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Monday 20 March 2006 "More fighting and sacrifice will be required to achieve this victory, and for some, the temptation to retreat and abandon our commitments is strong." George Bush, Radio Address, March 18, 2006
On March 19, 2003, George Bush "shocked and awed" the world by his premature, if not wholly unnecessary, invasion of Iraq. I can remember that night when he came on to tell us that he had begun his war crimes against Iraq in earnest. I was sitting on my couch sobbing for the (…)

Published on Thursday, March 23, 2006 by Agence France Presse
WASHINGTON - The Iraq war is now as unpopular at home as the Vietnam war was in 1968, but in the absence of a military draft and a clear way out, Americans are not taking to the streets, analysts say.
Protests marking the third anniversary of the war drew less than 10,000 people in major US cities over the weekend, according to reporters and police counts-despite polls showing broad public displeasure with the war.
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Published on Thursday, March 23, 2006 by Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON - "This situation has no equal in American political history," says the 83-page study, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy".
"Why has the United States been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of another state?" ask authors John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (…)

"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens." Friedrich Schiller "With stupidity, even the gods struggle in vain."
03/23/06 "ich" — — I’m often told by readers of their encounters with Americans who support the outrages of US foreign policy no matter what facts are presented to them, no matter what arguments are made, no matter how much the government’s statements are shown to be false. They include amongst their number those who still believe that Iraq had a direct involvement in (…)

Depleted Uranium For Dummies Information clearing House
Everything you need to know about depleted uranium. Every day our troops remain in Iraq increases the chances that they will come home sick, produce children with birth defects, and die prematurely.
By Irving Wesley Hall
03/23/06 "ICH" — — Under the direction of Secretary of Defense Cheney, the 1991 Gulf War began with a "shock and awe" bombing campaign that destroyed large biological laboratories, chemical plants, and nuclear (…)

03/22/06 "Alternet" — — As America reaches the third anniversary of President Bush’s decision to invade and occupy Iraq, there is for the first time the unsettling realization brought about by the clarity of acts that emerges only after the passage of time that something horrible has happened.
This awakening of collective awareness on the part of the American people is reflected not only in the numerous polls which show President Bush’s popularity plummeting to all-time lows, largely (…)

ICH - NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON CNN
— - -The war lovers I have known in real wars have usually been harmless, except to themselves. They were attracted to Vietnam and Cambodia, where drugs were plentiful. Bosnia, with its roulette of death, was another favorite. A few would say they were there "to tell the world"; the honest ones would say they loved it. "War is fun!" one of them had scratched on his arm. He stood on a land mine.
I sometimes remember these almost endearing fools when I (…)

At the end of 2004 and in 2005, on the occasion of the French referendum for the European constitution, us the people, of the different previous history but every French speakers and being met to us on Internet, we opened the site clubpost1984 with the publication of the non-manifesto against Europe of the constitution Frankenstein, suiting us in turn Mary Shelley’s literary metaphor that wrongly sir of Villiers, French extreme right and nationalist representative, had appropriated.
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Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States, defying all international treaties, will slowly annihilate all species on earth including the human species, and yet this country continues to do so with full knowledge of its destructive potential.
LEUREN MORET
Since 1991, the United States has staged four wars using depleted uranium weaponry, illegal under all international (…)

WTC Construction Certifiers Say Towers Should Have Easily Withstood Jet Fuel Temperatures
Kevin Ryan/Underwriters Laboratories | November 12 2004
The following letter was sent today by Kevin Ryan of Underwriters Laboratories to Frank Gayle of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Underwriters Laboratories is the company that certified the steel componets used in the constuction of the World Trade Center towers. The information in this letter is of great importance. (…)