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9/11: the Weak Link
Kurt Nimmo
...However, I believe the entire argument, as defined by the right-wingers,
and defended by Churchill, is flawed. Right-wingers say Ward is defending
Muslim terrorists who attacked America on September, 11, 2001, and
Churchill responds by declaring the attack was blowback in response to
decades of well-document abuse, conveniently ignored by the
right-wingers—because they support such abuse—most notably the also
well-documented premeditated murder of 500,000 Iraqi children at the hands
of Bush-Clinton-Bush. In fact, this abuse — a massive crime against
humanity — is far more well-documented than what happened on September 11,
2001...

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And Life Goes On...
Baghdad Burning, Girl Blog from Iraq...
The elections have come and gone. The day of elections was a day of eerie
silence punctuated by a few strong explosions and the hum of helicopters
above. We remained at home and watched the situation on tv. E. left for
about an hour to see what was happening at the local polling area, which
was a secondary school nearby. He said there were maybe 50 people at the
school and a lot of them looked like they were involved with the local
electoral committee. Th e polling station near our house was actually being
guarded by SCIRI people (Badir’s Brigade) (...) I literally had chills
going up and down my spine as I watched Abdul Aziz Al Hakeem of
Iranian-inclined SCIRI dropping his ballot into a box. Behind him, giving
moral support and her vote, was what I can only guess to be his wife. She
was shrouded literally from head to foot and only her eyes peeped out of
the endless sea of black. She stuffed her ballot in the box with
black-gloved hands and submissively followed a very confident Hakeem. E.
turned to me with a smile and a wink, “That might be you in a couple of
years…” I promptly threw a sofa cushion at him...

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Could Bush Possibly Make the Same Mistake Twice? Yeah.
Charley Reese
The Bush administration is making the same mistakes with Iran that it made
with Iraq. It makes allegations unsupported by facts, refuses to negotiate
and threatens sanctions or military action, neither of which is feasible.
In short, it has no rational Iran policy. The Bush administration seems to
be under the impression that the Iranians are pursuing the development of a
nuclear weapon. Sound familiar?...

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Ahmed Abdullah Story
Cliff Kindy, Electronic Iraq
Ahmed knocked at the door of the CPT apartment, accompanied by his
translator. His family had been searching for his brother Mohammad for
three months without success. His translator had met CPT at a conference
last summer and suggested the family ask CPT for help. On November 7, 2005,
U.S. soldiers knocked at the door of Ahmed's home...

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SADDAM HUSSEIN the Fighter, the Thinker and the Man
Part II, CHAPTER 19: The Meaning of Non - Alignment
Amir Iskander, Al-moharer
This determined independent Arab stand finds its wider political expression
in Saddam Hussein's concept of "non-alignment", and in the positive and
effective role he plays in the non-aligned movement. What then is his
concept of non-alignment? It involves the non-intervention in the internal
affairs of any of these nations, and the dialogue and relations based on
adherence to princi ples with the aim of achieving better results.
According to this method, "Iraq chooses its policy and its friends in the
world. Its choice is based on a long-term overall view, and not on current
views or relations divorced from the comprehensive vision of the world's
development, the factors affecting this development, and the nature of the
present struggle between the Arab nation and colonialism and its aides, the
Zionist entity above all. It also takes into account the struggle against
backwardness and for independence."

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More evidence of US government’s torture by proxy
Joseph Kay, WSWS
Over the past year, mounting evidence has surfaced on Washington’s
systematic use of torture against prisoners in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq.
Another aspect of this policy is the transfer of prisoners by the CIA and
other US government agencies to countries where they will be subject to
torture. Known as “extraordinary rendition,” the practice is complemented
by the CIA’s own highly secret detention facilities around the world, which
are operated outs ide of any legal framework...

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CNN news chief resigns over Iraq remarks
Gali Tibbon, AFP
CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan resigned, saying he wanted to
protect the network from controversy over remarks he made during the World
Economic Forum last month about the death of journalists in Iraq. According
to some participants -- he denies it -- Jordan told an audience at the
gathering in Davos, Switzerland, that US forces had deliberately targeted
journalists...

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Most Americans Don't Know How Many Have Died in Iraq War
THOMAS HARGROVE and GUIDO H. STEMPEL III
Most Americans guess wrong when asked to estimate how many troops have died
in the U.S. occupation of Iraq, a sign that many are giving scant attention
to the nation's most dangerous military operation since the Vietnam War. A
new survey of 1,001 adults conducted by Scripps Howard News Service and
Ohio University found that fewer than half said they "very closely" follow
news coverage of the military occupation. Less than a third named "the war
on terror" or "peace in the Mideast" as the most important issue facing
America. Most others preferred domestic concerns like the economy, Social
Security, education or health care. So far this year, soldiers and Marines
have died at a rate of about three per day in the conflict...

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Phoenix Rising in Iraq?
Stephen R. Shalom; ZNet Commentary
The Newsweek story that the Pentagon is considering the "Salvador option"
for Iraq has gotten much play in progressive circles, but it left two
unanswered questions: First, how credible was the story given that it was
based on anonymous sources and denied by the Secretary of Defense? And
second, what does it mean to say that a policy is being considered? Is it
likely to be put into place or was it simply the wild idea of some
subordinate, that will never a ctually become policy? There is in fact,
however, sufficient evidence to answer both of these questions...

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Chalabi wants to be Iraq's new prime minister
NANCY A. YOUSSE, FFREE PRESS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Former Bush administration favorite Ahmad Chalabi is lobbying hard for the
post of prime minister in the new Iraqi government that will be formed
after election officials finish tallying the Jan. 30 votes. Though it's a
long shot, Chalabi has made himself an important player in Iraq since the
Bush administration dumped him amid charges, which he denied, that he was
spying for Iran...

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Samir Amin: "Scandalous Elections"
Misna, Iraqwar.ru
"The elections in Iraq last January 30th can in no way be considered to be
a step toward democracy, as American public opinion, and even some
European, has maintained". The 74-year-old world famous Egyptian economist
Samir Amin, but who lives between France and Senegal, relayed this message
to MISNA (...) "We have to stress that at the polls a majority of Iraqis
did not adhere to the alleged American…democratization project". Stopping
to think for a moment, he specifies: "Actually no, we cannot even speak of
a democratic project: the USA is merely looting the oil and that’s all!"...

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We Have Nothing to Fear But Bush Himself
Paul Craig Roberts, Antiwar.com
Suppose you are the party responsible for invading a country under totally
false pretenses. Suppose you had totally unrealistic expectations about the
consequences of your gratuitous aggression. What do you do when, instead of
being greeted with flowers, you find your army is tied down by insurgents
and you have no face-saving way to get out of the morass? If you are the
moronic Bush Administration, you blame someone else. Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz ,
Rice, Cheney and Bush blame Syria and Iran for the troubles that they
brought upon themselves. The Iraqi insurgency, say the Five Morons, is the
fault of Syria and Iran...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 10 February 2005 and
Friday, 11 February 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice
...Iraqi Resistance forces attacked an office set up under an assumed name
that was in fact the headquarters of the Zionist secret police Mossad near
the al-Hamra’ Hotel in the al-Jadiriyah area of downtown Baghdad on
Thursday. Informed sources told Mafkarat al-Islam’s correspondent that four
Zionists, three Iraqi collaborators w ith the Mossad, and a man named
‘Wardan’ who was the office director, were killed in the attack. The
correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the Mossad office was
opened in December 2004 under the name “Ikal” ostensibly a recruiting and
employment agency. In reality, the office was run by a number of Zionist
Mossad officers and a group of Iraqi collaborators...

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Humanitarian Rafil Dhafir Convicted
Kurt Nimmo
Rafil Dhafir made two mistakes: he wasn’t very good businessman and he
wanted to help the children of Iraq. For his crimes, a jury convicted
Dhafir, a New York physician, of violating the sanctions against Iraq and a
variety of white collar crimes, according to the New Standard. While Ken
Lay and Bernie Ebbers walked around free, awaiting their trials for
stealing millions, Rafil Dhafir was denied bail and sweated it out in the
hoosegow for two years...

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Two Years After the Fall of Saddam, the Resistance Controls All Major Roads
into Baghdad
PATRICK COCKBURN, Counterpunch
...Interior ministry officials say their officers do not like a US plan to
leave US trainers in Iraqi units. Iraqis working with the US Army fear
being tagged as collaborators. Almost two years since the overthrow of
Saddam Hussein in April 2003, the resistance has partial or total control
over all the main roads into Baghdad...

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A Cost of Militarization and War
Jack Dalton, Vietnam Veteran - Axis of Logic
... According to Darrell, in early April he was ordered to shoot at a car
full of people moving in his direction, which Darrell would not do. "This
car kept coming, and the other guys were yelling, 'Why don't you shoot, why
don't you shoot?' But I felt the car posed no threat. Then, the window of
the car rolled down, and it was just an Iraqi family," Anderson said. "I
said, 'Look it's just innocent people.' But they kept telling me, 'The next
time, you open fire. We don't care."' A few days later Darrell was wounded
by a roadside bomb. When Darrell was notified about going back to Iraq, he
said no and went to Canada...

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How to Succeed at Being a Global Bully
The Eight Percent War
MANUEL GARCIA, Jr., CounterPunch
...The American public willing sacrifices national treasure for imperialist
wars, but is very resistant to accepting massive US casualties. Because of
both the public dislike of American casualties and the aims of the war
interests, massive foreign casualties are accepted as "collateral damage."
When the scale, length, and human toll of imperial adventures begins to
affect the American public, by causing notic eable and undeniable social
and economic decay, then a domestic revolt against the wars of imperialism
is possible, and would cause a change of government policy (by election,
insurrection, legislative reform, changing economics)...

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The Global Descent of America
Aljaz Ahmad, The Black Commentator - Iraqwar.ru
...Coordination between the U.S. and Israel is so close that it now becomes
impossible to distinguish between the two. Israelis have trained the
Kurdish Peshmargas under U.S. tutelage, and their forces are said to be
active on Turkish territory adjoining Iran. Israelis have even trained U.S.
forces deployed in Iraq (...) News reports seem to suggest also that the
U.S. is willing to take another leaf out of the Israeli book, namely that
of targeted assassinations. In this scenario, strikes against selected
targets would be combined with operations to kill the key leaders and thus
create deliberate chaos in Teheran. That would amount to real madness,
since the war shall then spread not only to Iran but also, inevitably, to
Syria and Lebanon. But that too is part of the neo-conservatives'
prescription: a prolonged period of chaos, warfare and dismembering of the
present state structures in West Asia's Muslim countries, followed by the
break-up of every state into small, ethnically defined enclaves, with
Greater Israel dominating the whole...

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'It's like the Wild West'. Attacks never cease at base
Daily News
Lt. Daniel Lawton's Humvee hit a mine this week, blowing off a wheel and
the hood. It was the second time Lawton's vehicle has detonated a mine -
and he has been at this base only five days. "There's just a big boom and
you blink real hard," said Lawton, of Savannah, Ga (...) "It's like the old
Wild West out here," Sgt. William Taylor said with a smile when the
shooting stopped. But the shooting never completely stops at this modern
version of Fort Apache..

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Stop Bush!
The environmental movement, the human rights movement, the peace movement
and development aid organisations call for a joint demonstration timed to
coincide with the visit of US president Bush to Brussels on 21st and 22nd
February 2005. They wish to express their concern about the negative role
that the United States is playing within the international community in
several areas, including the environment, human rights, peace, and aid to
developing countries...

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Roots of a tragedy in Texas “The war changed who my son is”
Cindy Beringer, Socialist Worker
JUST BEFORE the Iraq war began, Rev. Johnny Williams Sr. and his wife
Patricia went on an East Texas television station to talk about their faith
that God would protect their Marine son in that war, and send him home
“better and whole.” Now his mother says, “Something happened to my son.
Some of the things that he endured I may never know. But it changed who he
is, and I’m sorry.” Johnny Lee Williams was arrested Ja nuary 22 in Arizona
and charged with the murder of Megan Holden of Tyler, Texas...

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