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Doctors in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, have reported a significant increase in deformities among newborn babies.
Health officials and scientists said this could be due to radiation passed through mothers following years of conflict in the country.
The most affected regions are in the south of the country, particularly Basra and Najaf, according to experts. Weaponry used during the Gulf war in 1991 contained depleted uranium, which could be a primary source for the increase, scientists in (…)

October 16, 2004-When the Iraqi Survey Group released its long awaited report last week that said Iraq eliminated its weapons programs in the 1990s, George W. Bush quickly changed his stance on reasons he authorized an invasion of Iraq. While he campaigned for a second term in office, Bush justified the war by saying that that Saddam Hussein was manipulating the United Nation’s oil-for-food program, siphoning off billions of dollars from the venture that he intended to use to fund a weapons (…)

Amnesty the movement of the movements Amnistie
For medical reasons (impossibility of perfuser serum on base of glucose to a patient in the grip of the aftereffects of a hepatitis), Oreste Scalzone was forced to stop the hunger strike on April 26th in the evening, further to an illness. He pursues to call up to the movement of the movements for the amnesty, after being supported by many emails mainly coming from Italy and now having been reunited by the main confederacies and the Italian (…)

Kucinich: President Must Be Held Accountable At Prime Time News Conference President Has Made False and Misleading Statements On Iraq and Social Security; The Press And Public Must Hold Him Accountable
WASHINGTON — April 28 — Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement on the President’s prime time press conference scheduled for this evening:
"Tonight, the President will make a rare prime time appearance before the press and the nation. With our troops caught in (…)

The cold injustice of the U.S. invasion of Iraq stands out starkly. The justifications for war were lies: Iraq had no nukes or bio-weapons. It had no ties with groups like al-Qaida. The British medical journal The Lancet estimates 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died in this war—while over 1,500 U.S. troops have also been killed. And there is no end in sight.
The people of Iraq overwhelmingly see the U.S. as brutal occupiers—and these sentiments fuel the armed resistance. On April 9, over (…)

In Bushzarro world, an undiminished “insurgency” over the period of a year is considered winning the “war” (occupation), according to Chairman of the Bushzarro Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Richard Myers . “I’m going to say this: I think we are winning, okay. I think we’re definitely winning. I think we’ve been winning for some time.”
Sure, General, we’re winning, and I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.
According to Myers, since “coalition forces” (more accurately a loose and (…)

US marines who suffered the highest casualty rate of any unit in Iraq have revealed that they were so short of soldiers that they used cardboard dummies to fool insurgents into believing that they faced more men.
Company E of the First Marine Division dressed the cutouts in camouflage shirts and placed them in observation posts to trick Iraqi rebels into thinking that they were manned.
More than one third of the unit’s 185 troops were killed or wounded during its six-month tour last year (…)

Secret Service Papers Raise Issue of Propaganda, National Security, and Possible Sex Scandals in the White House; Bush, Old Media Hope No One Notices
Secret Service’s Disclosure of "Temporary Appointments" Granted to "Jeff Gannon" Reveals That the Service Can Only Account for 49 Days of Security Clearance for Gannon Out of the More Than Two Years He Spent "Reporting" in the White House Press Corps
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We’ve covered the Gannongate scandal so many times in this space, we (…)

I live in Canada where the government is about to collapse because of corruption.
I see in Britain that it is almost certain that Blair lied about Iraq.
I look to Washington and am revolted.
Is democracy dying?If not,from where will the leadership with World vision come?

Yesterday, I spoke with Giuliana Sgrena by telephone from Rome, where she is recovering from the injuries she suffered as a result of the shooting. I began by asking her reaction to the Pentagon report.
GIULIANA SGRENA: Yes, for the moment we have not an official result of the reports, but we have some rumors about the conclusion of the report, so I am very sad about that because I was - is words that I was waiting. I thought that maybe the Americans will spoke of accident or something (…)