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Under Mars: Perfectly Normal for Yahoo Redneck God-Fearing Soldiers
Kurt Nimmo
...So it is not surprising there is a web gallery of digital images
glorifying the grisly murder of Iraqis, complete with sarcastic commentary.
It is a natural extension of the Christian Recon-Strausscon-Likudite plan
to "wipe out from the earth" all Arabs and Muslims who do not accept
Greater Israel, "from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates." Remarkably,
millions of Americans, who consider themselves evangelical Christians, not
only b uy into this homicidal madness, they believe genocide and mass
murder is mandatory if the "King of Peace" is to return and they are to sit
on the "right-hand side of God," minus Arabs and Muslims, of course...

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Cheney at Auschwitz: an insult to the memory of Nazism's victims
Bill Van Auken, WSWS
...In the face of 100,000 or more dead in Iraq, and with Fallujah and major
portions of other Iraqi cities in rubble, there can be no question that
Bush, Cheney and others in the current US administration stand guilty of
this "worst of crimes." Yet the US vice president's ability to deliver his
obscene speech at Auschwitz condemning "evil" and "cruelty" make it clear
that today the "moral sense of mankind" finds no reflection in
international law. Only the emergence of an independent and socialist
political movement of the working class can create the conditions for
bringing these war criminals to justice...

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Abu Ghraib, Tiger Cages and Flying Viet Cong
Robert Gaiek, www.dissidentvoice.org


Abu Ghraib and the torture of our enemies no longer light up cable news
with that mind numbing repetition of perp walks and stacked nude bodies.
The military, we are assured, is taking care of the problem and the slate
will be wiped clean once again for a little while. The enlisted kids being
punished now and in the future will take the rap for "getting caught." The
career officers will escape accountability, just as they did in Vietnam
over 30 years ago. The military had to be reborn after Vietnam, but the job
was only partially done. We never came to terms with the Tiger Cages we ran
where over 9,000 prisoners were tortured by the South Vietnamese police. A
Time poll revealed that 80% of respondents did not even want to know about
such things. The same must be true about Abu Ghraib...

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The streets of Baghdad are empty. It feels like a city preparing for war
Patrick Cockburn, The Independent
In the hours before tomorrow's election, Baghdad feels like a city
preparing for war. American helicopters roar noisily overhead just above
the roof- tops, setting off car alarms. Iraqi police nervously finger their
assault rifles. Most people are taking no risks and stay at home, so
streets are eerily empty. The government's security measures for the
election sound impressive...

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US prepares invasion of Venezuela: Venezuelan ambassador
Xinhuanet
The United States is preparing a future invasion of Venezuela to control
the petroleum of the South American country as it did in Iraq, said
Venezuela's acting ambassador to Paraguay, Elmer Nino. Nino, cited Thursday
by local Paraguayan daily ABC Color, said the present diplomatic crisis
between Venezuela and Colombia was created by the United States as part of
its future plans for an invasion...

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The Dollar Campaigns for Allawi
Dahr Jamail, AntiWar
U.S.-appointed interim Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi recently handed out
$100 bills to journalists at a press conference. He then gave teachers an
unexpected $100 bonus. Allawi seems to be on his way to winning the
election in Iraq, such as it is. Wa'il Issam, an unemployed translator, has
his views about this kind of campaign. "Allawi is bribing people and using
money to buy votes and support from journalists, retired people and
teachers," he said...

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Less than 10% of Expat voters register
Raed Jarrar, Raed in the Middle
The number of Iraqis living outside Iraq excedes four million people. Yes,
more than 4,000,000. Around three million of them can vote. More than two
million of the total number of Iraqis live in the 14 countries that have
voting centers. The total number of registered votes worldwde is 280,303.
Which means that less than 10% of the Iraqis outside Iraq registered their
names. If this is the total number outside, I wonder what the numbers are
lik e inside Iraq...

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Protests Move to Recruiting Offices
Fighting the Poverty Draft
JORGE MARISCAL, CounterPunch
When Boston College student Joe Previtera decided to protest the war in
Iraq, he headed to the one place that keeps the war machine well stocked
with fuel-his local recruiting office. In a clever display of street
theater, Previtera put on a black hood and cape, stood on a cardboard box,
and attached stereo wires to his hands. The message was clear enough. The
recruiters say money for college but the reality of war says Abu Ghraib. No
one signed up that day but Previtera was arrested by Boston police and
subsequently charged with two felonies having to do with "making false bomb
threats" (charges were later dropped)...

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High Anxiety
Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches
...We are driving around Baghdad today attempting to take photos and
conduct interviews, and the streets are nearly completely empty. An oddity
in Baghdad, where traffic jams often find people waiting for hours in
places to creep their way through clogged streets. Over 90 streets in the
capital city are barricaded, further increasing the horrendous congestion
on "normal" days...

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'Secret ballot'
Xymphora
...The term 'secret ballot' in Iraq means it is a secret who you are voting
for! In Kafka's great fictional work 'The Trial', no one will tell Joseph
K. what he is accused of. In George Bush's great fictional work 'The Iraqi
Election', no one will tell the people of Iraq who they are voting for.
It's the ideal election, the election that the Powers That Be would like to
see everywhere...

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Soldier took abuse pictures 'for his mum'
Tony Paterson, Independent
The British Army fusilier who took photographs of fellow troops allegedly
abusing Iraqi civilians did so to show them to his mother when he came
home, a court martial heard yesterday (...) Bartlam told the court martial
that he always carried a camera with him in Iraq so that he could "show his
parents" what jobs he had been doing in the country...


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Seymour Hersh Is On Fire
Xymphora
Seymour Hersh is on fire: "Let's all forget this word 'insurgency'. It's
one of the most misleading words of all. Insurgency assumes that we had
gone to Iraq and won the war and a group of disgruntled people began to
operate against us and we then had to do counter-action against them. That
would be an insurgency. We are fighting the people we started the war
against. We are fighting the Ba'athists plus nationalists. We are fighting
the very people that started - they only choo se to fight in different time
spans than we want them to, in different places" ...

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Iran next, then who?
Gore Vidal, Independent
...So here we are, in the middle of the unfinished Iraq tragedy, and the
President, in his inaugural address, is serenely declaring war on the rest
of the world. Instead of talking about how the hell we get out of Iraq and
Afghanistan, we are talking about going into Iran. Here we are headed for
absolute disaster, yet the American public has no weapons left, legally...

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To Hell, and They're Coming Back.
Iraq War veterans face formidable challenges and Bush Administration
funding cuts
Bill Berkowitz, www.dissidentvoice.org
...The stories of Andres Raya, Johnny Lee Williams, James Brown and Herold
Noel are early warning signs that the war in Iraq is coming home with a
vengeance. John Tarleton reports that "the experiences of Noel and others
like him have many observers worried that the country will be inundated by
a wave of returning veterans with no place to go and reeling fr om
psychological trauma, as happened toward the end of the Vietnam War." A
report in the New England Journal of Medicine claimed that 17 percent of
troops returning from Iraq "met the screening criteria for major
depression, generalized anxiety, or PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder]."
The New England Journal's figure may be on the low side...

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Good Riddance, Douglas Feith
Kurt Nimmo
...Finally, the case history Douglas Feith, who reached the upper echelon
of the Pentagon and Bush administration, reveals just how far the Zionists
have penetrated the United States government. Bush's foreign policy—indeed,
the invasion of Iraq and the so-called "war on terrorism" —are all Likudite
contrivances designed to benefit Israel at the expense of the American
people, who have paid Israel billions of dollars over the years to kill
Palestinians and stir up trouble wi th their Arab and Islamic neighbors.
Douglas Feith and the Strausscons are directly responsible for killing
100,000 Iraqis, a crime of Hitlerian dimension...

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Surreal election
Editorial Capital Times
...It raises the question: Who is in charge? The answer, unfortunately, is
all too obvious. No one in Baghdad is calling the shots in Iraq's surreal
experiment with electoral politics. The marching orders are coming from
Washington. And after all the tragedies that Iraq has so far experienced,
this continued direction from a distance promises even more tragedy and
farce in the days to come...

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Do You Feel Guilty for the Sins of Bush and Blair? Should You?
Dr. Teresa Whitehurst, CommonDreams.org
The War of Terror has killed or maimed hundreds of thousands of human
beings, including trusting young GI's, pretty women, little babies and
grannies, but those who shouldn't feel guilty do, while those who should,
do not. "No regrets" is the trademark slogan of George W. Bush, Tony Blair,
gung-ho torturers, and many others who've exercised their power without
worries about accountability…or guilt...

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Iraq's Non-Election
Robert Jensen and Pat Youngblood, CommonDreams.org
...But the conditions under which those votes will be cast -- as well as
the larger context -- bear more similarity to a slowly unfolding hostage
tragedy than an exercise in democracy. We refer not to the hostages taken
by various armed factions in Iraq, but the way in which U.S. policymakers
are holding the entire Iraqi population hostage to U.S. designs for
domination of the region...


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Heavy Bloodshed in Iraq Only Expected to Worsen on Election Day
Democracy Now!
As a three-day national lockdown begins in Iraq ahead of Sunday's
elections, bloodshed continues unabated across the country. We go to
Baghdad to speak with independent journalist Dahr Jamail (...) Baghdad now
is more like a city under siege. Everyone is very anxious, very afraid. The
last couple of days, they found people going out, getting supplies, and
literally every Iraqi I know now, all of my friends, my interpreter, so
many peopl e just plan on only going out when it is absolutely necessary,
and most will not be going out whatsoever...

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Five American Soldiers Killed in Baghdad
AP
Five American soldiers were killed Friday by roadside bombs and a shooting
attack in Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Three soldiers were killed when
a roadside bomb hit their patrol at about 4:30 p.m. in western Baghdad.
Another soldier was slightly wounded in the attack, the military said.
Earlier, a bomb in a southern neighborhood killed a soldier and wounded
three others at about 2 p.m. Another soldier was shot dead about 15 minutes
later in the city's north, the mil itary said in a statement...

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Closing in on Vietnam
Derrick Z. Jackson
The fresh $80 billion just requested by President Bush pushes the war costs
of Iraq and the amazing shrinking asterisk of Afghanistan (Osama been
where?) past the $300 billion mark. The estimated cost of Vietnam in
current dollars was $584 billion, according to the Congressional Research
Office. Iraq has already cost more in current dollars than either the Civil
War or World War I. It is about to pass the Korean War. We are on pace to
pass Vietnam in two or three years.

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