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  • REPORT: Stung By High Gas Prices, Uncle Sam Buys Minivans To Replace Army Humvees
    12 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    REPORT: Stung By High Gas Prices, Uncle Sam Buys Minivans To Replace Army Humvees
    05-23-2005
    WINDSOR, Canada - The U.S. Armed Forces have ordered 19,000 minivans and 5,000 Pacificas from the Chrysler Group for use as light-duty vehicles in Iraq and elsewhere around the world, displacing less fuel-efficient Humvees, according to the Windsor Star.
    The switch to the gas-powered school-carpool mainstays is designed to reduce fuel consumption and (…)

  • More in Congress want Iraq exit strategy
    12 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — Faced with plummeting public support for the war in Iraq, a growing number of members of Congress from both parties are reevaluating the reasons for the invasion and demanding the Bush administration produce a plan for withdrawing US troops. Article Tools
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  • Vicious assault on whistleblower and ex-employee of the Los Alamos weapons lab
    12 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It had been the worst of blind dates; the no-show. Eventually, just before 2am, Tommy Hook conceded defeat and slunk away from the gaudy strip bar. As he traipsed across the neon-bathed parking lot of Cheeks nightclub, he would have wondered what became of his non-committal partner.
    Hours earlier Hook, 52, had received a call from a fellow employee at the Los Alamos National Laboratory imploring him to head to the Santa Fe nightspot and hover by the bar. An excited, hushed voice had (…)

  • GULAG, SHMOOLAG
    12 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Fisher
    When Amnesty International described U.S. anti-terrorist prisons as “the Gulag of our time”, it gave the Bush Administration the ideal gift for the politician who has nothing: An opportunity to change the subject.
    Its over-the-top and historically dubious language allowed the president, the vice-president, the secretary of defense and many other Bushies to get everyone focused on syntax and away from the prisoner abuse issue.
    This is the second goodie the (…)

  • French hostage released in Iraq
    12 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A French journalist and her Iraqi driver were released after being held hostage for five months in Iraq, France’s foreign ministry said on Sunday.
    "Florence Aubenas is on her way to France," a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry told Reuters, adding the reporter would arrive at Villacoublay airport outside Paris later in the day.
    Her Iraqi driver Hussein Hanun al-Saadi was also released, she said. He would stay in Iraq with his family.
    Aubenas, who works for French newspaper (…)

  • Twenty five U.S. soldiers killed this week in Iraq
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Twenty five U.S. troops have died this week in separate incidents in war-torn Iraq.
    Five U.S. Marines, most in their early 20s, were killed in a roadside blast in western Iraq Thursday.
    The attack came in the Anbar province where 17 Iraqis had been blindfolded and executed. Their bodies were found on Friday.
    U.S. officials said the Marines killed were engaged in combat operations in Haqlaniya.
    They were Lance Cpl. Dustin V. Birch, 22, of Saint Anthony, Idaho, Lance Cpl. Daniel (…)

  • Kucinich/Abercrombie need help addressing concerns about Iraq Withdrawal
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Now’s the chance to explain to some congresscritters how you feel about the need to bring the troops home, and the truth about what is happening in Iraq. Some congresscritters are evil, true...however some are good people who blindly trusted the president. They have been watching too much Corporate News and have no clue what is really happening. These are the people we need to reach...in a respectful manner. Many are probably incredibly embarrassed they have been lied to and have been (…)

  • When Will Americans Punish Bush For His Errors?
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When Will Americans Punish Bush For His Errors? M’Hamed Ben Youssef Tunis Hebdo - June 6-June 12 Issue The question on lips everywhere lately, since the number of daily deadly attacks is rising rapidly, is “where is Iraq going?” According to a secret Pentagon report that appeared in the Cairo paper “El Isboui,” more than 15,000 guerilla attacks against coalition units have been recorded in nine months (from July 2004 to March 2005). The capital of Baghdad alone has seen nearly 3,500 (…)

  • Marines "Beat US Workers" In Iraq
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Marines "Beat US Workers" In Iraq Jamie Wilson in Washington Thursday June 9, 2005 A group of American security guards in Iraq have alleged they were beaten, stripped and threatened with a snarling dog by US marines when they were detained after an alleged shooting incident outside Falluja last month. "I never in my career have treated anybody so inhumane," one of the contractors, Rick Blanchard, a former Florida state trooper, wrote in an email quoted in the Los Angeles Times. "They (…)

  • Bush’s Politics of Fear: Neocon-Patriotism Only Acceptable Ism
    11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Knowledge is the antidote to fear." Emerson
    Two years ago, shortly after American troops "had taken" Baghdad, Stefan, my Greek economist-friend and former classmate at UCLA, paid me a short visit. During his stay, the topic of Bush’s lunacy occupied much of our time together and, for once, found us in synchronized agreement as to this folly?s likely outcome.
    Not my intent, however, to recount our castigation of Iraq’s invasion, or the prophetic pronouncements we both made on the WMD (…)