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  • The Handover: Restoration of Iraqi sovereignty - or Alice in Wonderland?
    2 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Fisk
    So in the end, America’s enemies set the date. The handover of "full sovereignty" was secretly brought forward so that the ex-CIA intelligence officer who is now "Prime Minister" of Iraq could avoid another bloody offensive by America’s enemies. What is supposed to be the most important date in Iraq’s modern history was changed ­ like a birthday party ­ because it might rain on Wednesday.
    Pitiful is the word that comes to mind. Here we were, handing "full sovereignty" to (…)

  • Film shows Cleland’s cause Disabled vet says Iraq war a tragic error
    2 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DAVID HO
    NEW YORK - Max Cleland never wanted to come full circle.
    But for the Vietnam veteran and former U.S. senator from Georgia, his recent visits to see American soldiers wounded in Iraq have the feel of history repeating itself.
    "This is Vietnam revisited in every way," Cleland, who lost two legs and an arm in a 1968 grenade explosion, said in an interview Wednesday. "I thought I’d never see it again in my lifetime. I thought we’d learned some basic lessons."
    Cleland visits (…)

  • Ambassador of Death, Right-Wing Death Squads, Drug Smuggling: George Bush’s Plan for Iraq
    2 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ambassador of Death, Right-Wing Death Squads, Drug Smuggling: George Bush’s Plan for Iraq. gdy, mardi, 22/06/2004 - 21:09 Analyses | Démocratie June 22, 2004 From the Streets of Little Beirut Glen Yeadon
    New allegations of criminal conduct by the Bush regime are now surfacing almost daily. The investigation of torturing prisoners at Abu Ghraib has expanded to include rape of prisoners, deaths of over 100 prisoners and thousands of prisoners held in secret prisons. It is also clear the (…)

  • 80% of US believe Bush of Iraq disinformation
    2 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq doubts keep Bush’s popularity on the slide
    by Julian Borger
    George Bush’s popularity fell to a new low yesterday in a poll which suggests that there is an increasing level of scepticism about the motives for the Iraq invasion and rising concern about its consequences.
    Nearly 80% of the Americans questioned in the poll for the New York Times and CBS news thought he had been either "hiding something" or "mostly lying" in his statements on Iraq.
    Only 18% believed that he had (…)

  • Negroponte `looked the other way’ U.S. ambassador to Iraq under fire for rights record
    1 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Twenty years ago, he served as envoy to Honduras
    DUNCAN CAMPBELL SPECIAL TO THE STAR
    Suspicious deaths in custody. Allegations of torture. Claims of a military out of control. These are some of the key issues that will face John Negroponte, the newly appointed U.S. ambassador to Iraq.
    Suspicious deaths in custody. Allegations of torture. Claims of a military out of control. Those were some of the key issues that faced John Negroponte 20 years ago when he was U.S. ambassador to (…)

  • Nukes in the US Protectorate of Iraq? Iran Looks to Its West and Says: I Don’t Think So
    23 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By RON JACOBS
    In one more instance of duplicity and hypocrisy as regards the US plans for Iraq, Undersecretary of State John Bolton stated June 8, 2004 that Iraq could one day build nuclear power plants. Although that day is, in Bolton’s words "a ways down the road," it could happen once things settled down there. When that will be is anyone’s guess, of course, but that won’t stop the nuclear industry from salivating over more taxpayer dollars going into their pockets.
    Bolton’s statement (…)

  • Hill won’t release abuse dossier for risk of offending US
    22 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tom Allard, Defence Reporter
    The Federal Government has refused to make public a detailed 61-page dossier outlining what Australians knew about prisoner abuse in Iraq, with the Minister for Defence, Robert Hill, claiming some details would offend the US.
    Senator Hill was yesterday censured in the Senate for his role in misleading Parliament and his failure to take responsibility for the false statements made by him, the Prime Minister and senior Defence officials.
    Senator Hill had (…)

  • The view from the editorial pages
    19 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen W. Stromberg
    President Bush may still believe in the pre-war Iraq-al Qaida connection as much as a 5-year old does in Santa Claus, but the editorial boards of several major newspapers are no longer deluded — thanks in large part to this week’s revelation by the 9/11 commission that Iraq and al-Qaida had no working relationship.
    The Financial Times: "Whether the Osama and Saddam thesis was more the result of self-delusion or cynical manipulation, it — along with Washington’s (…)

  • OP-ED: Sharon’s ‘Palestinian state’
    19 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    The walled enclaves will lead, of course, to bloodshed on an unbelievable scale. No people on earth will submit to such a life. For thousands and thousands of young Palestinians, a martyr’s death will be preferable
    I thought it was terrible. I was wrong. It is far, far worse! These words sum up my feelings at that moment.
    I was standing on a hill overlooking the infamous Kalandia checkpoint. Below me was a narrow road, packed with Palestinians in the (…)

  • Robert Fisk : Iraq, 1917
    18 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Fisk
    They came as liberators but were met by fierce resistance outside Baghdad. Humiliating treatment of prisoners and heavy-handed action in Najaf and Fallujah further alienated the local population. A planned handover of power proved unworkable. Britain’s 1917 occupation of Iraq holds uncanny parallels with today - and if we want to know what will happen there next, we need only turn to our history books...
    On the eve of our "handover" of "full sovereignty" to (…)