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  • Don’t Lose Sight Of The Real Scandal
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Don’t Lose Sight Of The Real Scandal Sean Gonsalves January 10, 2005 I’m a dawg. But I don’t like red herring. The word smiths at Merriam-Webster define a red-herring argument or fact as "something that distracts attention from the real issue."
    As for origins, the dictionary people point out the following: A herring is a soft-finned fish that is often preserved through a salting and slow smoking process. That’s what gives herring a red or dark brown hue. It’s also what makes them smell (…)

  • Drug Addicted US Troops Sent To Scotland For Help
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Drug Addicted US Troops Sent To Scotland For Help Iraq Veterans In Rehab With NHS Patients Liam McDougall, Health Correspondent 09 January 2005 A PICTURESQUE Scottish hospital is being used by the US military as a base to treat drug and alcohol addicted troops who have fought in Iraq, the Sunday Herald can reveal. The US department of defence is sending up to 40 damaged servicemen and women a year - including marines, army and airforce personnel - to Castle Craig rehabilitation clinic to (…)

  • What Bush Said About Iraq’s So-Called WMD
    14 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What Bush Said About Iraq’s So-Called WMD Staff and Wire Reports Jan 13, 2005 Statements by the Bush administration before and after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 on Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs:
    BEFORE THE WAR
    "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." - Vice President Dick Cheney, Aug. 26, 2002.
    "The problem here is that (…)

  • Iraq: The Devastation
    12 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The invasion of Iraq was just a preview of the untold misery and destruction to come under U.S. occupation.
    By Dahr Jamail
    The devastation of Iraq? Where do I start? After working 7 of the last 12 months in Iraq, I’m still overwhelmed by even the thought of trying to describe this.
    The illegal war and occupation of Iraq was waged for three reasons, according to the Bush administration. First for weapons of mass destruction, which have yet to be found. Second, because the regime of (…)

  • Troops: Suicide or Prison better than returning to Iraq
    12 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Three recent stories (Jan 05) highlight just how bad Iraq is- that some soldiers would rather go to prison or die than return to the carnage that is the US occupation. A 19-year-old US Marine committed “suicide by cop” rather than return to Iraq.
    Raya was finally gunned down as he ran towards a group of officers, and apparently reached for a second weapon.
    Julia Cortez Raya told the newspaper that her son served in Fallujah.
    She said: “He came back different.”
    Marine Lance Cpl. (…)

  • Investigate Alleged Violations of Law in Fallujah Attack
    12 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At the beginning of their recent attack on Fallujah, U.S. Marines and Iraqi National Guard troops stormed Fallujah General Hospital, closing it to the city’s wounded and confiscating cell phones from the doctors. A senior officer told The New York Times the hospital was "a center of propaganda."
    Interviews with hospital personnel (which had revealed the extent of civilian casualties in an aborted April invasion) would not be a problem this time.
    As the invasion proceeded, air strikes (…)

  • Iraq, torture? Not if cheerleaders do it, lawyer claims
    12 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jenny Booth
    Forcing naked Iraqi prisoners to pile themselves in human pyramids was not torture, because American cheerleaders do it every year, a court was told today.
    A lawyer defending Specialist Charles Graner, who is accused of being a ringleader in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, argued that piling naked prisoners in pyramids was a valid form of prisoner control.
    "Don’t cheerleaders all over America form pyramids six to eight times a year. Is that torture?" said Guy (…)

  • War Crimes Rountable- Who is really responsible for Abu Ghraib?
    12 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    War Crimes Roundtable
    As the Abu-Ghraib prison scandal began to pierce through the public consciousness, Contributing Editor Mark LeVine brought together four leading experts on international and American constitutional law to explore the implications of the scandal and the larger issue of the violations of international and American law that have become part of the fabric of the US-led occupation of Iraq.
    The extent of the daily violations of international law, including systematic war (…)

  • Why I Refused a 2nd Deployment to Iraq
    11 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    First a brief forward from POAC co-editor Jack Dalton. I received an email a few moments ago from Kevin’s wife Monica. In it she has told me a total of 22 people in Sgt Benderman’s unit have refused to deploy to Iraq. 17 have gone AWOL and 2 have attempted suicide. The status of the remaining 3 is unknown at this time. We at the POAC fully support the decision to refuse deployment to Iraq which has been made by Sgt Benderman, and the others in his unit.
    I am Sgt Kevin Benderman and: (…)

  • The NeoCon Agenda and Tsunami Relief
    10 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Although the U.S. relief aid to tsunami-stricken Indonesia is undoubtedly saving untold lives, there is a dark side to it that will have a much longer-lasting effect on that nation than the devastation wrought by the killer waves. After a slow, seemingly reluctant start, with a paltry pledge of $15 million, George W. Bush did a complete turnaround and upped the number to $350 million. He also sent the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and a growing flotilla of other naval (…)