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Elephant Meets Kangaroo
Felicity Arbuthnot.
The U.S. administration’s stage managed illegal farce: the trial of Iraq’s legitimate President and others of his government seems set to conclude (with the U.S., puppet ‘Prime Minister’ Maliki having already declared a guilty verdict) to coincide with America’s mid-term elections. Saddam done and dusted as President Bush’s ratings plummet, is allegedly, a strategy advised by Pentagon P.R. gurus to boost the little man’s popularity. However, if the unthinkable happens, even from the grave, Saddam, who survived successive Presidents and Prime Ministers attempts to cripple his country, will haunt Bush and Blair’s tenure for all time. That the trial resumed on the fifth anniversary of the fall of the twin towers was another pathetic stunt, anyway missed by most. Yet the enormity of the crimes which have been and are being perpetrated in the name of ‘we the people’, seem less than sufficiently addressed…
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Neocons Make Excuses for Mass Murder
Kurt Nimmo
In America, instead of facing justice, criminals from up high usually write memoirs, or become “elder statesmen,” and are interviewed, settling comfortably into the historical record, either oblivious to or proud of the swathe of blood and gore that enshrouds them. For instance, take the neocons, who should be filling up the docket at the Hague for plotting and executing the invasion and occupation of Iraq—current death total, 650,000, with millions floundering in abject misery—but are instead allowed to walk free and talk freely with David Rose, Vanity Fair contributing editor…
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Endgame: The Lights Are Going Out All Over Baghdad
Chris Floyd
…The endgame has begun. And whether the Americans withdraw to a few “superbases” in the desert, or “redeploy” over the border in Kuwait, or have to fight their way out of the Green Zone in a mad dash for the last transports leaving the airport, nothing will stop the bloodbath that Bush and his henchmen have set in motion. They have destroyed the Iraqi state and Iraqi society – along with vast swathes of the Iraqi population – and the consequences of this moral insanity, this willful, deliberate evil, will be terrible to behold…
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They Hate Our Freedom
The Truth about the Military Commissions Act
Aaron Sussman, www.dissidentvoice.org
On October 17th, with Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, and Donald Rumsfeld standing behind him, George W. Bush solemnly announced, “in memory of the victims of September 11th, it is my honor to sign the Military Commissions Act of 2006 into law.” It is apt that Bush invoked a terrifying assault on America as he signed the Military Commissions Act (MCA), legislation that chisels away at our civil liberties, abets and immunizes top-level torturers, and strikes at the core of American values and tradition. The message that Bush gave when he signed the Defense Bill in 2005 is now truer than ever: “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”…
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Iraq in the news
Eli Stephens, Left I on the News
Four stories in the paper today, each in its own way with some strange aspect. The biggest one is the Richard Perle story – “the intellectual godfather of the Iraq war…now believes he should not have backed the U.S.-led invasion, and…holds President Bush responsible for failing to make timely decisions to stem the rising violence.” Well, his deathbed (that’s not his deathbed, you understand, just the deathbed of hundreds of thousands of Iraqs and several thousand Americans and others) confession doesn’t hold much water with me, and one reason to doubt its sincerity (as well as the worth of the American media) is this sentence, printed without challenge: Perle …is quoted in January’s Vanity Fair as saying the U.S. might have been able to strip Saddam Hussein of his ability to build unconventional weapons “by means other than a direct military intervention.” The fact that Iraq had had neither “unconventional weapons” nor even unconventional weapons “programs” since the early 90's? Apparently that has escaped the attention of both Perle and the writer of this article…
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CIA Torture Down the Memory Hole
Kurt Nimmo
According to the CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post, the unitary decider “administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the ‘alternative interrogation methods’ that their captors used to get them to talk.” According to the government, these “alternative interrogation methods,” actually brutal medieval torture techniques updated to include sexual humiliation, are “now among the nation’s most sensitive national security secrets” and any release of information about the systematic sadism of the state against largely innocent victims, especially released to the attorneys of the victims, “could reasonably be expected to cause extremely grave damage” to the torture and murder state, now a bestial leviathan with tentacles stretching around the world.
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Propaganda: Syria Planning Attacks Against Saudi Kingdom
Roads to Iraq
Israeli website published this: Syria’s intelligence service is recruiting terrorists to target key members of the ruling kingdom of Saudi Arabia, according to the Kuwait newspaper Al Seyassah. One of the targets is Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, the former ambassador to Washington, who now heads of the Saudi national Security Council. I searched alseyassah newspaper archives from today’s reports back to two weeks ago, there is no where to find such a report…
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WE ARE WITNESSING THE ‘FINAL SOLUTION’ IN GAZA
Desert Peace
It is no longer an occupation, it is no longer ‘simply’ an invasion… it’s openly the beginning of ‘the final solution’. The very existence of the Palestinian nation hangs on a thread as I write this. One by one, regardless of age or gender, the state of Israel is killing them. No one is safe in their homes, in their mosques, at work, on the street… nowhere. Gaza has become a warzone. There is no other way to describe it…
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR SATURDAY, November 4, 2006
Today in Iraq
Four mortar rounds poured down near Iraq’s most-revered Sunni shrine, the Grand Imam Abu Hanifa Mosque, in north Baghdad, killing at least five people. Baghdad police reported finding 15 bodies dumped throughout the city in the 24 hours ending at 6 p.m. Saturday. Fifty-six bullet-riddled bodies were found in Baghdad by Iraq police in the previous 24 hours, a Baghdad emergency police official said Friday morning. Three people were killed and six more were wounded when three mortar rounds landed in a residential area in southern Baghdad’s Dora district…
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Mirror, mirror on the wall…
Anwaar Hussain, Fountainhead
For six long years, the Republicans have been in the driving seat of the American juggernaut as it recklessly blazed its trail across the world stage like a massive inexorable force crushing whatever stood in its path. Now, as the US electorate prepares to vote in the upcoming elections for the United States House of Representatives on November 7, 2006, with all of the 435 seats in the House up for election, it is time to review America’s current world image…
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Massive Deployment of Naval Power directed against Iran: Eisenhower Strike Group arrives in the “Arabian Gulf”
MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY, Global Research
In an earlier article (Oct 24), we had reported that the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (IKE CSG) was moving towards the Persian Gulf theater. Following a press dispatch issued by the US military, we confirmed that the USS Eisenhower was still in the Mediterranean. The same military source has now confirmed that Eisenhower Strike Group (IKE CSG) has entered (what the US military is now calling) the “Arabian Gulf” [Persian Gulf]…
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The Privilege of Unaccountable Elitism: The Real Insult to Our Troops
Walter C. Uhler
In this topsy-turvy “Bizarro” United States under the regime of Bush and Cheney, nothing is as it seems. Thanks to the American genius for advertising, the lazy and obsequious stenographers in the mainstream news media and the abysmally poor education of so many Americans, a cowardly Vietnam era draft-dodging alcoholic son of privilege became “born again” President of the United States and, in the name of “moral clarity,” sent other parents’ children – but not his own — to kill and be killed in support of the most egregiously illegal and immoral war ever to besmirch America’s world reputation…
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Secret Letter: Iraqi Military Alert
Roads to Iraq
As published on Elaph (via alasra), this is a copy of the letter to put Iraqi military and police on alert, before Saddam’s verdict. The Prime Minister in his orders at the meeting of the General Command of the Armed Forces held today, the possibility of a verdict of the High Criminal Court against Saddam Hussein decided the following: All units under the authority of the Interior Ministry to be at High alert, consideration from 1400 hours today and until further notice. All vacations will be canceled, police and military generals, to be present in the bases. All units to take immediate and resolute response by each act in violation of the law and prevent all armed rallies, ended, implementation…
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Iraq Imposes Curfew in Capital, Four Provinces
Security Tightened Ahead on Hussein Verdict
John Ward Anderson, Washington Post Foreign Service
Iraqi officials on Saturday announced an all-day Sunday curfew in Baghdad and four provinces, fearing that the expected announcement of a verdict in the trial of former president Saddam Hussein could inflame nationalist and sectarian passions and escalate the daily deluge of violence. We hope that the verdict will give this man what he deserves for the crimes he committed against the Iraqi people,” Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said in remarks carried on state television. Saying a verdict in the 12-month trial would be announced Sunday, Maliki called on people “to remain calm and express their happiness in an appropriate way in this current situation, in a way that does not risk their lives.”…
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Biet Hanoun Emergency – Where are the United Nation!
The fourth day of the new Jewish “Israeli” massacre in Biet Hanoun continues.Biet Hanoun looks like Jenin after the Jew’ s carnage in Jenin 2002..
Hayam Noir, PalestineFreeVoice
“Israel” the state of sponsored ( United States) terrorism continue its carnage in Biet Hanoun in a new murder – operation “Autumn Clouds” the death toll is rising 42 people have been killled- four Palestinians have been killed during the morning hours more then 200 hundred are injured – some are in critical condition – some in a state of coma.The Jewish killers are still in Biet Hanoun The Jews have gathered the Palestinian citizens into closed courtyards of schools in an attempt to terrify them to show them the impossibillity of the Palestinian resistance fighters to protect its Palestinian citizens.But As the Jews war on the Palestinians rages on, Palestinian United armed factions threaten of stronger attacks against Israel – and inside that terrorist state !…
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The Unbearable Darkness of Being A Palestinian Untermensch
Umkahlil
Samia Halaby’s drawing of the women of Kafr Qasem’s “embrace before death,” from the depiction of the killings during the ninth wave of the 1956 massacre perpetuated by Zionist immigrants. The “cool” Zionists (that’s an example of an oxymoron) whose blogs are the latest in Israel’s hasbara get indignant when one uses Nazi analogies for Zionists. They also get all huffy when one says Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state and bat off their stock mantra: Why can’t Jews have their own state when everyone else does, disregarding that the Jews stole Palestine from its indigenous inhabitants, and then lied and covered up the atrocities committed. Actually, since the Zionist onslaught has been ongoing for one hundred plus years now, perhaps comparison to Nazis, who perpetuated evil for a much shorter duration than the Zionists, is not entirely accurate. Zionists do compete with Nazis in their views on untermenschen…
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Number of dead in Gaza reaching historic levels
Dion Nissenbaum, McClatchy Newspapers
Malki Shahwan silently picks at the peach tissue she’s using to dab at the tears in the corners of her opaque eyes, eyes that her family says have gone blind from grief. In the last 12 years, Shahwan has lost three of her eight sons to the battle with Israel. Now a young nephew, a Hamas militant, has died in a clash with other Palestinian gunmen in a battle for control of the Gaza Strip. Overcrowded, impoverished and now dominated by Islamist fundamentalists, Gaza has never been a beacon of hope in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But now an unprecedented chain of events has turned this bedraggled strip of land between Israel and Egypt into a place of unrelenting death and mayhem…
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Hey America, Stop your Bellyaching and get to Work
Mike Whitney
The problem with the midterms is that the political system is no longer transferable. Consider this: Did the Bush troupe assemble all the levers of absolute power including unlimited surveillance of every phone call, e-mail, bank transaction, doctor’s visit etc just to transfer that power over to Democratic control? Did they frantically slap together the Military Commission Act of 2006, which repeals the Bill of Rights and denies American citizens due process of law if they are imprisoned on the orders of the president, just to hand that power over to Hilary Clinton or Barak Obama?…
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Bush Surrenders Iraq to Maliki’s Death Squad
Ahmed Amr, www.dissidentvoice.org
When the time eventually comes to make historic documentaries about the Iraq war, there is one scene that will leave no doubt about the dark and sinister nature of George W. Bush. The timing is a week before mid-term elections. Along with his senior aides, the president is holding a videoconference with Nouri Al-Maliki, the Prime Minister of Iraq. After an extraordinary public feud, the two men kiss and make up in front of the cameras. But both walk away from the encounter — which was initiated at the request of Maliki — with the understanding that the United States will abandon efforts to tackle the death squads in Iraq. The hastily arranged meeting was the result of a little spat between the administration and the Iraqi government on how best to deal with reign of terror in Iraq, largely attributed to Iranian trained and indoctrinated Shia militants that have infiltrated Maliki’s security forces…
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Blowhard Theatrics on the Way to a Fixed Election
Kurt Nimmo
As the midterm election closes in, our unitary decider, engaged in a “campaign-closing tour,” tells those who will listen, including a handful of Republican candidates and incumbents who have yet to slouch off into the shadows, fearing political contamination, that if Democrats sweep the House and Senate, the “terrorists win and America loses,” simple as that. According to political analysts, the Iraq card is the only one in the decider’s hand. “There is nothing that seems to be so quite in the minds of Americans—not gay marriage … not taxes. There is nothing that overshadows Iraq,” Philip Hughes, a communications consultant who served on the National Security Councils of the previous Bush and Reagan administrations, tells the Chicago Tribune. “The president, it seems to me, has no choice but to defend his policy, to defend Iraq.” For some reason this is viewed as resolve, when in fact it is political bankruptcy and the ugly head of decidership tyranny rearing. “As unpopular as the Iraq war has become, they say, the president cannot run from it, so he is running with it,” never mind more than seventy percent of Americans want out of Iraq…
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GI Special 4K4: Resistance Where It Counts – November 4, 2006
Thomas F. Barton
– Michigan Marine Killed In Iraq
– Three U.S. Soldiers Killed By Baghdad IED
– Marine Killed in Anbar
– Soldier Killed At Taji
– N.C. Based Marine From Indiana Dies In Iraq
– Absarokee Man Dies In Iraq Bombing
– Indiana Soldier Killed In Mosul
– Another South African Mercenary Killed
– Zionists Butcher Un-Armed Women
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