Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,209,263"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,077
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$519,842,244,056
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Bogus Claim
 
al-Maliki Stall U.S. Plan on Iran Arms
 
Analysis by Gareth Porter
 
Early this month, the George W. Bush administration’s plan to create a new crescendo of accusations against Iran for allegedly smuggling arms to Shiite militias in Iraq encountered not just one but two setbacks.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19927.htm
 
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Snipers In Iraq
 
Killing By The Numbers
 
By Mark Benjamin and Christopher Weaver
 
Why would these elite American soldiers kill an unarmed prisoner in cold blood? The answer: pressure from their commanding officers to pump up a statistic straight out of America’s last long war against an intractable insurgency.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19928.htm
 
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Bush: U.S., Israel In Great Ideological Struggle’ in Middle East
 
By Dion Nissenbaum
 
President Bush celebrated Israel’s 60th anniversary on Thursday by hailing the Jewish state as a beacon of democracy and denouncing calls for the United States to talk to Iran and other radical forces in the region as a ‘’foolish delusion.’’
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19929.htm
 
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Sycophantic Dubya Kowtows To Israel
 
Full Text – President Bush Addresses Members of the Knesset
 
We gather to mark a momentous occasion. Sixty years ago in Tel Aviv, David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel’s independence, founded on the “natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate.” What followed was more than the establishment of a new country. It was the redemption of an ancient promise given to Abraham and Moses and David — a homeland for the chosen people Eretz Yisrael.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19934.htm
 
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Expulsion And Dispossession Can’t Be Cause For Celebration
 
By Seumas Milne
 
Ethnic cleansing began months before the end of British rule, as has been meticulously documented by Israeli historians such as Benny Morris and Ilan Pappe, and before the arrival of the Arab armies, who mostly fought in areas earmarked by the UN for an Arab state.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19935.htm
 
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Wealth But No Political Power
 
By Patrick Seale
 
Arab oil producers are awash in wealth. They have never been so rich. But the paradox is that, in spite of their great and growing wealth, their political weight in the world remains small, even derisory. They have not – or, at least, not yet – converted their wealth into political influence on a global scale.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19932.htm
 
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American As Reluctant Warrior
 
By Michael Sherry
 
Most Americans see their nation as essentially peace-loving, a reluctant warrior that fights only when fanatical enemies force it to. But measured by its actions rather than its self-image, the United States is a warrior nation more than any other major modern power is.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19933.htm
 
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The Bush Presidency,
 
History and the “United States of Amnesia”
 
A Must Listen Interview With Gore Vidal -  Audio and Text
 
“You must remember, this is a people that has no culture, that has never had one.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19930.htm
 
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If I Was A Terrorist
 
Must Watch 1 Minute Video
 
Sarcastic twist on terrorism.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19931.htm
 
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Burqa-Clad Suicide Bomber Kills 16 In Afghanistan -Government:
 
A suicide bomber apparently wearing a burqa detonated in a busy bazaar in southwestern Afghanistan Thursday, killing 16 people including four policemen
tinyurl.com/4fhkc4
 
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13 “Taliban”, 2 police killed in Afghanistan clashes:
 
A police chief says clashes in southern Afghanistan have killed 13 Taliban militants and two policemen. Helmand provincial police Chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal says six other officers were wounded in the clashes.
www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=141904
 
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Anger after US attack Kills 18 in Pakistan:
 
A spokesman for Pakistani Taliban militants said the strike was aimed at derailing peace talks with the new government.
tinyurl.com/4dlk86
 
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Taliban leader vows revenge on the U.S. after alleged missile strike kills 18 in Pakistan
tinyurl.com/4eagdf
 
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Manufacturing Consent for attacks on Pakistan:
 
Growing number of “insurgent “attacks seen in occupied Afghanistan:
 
NATO spokesman James Appathurai said attacks were up 50 percent in April compared to the same period last year – a significant jump that could indicate the resistance are getting help on the Pakistani side of the border.
tinyurl.com/4eagdf
 
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UN: Foreign agents behind spate of Afghan killings:
 
He said one raid in January that killed two Afghan brothers was conducted by Afghans and personnel from a U.S. special forces base in Kandahar.
tinyurl.com/4du93d
 
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More must be done to avoid Afghan deaths:
 
U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston said the level of complacency over civilian killings was “staggeringly” high and a great many deaths could be avoided.
tinyurl.com/5ymvpk
 
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Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions:
 
Report: In terms of the international military forces, it has been reported that as many as 200 civilians have been killed in the first four months of this year, often in joint operations with Afghan security forces.
tinyurl.com/3szrbh
 
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Is Nato repeating the USSR’s Afghan mistakes:
 
Twenty years ago today the tanks and armoured cars started to rumble north out of Kabul as the Soviet Union began its withdrawal from Afghanistan after eight-and-a-half years of war.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7402887.stm
 
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Pakistan “thins out” troops in Waziristan for pact:
 
Pakistan has begun shifting troops from parts of the South Waziristan region and swapped prisoners with the militants in an effort to make peace with an al Qaeda-linked commander, officials said on Wednesday.
tinyurl.com/3f6gq6
 
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Iraq: at least 35 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
 
The final death toll from a suicide attack on a funeral west of Baghdad on Wednesday was 25, police said. They said 48 people were wounded.
www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSKAM519741
 
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Witnesses: Abu Ghraib bomber was a teenage boy:
 
 The U.S. military said it does not have a “forensic review” that would reveal the attacker’s age, but “he was certainly older than a child and old enough to carry out this horrible attack.”
tinyurl.com/3tpva6
 
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At least 12 people killed in clashes between Iraqi forces, militias in Baghdad:
 
Clashes between Iraqi forces and militias in Sadr city in the Iraqi capital left 12 people killed in the last 24 hours, Iraqi police sources said on Thursday.
tinyurl.com/469k8p
 
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Iraqi forces to infiltrate al-Mahdi Army stronghold:
 
Iraqi soldiers and police are preparing to push deeper into Sadr City in an ambitious move that could either bring order to the notorious Baghdad Shia slum or create an even deadlier battlefield.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3934121.ece
 
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Iraq victory within four years:
 
Senator McCain says any decades-long presence of US troops would be aimed at maintaining stability in the region and has likened it to the US military presence in Japan, South Korea and Germany.
tinyurl.com/3f4mk8
 
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ACLU obtains new Defense Department docs on prison deaths in Iraq:
 
One of the documents is a list of “at least four prisoner deaths” that were investigated by the Navy, including one detainee at Abu Ghraib who died after “his head was beaten with a stove”:
tinyurl.com/6k47nc
 
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Sources: U.S. cuts off Iraqi politician Chalabi:
 
Once a neocon favorite, he had ‘unauthorized’ contacts with Iran
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24620260/
 
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Bush: US with Israel against Iran’s nuclear ambitions:
 
‘We believe that targeting innocent lives to achieve political objectives is always and everywhere wrong. So we stand together against terror and extremism, and we will never let down our guard or lose our resolve,’ he said in an historic speech to the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem.
tinyurl.com/3udx9h
 
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Blix: West approach to Iran ‘hypocritical’:
 
Former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix hammers world powers for their ‘hypocritical’ approach to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear issue.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=55677&sectionid=351020104
 
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Now is the time to attack Iran:
 
Everyone is waiting. In Israel, they are waiting for the 60th-anniversary celebrations to be over and for President Bush to have visited and returned home. Then, they say, the IDF will make its long-anticipated major incursion into Gaza. Then at last the problem of the ever-intensifying attacks by Hamas will be dealt with.
tinyurl.com/4uvs56
 
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Israel weaker than dare attack Iran: Defense minister:
 
Israeli weak points have been revealed in Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan over recent years, he noted.
www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0805157019201130.htm
 
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2 Palestinians killed, five injured in Israeli attack on Gaza:
 
Two Palestinian activists were killed and five others were injured in an Israeli air raid targeting Al-Shujaiya district, eastern Gaza Strip, late Wednesday night
tinyurl.com/4pj22k
 
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Abbas: It’s time to end the Nakba of the Palestinian people:
 
At a rally in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for an end to the occupation, saying: “There are two peoples living on this beloved land – one celebrates independence and the other feels pain of the memory of its Nakba… It’s time to end the Nakba of the Palestinian people.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/983709.html
 
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Israel at 60: Zionism’s Fatal Flaw:
 
In the first generation of Zionists, a large majority shared one overriding goal: They wanted to live as “normal” people in a “normal” nation.
www.religiondispatches.org/Gui/Content.aspx?Page=AR&Id=241&SP=1
 
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Olmert to hand Bush a weapons wish list:
 
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to ask Bush to upgrade substantially the security relationship between Israel and the U.S., according to sources close to Olmert.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/983197.html
 
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Congress to Saudis: Give Us Oil or No Guns:
 
A group of Democratic senators wants to make a massive arms sale to Saudi Arabia contingent on getting cheaper oil, reports AFP. “We are saying to the Saudis that, if you don’t help us, why should we be helping you?” says Chuck Schumer, a Democratic senator from New York.
blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/congress-to-sau.html
 
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Failed war on terrorism on display:
 
Some of the disastrous consequences of George W. Bush’s foreign policy, and therefore Stephen Harper’s, are on display this week in Israel, Lebanon, Pakistan and elsewhere
www.thestar.com/article/425503
 
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Italian Trial of C.I.A. Operatives Begins With Torture Testimony:
 
As a judge ruled that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi could be called to testify about the abduction of a radical Muslim cleric here in 2003.
tinyurl.com/6bvqr3
 
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Bush stirs up U.S. campaign with “appeasement” remark:
 
U.S. President George W. Bush stirred up the campaign to replace him by suggesting on Thursday that Democratic front-runner Barack Obama’s pledge to talk to Iran’s leader amounted to “the false comfort of appeasement.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080515/ts_nm/usa_politics_dc
 
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Obama attacks Bush over Iran barb:
 
Barack Obama has accused George W Bush of attacking him after the US president compared those in favour of talking to terrorists to Nazi appeasers.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7403386.stm
 
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Chavez warns Colombia over US base :
 
Venezuela’s president has warned Colombia against building a US military base on the countries shared border, saying he would consider such a move an act of “aggression”.
tinyurl.com/6opkdg
 
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Seized Farc documents ‘are genuine’ :
 
The agency said it was not in its remit to assess the validity of Colombia’s allegations against Venezuela.
tinyurl.com/6ywjew
 
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U.S.-trained forces reportedly helping Mexican cartels:
 
The renegade members of Mexico’s elite counter-narcotics teams trained at Fort Benning, Ga., have switched sides, contributing to a wave of violence that has claimed some 6,000 victims over the past 30 months
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/5780470.html
 
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Watchdog: European DNA Database a Potential Nightmare:
 
Speaking at a news conference, European Data Protection Supervisor, Peter Hustinx, raised concerns over the European DNA Database, criticising its lack of safeguards to protect tourists and the public travelling around the EU
tinyurl.com/4hya8w