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  • Kucinich Calls for Open Hearings on Iraq Intelligence- Before the Election
    4 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mounting evidence points to Iraq as a collosal failure with little hope for improvement. Dennis Kucinich has called for the House Subcommittee to hold hearings in open session to investigate the lies before the war, and those affecting current policies in iraq.
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    Kucinich Calls for Open Hearings (…)

  • Powell Regrets Iraq Weapons Claim for War
    4 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By BARRY SCHWEID
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Colin Powell ventured into the thick of the presidential campaign Friday by challenging John Kerry’s attacks on President Bush’s leadership of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
    At a news conference in Atlanta, Powell disagreed with the Kerry’s contention in Thursday night’s presidential debate that Bush missed an opportunity to capture terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.
    He also dismissed the Democratic candidate’s suggestion that (…)

  • More Troops to Iraq ...After the Election
    1 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By RAY McGOVERN
    Former CIA Analyst
    It’s not an "if." It’s a "when." Pentagon officials have indicated that they plan to send as many as 15,000 additional troops during the first four months of 2005, and the President George W. Bush continues to insist "we will stay the course" until Iraq is stabilized. (I do wish his advisers would provide a different vocabulary so that those of us steeped in the mistakes regarding Vietnam could be spared painful flashbacks.)
    Where will the additional (…)

  • Bush Ignored Warnings On Iraq, NY Times Says
    1 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. President George W. Bush was warned in two intelligence reports before he invaded Iraq that his war could produce a chaotic guerrilla conflict involving terrorists. Yet, critics say, Mr. Bush didn’t use the information to alter his policy or plan for escalating bloodshed that’s threatening chances for democratic elections in Iraq in January. A senior U.S. intelligence official was also quoted this week as saying Mr. Bush disregarded high-level warnings that a war could (…)

  • Families of Iraq War Dead Target Bush in Ads
    1 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Sue Pleming
    WASHINGTON - Angered by President Bush’s policy in Iraq, a group of military families whose relatives died there is targeting the president in new television ads to be aired ahead of the Nov. 2 election.
    "I think the American people need to know that we have been betrayed in this rush to war," said Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey is among the more than 1,000 U.S. troops who died in the war.
    Sheehan is joining a small group of military families in Washington on Wednesday (…)

  • U.S. casualties grim cost of Iraq war. Human tragedies take toll on medics
    30 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by SANDRO CONTENTA
    LANDSTUHL, Germany?At the U.S. military hospital on a wooded hilltop here, the cost of the Iraq war is measured in amputated limbs, burst eyeballs, shrapnel-torn bodies and shattered lives.
    They’re the seriously wounded U.S. soldiers who arrive daily at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, a growing human toll that belies American election talk of improving times in Iraq.
    They’re the maimed and the scarred that hospital staff believe are largely invisible to an (…)

  • Lots More Troops To Iraq... After the Election
    30 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lots More Troops To Iraq... After the Election by Ray McGovern
    It’s not an “if.” It’s a “when.” Pentagon officials have indicated that they plan to send as many as 15,000 additional troops during the first four months of 2005, and the President George W. Bush continues to insist “we will stay the course” until Iraq is stabilized. (I do wish his advisers would provide a different vocabulary so that those of us steeped in the mistakes regarding Vietnam could be spared painful flashbacks.) (…)

  • Delegates Split Over Blair’s Iraq Apology
    30 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ED JOHNSON
    BRIGHTON, England — For Tony Blair, sorry seems to be the hardest word. A day after the prime minister expressed regret about bad intelligence on Iraq, delegates at the Labour Party’s annual convention were divided over whether they’d heard a genuine apology for the war.
    In a contrite, conversational speech that won him a standing ovation, Blair said he could apologize for faulty evidence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction — but he refused to do so for toppling Saddam (…)

  • Top Bush officials clash over Iraq election
    26 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Vicki Allen
    WASHINGTON - Iraq’s elections should be nationwide, a top Bush administration official has said, clashing publicly with Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s suggestion that voting might not take place in the most violent areas.
    Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said the elections scheduled for January will not be perfect, but they should encompass the entire country.
    Rumsfeld also appeared to back away from his outspoken remarks on Thursday that while the (…)

  • The bubble boy Bush lives in a world immune from the realities of Iraq.
    25 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sidney Blumenthal
    The news is grim, but the president is "optimistic." The intelligence is sobering, but he tosses aside "pessimistic predictions." His opponent says he has "no credibility," but the president replies that it is his rival who is "twisting in the wind." The secretary general of the United Nations speaks of the "rule of law," but Bush talks before a mute General Assembly of "a new definition of security." Between the rhetoric and the reality lies the campaign.
    A reliable (…)