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  • The Tillman Scandal: "Newsweek" Error Bad, Pentagon Lying OK?
    25 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Tillman Scandal: "Newsweek" Error Bad, Pentagon Lying OK? Greg Mitchell (May 24, 2005) - Where, in the week after the Great Newsweek Error, is the comparable outrage in the press, in the blogosphere, and at the White House over the military’s outright lying in the coverup of the death of former NFL star Pat Tillman? Where are the calls for apologies to the public and the firing of those responsible? Who is demanding that the Pentagon’s word should never be trusted unless backed up by (…)

  • Fabricating Intelligence as a Justification for War
    24 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "The Intelligence and Facts
    were fixed around the Policy"
    The Lie of Preventative War
    Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop speaks on the morning of the Russia invasion to journalists in Berlin. Despite the existence of a nonagression pact, Hitler sent 3 million German soldiers to invade the Soviet Union under the code name "Barbarossa." The nazi leadership justified the attack as a preventative strike to hinder an alleged attack being planned by Stalin.
    Fabricating Intelligence (…)

  • College Faculty, Students Oppose War
    24 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    College Faculty, Students Oppose War Bill Gallagher May 24, 2005 "As Christians we are called to be peacemakers, and to initiate war only as a last resort. We believe your administration has launched an unjust and unjustified war in Iraq." — An open letter to President George W. Bush from concerned faculty, staff and emeriti of Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich.
    DETROIT - Hallelujah! It’s time for rejoicing. When one-third of the faculty members of this distinguished Christian college (…)

  • Democrats may extend Iraq war memo probe to London
    24 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.S. congressmen are investigating the British government’s role in helping to prepare for the war in Iraq.
    Senior Democrats in Congress are considering sending a delegation to London to investigate Britain’s role in the preparations for the war, which was launched in March 2003. They have seized on a leaked Downing Street memo, first published three weeks ago by The Sunday Times, as evidence American lawmakers were misled about Bush’s intentions in Iraq.
    A group of 89 Democrats from the (…)

  • Members of Congress unaware of missing 8.8 billion
    23 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last Friday I was on the panel of Bill Maher’s season finale of his HBO show “Real Time.” Bill’s guest by satellite was Senator Norm Coleman from my home state of Minnesota. Because Coleman serves on the homeland security committee, Maher asked him to comment on former homeland security director Tom Ridge’s recent revelation that the Bush administration would often issue terror alerts that he didn’t think were warranted. Could it be that they were using terror alerts politically?
    Coleman (…)

  • If Stalag 13 had been like US Bagram Detention Facility
    23 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Alas, Hogan’s Heroes. And poor LeBeau. He never stood a chance. The second that Sgt. Schultz discovered the receiver in the coffee pot and then sputtered a report to Colonel Klink, who then discovered the comically obvious bugs in his office, LeBeau’s fate was sealed. But there was so much to go through before the sweet kiss of death finally sucked the last breath from the ill-fated Frenchman. Sure, when Klink called Col. Hogan to his office, Hogan expected to do the usual song and dance - (…)

  • IS GEORGE BUSH A LIAR?
    23 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    IS GEORGE BUSH A LIAR?
    By Peter Fredson
    May 23, 2005
    The American public has now had 4 years of what is loosely called “Bush Leadership.” According to most polls, about half of the nation thinks G.W.Bush is some kind of heroic or even saintly figure, and the other half thinks he is a shallow smirking strutting popinjay who is determined to destroy the democracy he found intact when he was given the Presidency by the Supreme Court.
    Many people have charged that he has a firm (…)

  • Custer Battles Whistle-Blower Suit May Set Course on Iraq Fraud Cases
    23 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    To its accusers, the security company Custer Battles exemplifies corporate profiteering in postinvasion Iraq, when officials were pumping out hastily written contracts for everything from air conditioners to armed guards.
    In a lawsuit now in federal court, two former associates of the company say it bilked the American-led coalition out of millions, turning in hugely inflated invoices from phantom supplier companies among other misdeeds. If successful, the suit, brought under the False (…)

  • 15 days left before war with Iran
    23 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Are we going to stand idly by as more sovereign countries are attacked? This farce has nothing to do with getting rid of nuclear weapons in the Middle East or else the US would shut down the billions of dollars of aid that Israel receives. Money that is funneled into its massive chemical, biological and nuclear arsenal, which is turning Israel into a dominant superpower. Their military & political might remains unchecked. They are in firm control of the world’s remaining superpower, the (…)

  • George Galloway Testimony to Congress- Full Transcript
    22 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Testimony of Mr. George Galloway, Member of the British Parliament, before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee
    Senators Norm Coleman and Carl Levin attending
    SEN. COLEMAN: Mr. Galloway, I’m pleased to have you before the committee today.
    What I’m going to do is briefly summarize the evidence before we give you a chance to give your sworn testimony.
    The Oil-for-Food program was used to support those who were favorable to Iraq. Former Iraqi (…)