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US Troops Cannot Stop Saddam-Friendly Clans In Triangle Of Death Edited By Rob Gibran June 05, 2005
Attempts by 40,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops to close off Baghdad from armed groups is destined to fail, according to Iraqi sources, because of a series of roads loosely referred to as the "Mujahedeen Road." These access routes are often controlled by tribal clans that once formed part of Saddam’s protective shield. The road that connects Baghdad with Iraq’s southern cities passes through what (…)

These documents shed light on how "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
ZIP file of 6 leaked documents from Downing Street. Copy and save to your hard drive.
http://tinyurl.com/dyqfd

SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY
President Bush will be in Bryn Mawr, PA on Tuesday June 14th to raise a cool million for Rick Santorum’s re-election campaign.
While they shmooze in an 11.7 million dollar home in the woods.... WE’LL be demonstrating against the Bush/Santorum Plan to Cut Benefits and Privatize Social Security!
WHAT
Demonstration to Save Social Security from Bush/Santorum Privatization and Benefit Cuts.
WHEN:
Tuesday, June 14th from 10:30am - 1:30pm
WHERE
The demonstration (…)

Yesterday, George Bush and Tony Blair LIED before the world again..Harry Truman once said of Richard Nixon, "He’s one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides", but if ever a description was to be applied to Bush and Blair, this would be it.
How long is this going to go on? How long are these two war criminals going to be allowed to LIE repeatedly to the world before anything is (…)

Calling fish farming a potential boon for consumers and the economy, the Bush administration yesterday proposed to massively expand the practice to waters as far as 200 miles offshore.
Supporters in Washington, including a state senator who advocates for fish farmers, urged Congress to bless the idea. They said a likely result — if fish-culturing methods can be perfected — would be a cheap source of ocean-grown delights, such as black cod, in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Critics answered (…)

Much has been thought, said, written about how George W. Bush became President in 2000. Even more has been thought, said, written about how he became President again in 2004. But little has been written about WHY a Democrat didn’t become President in 2004. Until now.
Joshua Frank has just completed LEFT OUT! How Liberals Helped Reelect George W. Bush. http://www.brickburner.org/
And he doesn’t pull any punches. The Democrats ignored the one true liberal candidate they had - Dennis (…)

By Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher are co-editors, with Jill Cutler, of the forthcoming book In The Name Of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond (New York: Metropolitan/Holt, 2005) and regular contributors to Foreign Policy In Focus (www.fpif.org).
On May 17 a legal summons was delivered to U.S. and UK embassies in capitals around the world-including Istanbul, Tokyo, Lisbon, and Brussels-on behalf of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI). The (…)

In the absence of any right wing lunatic postings on this site, ( incidentally does anyone know whether they’ve been sent to Iraq or just had their medication increased ?). Anyway, I thought I’d play devils advocate so we can practice and shoot down the pro war arguments.
I think they’ve given up on the WMD fairy tale -but now the general tenet is ’We’re there now and there would be chaos if it was left to the Iraqis’
Other spurious justifications include ;
’It was worse under Saddam’ (…)

Members of Gold Star Families for Peace will be meeting with members of Congress on 15 June, 2005 to demand that each individual member act in accordance with his/her conscience, integrity, courage and duty as employees of America sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America and abide by its contents.
GSFP believes that the so-called Downing Street Memo is the "smoking gun" proof that is a validation of the fact that the invasion/occupation of Iraq is based on deceit (…)

They Took His Bloody Chainsaw, And Sent Him On His Way Man On Run From Law, Spattered With Blood, Allowed To Enter US Gary Dimmock and Chuck Brown, The Ottawa Citizen June 08, 2005
Gregory Allan Despres was supposed to be going to jail the morning folks spotted him hitchhiking to the US border with a bloody chainsaw. His trousers were spattered with blood. Inside his backpack he had a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife and brass knuckles. He was also packing pepper spray and wearing a (…)