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Nobody wants to go to war. We trust our leaders to shed blood in our name only when absolutely necessary. Two years after the start of the Iraq War, on March 20, 2003, Americans are just learning that our government was dead set on taking our nation to war, even while it claimed to be pursuing diplomacy.
The Downing Street Memo, recently leaked, reveals that President George W. Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in summer 2002 and?determined to ensure that U.S. (…)

So many lawsuits, so many lies, where does one find the time?
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt, 1912
Former Saudi charity head to sue Rice in U.S. court
"Since my opponent is the American administration, which is working on the principle of ’guilty until proven innocent’, then the way to clear (…)

With embarassing new revelations on WMDs emerging, and Bush poll numbers slipping, the president’s supporters in the press argue that he actually sold the war to the public on the basis of freedom for the Iraqis, not on a WMD threat to Americans. A look at Bush’s final messages to the public and to Congress just before the war began prove otherwise.
By Greg Mitchell
(May 15, 2005) — Ever since it became apparent, almost two years ago, that Saddam Hussein held no weapons of mass (…)

"This is how liberty dies — to thunderous applause."
So observes Queen Amidala of Naboo as the galactic senate grants dictator-to-be Palpatine sweeping new powers in his crusade against the Jedi in the final "Star Wars" movie opening this week.
It’s just one of several lines in "Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith," that reveal the movie to be more than just a sci-fi blockbuster and gargantuan cultural phenomenon.
"Revenge of the Sith," it turns out, can also be seen as a (…)

Diplomacy’s Over
NATIONAL REVIEW MAG.
(http://www.nationalreview.com/editorial/editors200505161044.asp)
For a brief moment last week it looked as though Europe’s tireless efforts to bribe Iran into giving up key parts of its nuclear program had finally come to an end. After the latest round of negotiations concluded in deadlock, Iran threatened to resume suspended fuel-cycle activities, prompting the Europeans to suggest they were ready to get tough. “...We certainly will support (…)

RAW STORY
Contrary to White House assertions, the allegations of religious desecration at Guantanamo published by Newsweek May 6 are common among ex-prisoners and have been widely reported outside the United States, RAW STORY has learned.
Advertisement Several former detainees at the Guantanamo and Bagram airbase prisons have reported instances of their handlers sitting or standing on the Quran, throwing or kicking it in toilets, and urinating on it.
Where the Newsweek report likely (…)

Sunday, May 15, 2005 - An astonishing message came forth on May 12, 2005 from ABC News political unit’s The Note. I shall quote verbatim from Mark Halperin and his associate editors: "We say with all the genuine apolitical and non-partisan human concern that we can muster that the death and carnage in Iraq is truly staggering. And/but we are sort of resigned to the Notion that it simply isn’t going to break through to American news organizations, or, for the most part, Americans." (…)

Iraq is a bloody no man’s land. America has failed to win the war. But has it lost it?
Ten US troops were killed in action across Iraq last week. The fighting is now sustained and ferocious. Patrick Cockburn, winner of the Martha Gellhorn prize for journalism, reports from the frontline of America’s war on terror
15 May 2005
"The battlefield is a great place for liars," Stonewall Jackson once said on viewing the aftermath of a battle in the American civil war.
The great general meant (…)

TOKYO (AP) - After kissing their babies and hugging their wives, 200 Japanese soldiers in combat fatigues lined up at a base in central Japan last weekend under the "Rising Sun" flag for what has become a familiar ritual _ the send-off for troops on their way to Iraq.
But this batch of soldiers may be among the last.
Nearly 18 months into its most ambitious overseas military operation since World War II, Japan is now considering whether to join a growing list of countries pulling out or (…)

The Resistance has released a general announcement in Al-Ramadi advising the brave people of Iraq to be aware of the evil actions perpetrated by the US and its collaborators (Iraqi occupation police and army) who have been known to fire mortar shells at residential homes and set off car bombs in shopping areas and busy districts aimed at killing civilians. The known objectives of such evil actions is to blame the national Resistance of being behind such attacks so as to weaken the public (…)