Lots More Troops To Iraq... After the Election by Ray McGovern
It’s not an “if.” It’s a “when.” Pentagon officials have indicated that they plan to send as many as 15,000 additional troops during the first four months of 2005, and the President George W. Bush continues to insist “we will stay the course” until Iraq is stabilized. (I do wish his advisers would provide a different vocabulary so that those of us steeped in the mistakes regarding Vietnam could be spared painful flashbacks.) (...)
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Lots More Troops To Iraq... After the Election
30 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Delegates Split Over Blair’s Iraq Apology
30 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy ED JOHNSON
BRIGHTON, England — For Tony Blair, sorry seems to be the hardest word. A day after the prime minister expressed regret about bad intelligence on Iraq, delegates at the Labour Party’s annual convention were divided over whether they’d heard a genuine apology for the war.
In a contrite, conversational speech that won him a standing ovation, Blair said he could apologize for faulty evidence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction — but he refused to do so for toppling Saddam (...) -
Top Bush officials clash over Iraq election
26 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Vicki Allen
WASHINGTON - Iraq’s elections should be nationwide, a top Bush administration official has said, clashing publicly with Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s suggestion that voting might not take place in the most violent areas.
Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said the elections scheduled for January will not be perfect, but they should encompass the entire country.
Rumsfeld also appeared to back away from his outspoken remarks on Thursday that while the (...) -
The bubble boy Bush lives in a world immune from the realities of Iraq.
25 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By Sidney Blumenthal
The news is grim, but the president is "optimistic." The intelligence is sobering, but he tosses aside "pessimistic predictions." His opponent says he has "no credibility," but the president replies that it is his rival who is "twisting in the wind." The secretary general of the United Nations speaks of the "rule of law," but Bush talks before a mute General Assembly of "a new definition of security." Between the rhetoric and the reality lies the campaign.
A (...) -
Quit Iraq, and quit fast. It’s that simple
24 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
35 commentsby Simon Jenkins "The Times"
TONY BLAIR has declared that Britain is now fighting a “new war” in Iraq. He did so on the anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem, an inauspicious precursor. Arnhem was a notorious “bridge too far”, a politico-military decision that led to defeat and the needless loss of British lives. But at Arnhem Britain knew what it was about. When Mr Blair calls on all “sensible and decent people” to support him in this new Iraq conflict we can only ask, to what end?
When (...) -
Playing into the hands of Bush
22 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsMurderous barbaric butchers betray cause
by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
So, Eugene Armstrong has been beheaded. The tape has been sent to the Internet. A victory for senselessness, idiocy, butchery, cruelty, mindless violence, perpetrated by the legions of Baal.
What is the difference between slitting the throat of an American contractor and blasting away the limbs of an Iraqi child with a cluster bomb?
What is the difference between killing an American civilian and killing an Iraqi (...) -
The Temple Mount Bombers
21 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
di Uri Avnery
The Security Service is haunted by a terrible fear: that another Israeli Prime Minister will be assassinated. The extreme right-wing, which does not hide its admiration for Yigal Amir and his deed, harbors some who dream of a similar action. After all, if Amir succeeded in murdering the Oslo process, why shouldn’t another Amir succeed in murdering the process of dismantling the settlements in the Gaza Strip?
But the Security Service also entertains an even greater fear: (...) -
Far graver than Vietnam
17 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Most senior US military officers now believe the war on Iraq has turned into a disaster on an unprecedented scale
by Sidney Blumenthal
’Bring them on!" President Bush challenged the early Iraqi insurgency in July of last year. Since then, 812 American soldiers have been killed and 6,290 wounded, according to the Pentagon. Almost every day, in campaign speeches, Bush speaks with bravado about how he is "winning" in Iraq. "Our strategy is succeeding," he boasted to the National Guard (...) -
ANOTHER LOOK AT 9-11 MORE PNAC PLOTTING?
15 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By: Ted Lang
Increasingly, evidence continues to mount against our own government. Parts of what were formerly viewed as disjointed, confusing and disconnected pieces of a puzzle are beginning to fall into place. The Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal was bad enough, but the Bush administration’s cover-up is much worse. The same can be said for the 9-11 Commission that never really addressed how it was possible for our skies to be so vulnerable on that day. We are to believe that nary a (...) -
100 Children Die Daily in Iraq
10 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentIn one month, 3000 children died in Iraq; on average, that is 100 per day. Though
many are innocent victims of incessant clashes, most succumb to malnourishment
and unsanitary living conditions.
The shortage of drugs and modern equipment is worse than when Saddam Hussein
was in power - when international embargoes isolated the country.
Shells and shrapnel, grenades and bombs are other factors affecting the health of children. According to disclosures from the Health Care Ministry, (...)