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  • ’Can’t Blair see that this country is about to explode? Can’t Bush?’
    2 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Fisk
    The war is a fraud. I’m not talking about the weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist. Nor the links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa’ida which didn’t exist. Nor all the other lies upon which we went to war. I’m talking about the new lies.
    For just as, before the war, our governments warned us of threats that did not exist, now they hide from us the threats that do exist. Much of Iraq has fallen outside the control of America’s puppet government in Baghdad but we are (…)

  • Unreported war: US document reveals scale of conflict
    31 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Robert Fisk
    Iraq, we are told by Mr Blair, is safer. It is not. US military reports clearly show much of the violence in Iraq is not revealed to journalists, and thus goes largely unreported. This account of the insurgency across Iraq over three days last week provides astonishing proof that Iraq under its new, American-appointed Prime Minister, has grown more dangerous and violent.
    But even this is only a partial record of events. US casualties and dozens of Iraqi civilian deaths (…)

  • Iraq: What Went Wrong?
    27 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Soldz
    [Talk delivered July 22, 2004 to Roslindale Neighbors for Peace and Justice]
    After invading Iraq, the leader of the conquering army proclaimed:
    "Our armies do not come in your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators ... I am commanded to invite you to participate in the management of your own civil affairs."
    Was this George Bush, Tony Blair, Paul Bremer, or Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez? No, it was conquering British General Stanley Maude, in 1917.1,2 (…)

  • Dear Senator Kerry
    23 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ward Reilly
    Greetings from a common American citiizen, and a fellow veteran. I am writing this letter to you because our nation is in dire distress, due to the wreckless lack of leadership from the White House concerning our nation’s foreign policy, and because of the depression here at home. Our country is "out-sourcing" itself, to borrow a modern phrase.
    I have been pondering for weeks now on what words of mine might have a chance of making an impact upon you. I wrote a similar (…)

  • The Iraq War is All Right Then
    19 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Fisk
    Lord Butler told us Wednesday that Tony Blair acted in good faith. So that’s all right then.
    At the al-Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad on the same morning, there was blood on the walls, blood on the floor, blood on the doctors, blood on the stretchers. In the dangerous oven of Baghdad, 10 more lives had just ended. So what was it Tony Blair said in the Commons? "We are not killing civilians in Iraq; terrorists are killing civilians in Iraq." So that’s all right then. (…)

  • Let Bush and Kerry Lead With their Children Into Iraq and Afghanistan
    18 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Let Bush and Kerry Lead With their Children Into Iraq and Afghanistan
    By Sam Hamod
    It is clear that if Bush really believes in sacrifice for Iraq and Afghanistan, he should send Barbara to Iraq as a U.S. Army soldier and Jenna to Afghanistan as a soldier; in this way, he’ll show that he really believes in these two wars he’s put our young men and women into. If Kerry wants to lead, he should do the same; as should Edwards. Otherwise, they must capitulate and say publicly that Nader, (…)

  • Only Cowards Cancel Elections
    15 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    A number of trial balloons have been floated in recent days, from Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge specifically, about canceling or postponing the national election because of a terrorist attack. DeForest B. Soaries Jr., the Bush-appointed chairman of the newly minted U.S. Election Assistance Commission, apparently got the ball rolling with Ridge by writing a letter to him. In it, he bade Ridge ask Congress for the power to put off the November election in the (…)

  • BOYCOTT THE MILITARY
    15 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by TED RALL
    NEW YORK—A haunted young man whose face bears too many lines for his years, jetlagged and limping from a wound sustained in the defense of his country half a world away, emerges from a jetway at San Francisco International Airport. A woman about the same age awaits in the terminal. A peace-sign necklace hanging above a loose floral-print dress billowing about her unshaven legs, the hippie chick scornfully scans his uniform, spits in his face and screams: "Baby killer!" The (…)

  • How the Iraqis See It
    11 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Sam Hamod
    I think it’s about time that someone told the American people how the Iraqis see it. I am not talking about the puppet regime installed by Bush, that was opposed, and is still opposed by the Iraqi people, Brahimi and the experts at the UN and in the US State Department, but about the vast majority of non-Kurd Iraqis (over 90% of the country).
    The American troops are colonial occupiers, similar to the old British colonialists who tried to run Iraq in the past. They feel our (…)

  • The Handover: Restoration of Iraqi sovereignty - or Alice in Wonderland?
    2 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Fisk
    So in the end, America’s enemies set the date. The handover of "full sovereignty" was secretly brought forward so that the ex-CIA intelligence officer who is now "Prime Minister" of Iraq could avoid another bloody offensive by America’s enemies. What is supposed to be the most important date in Iraq’s modern history was changed ­ like a birthday party ­ because it might rain on Wednesday.
    Pitiful is the word that comes to mind. Here we were, handing "full sovereignty" to (…)