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  • Iraq Quaqmire: What if this is as good as it gets?
    18 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "We feel right now that we have, as I mentioned, broken the back of the insurgency."
    Marine Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, Nov. 18, after offensive against Fallujah
    CHICAGO - Could it be that we’ve misclassified the insurgency in Iraq - that it’s an invertebrate, able to absorb bone-crushing blows because it has no bones to crush? It seems to be more like a dandelion, which, when smashed, only spreads more seeds.
    Seven months after U.S. forces leveled the enemy stronghold, the insurgents (…)

  • Galloway Calls a Spade a Spade
    18 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    One Scotsman, Calls a Spade a Spade
    by James Glaser May 18, 2005
    British MP George Galloway was called on the carpet by a United States Senate Investigative Committee and he shocked them by showing up and defending himself.
    Senator Norm Coleman, Republican Chairman of the committee had accused Galloway of making money off the Iraqi oil-for-food program and Galloway was more than Coleman ever expected.
    Galloway, "I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons (…)

  • Former Reagan Official: Only Way to Restore America’s Credibility is Impeachment
    18 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George W. Bush and his gang of neocon warmongers have destroyed America’s reputation. It is likely to stay destroyed, because at this point the only way to restore America’s reputation would be to impeach and convict President Bush for intentionally deceiving Congress and the American people in order to start a war of aggression against a country that posed no threat to the US. America can redeem itself only by holding Bush accountable.
    As intent as Republicans were to impeach President (…)

  • UNITY CALL TO THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT FROM TROOPS OUT NOW COALITION
    18 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Troops Out Now Coalition (TONC) wholeheartedly and unreservedly joins the activists and groups who are calling for a united mobilization against the war in the fall. The absence of such unity amongst the anti-war coalitions only serves to demoralize rank and file anti-war activists and local forces across the country. The grassroots of the movement are looking to those of us who make decisions to put our differences aside in the interests of the struggle to get the U.S. the hell out of (…)

  • Newsweek apology? How about White House retraction of WMD?
    18 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What a joke, the White House carrying on about Newsweek. I’d say Newsweek should retract any article only when the White House admits there were no weapons of mass destruction, apologizes to all Iraqis and Americans, brings American troops home and allows the UN to do what it was originally formed to do, namely protect the vulnerable and to establish and keep the peace.
    Maybe I’m confusing facts with the issues, and the use of reason has no place in this country anymore, but I just can’t (…)

  • UK’s Galloway puts US Senators to Shame: Delivers passionate speech exposing the real corruption
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Galloway had vowed to give US senators "both barrels" and after sitting - coiled - through an hour-and-half of testimony against him, he unloaded all his ammunition.
    Far from displaying the forelock-tugging deference to which senators are accustomed, Mr Galloway went on the attack.
    He rubbished committee chairman Norm Coleman’s dossier of evidence and stared him in the eye.
    "Now I know that standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington, but for a lawyer, you are (…)

  • US ’backed illegal Iraqi oil deals’
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Report claims blind eye was turned to sanctions busting by American firms
    Julian Borger and Jamie Wilson in Washington Tuesday May 17, 2005 The Guardian
    The United States administration turned a blind eye to extensive sanctions-busting in the prewar sale of Iraqi oil, according to a new Senate investigation.
    A report released last night by Democratic staff on a Senate investigations committee presents documentary evidence that the Bush administration was made aware of illegal oil sales (…)

  • The American News Media - Tools and Fools and Scapegoats
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. Marie Beyle
    The media must have been flipping out recently. Terri Schiavo was gone, Scott Peterson was in jail, Martha Stewart was out of jail and Michael Jackson could only make news when he showed up for court in his jammies. My gawd! What are we gonna report on?
    “Well, the President’s numbers are way down.”
    “Uh-huh...what else ya got?”
    “Um, the insurgency in Iraq is getting (…)

  • BUSH ON TRIAL
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tuesday May 17, 2005, Brussels - Today, representatives of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) delivered a law summon and invitation letter addressed to President Bush at the US Embassy in Brussels. It was part of a global action day, as similar actions took place in Japan, Sweden, Turkey and the United States. The WTI representatives invited George Bush to the final hearing of the World Tribunal on Iraq that will take place in Istanbul between 23-27 of June 2005.
    In Brussels a number of (…)

  • White House challenges UK Iraq memo
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON (CNN) — Claims in a recently uncovered British memo that intelligence was "being fixed" to support the Iraq war as early as mid-2002 are "flat out wrong," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Monday.
    McClellan insisted the process leading up to the decision to go to war was "very public" — and that the decision to invade in March 2003 was taken only after Iraq refused to comply with its "international obligations."
    "The president of the United States, in a very (…)