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Fayetteville, North Carolina
"To mark the second anniversary of the U.S.-led war in Iraq on March 19, various anti-war groups are planning to protest in Fayetteville, N.C., the home of Fort Bragg. It’s not the protest, but the location that has some people upset.
"An organization representing veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan said demonstrators are ’wrong and insensitive’ to take their complaints to Fort Bragg, because it blames the warriors for the war.
"’The decision (…)

april 4th
April Fools Day Edition, 2005 HOAX for the april fool day !!!! http://www.counterpunch.com/cox04012005.html
Salina, Kansas
Of the $18.4 billion that Congess appropriated 16 months ago for postwar reconstruction in Iraq, only $3.6 billion has been spent to date. There has been much head-scratching over this uncharacteristic failure of the Pentagon to spend money promptly.
A recently unearthed portion of a Defense Department memo sheds some light on the issue, suggesting that (…)

April 1, 2005-Aiden Delgado, an Army Reservist in the 320th Military Police Company, served in Iraq from April 1, 2003 through April 1, 2004. After spending six months in Nasiriyah in Southern Iraq, he spent six months helping to run the now-infamous Abu Ghraib prison outside of Baghdad. The handsome 23-year-old mechanic was a witness to widespread, almost daily, U.S. war crimes in Iraq. His story contains new revelations about ongoing brutality at Abu Ghraib, information yet to be reported (…)

Classified documents show the former US military chief in Iraq personally sanctioned measures banned by the Geneva Conventions. Andrew Buncombe reports from Washington
03 April 2005
America’s leading civil liberties group has demanded an investigation into the former US military commander Iraq after a formerly classified memo revealed that he personally sanctioned a series of coercive interrogation techniques outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. The group claims that his directives were (…)

"Whoever decides that all the peaceful means made available under international law are exhausted assumes a grave responsibility before God, his conscience and history,"
"War is not always inevitable. It is always a defeat for humanity," he said.
"And what are we to say of the threat of a war which could strike the people of Iraq, the land of the prophets, a people already sorely tried by more than 12 years of embargo?" he said.
"War is never just another means that one can choose to (…)

by Lynn Landes
March 19, 2005-After the 2004 election I thought I would barf if I heard one more Democratic pundit or politician lament the lost election and blame it on the party’s "message." As grassroots activists across the country reported thousands of election irregularities and voting machine "glitches" that overwhelmingly benefited Bush, the Democratic leadership seemed unusually willing to look the other way. John Kerry quickly conceded, former President Carter attended Bush’s (…)

The USA troops came to Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction and seprade freedom and democracy ,as Mr Bush used to say. However ,on the Iraqi ground, tne USA troops used to shoot indescrimenately . One of thier Generals said, " Itis fun to shoot people " , as can be seen from the following report:-
General: It’s Fun To Shoot People
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2005
Trigger-Happy Talk Flap
Lt. Gen. James Mattis (Photo: CBS)
"Actually, it’s a lot of fun to fight. You know, it’s a (…)

The photos of the British soldiers torturing some Iraqi detainees show the hidden page of the military intervention ( invasion ) in Iraq. The photos were released after 20 months of the committed abuses. This 22 photos form the second set of photos of the British troops, which has been disclosed. There are much larger number of photos, and much larger number of abuses were not photographed. The Iraqis themselves know the size of these brutal crimes. The inhuman acts have initiated violent (…)

The Disappearance of 350 Tons of Explosives In IRAQ
One of the issues about Iraq is the disappearance of 350 Tons of Highly explosive materials from a site south of the capital Baghdad. Mr Bush was informed about the event and he gave no response !. Every body in Iraq and the rest of the world knows that since 9 April 2003, the USA troops are in charge of every thing in Iraq. After the installation of the provisional governing council and then the provisional government, major (…)