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by Simon Tisdall IRAQ - The corrosive impact of the Iraq crisis in almost all areas of international relations, as well as on Iraq’s long-suffering civilians, was dramatically demonstrated yesterday by the UN general secretary Kofi Annan’s blunt declaration that last year’s war was illegal.
The recent spat between the US and Iraq’s northern neighbour Turkey is a case in point. Since the war officially ended, Turkey has fretted about Iraq’s possible fragmentation, Kurdish separatism, and (…)

This Thursday marks the 22nd anniversary of the massacre of Sabra and Shatila that was perpetrated by the Lebanese Christian militias with the full cooperation of the Israeli occupation forces, led by the then Defense Minister Ariel Sharon.
Palestinians mark this day with endless pain and sadness, as Sharon continues to commit massacres against Palestinians even when he became Prime Minister, the last of these was the killing of ten Palestinians in the cities of Nablus and Jenin.
The (…)

Invitation to a Day of Solidarity on 18 September 2004
We, Palestinian civil society organizations together with our Italian NGO partners, call on you to participate in a Day of Solidarity with the humanitarian aid workers held hostage in Iraq on Saturday, 18 September 2004.
We, civil society organizations, strongly condemn the kidnapping of civilians to attain political goals and call for the immediate and unconditional release of the hostages held in Iraq. We believe hostage-taking (…)

By Thomas Powers
Report on the US Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq
by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence July 7, 2004, 511 pp., with deletions
1. No tyrannical father presiding over an intimidated household was ever tiptoed around with greater caution than is the figure of President George W. Bush in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s fat report of its investigation into the scary stories about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction (…)

by Robert Thompson
It is said that the late Sir Winston Churchill was the first to make the comment that the U.S.A. and Britain were divided by a single language, and listening to spokesmen for the present administration in the U.S.A. this becomes more and more evident as the election campaign rolls on on your side of the Atlantic.
It seems almost comic when one has to learn that what you call "diapers" are the ordinary British "nappies", or that your "sidewalk’ is the British (…)

In light of the recent intellingence analysis that Iraq is a "catastrophic failure" and the best case scenario is for a continuation of the current chaos. Dennis Kucinch has called on the House Subcommittee on National Security to hold hearings to investigate Bush’s lies.
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"I believe that this subcommittee must excercise its oversight powers to the fullest and hold the (…)

by Daniel Patrick Welch
“I see a bad moon a-risin’/I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightning/I see a bad time today
Well don’t go ‘round tonight/for it’s bound to take your life
there’s a bad moon on the rise”
Credence Clearwater Revival
So what’s a thinking American to do? Metaphors from Alice in Wonderland don’t even cut it any more. Bizarro World is too comical, and “Beam me up, Scotty..” too hopeful. At least the good men and women of the Enterprise had (…)

Kucinich: CIA’s Outlook For Iraq’s Future Proves Iraq War Has Been A Catastrophic Failure According to today’s New York Times the CIA’s latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq’s future states that the best-case scenario for Iraq’s future is a continuation of the violence and instability that exists today. Today, Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement on the deteriorating situation in Iraq:
“The war against Iraq and the continued occupation has been a (…)

Kucinich Calls For Congressional Hearings On The Future Of Iraq After The Release Of The National Intelligence Estimate Ranking Member of House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations Wants Immediate Congressional Hearings
Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, Ranking Member of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, today called on Subcommittee Chairman Shays to (…)

by Stephen L. Robinson
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The alarming number of suicides earlier this year among U.S. troops serving in Iraq has raised a red flag about the mental strain on our service men and women as they face grueling battles and a conflict with no clear end in sight. These suicides are only the most visible manifestation of the rising mental health toll from the Iraq war and other U.S. combat operations abroad. Studies indicate that troops who served in Iraq are suffering from (…)