Home > Keywords > International > Wars and conflicts

Wars and conflicts

  • US Ignored Warning On Iraqi Oil Smuggling
    16 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    By Claudio Gatti For months, the US Congress has been investigating activities that violated the United Nations oil-for-food programme and helped Saddam Hussein build secret funds to acquire arms and buy influence. President George W. Bush has linked future US funding of the international body to a clear account of what went on under the multi-billion dollar programme. But a joint investigation by the Financial Times and Il Sole 24 Ore, the Italian business daily, shows that the single (…)

  • A letter to President Bush
    15 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    13 comments

    November 20, 2004 To: George W. Bush From: SGT Kevin M. Benderman
    When are you going to tell the truth to the people of the United States?
    Why don’t you tell them why you want to be in Iraq so bad?
    I was there for six months and I did not see the first weapon of mass destruction. I did receive orders from the company commander to shoot children if they threw small rocks at us and that was when I figured out that the entire thing was way over the line.
    Over 1200 soldiers have died in (…)

  • Collective Punishment: 1st hand accounts of war crimes in Iraq
    15 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s not a new tactic here in Iraq. The US military has been doing it for well over a year now. Last January 3rd, in the Al-Dora rural region on the outskirts of Baghdad, where beautiful farms of date palms and orange trees line the banks of the Tigris, I visited a farm where occupation forces had lobbed several mortars.
    The military claimed they had been attacked by fighters in the area, while the locals denied any knowledge of harboring resistance fighters.
    Standing in a field full of (…)

  • This is an Unjust, Evil and Futile War
    15 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    5 comments

    Excerpts from Martin Luther King’s speech on Vietnam- every word is true today, only the names have changed. Audio mp3s of this speech linked below. I will be discussing today one of the most controversial issues confronting our nation. I’m using as a subject from which to preach, why I am opposed to the war in Vietnam.
    Now let me make it clear in the beginning, that I see this war as an unjust, evil and futile war. I preach to you today on the war in Vietnam because my conscience leaves (…)

  • Sixteen Representatives in House ask Bush to Bring Troops Home
    15 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    3 comments

    Woolsey Leads 15 Members in Asking President to Bring Troops Home
    January 12, 2005
    PETALUMA, CA — U.S. Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma) today led 15 Members of Congress in sending a letter to President Bush requesting that U.S. soldiers come home. Last week, she released a press statement calling for the return of U.S. troops from Iraq.
    The following is Rep. Woolsey’s letter to President Bush calling for him to take immediate steps towards a withdrawal from Iraq:
    January 12, (…)

  • Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales should be prosecuted for war crimes
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER
    Human Rights Watch Wants War Crimes Prosecution of Bush Administration
    19 Corporate Crime Reporter 3(3), January 13, 2005
    Human Rights Watch today called for a war crimes prosecution of high-ranking officials in the Bush administration.
    Kenneth Roth, the group’s executive director, called on the Bush administration to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate any U.S. officials who participated in, ordered, or had command responsibility for torture or (…)

  • Dubya: "Wish I Hadn’t Said That"
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    Dubya: "Wish I Hadn’t Said That" Staff and Wire Reports Jan 14, 2005 President Bush says he now sees that tough talk can have an "unintended consequence."
    During a round-table interview with reporters from 14 newspapers, the president, who not long ago declined to identify any mistakes he’d made during his first term, expressed misgivings for two of his most famous expressions: "Bring ’em on," in reference to Iraqis attacking U.S. troops, and his vow to get Osama bin Laden "dead or (…)

  • Brian Reade on Michael Moore
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    We live in fictitious times, where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president.
    “We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons”
    When Michael Moore delivered those words in March 2003, he outraged not just the millionaires in the Los Angeles audience, but also the self sytled patriots on both sides of the Atlantic.
    Our boys about to go to war they said, and all this dirty commie bastard can do is abuse the freedoms they are (…)

  • Washington’s Gunpoint Democracy
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    THE U.S. always claims that its wars and occupations “promote democracy.” But Washington is behind elections in Iraq and Palestine this month that will do the opposite—ignore the democratic will of the people, while furthering the U.S. agenda for the Middle East.
    That’s because elections under occupation help the occupiers, not the people living under occupation.
    In Iraq, the U.S. project of “imposing democracy at gunpoint” is taking an enormous human toll. In order to give elections set (…)

  • More Dissent In Pentagon Ranks Over Iraq War
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    More Dissent In Pentagon Ranks Over Iraq War Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (IPS) - For the second time in as many months, a report by a key Pentagon advisory group has implicitly taken the administration of President George W. Bush to task for major failures in pre-war planning, particularly with respect to Iraq.
    A 220-page report, quietly released late last month by the Defense Science Board (DSB), concludes that the administration clearly underestimated the number of troops and cost (…)