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  • This is a Massacre, Not a War in Iraq
    19 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sam Hamod
    This is a massacre, not a war in Iraq. The U.S. bombing Samarra, Fallujah, Baghdad and other cities, killing hundreds of civilians and calling them terrorists is like the massacres of the Native Americans during America’s push westward.
    In this case, it has to do with America’s push eastward.
    What is also troubling is that no major media outlet, no major politician—none are callig this what it is, an immoral, unmitigated killing of hundreds of Iraqi civilians every week. (…)

  • Platoon defies orders in Iraq
    19 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jeremy Hudson
    jehudson@clarionledger.com
    A 17-member Army Reserve platoon with troops from Jackson and around the Southeast deployed to Iraq is under arrest for refusing a "suicide mission" to deliver fuel, the troops’ relatives said Thursday.
    The soldiers refused an order on Wednesday to go to Taji, Iraq - north of Baghdad - because their vehicles were considered "deadlined" or extremely unsafe, said Patricia McCook of Jackson, wife of Sgt. Larry O. McCook.
    Sgt. McCook, a deputy (…)

  • Maimed in Iraq, then mistreated, neglected, and hidden in America
    19 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Frederick Sweet
    Combat veterans wounded in Iraq were left waiting weeks and even months for proper medical attention at military bases. According to an officer, their living conditions were so unacceptable for injured soldiers he said they "were being treated like dogs." Then the Pentagon underreported the number wounded.
    The Bush administration, referring to veterans of the war in Iraq, told a House panel that they would avoid last year’s "mistakes" of leaving sick and injured troops (…)

  • TV Ad Focuses on U.S. Military Wounded in Iraq
    19 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Robert Acosta lost his arm when his Humvee was attacked in Iraq. (NYT Photo/Ruth Fremson)
    WASHINGTON - A new television ad sponsored by U.S. veterans strongly questions President Bush’s case for war in Iraq, but the group behind it said on Wednesday the spot was not meant to benefit either presidential candidate.
    First aired hours before the last presidential debate between Republican Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry, the ad shows a U.S. Iraq war veteran talking about the (…)

  • Iraq : contamination caused with depleted uranium will last for 4.5 billion years
    19 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pentagon uses depleted uranium shells in its raid against Iraq
    Increased radioactivity was found in destroyed and abandoned Iraqi tanks. The radiation level may testify to the fact that the US army used uranium-cored projectiles in the raids. Japan’s Kyodo News agency reported from Baghdad, a group of specialists had found several radioactive tanks in the area of the Iraqi town of Samawa, where the Japanese contingent was stationed.
    The abandoned military hardware is dangerous to (…)

  • Thousands of Britons Protest War in Iraq
    18 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by TIM ELFRINK
    Thousands of anti-war and anti-globalization activists marched through central London and filled Trafalgar Square on Sunday to protest the U.S.-led coalition’s presence in Iraq.
    The march marked the culmination of the third European Social Forum - three days of speeches, workshops and debates largely dominated by Iraq and the U.S. presidential election.
    Marchers carried signs reading World’s No. 1 Terrorist’’ over a picture of President Bush. British Prime Minister Tony (…)

  • Injured Iraq Vets Come Home to Poverty
    15 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Injured Soldiers Returning from Iraq Struggle for Medical Benefits, Financial Survival
    By BRIAN ROSS, DAVID SCOTT and MADDY SAUER
    Oct. 14, 2004 — Following inquiries by ABC News, the Pentagon has dropped plans to force a severely wounded U.S. soldier to repay his enlistment bonus after injuries had forced him out of the service.
    Army Spc. Tyson Johnson III of Mobile, Ala., who lost a kidney in a mortar attack last year in Iraq, was still recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (…)

  • Platoon defies orders in Iraq
    15 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A 17-member Army Reserve platoon with troops from Jackson and around the Southeast deployed to Iraq is under arrest for refusing a "suicide mission" to deliver fuel, the troops’ relatives said Thursday.
    The soldiers refused an order on Wednesday to go to Taji, Iraq - north of Baghdad - because their vehicles were considered "deadlined" or extremely unsafe, said Patricia McCook of Jackson, wife of Sgt. Larry O. McCook.
    Sgt. McCook, a deputy at the Hinds County Detention Center, and the 16 (…)

  • EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM: Together Under an Iraqi Shadow
    14 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Sanjay Suri
    LONDON, Oct 12 (IPS) - ’People Power’ had become another of those slogans until the rallies Feb. 15 last year against the imminent invasion of Iraq. Those rallies were not only the biggest Europe has ever seen, but everything since then proves that people were marching on the right path.
    The first European Social Forum (ESF) held late 2002 in Florence, Italy, gave birth to those rallies. The success of the rallies, backed by the force of the demonstrations against (…)

  • Iraq faces soaring toll of deadly disease
    14 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jeremy Laurance
    Soaring rates of disease and a crippled health system are posing a new crisis for the people of Iraq, threatening to kill more than have died in the aftermath of the war. Deadly infections including typhoid and tuberculosis are rampaging through the country, according to the first official report into the state of health in the country.
    The alarming evidence is the legacy of years of neglect, crippling sanctions and two bloody conflicts. Iraq’s network of hospitals and (…)