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Every day I see ribbon-shaped bumper stickers bearing the message "Support Our Troops." While most of us clamor to see the latest movie or ride our bikes on the weekends or plan our summer vacations, these bumper stickers remind us that there are American soldiers still fighting in Iraq, and we shouldn’t forget them.
Each soldier is someone’s father, mother, brother, sister, son or daughter, and while fewer and fewer Americans are paying attention to the war, our troops are still getting (…)

Eye Witness Testimony Is Conclusive That North Tower Collapsed From Controlled Demolition
WTC janitor pulls burn victim to safety after basement explosion rocks north tower seconds before jetliner hit top floors. Also, two other men trapped and drowning in a basement elevator shaft, were also pulled to safety from underground explosion..
June 24, 2005
By Greg Szymanski
What happened to William Rodriguez the morning of 9/11 is a miracle. What happened to his story after-the-fact is a (…)

AFP, 24 June 2005
The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), a grouping of NGOs, intellectuals and writers opposed to the war in Iraq, accused the United States of causing more deaths in Iraq than ousted president Saddam Hussein .../...
See also: Busk: the world holds you accountable - http://www.bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6581
World Tribunal on Iraq - http://www.worldtribunal.org/

...from April....
YOU WANT ME TO PAY FOR WHAT?!?
As you scramble to fill out your 1040 form this week, consider this:
When Congress voted to authorize the use of military force in Iraq, it included two requirements. The first was that the President prove that Iraq was in defiance of the United Nations by being in possession of banned weapons of mass destruction. The second was that the President have proof that Iraq was involved in 9-11. In his letter to Congress activating the (…)

AD HOMINEM PORK ROAST
By Peter Fredson
June 24, 2005
I have watched the news and blogs concerning Karl Rovers’ remarks about “liberals” yesterday. I have also seen some recent photographs of him. The one I saw today reminded me of the portrait of a pig, with an apple stuffed in its mouth, stretched out on a platter, waiting to be barbecued. I wondered how much fat could be squeezed out of that carcass, how much useful pork, and how many cracklings he would provide. Is he good for (…)

Senior Aides Refuse To Testify Against Saddam Saad al-Awsi June 19, 2005 At a tribunal set up to prosecute Saddam and his associates for war crimes, former officials of his regime avoided answering or refused to admit to having committed any crime or to say an unkind word about their former leader. Ex-senior Iraqi aides currently in US custody have refused to testify against their former leader Saddam Hussein when recently questioned by magistrates.
An Iraqi tribunal set up to try Saddam (…)

Amnesty International And Mr. Bush Hassan Al-Haifi June 20, 2005 It goes without saying that it seems that the issues of human rights and the right to uphold different political views has never been subjected to a harder ordeal than that being witnessed in the present time. Not only is the fight for human rights becoming a formidable challenge in the Third World countries, where, in some countries, even the most basic of human rights are as far away as Breakfast at Tiffany’s, but even the (…)

At long last, the culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq is upon us. As a witness providing testimony, like the other witnesses I’m being interviewed by many outlets. Today, one of them was by reporters for one of the larger newspapers in Turkey, the Yeni Safak Newspaper.
I’ll leave the reporters nameless, for reasons you’ll soon see.
The newspaper has been translating various articles of mine into Turkish and running them, particularly those concerning the most recent (…)

Saddam Trotted Out To Divert Attention From Failure In Iraq Nermeen Al-Mufti June 16-22, 2005 The Iraqi government’s release of a video showing Saddam Hussein being questioned by Chief Trial Judge Raid Juhi comes at a very convenient time for both the Americans and Iraqi government. Indeed, the focus on Saddam and his upcoming trial is a diversionary tactic used by both the Iraqi government and the United States administration. The Iraqi government needs to draw attention away from its (…)

Timetable: Six More Years In Iraq Richard Reeves June 23, 2005 NEW YORK - The words are almost always the same: "threat" ... "atrocities" ... "secret intelligence" ... "mission" ... "preventive" ... "fog" ... "brave" ... "terrorists" ... "Support our troops" ... "Stay the course" ... "waste"... "treason" ... "timetable" ... "withdraw" ... "tragedy." It usually takes about nine years to say them all. Americans said them about Vietnam between 1964 and 1973. The Soviets said them about (…)