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Come Look Inside – Images of Iraq, Words of Martin Luther King
Chlamor, Democratic Underground
…Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours…
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Children starving under ‘democratic’ occupation
John Catalinotto
Anyone still trying to defend the U.S. occupation of Iraq as somehow more hum anitarian than leaving the country to the Iraqis themselves got hit with some overwhelming contrary evidence March 30: United Nations hunger specialist Jean Ziegler announced in a report to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva that twice as many children are malnourished in Iraq now as there were when the occupation began in 2003 (…) Before the war, using funds from the “Oil for Food” program, the Ba’athist government led by Saddam Hussein managed to organize the distribution of enough food to Iraq‚s population to feed almost all of the people. At most this was costing $1 or $2 billion a year. More money than that has disappeared into the accounting morass of the occupation regime…
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ONE DAY TOO EARLY!
DO PRESIDENTS LIE?
Tom Rose
…In summary, if President George W. Bush is indeed of the opinion that he was misled in making unconstitutional war on Iraq, what should he do? He should take immediate steps to evacuate Iraq with all haste and make sincere apologies for unnecessarily making war against the innocent Iraqi people and a truthful regime. He should free Saddam Hussein (Bush is the “war criminal,” not Hussein) and allow Saddam to return to Iraq or anywhere he wishes to go. He should apologize to the American people and ask them to make amends to the poor people of Iraq who have been bombed for so long and shot at by American troops who trustingly were led astray to fight in an unconstitutional war…
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The Armageddon Man
Tom Barry, Foreign Policy in Focus
…Two months prior to the Iraq invasion, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control John Bolton traveled to Jerusalem to meet with former Prime Minister Netanyahu and Prime Minister Sharon to discuss strategies for “preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction.” No mention was made of the widely accepted fact – although never mentioned by the United States ˜that Israel is the only nuclear power in the Middle East. Instead, the undersecretary for disarma! ment affairs focused on the Bush administration’s disarmament targets following the planned invasion of Iraq. Bolton in February 2003 said that once regime change plans in Iraq were completed, “it will be necessary to deal with threats from Syria, Iran, and North Korea afterwards”…
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Let them eat bombs
The doubling of child malnutrition in Iraq is baffling
Terry Jones, The Guardian
A report to the UN human rights commission in Geneva has concluded that Iraqi children were actually better off under Saddam Hussein than they are now.
This, of course, comes as a bitter blow for all those of us who, like George Bush and Tony Blair, honestly believe that children thrive best when we drop bombs on them from a great height, destroy their cities and blow up hospitals, schools and power stations…
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Pope TV and the new world media
Mike Whitney
…Don’t talk about a “free press”. The American media showed their true colors in their handling of the decimation of Falluja. The entire media stood by with their hands over their mouths while a city of 250,000 was bombed to the ground in the greatest single war crime in the last decade. The story of Falluja is a tale of cluster bombs, napalm, depleted uranium, banned weapons, families crushed in their homes, dogs devouring dead citizens on the city streets, and mass! es of displaced people victimized by a vengeful and implacable enemy. It’s a story of unspeakable crimes, of absolute impunity, and unfathomable cynicism…
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Michael Ledeen: “Some Top Official Will Have to Die”
Xymphora
…When the time comes for the next attack – and as I’ve said before I think it will be Syria and Lebanon rather than Iran – there will be a ‘terrorist’ attack against a top American official – probably someone without the requisite subservient attitude towards Israel – which will immediately be blamed by the Bush Administration on “(obviously) Iranian-supported terrorists” (substitute ‘Syrian-supported’ if the neocon plan is to go after Syria). Of course, the attack could also be against Americans generally, following the model of September 11…
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On the ground, conflicting signals of a nation’s future
Patrick Cockburn, Independent
Seven hundred Iraqi and US troops swept through central Baghdad yesterday, arresting 65 suspected militants. But despite this show of force, American forces are on the retreat throughout Iraq. Slowly, the great American adventure in the country, which started with the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, is coming to an end. But the battle to interpret its place in history is just beginning. As with the withdrawal from Vietnam in 1972, the US military, faced with a costly and unwinnable war, evidently want to depart after declaring victory and before local forces collapse. In reality, large parts of Iraq are outside American or Iraqi government control…
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From “Rogue States” to “Unstable Nations”:
America’s New National Security Doctrine
Michel Chossudovsky, www.globalresearch.ca
In mid-March, the Pentagon released a major document, entitled The National Defense Strategy of the United States of America. This document constitutes a departure from the doctrine of pre-emptive warfare, which has characterized most national security statements since 9/11. Whereas the preemptive war doctrine envisages military action as a means of “self defense” against countries c! ategorized as “hostile” to the US, the new Pentagon doctrine envisages the possibility of military intervention against countries which do not visibly constitute a threat to the security of the American homeland…
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Cover the Insurgents, Go to Prison (or Worse)
Aaron Glantz, Antiwar.com
The international press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders is calling on the U.S. government to release a CBS cameraman it shot last week while he was covering a gunfight in Mosul. When he was shot, the Iraqi freelancer was armed with only his camera. A U.S. Army statement said the CBS cameraman was being held because be might pose “an imperative threat to the coalition forces.” The U.S. military suspects him of links to the rebels because video footage found in his camera shows he was on the scene of several bombings shortly after they took place…
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US Millions in Iraq Wasted
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
…The true cost of the Iraq misadventure is consistently underestimated by the Bush administration, which does not even include the extra funds in the budget deficit! They even sneak the wounded soldiers back into this country so that the public does not get an accurate sense of the war’s human costs for Americans…
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AMS rejects role in Iraqi politics
Ahmed Janabi , Aljazeera.net
The Association of Muslim Scholars has reaffirmed to interim Iraqi Vice-President Shaikh Ghazi al-Yawir its opposition to participation in any political process as long as foreign troops remain in the country(…) “President Bush himself has said that Syrian troops must withdraw from Lebanon before the Lebanese elections, and said there is no point for elections in Lebanon while foreign troops exist on its national soil. Why does that not apply to Iraq?”…
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Down With Democratic Party USA!
Rosa Faiz, IŒN‚I
…Democratic Party USA is a major part of the problem. But, that is only the beginning statement of any programmatic effort to set things right. Yet, that is where we must start. The corruption of ideas and the inability to think creatively runs so deep in the USA that as luminary a figure as a Noam Chomsky, or a Howard Zinn, when it came down to it, folded and advocated that voters should side with the establishment and throw away their rights by voting for a war -promoting Democrat presidential candidate in 2004…
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Sharon’s Double Dealing in the Middle East: Time for America to Wake Up and Do Right
Sam Hamod
…It would also help our standing in the world if we pulled out of Iraq, especially since the new government is in place–as we promised we would do many months ago. This would help our image in the Muslim world, help restore some confidence in the dollar (which is in danger of a free fall even to this day) and would give us a chance to bring our people home to their wives, husbands, children and loved ones instead of leaving them in the killing zone called Iraq, the killing zone where the Depleted Uranium weapons we are using there are the only WMDs and that will poison not only the Iraqis but have already poisoned thousands of our own troops…
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The Real Threat from John Bolton
Jude Wanniski
… There is no way he could dismantle the United Nations, and in the hearings today before your committee he made all kinds of sweet sounds about wanting the “strengthen the U.N.” His real mission, though, is nothing less than to undermine the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and once he is installed, he will be in a position to take his orders from the Perle Cabal to do so (…) They will surely propose an amendment “strengthening” the Treaty that will remove the “inalienable right” of NPT members to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes (under perpetual monitoring). North Korea was quite prepared to do this several years ago, until it observed Iraq – a fellow “rogue state” according to the President – in full compliance with the NPT and getting bombed and occupied anyway…
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Insurgents Strike Across Iraq; American Kidnapped
Chicago Tribune
Iraqi insurgents struck Monday in ways large and small and deadly, launching a concerted attack on U.S. forces near the Syrian border, detonating a truck bomb in a crowded market in Samarra and kidnapping an American contractor in the Baghdad area. The U.S. Embassy declined to release details about the kidnapping, saying only that it occurred midday at the site of a reconstruction project. The man’s family was notified, an embassy spokesman said…
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Dear George and Dick
Cindy Sheehan
Dear George and Dick, I apologize (not really, you don’t deserve my apologies) for the familiarity, but I don’t call the people responsible for my son’s death: Mr, or Sir, nor do I have any respect for the offices that you have defiled. The only thing you both mean to me is pain and devastation. George and Dick, you are both shameful cowards who are sending our brave young people to die to make yourselves and your buddies unbelievably and fabulously wealthy. Neither of you have any idea of the true human, sorrowful cost of war nor do you care that you are ruining lives by the thousands and thousands. You both disgust me beyond belief…
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Iraq War Haunts Blair on Election Trail
IslamOnline.net
Seeking to keep vivid the images of British soldiers coming home from Iraq in coffins, the father of a British soldier killed in the occupied Arab country decided to stand against Prime Minister as an independent candidate to make sure that premier does not forget it. “I want to hold Tony Blair to account for his deceit over the war in Iraq,” Reg Keys told Reuters Monday, April 11, as he began campaigning. “My son Tom believed what he was told, but Blair lied to him, and to all those other soldiers who came home in coffins after fighting in a war that was illegal and immoral”…
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 10 April 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. www.freearabvoice.org
…The Iraqi Journalists Union in the city of Samarra‚ held a ceremony to award Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent Khalid ‘Abd al-Jabbar the Best Journalist Award for his coverage of the fighting in Samarra’. Khalid ‘Abd al-Jabbar gave his life covering the battles there. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in Samarra‚ reported that the ceremony was attended by the doyen of Iraqi journalists, Muhammad ad-Dulaymi, his first deputy Ahmad as-Samarra‚i, his second deputy Bashir Fadil al-Badrani, the Chairman of the Samarra‚ branch of the journalists union Muhammad al-Badrani, and a large number of Iraqi correspondents and writers who worked with the martyr Khalid ŒAbd al-Jabbar…
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More US Troops Questioning Iraq Duty
Christian Henderson, Al Jazeera
As the number of US dead or wounded in Iraq continues to rise, there is growing disquiet in the US army about serving in the two-year-old war. US army figures indicate that since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, about 5500 military personnel have absconded. In 2003 an independent advisory service for US military personnel, the GI Rights Hotline, received 32,000 calls, twice as many as in 2001, from soldiers wanting to leave the military…
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Growling at Halliburton from the Belly of the Beast
Houston Activists Target Shareholders Meeting in May
Greg Moses, www.dissidentvoice.org
On April Fools Day in the most obese and most polluted city in the USA (no wonder Houston is famous for its cancer centers) Halliburton subsidiary KBR (Kellogg Brown & Root) hosted an Open House for jobs. Come in they said and help yourself to a tiny handful of cash from the billions we’re scarfing up in Iraq alone. All you have to do is switch off your conscience and give us what’s left over. In return we will fly you to the Baghdad Airport where you can join our “Red Neck Mafia” building Texas-style democracy for Iraqis while beating the shit out of Mexicans that we will provide on site Easter Day…
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