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  • Film shows Cleland’s cause Disabled vet says Iraq war a tragic error
    2 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DAVID HO
    NEW YORK - Max Cleland never wanted to come full circle.
    But for the Vietnam veteran and former U.S. senator from Georgia, his recent visits to see American soldiers wounded in Iraq have the feel of history repeating itself.
    "This is Vietnam revisited in every way," Cleland, who lost two legs and an arm in a 1968 grenade explosion, said in an interview Wednesday. "I thought I’d never see it again in my lifetime. I thought we’d learned some basic lessons."
    Cleland visits (…)

  • 80% of US believe Bush of Iraq disinformation
    2 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq doubts keep Bush’s popularity on the slide
    by Julian Borger
    George Bush’s popularity fell to a new low yesterday in a poll which suggests that there is an increasing level of scepticism about the motives for the Iraq invasion and rising concern about its consequences.
    Nearly 80% of the Americans questioned in the poll for the New York Times and CBS news thought he had been either "hiding something" or "mostly lying" in his statements on Iraq.
    Only 18% believed that he had (…)

  • Nukes in the US Protectorate of Iraq? Iran Looks to Its West and Says: I Don’t Think So
    23 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By RON JACOBS
    In one more instance of duplicity and hypocrisy as regards the US plans for Iraq, Undersecretary of State John Bolton stated June 8, 2004 that Iraq could one day build nuclear power plants. Although that day is, in Bolton’s words "a ways down the road," it could happen once things settled down there. When that will be is anyone’s guess, of course, but that won’t stop the nuclear industry from salivating over more taxpayer dollars going into their pockets.
    Bolton’s statement (…)

  • Hill won’t release abuse dossier for risk of offending US
    22 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tom Allard, Defence Reporter
    The Federal Government has refused to make public a detailed 61-page dossier outlining what Australians knew about prisoner abuse in Iraq, with the Minister for Defence, Robert Hill, claiming some details would offend the US.
    Senator Hill was yesterday censured in the Senate for his role in misleading Parliament and his failure to take responsibility for the false statements made by him, the Prime Minister and senior Defence officials.
    Senator Hill had (…)

  • Irreversible Mental Damage
    20 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By: Uri Avnery*
    Two weeks ago, the international community made a shocking declaration.
    Giving in to a demand by George Bush, the “Quartet” accepted the “Revised Disengagement Plan” of Ariel Sharon. This means that the United Nations, the European Union, the Russian Federation and the United States confirmed this document. I wonder if any one of the honorable diplomats has read the document with their own eyes.
    In the first paragraph of the “plan”, the following words appear: “ Israel (…)

  • The view from the editorial pages
    19 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen W. Stromberg
    President Bush may still believe in the pre-war Iraq-al Qaida connection as much as a 5-year old does in Santa Claus, but the editorial boards of several major newspapers are no longer deluded — thanks in large part to this week’s revelation by the 9/11 commission that Iraq and al-Qaida had no working relationship.
    The Financial Times: "Whether the Osama and Saddam thesis was more the result of self-delusion or cynical manipulation, it — along with Washington’s (…)

  • Bush’s Mercenary Army
    18 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Stewart Nusbaumer
    Until the first bomb landed on the center of Baghdad, I insisted, although my friends insisted I was nuts, we were not going into Iraq. Not my best predication.
    What went wrong, with me? I underestimated George Bush’s stupidity. My friends are better at stupidity than I am.
    My firm belief that our military was not going into Iraq was based upon a certainty on my part that a U.S. occupation of Iraq would turn out to be an utter disaster, for both Iraqis and Americans. (…)

  • Did Iran use Chalabi to lure the U.S. into Iraq?
    18 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    TED GALEN CARPENTER, Cato Institute
    The Bush administration’s disenchantment with its onetime favorite Iraqi client, Ahmad Chalabi, has centered on the explosive allegation that he and his associates may have forwarded highly classified U.S. information to the fundamentalist Islamist government in Iran. Specifically, Chalabi and his cohorts are accused of informing Tehran that the United States had broken the communications code of Iran’s intelligence service.
    If true, this could become (…)

  • US Army Paralyses Baghdad with Fortifications
    14 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Baghdad Fumes as the Americans Seek Safety in ’Tombstone’ Forts
    By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
    http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=530692&host=3&dir=75
    The US army is paralyzing the heart of Baghdad as it builds ever more elaborate fortifications to protect its bases against suicide bombers.
    "Do not enter or you will be shot," reads an abrupt notice attached to some razor wire blocking a roundabout at what used to be the entrance to the 14 July bridge over (…)

  • Rewriting the script
    11 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Unlike the current occupant of the White House, Reagan was willing to improvise on the far-right script, which is what ultimately saved his presidency.
    By Sidney Blumenthal
    Ronald Reagan’s presidency collapsed at the precise moment on Nov. 25, 1986, when he suddenly appeared without notice in the White House briefing room, introduced his attorney general, Edwin Meese, and instantly departed from the stage. Meese announced that funds raised by members of the National Security (…)