivocal statements about the reason the United States needed to pursue the most radical actions any nation can undertake — acts of war against another nation.
    Now it is clear that many of his statements appear to be false. In the past, Bush’s White House has been very good at sweeping ugly issues like this under (…)

  • Web Of Cold-Blooded Lies
    13 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Web Of Cold-Blooded Lies Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun June 12, 2005 PARIS - In July 2002, the head of MI-6, Britain’s secret intelligence service, briefed Prime Minister Tony Blair and his cabinet on U.S. plans to attack Iraq.
    Sir Richard Dearlove ("M" to James Bond fans) reported that U.S. President George Bush had decided to invade oil-rich Iraq in March 2003, in a war "to be justified by the conjunction of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. The intelligence and facts are being (…)

  • Torture’s Part Of The Territory
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    Torture’s Part Of The Territory Naomi Klein June 07, 2005 Brace yourself for a flood of gruesome new torture snapshots. Last week, a federal judge ordered the Defense Department to release dozens of additional photographs and videotapes depicting prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.
    The photographs will elicit what has become a predictable response: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will claim to be shocked and will assure us that action is already being taken to prevent such abuses from (…)

  • Blaming the Messenger Fools No One
    13 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Blaming the Messenger Fools No One Robert Scheer June 07, 2005 On Sunday, the Iraqi government announced that Saddam Hussein would be charged with crimes going back to the 1982 killings of almost 160 men in the Shiite village of Dujail.
    The evidence will come in no small measure from reports by Amnesty International and other human rights groups published before and during the United States’ semi-secret alliance with Hussein in the 1980s.
    This unsavory partnership with Hussein was (…)

  • Republican congressman calls for deadline to pull U.S. troops from Iraq
    13 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican congressman called for a deadline to pull U.S. troops from Iraq, while some other members of President Bush’s party urged on Sunday that his administration come to grips with a persistent insurgency and revamp Iraq policy.
    Rep. Walter Jones, a North Carolina conservative, said on ABC’s "This Week" that he would offer legislation next week setting a timetable for the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
    "I voted for the resolution to commit the troops, and I feel (…)

  • MILITARY FAMILIES CHARGE BLAIR WITH WAR CRIMES - WILL TAKE CASE TO INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
    13 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It has been widely reported that release of war documents from Downing Street finished Tony Blair in the last election. While that is true enough, the tide turned in the May 5th election when 10 bereaved families of British soldiers killed in Iraq confronted Tony Blair face to face, charging him with war crimes. .
    All the documentary evidence of Bush/Blair war crimes is now laid out for judicial review before the International Criminal, and, thanks to the BBC and the Sunday Times, for the (…)

  • The leak that changed minds on the Iraq war
    13 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Six weeks ago The Sunday Times published the leaked minutes of a July 2002 Downing Street meeting in which Tony Blair committed Britain to war in Iraq months before parliament was consulted.
    They detailed a secret pledge to President George W Bush to help oust Saddam, showed that Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, had warned such action could be illegal and that Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, had thought the case for war was “thin”.
    By any standards these were fascinating (…)

  • The American people have been had
    12 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The war has taken a dangerous turn - not in Iraq but here at home. It has lost the support of a majority of Americans.
    According to the latest Washington Post/ABC News Poll, for the first time since the war began a majority of the American public doesn’t believe the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime has made the United States more secure. The survey also found that nearly three-quarters of respondents say the casualty rate in Iraq is unacceptable; two-thirds believe the U.S. military is (…)

  • Washington Post covers The Memo on Front Page
    12 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Memo: U.S. Lacked Full Postwar Iraq Plan
    By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, June 12, 2005; Page A01
    A briefing paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top advisers eight months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq concluded that the U.S. military was not preparing adequately for what the British memo predicted would be a "protracted and costly" postwar occupation of that country.
    The eight-page memo, written in advance of a July 23, 2002, Downing (…)

  • Paramount importance of absolutely honest journalism to combat the evil of embedded journalism
    12 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    This is in the context of the exquisitely fresh thought of the day that the neo-con Bush American empire is all evil, rather the mother-in-chief of all evils as expressed by Mr Shiraz. I simply appreciate it and would invite the attention of the world conscience and all honest intellectuals and journalists of the world to the recently published article of the most leading journalist of Britain John Pilger.
    The article was published in the NEW STATESMAN MediaLens: www.medi-alens.org and (…)