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’It is time for all Iraqis to unite’
The murder of several children reveals the depravity of the ongoing insurgency
Saturday July 16, 2005 The Guardian
Jordan Times Editorial, July 15-16
"What kind of demons possessed those who on Wednesday deliberately killed [at least 27] children and wounded [up to 25] others? What made them orchestrate and carry out a suicide bombing in a Baghdad neighbourhood while the children were assembled near US soldiers to receive sweets?
"This and (…)

War in Iraq violates international law
By TOM KREBSBACH GUEST COLUMNIST
More than two grueling years have passed since U.S. and coalition forces stormed into the sovereign nation of Iraq. Still there has been little discussion in this country about the legal standing of the invasion.
Perhaps that is because most Americans are reluctant to admit this inconvenient but certain fact: The United States/United Kingdom invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a war of aggression, a crime against the (…)

from http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200507150804.asp
July 15, 2005, 8:04 a.m. Our Wars Over the War “The fault is not in our stars.”
Ever since September 11, there has been an alternative narrative about this war embraced by the Left. In this mythology, the attack on September 11 had in some vague way something to do with American culpability.
Either we were unfairly tilting toward Israel, or had been unkind to Muslims. Perhaps, as Sen. Patty Murray intoned, we needed to (…)

HOW CAN BUSH STOP TERRORISM?
By Peter Fredson
July 15, 2005
The alleged reason Bush gives for Terrorism and Terrorists is that “They hate democracy. They hate freedom.” He has stuck to this fabrication for several years because his True Believer followers firmly believe that Muslims hate everything dear to Christians and should be exterminated.
Bush firmly believes that the way to fight terrorism is to kill every single “terrorist” his troops and C.I.A. can capture, and by imposing (…)

WASHINGTON (AFX) - The US should cut its losses, pull out of Iraq promptly and never again use its military might to build a nation according to its own values, former CIA chief John Deutch wrote in The New York Times.
US military presence in Iraq is harming US interests in the Arab world, detracts attention from other ’important security challenges... North Korea, Iran and international terrorism,’ and weakens the US military, said Deutch, who before heading the Central Intelligence (…)

7-15-07 WAR AND IDEOLOGY By Husayn Al-Kurdi and Dr. June Scorza Terpstra
The London bombings have brought about a renewed round by the imperial media hand puppets of the claim that their terrifying wars to rule the world are ideology wars. They contrast their spread of democracy and freedom with the necessarily evil intentions of those who resist them. They are right in one thing. It is one war, as heads of both the CIA and Mossad have confirmed. They both refer to it accurately as (…)

O.K. People have been asking for a simple moniker for this very important developing story. I suggest the "Orange Alert Scandal". If we’re lucky — this naming, if it catches on, will hopefully, at the very least, prevent the neocons from using this security system for political purposes ever again. It is looking more and more like Tom Ridge’s leak for GOP political gain during the DNC in July 2004 may have helped the London Bombing occurr.
From Pakistani intelligence officials to AP: (…)

The text is the partial transcript of Iraq War Veteran Aidan Delgado’s slideshow presentation. The three mp3s contain more information than is transcribed here, and the video even more.
Aidan I
My name is Aidan Joshua Delgado, I’m 23 years old, I’m a veteran of the 2nd Iraq war, I served one year in Iraq- 6 months in Nasiriya, 6 months in Baghdad correction facility at Abu Ghraib.
I just want to say that I’m not a politician, I’m not a general- I was an E4 specialist, I was the least (…)

SQUIRRELS IN THE ATTIC
By Peter Fredson
July 15, 2005
Some years ago, on a cold winter morning, with snow and ice covering the ground, I received a phone call from my neighbor, Chris. He asked if he could borrow my 36-foot aluminum extension ladder. I replied in the affirmative and asked if something needed repair.
He responded that he had heard noises in his attic, and suspected squirrels had gotten in, and were probably chewing up the wiring insulation. He had been able to peer in (…)

Report Shows Karl Rove May Have Lied to Federal Agents, a Federal Crime, During Oct 2003 Testimony Into CIA Agent Leak
By Jason Leopold
Looks like Karl Rove did break the law, the same federal law that got Martha Stewart sentenced to six months in prison.
It now appears that Rove, President Bush’s chief of staff, may have lied to the FBI in October 2003-a federal crime-when he was questioned by federal agents investigating who was responsible for leaking information about a covert CIA (…)