WHAT A WANKER!
Malcom Lagauche
…When asked about the horrific events now occurring in Iraq, he tried to put a positive slant on the issue. Rumsfeld told the host that he gave George Bush a list of 15 things that could go wrong prior to the illegal invasion of Iraq in March 2003: oil wells being set on fire; mass refugees and relocations; blown-up bridges; and a moat of oil around Baghdad. He then said, “So a great many of the bad things that could have happened did not happen.” Genius. To use Rumsfeld’s logic, one could point out that the people in the area of the devastating tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands of people about six months ago could be upbeat because they did not suffer a nuclear bomb attack at the same time…
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Another Karl Rove production – Bush speaks with troops as his stage props
Stan Goff
…Bush’s war has not made anyone safer. It has, however, destroyed the lives of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and according to international polls, the United States is now held in lower public esteem in the world than China. The United States is already suffering higher casualties than we were at the same stage of the Vietnam War. So, okay, Iraq is NOT Vietnam. It could, in fact, get worse. Rumsfeldis now telling us that the war could last for 12 more years…
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Fallujah massacre and tsunami: hypocrisy and double standards
Farhat Quammaquami, Tehran Times On-line
…Indeed, it’s been months since the “Thanksgiving Massacre” of Fallujah in 2004, which took place in memory of the first Thanksgiving Massacre of 700 Pequot Indians in 1637, and the world has yet to see an investigative report from the scenes of death and destruction in Fallujah. All we know is that the “city of a thousand mosques” was demolished so brutally that residents spoke of even dogs not being able to live there. In the words of Captain Paul Fowler to the Boston Globe: “The only way to root them out is to destroy everything in your path”…
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Salvador Option: Death Squads in Iraq
Hal C , Daily Kos
In January, Newsweek reported that the Pentagon was considering the Salvador Option for Iraq—US-trained Death Squads˜in an article titled ŒThe Salvador Option’ The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq. Today, Knight-Ridder reports that the Death Squads seem to have arrived in an article titled Campaign of executions feared in Iraq. Slain Sunnis have arrived at Baghdad’s morgue blindfolded, bound and shot. The author of today’s K-R article himself was shot and killed under mysterious circumstances last week in Baghdad…
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Washington in crisis over opposition to Iraq war
Bill Van Auken, WSWS
…Bush is set to deliver a rare prime-time television address Tuesday night, using massed troops at Fort Bragg in North Carolina as his backdrop. The setting is itself highly significant, casting the president once again as the war-time “commander-in-chief,” accountable to no one because of his control over the US military. The administration’s recent attempts to portray anyone questioning its policy in Iraq as a traitor and accomplice in the death of American troops is a measure of its growing desperation in the face of a sea-change in public opinion…
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US military sinks further into the Iraqi quagmire
Peter Symonds, WSWS
By any measure, the US military occupation of Iraq is steadily sinking into a quagmire of Washington’s own making. Successive claims by the Bush administration that the capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003, the installation of an interim administration last June, national elections in January and the inauguration of the new puppet government of Prime Minister Abrahim al-Jaafari in April would end armed resistance have proven to be completely illusory. There is no end in sight to the daily attacks on American and allied military personnel, or Iraqi government security forces…
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WTI Reaches Final Verdict in Istanbul: Bush and Blair Guilty
Dilek Hayirli, zaman.com
The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) composed of various international non-governmental organizations, academics, including professors of law, lawyers and judges have found US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of the war in Iraq (…) The verdict proves all justifications of the Iraqi occupation are false and the US and the UK invaded Iraq to keep the Middle East under pressure and hegemony, to control oil resources and to strengthen Israel’s position in the world. It reads that Bush and Blair committed one of the most illegitimate, unfair, and vicious and cravenly wars of history…
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A Defeat Bred in Deceit
Paul Craig Roberts
When Bush decided, prior to September 11, to attack Iraq, he committed himself to lies and deceit. As his British co-conspirators realized, only victory could save them from the consequences. On June 27, General George Casey, US commander of the “multinational coalition” in Iraq, told morning TV audiences that the conflict in Iraq “will not be settled on the battlefield.” On June 26, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told TV audiences that “coalition forces, foreign forces are not going to repress that insurgency.” The insurgency, Rumsfeld said, might “go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years.” (…) What kind of fantastic lie or gross incompetence caused a 12-year war to be marketed as a 3-week war?..
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Trashing the Constitution in the name of “Terrorism”
Meria Heller, MMN
…Newly released are the “Downing Street Papers” where proof positive of Blair and Bush planning to cook intel for any reason to go into Iraq in 2002 is shown. We as a nation were lied to into a war for profit and conquest. We have lost over 1700 of our children fighting a corporate war. Halliburton who still sends checks to Richard Cheney, is stealing our hard earned tax dollars with no-bid contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Without any proof of who created 9/11/01, Bush went into Afghanistan and Iraq on behalf of the Central Bank and to “save” the U.S. dollar from countries who wanted to trade their oil in Euros and not the dollar…
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Sunni men in Baghdad targeted by attackers in police uniforms
Tom Lasseter and Yasser Salihee, Knight Ridder Newspapers
Days after Iraq’s new Shiite-led government was announced on April 28, the bodies of Sunni Muslim men began turning up at the capital’s central morgue after the men had been detained by people wearing Iraqi police uniforms. Faik Baqr, the director and chief forensic investigator at the central Baghdad morgue, said the corpses first caught his attention because the men appeared to have been killed in methodical fashion…
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WHAT ELSE DID THE BASTARDS LIE ABOUT?
Michael Rivero, What Really Happened
…Because Bush lied to the Congress in his letter of March 18, 2003, the Congressional authorization for the use of force in Iraq is not legally in effect. Therefore, no serviceman or servicewoman is legally obligated to serve in Iraq one more day.
…As long as we tolerate lies in government we will live under a government that lies to us. And because of those lies, we can never know the truth of the world we live in, whether taxes are legal, wars are just, our economy as good as it can be. On the day We The People have the strength to make the cost of a lie outweigh the gain, on the day We The People drag the liars from office and hurl them into the streets in the most humiliating manner possible, then and only then will we have a government that is truthful. And we will not have it one day before. We have caught the government lying to us. What will you do about it?…
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The unofficial war: U.S., Britain led massive secret bombing campaign before Iraq war was declared
Larisa Alexandrovna and John Byrne, Raw Story
A U.S. general who commanded the U.S. allied air forces in Iraq has confirmed that the U.S. and Britain conducted a massive secret bombing campaign before the U.S. actually declared war on Iraq. The quote, passed from RAW STORY to the London Sunday Times last week, raises troubling questions of whether President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair engaged in an illegal war before seeking a UN resolution or congressional approval…
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15 Things Learned About Bush And Co.: An Impeachment List
Bernard Weiner
…Below is a quick list of fifteen things that I – and maybe half of my fellow Americans – have learned since George Bush first moved into the Oval Office four-plus years ago. I don’t know about you, but making such lists helps me sum up and clarify my thoughts, giving me something to chew on when figuring out what to do next, including the possibility of moving on some of these items as grounds for impeachment. See what you think…
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Iraq: A bloody mess
Patrick Cockburn, Independent
A year ago the supposed handover of power by the US occupation authority to an Iraqi interim government led by Iyad Allawi was billed as a turning point in the violent history of post-Saddam Iraq. It has turned out to be no such thing. Most of Iraq is today a bloody no-man’s land beset by ruthless insurgents, savage bandit gangs, trigger-happy US patrols and marauding government forces…
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More Evidence Indicts U.S.
Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service
New evidence on U.S. war crimes and violations of international law was presented at the concluding session of the World Tribunal on Iraq at hearings in Istanbul Sunday (…) “The assault on Iraq is an assault on all of us: on our dignity, our intelligence, and our future,” Roy said at the hearings.. “We recognise that the judgment of the World Tribunal on Iraq is not binding in international law. However, our ambitions far surpass that. The World Tribunal on Iraq places its faith in the consciences of millions of people across the world who do not wish to stand by and watch while the people of Iraq are being slaughtered, subjugated, and humiliated.”…
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Call Sensenbrenner’s Office
OrbStandard
As you all know by now, the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee Rep Sensenbrenner refused Rep Conyers the right to hold a hearing on the Downing Street Memo. It is Sensenbrenner’s prerogative to decide what is, or is not, heard in the Judiciary. It is reasonable that Sensenbrenner would not wish to have a formal hearing on the Downing Street Memo since it shows, with no ambiguity, that President Bush and senior members of his administration lied to Congress and the American people to justify a premeditated war of aggression based on intelligence and facts being fixed around the policy.
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Suicide Bombers as Freedom Fighters?
Jude Wanniski
…Donald Rumsfeld, on the Sunday talk shows yesterday, clearly indicated he does not understand that the “insurgents” in Iraq are fighting and dieing, even willing to commit suicide if need be to protect hearth and home from the American invaders and occupiers. Rumsfeld still insists the suicide bombers are outside religious fanatics from Syria or Saudi Arabia and that Iraqis themselves wouldn’t blow themselves up…
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British troops join Iraqi insurgents
IRIB News
British soldiers die in Iraq more because of “blue on blue” fire than hostile fire. Over 70 British army troops have joined Iraqi insurgents in fight against the US-led forces, it was reported Monday. Four British soldiers were killed over the past days in Iraq in clashes with US marines, forcing the British officials to launch an investigation into the indicent…
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Bush’s War Against Iraq Ruining America
Paul Craig Roberts
Last Friday the price of light sweet crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange for August delivery closed 16 cents short of $60/barrel ˆ the highest price ever and an ironic outcome for the millions of Americans who believe that cheap oil was the reason for Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Equally shocking to Americans was the announcement that China has outbid US oil giant Chevron for the American oil company, Unocal…
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Biscuit Teams advise interrogators/torturers
kafka.com – Iraqwar.mirror-world.ru
The New York Times reports on Guantanamo’s Biscuit teams: Bryan Whitman, a senior Pentagon spokesman, declined to address the specifics in the accounts. But he suggested that the doctors advising interrogators were not covered by ethics strictures because they were not treating patients but rather were acting as behavioral scientists…
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Tariq Aziz questioned on UN letters
Aljazeera.net
…It was not clear when Aziz was questioned, but his lawyer Badea Aref, who was present during the questioning, said that it happened on June 21. “The prosecutor was impolite to Mr Aziz and he even told him: ‘You are a criminal’. This angered Mr Aziz and me, and we had heated argument with him,” he said. “It is not acceptable and I am filing a complaint asking for the prosecutor to respect the defendant”…
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