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  • Donald H. Dumbfuck
    8 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Donald H. Dumbfuck Eddie Tews June 04, 2005 A while back, Donald H. Rumsfeld said that he couldn’t "imagine why Venezuela needs 100,000 AK-47s". He may or may not have figured that one out yet, but there’s a new problem for him to puzzle over:
    Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today that the rapid development of China’s missile capabilities, air force, and navy put Asia’s military balance at risk, and that the Pentagon believes Beijing’s buildup has been far more extensive than its (…)

  • Bush and Blair questioned about Downing Street Memo at Press Conference
    8 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Somehow, a real reporter slipped by Whitehouse security and asked Bush and Blair about the Downing Street Memo.
    see video on Cspan...ffwd to 16:50
    Both Bush and Blair offer ’proof’ that the memo was wrong because they went to the United Nations afterward.
    Blair first....
    ’The fact that we decided to go to the United Nations and went throught that process which resulted in the resolution to give saddam a final chance to comply, he didn’t do so, and that was the reason we had to take (…)

  • Senator Feingold to "question Blair closely" about the Downing Street Memo/Minutes
    8 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CLINTON-The Iraq War is a mess that’s only getting messier, Sen. Russ Feingold said before and during a listening session Monday.
    "The mantra for Fox News is that we only hear the bad news," Feingold, a Democrat, said of the media outlet thought by many observers to be right wing.
    "I was over there (in February), and we don’t hear enough bad news," Feingold said before the session.
    He traveled with four other senators, including Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Rodham (…)

  • Sen. Kennedy speaks out on Downing Street Memo, but where is John Kerry?
    7 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The following was released by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) on the Downing Street Minutes this morning. Kennedy becomes the first senator to raise the issue in the Senate, after earlier reports that Massachusetts’ junior senator, John Kerry, would speak about the minutes in Washington. #
    “The contents of the Downing Street Minutes confirm that the Bush Administration was determined to go to war in Iraq, regardless of whether there was any credible justification for doing so. The (…)

  • Editorial: Is Congress Complicit In Bush Lies?
    7 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Inaction raises a question over the entire Government
    by Brian Richards
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 06/07/05 — Eighty-nine members of the House of Representatives have called on George W. Bush to answer a series of five questions:
    1. Do you or anyone in your administration dispute the accuracy of the leaked document?
    2. Were arrangements being made, including the recruitment of allies, before you sought Congressional authorization to go to war? Did you or anyone in your (…)

  • After the Downing Street Memo: The Case for Impeachment Builds
    7 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AMY GOODMAN: Our guests are Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now! correspondent; John Bonifaz, author of Warrior King : The Case for Impeaching George W. Bush; as well as Hans Von Sponeck, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, formerly.
    Looking at this Times of London piece that came out last month John Bonifaz, I’d like you to respond to this secret document from the heart of government, revealing that Tony Blair privately committed Britain to war with Iraq and then set out to lure (…)

  • Alexander the Grate wants to conquer the world
    7 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mr. B., that resident alien in the White House, appears to want to conquer the world along with his $$$ cronies, and turn it inside out in his own warped image. Wolf-owitz will run the world money henhouse, Frist is surgically removing democracy from the Senate, the Supremes are at it again, denying patients relief from unspeakable pain by criminalizing use of marijuana (gasp!) (where are the state’s rights advocates now? Hmmmm?), Rumsfeld tells people what they want to hear, regardless of (…)

  • Suicide Attacks Explained by US Author
    7 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A surge in "suicide attacks" in Iraq and elsewhere around the world is a response to territorial occupation and has no direct link with "Islamic fundamentalism", a political science professor has said.
    Robert Pape, associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago, has spent 25 years creating a database of such attacks and has chronicled them in his new book, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. According to the author, most suicide terrorists were (…)

  • The US Probe On The Iraq "Oil-For-Food Scam" Has Exposed Its Own Duplicity
    7 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The US Probe On The Iraq "Oil-For-Food Scam" Has Exposed Its Own Duplicity Prem Shankar Jha June 06, 2005 The criminal procedure code of every democratic country contains one all-important provision. Information obtained through an unlawful search of any premises cannot, under any circumstances, be admitted as evidence in a court of law. No American government, whether national, state or local, would dream of flouting this principle at home. But in its dealings with other nations and (…)

  • US Uses The Magic Mantra "Zarqawi" To Justify Its Failures
    7 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    US Uses The Magic Mantra "Zarqawi" To Justify Its Failures Fatih Abdulsalam May 31, 2005 There seems to be no end to the flow of reports on al-Zarqawi. This legendary rebel has now come to haunt the Americans the way Saddam Hussein did before his overthrow two years ago.
    For many Iraqis the name ‘Saddam Hussein’ has been replaced by ‘Zarqawi’. The only difference is that while they could easily verify the footage, the speeches and sound bites of the former, many of them believe the (…)