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  • Army Clears Top Abu Ghraib Case Officers
    23 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ROBERT BURNS
    The Army has cleared four top officers - including the three-star general who commanded all U.S. forces in Iraq - of all allegations of wrongdoing in connection with prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, officials said Friday.
    Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who became the senior commander in Iraq in June 2003, two months after the fall of Baghdad, had been faulted in earlier investigations for leadership lapses that may have contributed to prisoner abuse. He is the highest ranking (…)

  • Iraqi Legislators Denounce Us Assault On Assembly Member
    23 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by James Cagan
    An incident on Tuesday graphically illustrated the real relationship that exists between the US military forces in Iraq and the newly-elected, so-called “sovereign” Iraqi national assembly. At a vehicle checkpoint controlling the entrance to the “Green Zone” compound where the assembly’s building is located, a US army private threw an assembly member’s identity card in his face, pulled him from his car, handcuffed him and dragged him away in front of stunned onlookers.
    The (…)

  • Marines storm ashore in Nitzanim
    23 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ARIEH O’SULLIVAN
    Hundreds of US Marines riding hovercrafts stormed ashore the beaches of Nitzanim Wednesday as part of joint maneuvers being quietly held between the US and Israeli militaries.
    The Marines simulated an armed assault from the sea while IDF forces maneuvered inland until the two forces met.
    Military sources said the operation was code named "Kaya Green." Troops were delivered by LCVs (hovercrafts) which also unloaded Humvees.
    The Marines of the Sixth Fleet specialize (…)

  • Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980-1994
    22 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Friends in Deed: The United States and Iraq Before the Persian Gulf War
    The scandal that came to be called "Iraqgate" first attracted widespread public attention in 1990, in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait and the ensuing Persian Gulf war. The invasion followed a decade in which two successive U.S. administrations had viewed improvement of U.S.-Iraq relations as an important tenet of U.S. foreign policy, and had engaged in extensive trade with that country in pursuit (…)

  • Halliburton: Poster Child of the War Profiteers
    22 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    More and more revelations about contract abuse by Halliburton come out regularly. Just last week Rep. Henry Waxman issued a report that found Halliburton overcharging in Iraq now totaled more than $200 million, see: http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/. Activists in Houston are working with national groups, including Democracy Rising, to highlight corporate contract abuse by Halliburton when they hold their shareholders meeting this May 18. In the interview below with DemocracyRising’s (…)

  • Iraq: The Trail of Disinformation
    22 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq: The Trail of Disinformation What Really Happened
    April 21, 2005
    Let’s start with a simple fact. The United States invaded and conquered Iraq on the basis of lies. Even the official report of the United States Senate < http://www.infowars.com/print/iraq/war_on_alie.htm > admits as much. So, where did all this bad information come from? While the culprits would like to pin the blame on the Central Intelligence Agency, the facts point in a different direction. To cite just one (…)

  • Soldiers were used for the financial gain of those in power
    21 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Debbie Roath’s husband is an Army reservist who spent 15 months in Iraq fighting a war that neither of them believed in. Roath, a pastor at a small church in Slater, Missouri, is now leading the effort to bring more information about the military to students at her daughter’s high school in the nearby town of Marshall. “I feel my husband and many, many other soldiers were used for the financial gain of those in power,” says the 41-year-old mother of five “I find a lot of scriptural support (…)

  • Howard Dean continues to perpetuate Republican Lies-Warns of danger of Iraq pullout
    21 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Now that we’re there, we’re there and we can’t get out," he told an audience of nearly 1,000 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. "The president has created an enormous security problem for the United States where none existed before. But I hope the president is incredibly successful with his policy now that he’s there."
    An American pullout could endanger the United States in any of three ways, Dean said: by leaving a Shiite theocracy worse than that in Iran, which he called a more (…)

  • Backing Democrats has pulled the antiwar movement to the right
    21 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Backing Democrats has pulled the antiwar movement to the right Why “inside-outside” is getting nowhere
    ELIZABETH SCHULTE explains why the antiwar movement has to remain independent from the Democratic Party.
    FOR OPPONENTS of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, there was a big question hanging in the air in the wake of the 2004 election. How could George Bush—the man behind the war that so many people protested—be re-elected?
    Unfortunately, many on the left have offered answers that are less (…)

  • Privatizing a Mass Grave in Cambodia
    21 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    From Rob Maguire of Project Communis, we learn that "Cambodia has privatized a mass grave where thousands of former dictator Pol Pot’s political enemies were killed, handing it over to a Japanese company to run as a memorial" ("’Killing Fields’ Gravesite Privatized in Cambodia," CBC News 4 Apr. 2005).
    Some Japanese, like some Americans, often cluelessly ask, "Why do they hate us?" Most of "them" probably don’t hate the Japanese people (nor the American people), but many have a very good (…)