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  • Never to Forget- The War Crimes of George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Paul Rockwell
    Robert Fisk, the British journalist who witnessed U.S. air raids from streets, markets, and hotels of Iraq, wrote: "Three days ago, an entire family of nine was wiped out in their home. Pilots fire through computer-aligned co-ordinates. Of course the pilot who killed the innocents could not see his victims."
    Fisk’s insight about the insularity of industrial warfare recalls the writing of George Orwell, who survived another blitzkrieg, the air war over London in 1941. (…)

  • Soldier Awarded Purple Heart Deserts To Canada
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Soldier Awarded Purple Heart Deserts To Canada Associated Press February 01, 2005 LEXINGTON, Ky. - Rather than face another tour of duty in Iraq, a Lexington soldier who won a Purple Heart after he was wounded by a roadside bomb has deserted to Canada. Darrell Anderson, 22, wounded in Iraq last April, was deeply disillusioned about the war, according to his mother, Anita Anderson. The possibility of another tour in Iraq this summer was something he couldn’t face, she told the Lexington (…)

  • Documents: US Condoned Iraq Oil Smuggling
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Documents: US Condoned Iraq Oil Smuggling Elise Labott and Phil Hirschkorn, CNN Wednesday, February 2, 2005 (CNN) — Documents obtained by CNN reveal the United States knew about, and even condoned, embargo-breaking oil sales by Saddam Hussein’s regime, and did so to shore up alliances with Iraq’s neighbors.
    The oil trade with countries such as Turkey and Jordan appears to have been an open secret inside the U.S. government and the United Nations for years.
    The unclassified State (…)

  • A Compliant Press Allows Bush To Spin An Inaugural Yarn Of Abstract Nonsense
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Freedom From Reality A Compliant Press Allows Bush To Spin An Inaugural Yarn Of Abstract Nonsense Robert Parry February 01, 2005
    One of the most troubling crises confronting the world today is that the U.S. executive branch-controlling the most fearsome arsenal in history-has largely detached itself from reality and faces no counterforce in Washington capable of bringing it back down to earth.
    In that sense, George W. Bush’s second inaugural address on January 20 stood out as a defining (…)

  • A Report, The First Of Its Kind, Says Baghdad Ended Its Chemical Weapons Program In ’91
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    CIA Corrects Itself On Arms A Report, The First Of Its Kind, Says Baghdad Ended Its Chemical Weapons Program In ’91 Greg Miller February 01, 2005 WASHINGTON - In what may be a formal acknowledgment of the obvious, the CIA has issued a classified report revising its prewar assessments on Iraq and concluding that Baghdad abandoned its chemical weapons programs in 1991, intelligence officials familiar with the document said.
    The report marks the first time the CIA has officially disavowed (…)

  • Chertoff And Torture
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chertoff And Torture Dave Lindorff February 14, 2005 Issue Back on Friday, June 12, 2002, the Defense Department had a big problem: Its new policy on torture of captives in the "war on terror" was about to be exposed. John Walker Lindh, the young Californian captured in Afghanistan in December 2001 and touted by John Ashcroft as an "American Taliban," was scheduled to take the stand the following Monday in an evidence suppression hearing regarding a confession he had signed. There he would (…)

  • What Is The Difference Between Iraq And America?
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    First Saddam Hussein, Then George Bush, Now US Created Prime Minister Alyad Allawi Ordered Iraqi Prisoners Tortured. What Is The Difference Between Iraq And America? Marc Krug February 01, 2005 Over the years, Iraqi prisoners have found themselves ensnared in an inescapable trap. They have been subjected, without change or respite, to a seemingly unending succession of torture and abuse.
    What has changed, however, has been the identity of those inflicting this torture. First, it was (…)

  • Gonzales Added to War Crimes Suit: Testimony Confirms Role in Torture
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Synopsis
    CCR filed new documents on January 31, 2005, with the German Federal Prosecutor looking into war crimes charges against high-ranking U.S. officials including Donald Rumsfeld: one includes new evidence that the Fay investigation into Abu Ghraib protected Administration officials - it is a comprehensive and shocking opinion by Scott Horton, an expert on international law and the Chair of the International Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
    The (…)

  • Triumph and tragedy for Iraq
    2 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Low level of Sunni participation tarnishes success of large poll turnout
    By Robert Fisk
    Baghdad - Even as the explosions thundered over Baghdad, they came in their hundreds, and then in their thousands. Entire families, crippled old men supported by their sons, children beside them, babies in the arms of their mothers.
    The Shi’ite Muslims of Baghdad yesterday walked quietly to polling stations, to the Martyr Mohamed Bakr Hakim School in Jadriya, without talking, through the car-less (…)

  • Larry King bumps military mom from show- Are the "news" networks afraid of the truth?
    2 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Not Worth It
    I was supposed to be on the Larry King Live show last night. I was asked to be on the show to offer my opinion on the election in Iraq from the perspective of a mom whose son was killed in the war prior to the elections. One of the questions I was going to be asked was: Do I think my son sacrifice was worth it? Well, I didn’t get a chance to be on the show last night, because I was bumped for something that is really important: The Michael Jackson Trial.
    If I was allowed to (…)