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  • Leave our country now
    19 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We lived through dark days under Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship. When the regime fell, people wanted a new life: a life without shackles and terror; a life where we could rebuild our country and enjoy its natural wealth. Instead, our communities have been attacked with chemicals and cluster bombs, and our people tortured, raped and killed in our homes.
    Saddam’s secret police used to creep over the roofs into our homes at night; occupation troops now break down our doors in broad daylight. (…)

  • Soldiers with Flu-Like symptoms Dying ’Mysteriously’
    19 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The mysterious death of a third soldier with North Carolina ties is raising questions. All three died from flu-like symptoms after returning from overseas deployments, according to a report by affiliate station WRAL.
    Sgt. Clay Garton was a flight medic at Fort Bragg. He spent 16 months in Iraq and returned home in July. Then, he got sick.
    His family said he had symptoms like the flu. He fought it for three weeks, but his fever soared to 106 degrees. The day after Christmas, he died. (…)

  • Regaining My Humanity - Conscientious Objector released from prison
    18 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We were delighted to receive a phone call yesterday, February 15, from Camilo Mejia, letting us know that he has just been released from prison. Some of you might remember Camilo, a courageous soldier who spent more than 7 years in the military, 8 months fighting in Iraq, came home for a 2-week furlough, and decided that he could not-in good conscience-return to Iraq. He applied for Conscientious Objector status, and was declared a Prisoner of Conscience by Amnesty International. But the US (…)

  • NOT WHILE I’M PRESIDENT!
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Even though we have George Bush’s pledge that, "We’re not going to have a draft, period," the draft-age men of his home state, Texas, are apparently not so confident that he’ll keep his word if the statistics compiled by the Selective Service System (SSS) are to be believed. Since 1999, the SSS has been issuing a state-by-state report card on selective service registration compliance that shows the Lone Star state’s compliance has been consistently below the national average.
    In 1999, (…)

  • Another Reservist Refuses to go: ’I won’t fight for profit’
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Carl Webb is very clear about what he is doing: "I’m refusing to go to war because I do not believe the U.S. is on the right track. I think this war is not about liberating people, it’s about oppressing them. It’s a war that’s being fought for profit."
    Webb is a 38-year-old African Amer ican antiwar activist from Austin, Texas. He is also a fugitive with a federal warrant out for his arrest—for refusing to participate in the war against the people of Iraq.
    Webb, who is active with Austin (…)

  • Intelligence whistleblower shows pretext for Iraq invasion totally fabricated
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The justification to War In Iraq was totally fabricated.
    Secrets and Lies
    by Liz Jackson
    Broadcast: ABC TV (Australia) 14/02/2005
    He lives quietly in Canberra’s outer suburbs. He comes and goes a lot. When he is home he may be seen tending his roses in the front yard.
    This unobtrusive, quietly spoken man has been privilege to some of the world’s best-kept secrets for two decades. He knows from long personal experience how intelligence agencies and big defence bureaucracies operate. (…)

  • $9 Billion is ’Missing’, and Republicans Refuse to Investigate
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    There are 6 Congressional Committees investigating the Oil-for-Food (UN) scandal, yet not a single Republican Committee Chairman will call a hearing to investigate the whereabouts of 9 billion dollars missing in action.
    What has emerged recently is that the corruption is beyond the scope that anyone could have possibly imagined:
    A British adviser to the Iraqi Governing Council claimed that officials in the CPA were demanding bribes of up to $300,000 in return for (…)

  • Embedded In The Spin Cycle...
    17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Embedded In The Spin Cycle... Isaac Backer NEW YORK, Feb 15 (IPS) - An incisive new documentary is taking aim at the U.S. media’s one-sided coverage of the war in Iraq, arguing that its collective complicity deceived the populace and made the war possible.
    "WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception", which cost just 200,000 dollars to produce, points to a wide array of failures in the accuracy of the reporting, as well as an unwillingness to question the George W. Bush administration’s claims and (…)

  • Soldier’s Letter to Senator re: Lack of health care for Vets
    16 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Senator Cornyn,
    I have been a member of the U.S. military since I was 17 years old, both as an enlisted soldier and now as an officer. I deployed to Iraq with Army Civil Affairs from April 2003 to March 2004, where I served in the Sadr City.
    Since my return to Dallas, I have concluded that the health care systems for the military and veterans are utterly broken. Additionally, our leadership is ignoring the psychological and physical problems faced by returning veterans.
    The (…)

  • Democrats Want More Accountability for Iraq Spending- Propose War Funding Accountability Act
    16 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush’s request to Congress for $82 billion dollars in additional funding for military and reconstruction needs in Iraq and Afghanistan is receiving scrutiny on Capitol Hill. This comes amid growing concern among lawmakers about examples of waste, fraud and abuse in how funds were spent in Iraq.
    There is little if any disagreement between Democrats and Republicans about the need for the extra money needed to support U.S. troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
    Republicans in (…)