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http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20060410/45508405.html
10/04/2006 13:06
Moscow, (Pyotr Romanov, RIA Novosti)-The United States and Iran seem to have firmly set on a path that leads to the hell of war. There are hopes for the best - and I myself would be happy to be erring on the pessimistic side - but the way things look here and now, hopes are increasingly overshadowed by grim reality.
Assertive statements on the American side and Gulf wargames on the Iranian side equally scream of (…)

Iraq After 3 Years of U.S. ’Democracy’ Iraqis are dying by the hundreds every week uruknet.info
Haider S. Kadhum
April 10, 2006
Despite promises of democracy and safety, Iraq remains gripped by civil strife, death and terror three years after the American-led invasion of the country. A nation that was once united is now disintegrating. Security in Iraq under the occupation no longer exists. Going out to buy a newspaper could cost you your life. People are being killed as they are (…)

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m22430&hd=0&size=1&l=e April 10, 2006
Of the more than 670,000 troops deployed to the Gulf in 1991, about one-third of them now receive disability compensation.Remember your mother’s warning, "If you can’t clean up after yourself, don’t make the mess"? Didn’t we subject our children to that mantra?
But what was and is a continuing motif running through the theater of family life has not apparently carried over into the theater of modern warfare. (…)

It is time for the US congress to speak, to pass a motion— a message to the president that they do not authorize him, based on their authorization to go into Iraq, to attack Iran, to start another war.
It is time for the antiwar movement to get out in the streets with one message. Congressional representatives must make it clear to the Bush whitehouse that they have cut off their authorization of any further warmaking.
We know that there is now a risk that the chickenhawk neocons who (…)

Let’s just fantacize for a moment or two. If Bush became the famous detective and was reflecting on his own behavior, he might have uttered something like these pronouncements (paraphrased from actual Holmes dialogue)
In comedy they say: Buy the premise, but the bit.
"How slow witted I am, and many blunders have I committed in my lifetime"
"The air of Washington is sweeter for my presence"
"What has become of any brains that God has given me?"
"My well of English is permanently (…)

Images of War they dont want us to see
http://www.voltairenet.org/article136827.html

BUSH SELLING COW COOKIES
By Peter Fredson
April 11, 2006
George W. Bush Company, Inc. has an oversupply of Cow Cookies, Buffalo Chips, Clumps of Dump, Anal Cheese, Blurtch, and Spineless Brownfish that it would like to sell to the public as their substitute for Unvarnished Truth.
And, though many of our textile mills have been outsourced and they no longer spin thread into yarn, the Bush administration is working overtime spinning yarn into ersatz truthiness.
Their supply of (…)

“He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land.” - Joseph Conrad
American policy maker Paul Wolfowitz reminds me a lot of Joseph Conrad’s character, Kurtz, from his seminal tome, “Heart of Darkness.” Kurtz never allowed himself to be judged by the same standards as other mere mortals, nor has Wolfowitz. He seems manufactured in the image and likeness of another purveyor of malevolence - Henry Kissinger! Wolfowitz has so far escaped earthly punishment for his serial wrong doings. (…)

There used to be a saying in this country…. It went somewhere along the lines that “an Englishman’s home is his castle.†If only such a thing were true today. As things stand such a fondly recalled maxim is only that – a vision of a gentler age, redolent of less intense times…. Times when what happened behind closed doors was acceptable as long as it, “didn’t frighten the horses.â€
So, why is it assumed now that everything we do – all of our human activities – are open (…)

ITEM : "The decision to produce a workup on Wilson in order to discredit him is made at a meeting within the Office of Vice- President. "....( MARCH 9, 2003 ENTRY , PLAME LEAK TIMELINE - dKosospedia ) ................. ITEM : "George W. Bush gives Dick Cheney the authority to declassify classified information via Executive Order 13292.....( MARCH 25 2003 ENTRY , PLAME LEAK TIMELINE - dKosospedia ) .............. Note , the executive order does not give the Vice President the authority to (…)