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  • Cheney Speaks to the Reptile Brain
    20 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Thom Hartmann
    "I am not unaware of the effect of the ridicule cast on this instrument of defence by those who wished for engines of offence." Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison referencing damage done to morale by jokes about the US Navy, May 21, 1813
    It’s Willie Horton all over again. The Bush family is subjecting Americans to psychological operations, only the level of sophistication and deception is an order of magnitude higher than it was in 1988. And it could turn the (…)

  • It wasn’t last year’s bomb but American policy which destroyed the UN’s hopes in Iraq
    20 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Salim Lone
    Even before that awful bomb ripped through our Baghdad headquarters on August 19 2003, taking the lives of 22 of my colleagues, the UN mission in Iraq had already become marginal to the epic crisis being played out there. Iraq had become the centre of both the US war on terror and the war between the extremities of two civilisations. The vicious terrorist attack a year ago today surprised no one working for Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN secretary general’s special (…)

  • Thanks To Some REAL National Heroes
    14 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ward Reilly
    While our president rushed us into an unnecessary war, many people around our nation worked to expose the truth about what was to come in Iraq—citizens of great character,and a deep love of our nation. It is a long, long list of citizens, some that have risked their careers, and even their lives, in order to tell the truth about the Bush Administration’s catastrophic rush into war in the Middle East. Real Heroes.
    Thank you, Scott Ritter—the weapons inspector who knew there (…)

  • National Guard Troops in Iraq Intervene in Prisoner Beatings
    14 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Eye Unnatural Acts
    By Chris Floyd
    After months of bad press, here at last was an act of genuine humanitarianism by U.S. troops in Iraq that could have been trumpeted to the skies: a unit of National Guard troops — part-time citizen-soldiers from Oregon — rescuing a group of prisoners from sadistic torture by the security forces of the "sovereign" Iraqi government. Yet the incident was buried by U.S. brass, who repudiated their own soldiers — and backed the Iraqi torturers.
    It (…)

  • Iraqi officials resign over US ’aggression’
    13 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Several Iraqi officials working within the interim government have resigned in protest of the US-led assault on Najaf and Kut.
    Sixteen of Najaf’s 30-member provincial council resigned in protest at the US-led assault on the Najaf as fighting between the Mahdi Army loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr and US occupation forces entered its eighth day.
    "We have decided to resign due to what has befallen Najaf and all of Iraq from the hasty US invasion and bombardment of Najaf," the council said in a (…)

  • Thai troops begin withdrawal from Iraq
    11 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thailand has started to withdraw its military unit from Iraq just short of its one-year commitment, a spokesman said on Tuesday. The last of the 443 Thai soldiers, originally scheduled to return to Thailand by Sept. 20, will be out of Iraq by the end of August, Gen. Pisanu Urailert said.
    But military spokesman Maj. Gen. Palangoon Klaharn said the move did not amount to an early pull-out. "This is not regarded as moving out early, but a step-by-step process," he said, adding that the Thai (…)

  • My God! My Country Is Using Poison Gas In Iraq: We’ve Weaponized Uranium Gas
    9 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Bob Nichols
    Radioactive, poison gas made from uranium was recommended to the American Military in 1943 during World War II by atom bomb builders working on the Manhattan Project run by Gen Leslie Groves.
    Sixty-one years later deadly, radioactive, poisonous, weaponized uranium oxide gas plays a vital role in implementing the "Total Worldwide Domination Plan" as practiced by the NeoCons and President Bush. It is entitled "Rebuilding America’s Defenses" and was written in September 2000 (…)

  • Humiliation and Destabilisation or concerted plans
    7 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Thompson
    We are all reeling from the shock of seeing on our television screens the horrific and inhuman ritual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners who have had the ill fortune to find themselves in an establishment run by the armed forces of the U.S.A. Immediately following on from this we have seen re-runs of the sight of a swaggering Mr George W. Bush on 1st May 2003, after he had landed on an aircraft-carrier under a banner reading "Mission Accomplished", somewhat prematurely (…)

  • Saddam’s cameraman is still haunted by images of war
    6 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Fisk
    "I vomited," Mouffak Fathi Daoud says, and you have to understand why. Three young soldiers were brought to the trees on the hills outside Sulimaniyah. They had been retreating from the great battle against the Iranians on Jebel Maout. Saddam had ordered that all deserters should be shot. Daoud was one of the Iraqi army’s top newsreel cameramen. He didn’t have to watch. But he was a witness.
    "They were between 20 and 26 years old. All of them said the same thing, ’Our (…)

  • Torture, for fun
    5 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
    Bush regime sinks lower by the day
    That US soldiers serving the Bush regime considered that the systematic torture of prisoners of war was fun, no big deal, to vent their frustration, not serious and just joking around, does not surprise anyone any longer.
    The face of the great American heroine, Private Lynndie England, cigarette hanging from the corner of her mouth, giving the thumbs-up sign while standing over or beside a pile of abused, terrified (…)