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The architects of Iraq Tareq Y Ismael
The impulse that drives United States policy in Iraq is reflected in the professional character of its leading military and diplomatic figures, says Tareq Y Ismael.
18 - 09 - 2007
A potentially decisive season of hearings and discussions about the performance and future of United States forces in Iraq has come to a provisional conclusion with the Congressional testimony of the US’s two leading players in Baghdad: military commander General David H (…)

As I’ve noted in the past, one’s conspiracy theory is another’s reality check.
A conspiracy theory is simply a theory that a conspiracy exists. If that theory is supported by even one fact, the theory becomes a possibility. If that theory is supported by fact after fact after fact after fact; it becomes a probability.
Since no tall steel building has ever collapsed from fire, or a combination of fire and other damage, there are clearly no experts who can explain how it happened three (…)

Published on Thursday, September 20, 2007 by The Guardian/UK Refugees in Their Own Land: 2m Iraqis Forced to Flee Their Homes by Suzanne Goldenberg
Nearly two million Iraqis have become refugees in their own land in the past year, redrawing the ethnic and sectarian map of Baghdad and other cities, a report by the Iraqi Red Crescent said yesterday.
In Baghdad alone, nearly a million people have fled their homes.
Last month saw the sharpest rise so far in the numbers of Iraqis forced to (…)

WTC 7 imploded due to fire.
[sarcasm alert] What are the chances that other skyscrapers all around the USA, are susceptible to the same fate due to fire? [alert off]
How many lives are we willing to risk?
http://www.usatourist.com/photos/illinois/chicago5b.jpg
– http://www.geocities.com/los_angele...
http://www.usdoj.gov/ust/r21/images/AtlantaNight.jpg
http://www.signal-analysis.com/v1.0/about/denver_skyline.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/9/15230224_e0e455605e.jpg (…)

The renewed anti-Muslim media campaign is partly driven by a political agenda which seeks to justify war
Seumas Milne Thursday September 20, 2007 The Guardian
Britons are now more suspicious of Muslims than are Americans or citizens of any other major western European country, including France.
According to an international Harris poll last month, nearly 30% of British people believe it’s impossible to be both a Muslim and a Briton (compared with 14% who think you can’t be French and (…)

America Is No More
By Paul Craig Roberts
09/18/07 "ICH" --- — Naïve Americans who think they live in a free society should watch this video filmed by students at a John Kerry speech September 17, Constitution Day, at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
At the conclusion of Kerry’s speech, Andrew Meyer, a 21-year old journalism student was selected by Senator Kerry to ask a question. Meyer held up a copy of BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast’s book, Armed Madhouse, and asked (…)

By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
09/18/07 "LewRockwell" — — -How comfy we are all in the United States, as we engage in living-room debates about the US occupation of Iraq, whether "we" are bringing them freedom and whether their freedom is really worth the sacrifice of so many of our men and women. We talk about whether war aims have really been achieved, how to exit gracefully, or whether we need a hyper-surge to finish this whole business once and for all.
But there’s one thing Americans (…)

pdx writes:
Why Ben, did they demo that building (in your best estimation)?
Answer: Think MONEY! & POWER! What would you do for say, $10 trillion dollars? Sick, uh?
HELP.....that’s the building that had the central command in it right? Yes, and a lot of other neat stuff too. Isn’t it true that 7 feel QUITE differently than the first two?
Answer:7 fell directly upon it’s foot print, keeping in mind the Murrah federal building was blown nearly in half and the remnant remained (…)

By Ahmad Ali
The shooting on Sunday by Blackwater contractors and killing of more than 11 Iraqi civilians drew a fierce reaction by the Iraqi people. The incident occurred when a motorcade guarded by Blackwater was traveling through Nisoor Square on the way back to the Green Zone when the car bomb exploded, followed by volleys of small-arms fire that disabled one of the vehicles. Blackwater guards then shot at nearby civilians in act of revenge and killed more than 11 civilians. (…)

Holocaust Denial is a criminal offence in much of Europe. Thus denial of the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust in Austria will deservedly attract up to 10 years in prison. Recently the German Government proposed that the EU pass legislation to criminalize denial of contemporary genocides and holocausts. My view is that such legislation would be very useful but to prevent any negative effects on free speech there should be a no fine or custodial punishment (i.e. “no penalty criminalization”) but (…)