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We don't need no terrorism
Truth About Iraqis
... Lieuteant-General Buchanan said that was a lie. Iraqi deaths are
staged. To make America look bad. "I would tell you first off I don't
believe most of it and I am very much aware that some of that has been
staged," said Lt. Gen. Walter E. Buchanan III, Commander of the 9th U.S.
Air Force and U.S. Central Command Air Forces. Buchanan, speaking to The
Associated Press on the sidelines on the annual Dubai Air Show, said the
U.S. Air Force was doing everything ne! cessary to minimize civilian
casualties. Does this man have children? Because I would like to send them
pictures - thousands of pictures of dead Iraqi children, burned, maimed,
limbs hanging loosely to plaster on their walls. Yes, bring down the
Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan posters, and put these instead.

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UK's deadly legacy: the cluster bomb
Ben Russell, Political Correspondent, The Independent
Tony Blair is facing fresh fury over the use of controversial munitions in
the Iraq war. Campaigners lambasted the Ministry of Defence over its use of
deadly cluster bombs and shells during the invasion, warning that they
could contravene international law. MPs are to table a raft of new
questions today over the affair amid fears that thousands of bomblets
released during the war will leave a deadly legacy for Iraqi civilia! ns.
They warned that any unexploded bomblets could kill or maim civilians for
years to come...

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White House used 'gossip' to build case for war
Rupert Cornwell
The controversy in America over pre-war intelligence has intensified, with
revelations that the Bush administration exaggerated the claims of a key
source on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, despite repeated
warnings before the invasion that his information was at best dubious, if
not downright wrong. The disclosure, in The Los Angeles Times, came after a
week of vitriolic debate on Iraq, amid growing demands for a speedy
withdrawal of US ! troops and tirades from Bush spokesmen who all but
branded as a traitor anyone who suggested that intelligence was
deliberately skewed to make the case for war...

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What the US does to prisoners
No Right Turn
This is a woodcut from Joost De Damhoudere's Praxis Rerum Criminalium, a
guide to criminal law as it stood in the 16th century. The woodcut
illustrates "the water cure", a method of interrogation. The victim is tied
down, their face covered with a cloth, and water is poured into their
mouth. It produces a sensation of drowning and asphyxiation, and so
encourages the victim to talk. Hence the scribe, ready to take down the
confession. According to numerous sources within! the CIA, this is exactly
what the US does to "high-value" detainees...

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Saddam's Lawyer: Iranian Intelligence is Threatening and has Murdered our
Colleagues
Al Malaf, Almendhar
The defense lawyer for the ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has
accused the Iranian intelligence of being behind the assassination of other
defense lawyers. In a phone call with Reuters from an unknown location on
Sunday, the lawyer Khalil Al Dulaimi, head of the defense team, said that
he and his colleagues desire to attend the trial session of Saddam next
week, in case the government responded to their ! demands for securing
appropriate protection, despite the increasing threats against their
lives...

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Spinning the News: Fallujah
Rowan Wolf, Project for the OLD American Century
On the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams on November 16, 2005, they ran
a report "Weapons Controversy." While it is excellent that the issue of the
use of chemical weapons - particularly white phosphorus - in the attack on
Fallujah make the corporate press, the report contained inaccuracies and
spin. I made my own transcript of the report, which you can find in full at
the end of this article. Miklaszewski starts off the report with t! he
statement: The accusations first aired by Italian television claimed the
U.S. military used chemical weapons - specifically incendiary white
phosphorus munitions- against Iraqi civilians in the battle of Fallujah one
year ago. This is patently not true. There were reports in June 2005 that
the U.S. used chemical weapons in its assault on the city...

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GI Special 3D21A: Report From Australia - November 21, 2005
www.militaryproject.org
...In town today is one of the world's biggest war criminals. He is here to
tell the Australian government the expectations of the US self-appointed
global policeman, to brief the Deputy-Sheriff. Calling Rumsfeld an
international war criminal is not a piece of rhetoric - the evidence is
clear and damning of his career as a bureaucrat of torture and pre-emptive
war. Rumsfeld is the director of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, w!
hich has so-far killed tens of thousands of Iraqis as well as over 2000 US
and 100 British troops. That invasion has advanced the barbaric program of
refining the technology of mass murder, such as the use of depleted
uranium, which has been tested in Australia...

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BATTLEFIELD RADIATION
DU vet: 'My days are numbered'
ERIC PRIDEAUX
Gerard Matthew has broad shoulders and beefy hands. He's built like a bear.
Yet as sturdy as this 31-year-old may look, he is a very sick man. Matthew
suffers, for example, from facial swelling, double and triple vision,
muscle weakness, bouts of extreme anger that sometimes cause him to lash
out at his wife, erectile dysfunction and, most serious of all, a tumor in
the pituitary gland at the base of his brain. "And these are just the b! ig
ones," he told the audience at the Foreign Correspondents' Club Japan in
Tokyo earlier this month...

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Iraq war brings back memories of Vietnam defeat
AFP
The US public's souring mood over the war in Iraq is something US military
leaders have seen before and learned to dread. In Vietnam, it foreshadowed
a humiliating defeat. Steadily mounting casualties, anti-war protests,
crumbling public support and the open political warfare that erupted this
week in Washington over Iraq have only heightened the sense of deja vu.
"This is following a political trajectory very similar to Vietnam," said
Loren Thompson, a military! analyst with the Lexington Institute, a
Washington think tank...

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Advice on how to drive your car in Baghdad
Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq
...The below sign states: 'Please, A Very Serious Warning - We are
authorized to fire on any vehicle that approaches the convoy less than 50
meters'. Sovereignty is : There is a 50 meters distance between you and
death every time you leave your home in your own country...

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US Soldiers Kill Iraqi Family
Prensa Latina
US troops opened fire on a civilian vehicle Monday at a checkpoint near the
city of Baquba, killing five members of an Iraqi family including children,
as US forces launched a new offensive in Ar Ramadi, Anbar province. An
Iraqi police report said two men and three children were killed and two
women and a child were wounded in the shooting. Some witnesses were quoted
as saying that the family was traveling to a funeral at the time of the
attack...

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Lies and Official Secrets
We Must Hold the Scoundrels Accountable
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, CounterPunch
The BBC reports (Nov. 17) that two former British government employees have
been charged with violating the Official Secrets Act. The Official Secrets
Act is useful for protecting the British government from accountability.
Anyone who reveals wrongdoing by government officials can be charged under
the act. The two men are charged with leaking a harmless memo, "Iraq in the
Medium Term," that expresses Brit! ish Foreign Office doubts about US
tactics in Iraq. The real crime is not the leak but her Majesty's
government's continuing support for a policy that the British government
knows to be illegal and bulging with war crimes. It is Prime Minister Tony
Blair and his ministers who should be facing charges...

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On Common Ground with Bush
Bill Clinton's Hypocrisies on Iraq
MIKE MARQUSEE
When Bill Clinton told a group of students in Dubai recently that the Iraq
war had been a "big mistake", champions of the current White House occupant
were quick to accuse him of hypocrisy. For once, they had a strong point.
To be clear, Clinton's criticism was confined to the conduct of the war,
not its premises or ethics. "We never sent enough troops," the former
president lamented, "and didn't have enough troops to control o! r seal the
borders"...

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IN TRUTH
Open Letter to George Bush from Kevin Benderman November 20, 2004 followed
by Open Letter to George Bush One Year Later By Monica Benderman
Kevin and Monica Benderman - OrbStandard.com
...Dear Mr. Bush – Over one year ago, my husband showed the integrity of a
true leader by facing everything he had committed to for you, in the name
of – well, first there was national security, then it was freedom from
tyranny for the Iraqis, then it was terrorism, then it was freedom for the
American! people, and what is it now???? Don't worry – we know. It hasn't
changed. First it was oil, then it was saving face for a president who has
never faced responsibility for his actions – EVER. But now, you are a
president who has nowhere left to hide – you've seen for yourself, the
doors are locked you cannot escape us. You and your army of commanders
could not allow my husband to have his voice – you actually thought you
could control him – and the TRUTH he had to speak. You put him in prison,
and thought you could take him away from me. You dared to believe we would
go away quietly and leave you to your war...

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New revelations of US military use of white phosphorus in Iraq
Tom Carter, WSWS
A week after RAI, the Italian state television network, aired footage of
the American military deploying white phosphorus munitions against the
population of Fallujah and their grisly effects on innocent residents, more
evidence has come to light confirming that the US is using chemical weapons
against the Iraqi people. The report on Italian television sparked angry
protests outside the US embassy in Rome. Despite denials by top Penta! gon
and state department officials that white phosphorus, a napalm-like
substance, is being used as a chemical weapon in Iraq, facts are continuing
to emerge that confirm the opposite...

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On John Murtha's Position
Gilbert Achcar and Stephen R. Shalom
There is much of which to approve in the recent speech of Rep. John P.
Murtha, Democrat of Pennsylvania, on Iraq. The hawkish Murtha had been
critical of the Bush administration's handling of the war for some time,
but until now his solution had been to call for more troops. On November
17, however, he recognized courageously that U.S. troops "can not
accomplish anything further in Iraq militarily. IT IS TIME TO BRING THEM
HOME." (...)
Nevertheless, the anti-war movement needs to be careful not to confuse
Murtha's position with its own...

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It is Time to Unite and to Ensure Peace
Final Declaration of Brussel's Peace Conference
Axis for Peace
A military coalition has launched itself into an unbridled exploitation of
the world’s resources and energy reserves. Fuelled by neo-conservatives, it
has increased its attacks, practicing all forms of interference, from
forcing changes in regimes to colonial-style expansionism. This coalition
continually violates the principles of international law as they were
established by the conference of the Ha! gue and laid out in the San
Francisco Charter...

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A De-Classified Report from the US Department of Defense calls WP “CHEMICAL
WEAPONS”
Gabriele Zamparini, The Cat's Dream
From a declassified document of the US Department of Defense: REPORT
CLASSIFIEd. SUMMARY: IRAQ HAS POSSIBLY EMPLOYED PHOSPHOROUS CHEMICAL
WEAPONS AGAINST THE KURDISH POPULATION IN AREAS ALONG THE
IRAQI-TURKISH-IRANIAN BORDERS. (...) IRAQI FORCES LOYAL TO PRESIDENT SADDAM
((HUSSEIN)) MAY HAVE POSSIBLY USED WHITE PHOSPHOROUS (WP) CHEMICAL WEAPONS
AGAINST KURDISH REBELS AND THE POPULACE IN ERBI! L (GEOCOORD:3412N/04401E)
...

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Chemical hypocrisy
Nermeen Al-Mufti
Before US troops began their offensive on Falluja in November-December
2004, the occupation authorities asked news networks to provide their
correspondents with masks and special outfits to protect them from chemical
weapons. By then and to date no Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were
found. The request was considered "classified" information and it sent a
message that the occupation forces may use non- conventional weapons
against the city...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 20 November 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice
...In what appeared to be an application of "Israeli" tactics, US forces on
Thursday, 17 November raided and searched numerous areas in the vicinity of
ad-Dulu'iyah, dragging people from their homes and breaking their limbs.
Quds Press reported that the American raids followed a Resistance attack on
a vehicle in which three American officers had been killed..! .

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The Dirty War
Trevor Royle, Diplomatic Editor, Sunday Herald
...A year ago at Fallujah, the smokescreen laid down by US forces
eventually cleared into thin air. In the same way the stink about WP will
also die down and gradually be forgotten - except, perhaps, by the victims
who were left with burns so deep that even their bones were exposed.
Surgery might help to make them whole again but no amount of politician's
bluster will explain why the fire support element of the 2nd Battalion of
the 2nd US Infantry locke! d and loaded WP in their artillery pieces and
fired them into an Iraqi city to "shake and bake" its unwitting
inhabitants...

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