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WHO HAS THE WMD'S?
WE DO
Jim Moore, EtherZone.com
There's something bizarre going on here. We've hunted for three years for
weapons of mass destruction which we swore over and over that Iraq had, but
didn't; while all along we've been using WMD's---lethal chemical
weapons---not only on the Iraqi people, but on our own soldiers, who can't
help getting in the way. This killer chemical is known as "depleted uranium
dust" (DU), and is a by-product of the chemical ingredients used in making
artillery shells...

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Tony Blair is a liar and a war criminal
Xymphora
The B-liar timeline is fairly simple:
1. From a letter from Gordon Logan to Reg Keys (the guy who's running
against Blair!) dated April 29, 2005: "All the discussion on the Iraq war
is essentially a diversion. There is a secret clause in the Trident
submarine treaty that was signed by Mrs Thatcher in 1983. The secret clause
states that the British Prime Minister is required to go to war if he/she
gets the order from the President of the United States. You will appreciate
that this information explains a lot, notably why Blair has repeatedly gone
to war, but only when required to by the Americans. It also explains why
Blair is so different from his Labour predecessors, such as Harold Wilson,
who refused to send our troops to Vietnam in 1968. The secret agreement was
designed by Thatcher to secretly tie the hands of British Prime Ministers
for many years to come. Without naming sources, I received this information
from a British Army officer a couple of years ago"...



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Elizabeth Wilmshurst's opinion
Xymphora
Blair's problem is that he always had a Foreign Office legal opinion dating
from March 2002 that an attack on Iraq would be illegal under international
law without another UN Security Council Resolution. All the machinations
with Lord Goldsmith were an attempt to override this opinion, which stood
squarely in the way of an attack. The original opinion was written by
Elizabeth Wilmshurst, who resigned on the eve of the attack as a matter of
principle (she had been with the F! oreign Office since 1974!)...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 1 May 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
...US forces backed by puppet so-called "Iraqi national guards" continue to
blockade the town of al-Haqlaniyah in al-Anbar Province where they have
been now for one week, according to a report by a Mafkarat al-Islam
correspondent in Iraq. Witnesses report that the humanitarian and sanitary
situation in the city is badly deteriorating, ! as western and Iraqi puppet
media ignore the situation and keep silent...

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Regime change is illegal: end of debate
Alasdair Palmer, The Telegraph
...Lord Goldsmith's confidential advice to the Prime Minister on the
legality of invading Iraq without a second UN resolution, revealed for the
first time last week, was equivocal about almost everything. It was clear
about one point and one point only: "Regime change," insisted the Attorney
General, "cannot be the object of military action." Any invasion which had
that goal would be unambiguously illegal under international law...

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Abu Ghraib Haunts Iraqi Artists
IslamOnline.net
Nasir Thamer used to paint scenes of traditional Iraqi life: Arab doors,
mosques, the Tigris and Euphrates. But the Abu Ghraib trauma has seeped
into his gallery. "What happened in Abu Ghraib affected all Iraqis in an
unspeakable way and as n artist I have to try and express these feelings,"
he Agence France-Presse (AFP)...



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Against the war machine
Military recruiters face youth and student resistance
Ian Thompson, S&L Magazine
"We'll give you up to $70,000 for college." "You won't have to go to Iraq."
"Your service will only last four years." Much of what recruiters promise
is based on exaggeration, half-truths and outright lies. Recruiters have to
fill quotas and will do almost anything to meet them, especially during
wartime. The U.S. military—the most powerful and destructive in the
world—is growing increasingly desp! erate to fill its ranks (...) The most
advanced sectors of the burgeoning student movement see the
anti-recruitment drive as part of the larger fight to stop the war and,
ultimately, defeat U.S. imperialism...

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Five journalists arrested in past two weeks
Report, RSF/IFEX - Electronic Iraq
RSF has voiced alarm over the arrests of five journalists in the past two
weeks. "We are very worried about the increase in arrests of local
journalists, often without any evidence, or for unknown reasons. Iraqi
journalists now have to deal with this new problem, in which their
employers are often powerless to act. Both employers and family members
must be given an explanation for such arrests," the organisation said...

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Italy media reveals Iraq details
David Willey, BBC News
Italian media have published classified sections of an official US military
inquiry into the accidental killing of an Italian agent in Baghdad. The
40-page report was censored by the Pentagon before being officially
published on Saturday (...)A Greek medical student at Bologna University
who was surfing the web early on Sunday found that with two simple clicks
of his computer mouse he could restore censored portions of the report. He
passed the details to It! alian newspapers which immediately put out the
full text on their own websites...


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Dereliction of Duty Regarding Iraq
Scott Ritter , Aljazeera.net
In the months that have passed since Iraq's much-hyped democratic
elections, one word keeps creeping into my mind as I assess the tragic
events unfolding in Mesopotamia today: Vietnam. The American press and
punditry, intimidated and compensated into slavishly reporting on Iraq
solely along lines that will not overly alienate them from the powers that
be inside the administration of George W Bush, have long ago foregone
drawing comparisons between t! he ongoing conflict in Iraq and the one
America lost in Southeast Asia some three decades in the past...


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Abu Ghraib-One Year Later Comprehensive Report Documents Use of
Psychological Torture by US Forces
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)
One year after the release of scandalous photographs of US personnel
torturing Iraqi detainees at the US-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a new
report provides extensive evidence that psychological torture was
systematic and central to the interrogation process of detainees in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Guantánamo. The 135-page report, Break Them Down:
Systematic Use of Psychological To! rture by US Forces , by Physicians for
Human Rights (PHR),is the first comprehensive review of the use of
psychological torture by US forces...

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Statement to the Human Rights Conference on Torture
Sundiata Acoli
...So torture is nothing new to U.S. Political Prisoners and POWs, nor to
everyday people of color and others oppressed in the ghettoes, barrios,
reservations, towns and cities throughout Amerika. They don't call the
Bronx's 44th Precinct "Fort Apache" for nothing or because they serve "tea
and cookies" there. They call it "Fort Apache" because they whip heads
there, bust lips, knock out teeth, blacken eyes, break ribs and even rape
and kill there! ... and it goes on to one degree or another in every police
station across the country, big or small...

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New reports slam US torture regime in Iraq
Anindya Bhattacharyya, Socialist Worker
..."Abu Ghraib was only the tip of the iceberg," said Reed Brody, special
counsel for HRW. "It's now clear that abuse of detainees has happened all
over. The organisation called for a special prosecutor to be appointed to
launch an investigation of US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and of
Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, formerly the top US commander in Iraq.
HRW rejected a report recently issued by the US Army Inspector Gene! ral
that absolved Sanchez of any responsibility for the torture scandals.
"General Sanchez gave the troops at Abu Ghraib the green light to use dogs
to terrorise detainees, and they did, and we know what happened," said
Brody...

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Iraq situation desperate - Saddam Hussein rejects American offer of freedom
in exchange of calling insurgency off?
Balaji Reddy
The situation in Iraq has reached complete extreme with insurgents
attacking every hour everywhere. London-based Arab daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi,
quoting sources, reported May 1 that U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld secretly visited former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and
allegedly offered him freedom in return for a televised request to
militants to cease attacks against allied f! orces in Iraq. The report said
Hussein rejected the offer...

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Blair admits UK discussed early plan to topple Saddam
Daily Times
Britain discussed supporting the United States to bring about a change of
government in Iraq eight months before the March 2003 invasion, Tony Blair
said on Sunday. But the prime minister, facing an election on Thursday in
which the divisive war could cost him votes, denied suggestions his
government took an early decision to topple Saddam Hussein. His comments
came in response to a leaked memo in a newspaper that said Blair and US
President Georg! e W Bush were determined to oust Iraq's former leader as
early as July 2002. "I actually talked about regime change if it wasn't
possible to get him (Saddam) to comply with international law," Blair said
in a phone-in on British commercial radio stations. Blair confirmed he
discussed removing Saddam in a July 2002 top-level government meeting after
the Sunday Times printed what it said were secret minutes of that meeting...


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The Unreported Vietnam-Iraq Parallel
Danny Schechter, CommonDreams.org
There is a word missing in most of the coverage of Iraq. It's a ghost-laden
word that conjures up distressing memories that Washington and most of our
media prefer to keep in that proverbial "lock box," hidden away in dusty
archives and footage libraries. The word is Vietnam. Its absence was never
more noticeable than in the coverage this past weekend of the 30th
anniversary of the Vietnam war, marked in Vietnam with celebrations, but
largely! ignored in America where CNN led with the story of a bride who
went missing when she had second thoughts...

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Why America needs to be Defeated in Iraq
Mike Whitney, AxisofLogic.com
The greatest moral quandary of our day is whether we, as Americans, support
the Iraqi insurgency. It's an issue that has caused anti-war Leftists the
same pangs of conscience that many felt 30 years ago in their opposition to
the Vietnam War. The specter of disloyalty weighs heavily on all of us,
even those who've never been inclined to wave flags or champion the notion
of American "Exceptionalism". For myself, I can say without hesitation tha!
t I support the insurgency, and would do so even if my only 21 year old son
was serving in Iraq. There's simply no other morally acceptable option...

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Giuliana Sgrena Killing: The uncensored U.S. report
...I was appointed by LTG John R. Vines, Commander, Multi-National
Corps-Iraq (MNC-I) on 8 March 2005 to investigate, per U.S. Army Regulation
15-6 (Annex 1B), all the facts and circumstances surrounding the incident
at a Traffic Control Point (TCP) in Baghdad, Iraq on 4 March 2005 that
resulted in the death of Mr. Nicola Calipari and the wounding of Ms.
Giuliana Sgrena and Mr. Andrea Carpani...

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Iraq Car Blast at Funeral Leaves 25 Dead
ANTONIO CASTANEDA
A car bomb obliterated a tent packed with mourners at the funeral of a
Kurdish official in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing 25 people and wounding
more than 50 in the single deadliest attack since insurgents started
bearing down on Iraq's newly named government late last week...

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Bushzarro Google: the Quality of Omission and Lies
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
...In short, after Google installs its "quality" control algorithm, a
search of the words "Fallujah" and "war crimes" will return stories by the
corporate media (who have basically ignored the war crimes in Fallujah) and
sort those stories at the top of the list while stories by Francis A. Boyle
posted in Counterpunch or Christopher Bollyn of the American Free Press
will sorted at the distant end of a list of 400,000 results.! ...

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Iraq, the secret US visit, and an angry military chief
Antony Barnett, Gaby Hinsliff and Martin Bright, The Observer
...On the sixth floor of the State Department in Foggy Bottom sits the
recently vacated office of William Taft IV. Despite the peculiarity of his
name, few in Britain will have heard of him or his distinguished Republican
pedigree. Yet The Observer can reveal that this great-grandson of a former
Republican president played a critical role in persuading Goldsmith's that
the war against Iraq was lega! l. Taft was one of five powerful lawyers in
the Bush administration who met the Attorney General in Washington in
February 2003 to push their view that a second UN resolution was
superfluous...

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