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  • Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction
    12 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    In honor of Veterans Day we would like the troops to have a little background on why they are in Iraq instead of home with their families so here is a report from the UK outlining the history of the Iraq WMD that Saddam Hussien posessed, it has not been in the mainstream press in the United States and has been overlooked in the story of why we are fighting a war in Iraq over WMD. This is a meeting in the UK parliament during July of 2004 less than 6 months ago, and the truth will soon be (…)

  • I Resolve Not To Be Distracted From Election Investigation If Another Attack Occurs:
    12 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    9/11 seems to have headed off any immediate investigation of the 2000 elections. It was a distraction from settling the issues that divide us as a nation - or appear to.
    I personally resolve not to be distracted from this effort if there is another attack, if Bush manages to start another war, etc. 9/11 is highly suspect, the invasion of Iraq was based on lies or gross incompetence or both, and the shock has worn off.
    We need to strive not to allow the same tactics to be used a second (…)

  • Fallujah: US Will Lose More by ’Victory’
    12 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dahr Jamail
    BAGHDAD - A military victory for U.S. forces in Fallujah seems set to lead to a huge political loss for the U.S.-backed interim Iraqi government.
    Strong anti-government reactions have set in already as reports come in from Fallujah of bombed hospitals, high civilians casualties and denial of access to medical care. The political fallout could fall far beyond Iraq.
    Several governments and international groups have warned that military action is likely to undermine (…)

  • Voices from Falluja
    12 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US forces are locked in fierce battle against insurgents in the Iraqi city of Falluja. People from the city have been giving the BBC their account of what’s been going on.
    Hamid Flewa, lawyer and Falluja resident:
    We heard a lot overnight [on Wednesday] and the bombing intensified at dawn. [Wednesday’s] onslaught affected most districts in the city.
    There are bodies strewn in the streets and most families were forced to bury the dead in their gardens. I can see lines of bodies (…)

  • Falluja facing humanitarian crisis
    12 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fighting in Falluja has created a humanitarian disaster in which innocent people are dying because medical help cannot reach them, aid workers in Iraq have said.
    In one case, a pregnant woman and her child died in a refugee camp west of the city after the mother unexpectedly aborted and no doctors were on hand, Firdus al-Ubadi, an official from the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, told Reuters on Wednesday.
    In another case, a young boy died from a snake bite that would normally have been (…)

  • Crushing Fallujah Will Not End the Iraq War
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    Likely to Prove as Disappointing to US as the Capture of Saddam
    By PATRICK COCKBURN
    The belligerent trumpetings of the US Marines bode ill for Fallujah. Sgt Major Carlton W Kent, the senior enlisted marine in Iraq, told troops that the battle would be no different from Iwo Jima. In an analogy the Pentagon may not relish, he recalled the Tet offensive in Vietnam in 1968 and added: "This is another Hue city."
    American voters last week never seemed to take on board the extent of the US (…)

  • Falluja’s defiance of a new empire
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is Bush and Blair, not the Iraqi resistance, who fear free elections
    by Sami Ramadani
    George Bush and Tony Blair have apparently concluded that they can crush the Iraqi people’s will to resist occupation and legitimise a puppet regime next January by occupying Falluja. Maybe they imagine they can emulate the British forces that terrorised Iraqi Kurdistan in the 1920s by obliterating recalcitrant villages.
    The US generals will no doubt deliver Falluja to Bush and Blair after (…)

  • The truth is that Yasser Arafat died years ago
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    He married the Revolution. And in the end he became a little dictator, falsely promising democracy by Robert Fisk
    Yet again, Yasser Arafat is dying. We thought he’d been killed back in 1982 when the Israeli air force flew around Beirut attacking apartment blocks and homes they thought he was visiting. Their bombs tore to pieces hundreds of innocent Lebanese civilians but Arafat was never there. Then we thought he’d died in a plane crash in the Libyan desert — but it was the pilot who (…)

  • Neocon Agenda: Iran, China, Russia, Latin America...
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jim Lobe
    An influential foreign-policy neoconservative with long-standing ties to top hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush has laid out what he calls "a checklist of the work the world will demand of this president and his subordinates in a second term."
    The list, which begins with the destruction of Fallujah in Iraq and ends with the development of "appropriate strategies" for dealing with threats posed by China, Russia and "the emergence of a number of (…)

  • ...And, with each pull of the trigger you will aim at your sweating temples...
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    OPEN LETTER TO THOSE POLITITIANS, MILITARY, and CITIZENS WHO FEEL THE UNITED STATES HAS THE RIGHT TO PRE-EMPTIVE WAR AND ACTS OF AGGRESSION/INTERFERENCE AGAINST SOVEREIGN NATIONS:
    You are transparent to the entire world, except yourselves!
    There is no truth to your stated ’Humanitarian’ efforts. Today: Fallujah? Tomorrow: ?
    It is absurd to massacre perhaps an entire population just to capture or kill the only people left who have the courage to fight against US presence in Iraq, (…)