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Interview with Iraq Veterans Against the War Patrick Resta: 'sent into
combat unequipped and unprepared'
Kevin Zeese*
..."When you break something in a store you don't sit there with crazy glue
trying to piece it back together. And you most certainly don't run around
with a bat breaking more things. What you do is apologize, write them a
check, and get out before you do anymore damage"..."The hypocrisy of the
occupation was evident when I was told we were going to help rebuild Iraq
and then watched as the only th! ings being rebuilt were Saddam's military
bases to prepare for a permanent US military presence"...

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THE COUNTER-CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Malcom Lagauche
...But, the toys are even more despicable. Look at the picture of Uday
Hussein with this article. That is offered by a company called
"Herobuilders"; at <http://www.herobuilders.com. >www.herobuilders.com. The
title is "Uday Dead on Arrival." American kids actually play with these
items today. And, there are many: toys with Iraqi houses blown up; U.S.
commandos tracking down and killing Arabs; and many other "action figures"
that depict a! nd glorify the violence of war (...) A 12-year-old kid may
slip at the dinner table and say the word "shit" and he will be immediately
reprimanded and sent up to his room as a form of punishment. A few hours
later, his father will check him out and see him playing with his "Uday
Dead on Arrival" toy and commend him on his learning a lesson...

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Antiwar soldiers speak out:
"The situation in Iraq is getting worse every day"
Socialist Worker
FOR U.S. troops in Iraq who oppose the war for oil and empire they were
sent to fight, speaking out can be dangerous. But three soldiers--whose pen
names are hEkLe, Heretic and Joe Public--found that their consciences made
it more difficult not to speak out. Each spent about a year in Iraq.
Throughout their tours, they earned a reputation for reporting the
truth--on their Web log at ftssoldier.blogspot.com ! <
<http://wwww.ftssoldier.blogspot.com/ >http://wwww.ftssoldier.blogspot.com/ >--about
what was taking place in occupied Iraq (...)In mid-April, hEkLe, Heretic
and Joe Public spoke to Socialist Worker's ERIC RUDER about their
experiences, observations and opinions of the U.S. occupation. Here, we
print excerpts of the conversation.


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A few more details on Blair's strategy of lies
Xymphora
...From Paul O'Neill and Richard Clark, we know that Bush was planning a
regime change in Iraq immediately after his inauguration (O'Neill said it
was 'topic A' 10 days after the inauguration). The neocons needed to get a
few preliminaries out of the way, including their Perle harbor of September
11 and the training-wheels war in Afghanistan, before they could set up for
a war on Iraq, but it was always inevitable. Apparently it was also always
inevitable th! at Britain would participate (we don't know, and may never
know, whether this is due to some secret treaty, or just globalist Blair
following orders from the Powers That Be)...

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Pentagon analyst charged with passing defence secrets to pro-Israel lobby
Associated Press
The FBI arrested a Pentagon analyst Wednesday on a charge of illegally
passing classified information about potential attacks against U.S. forces
in Iraq to employees of a pro-Israel group. Larry Franklin, 58, of
Kearneysville, W. Va., turned himself in Wednesday morning, FBI spokeswoman
Debra Weierman said (...) FBI agents twice searched AIPAC offices as part
of the investigation about whether Israel improperly obtained c! lassified
U.S. information on Iran. They also have interviewed two AIPAC employees
about whether Franklin gave them classified information that wound up in
Israel's hands...



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Lying on Air America to Support the War
Al Franken is a Big Fat Phony
JOHN WALSH, CounterPunch
...Coverage of Iraq is largely confined to the corruption of Halliburton
and the general idea that whatever has gone wrong there is the fault of
George W. Bush and the Republicans. That the war was a "mistake" is laid at
the feet of Bush, with no mention of the Democrats' role in voting for it,
including J. Kerry and H. Clinton. "Incompetence" over the waging of the
war is a frequent complaint - as though it ! would be better for an "unjust
and unnecessary war," in the words of Jimmy Carter, to be waged more
competently. (Would that Hitler had been a little more competent!)...

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TONY BLAIR CAN'T WIN
Greg Palast
Mark my words: Tony Blair won't be re-elected Thursday. However, he will
remain in office. That's because Brits don't vote for their Prime Minister.
They've got a "parliamentary" system there in the Mother Country. And the
difference between democracy and parliamentary rule makes all the
difference. It is the only reason why Blair will keep his job -- at least
for a few months. Let me explain...

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Proof Bush Fixed The Facts
Ray McGovern, Tompaine.com
Never in our wildest dreams did we think we would see those words in black
and white—and beneath a SECRET stamp, no less. For three years now, we in
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) have been saying that
the CIA and its British counterpart, MI-6, were ordered by their countries'
leaders to "fix facts" to "justify" an unprovoked war on Iraq. More often
than not, we have been greeted with stares of incredulity. It has been a
hard learning—t! hat folks tend to believe what they want to believe. As
long as our evidence, however abundant and persuasive, remained
circumstantial, it could not compel belief. It simply is much easier on the
psyche to assent to the White House spin machine blaming the Iraq fiasco on
bad intelligence than to entertain the notion that we were sold a bill of
goods...



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FOX News Still Says Saddam Hussein Was Involved With 9/11
News Hounds
There's an article on FOXNews.com about an upcoming ABC miniseries on the
history of terrorism that supposedly includes the period from the 1993
World Trade Center bombing until 9/11. The last paragraph begins: And there
will be more to come, as the miniseries casts for just about everyone
involved in national security and the plotting of the Sept. 11 tragedies.
Who will play bin Laden? Or Saddam Hussein?...

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Muslim soldier gets the death penalty while...
Politicians forgive murder in Iraq
Eric Ruder, Socialist Worker
THE U.S. military values some lives more than others. That's the only
conclusion you could draw from the trials of two U.S. soldiers--one accused
of killing two American officers, the other of executing two Iraqi
civilians. Last week, Sgt. Hasan Akbar was sentenced to death for using
grenades and his rifle at a base camp in Kuwait to kill two officers and
injure 14 other soldiers shortly after! the March 2003 invasion of Iraq
(...) The climate surrounding the trial of Marine Second Lt. Ilario
Pantano--who killed two unarmed Iraqis with a hail of bullets during a
search of their car--couldn't be more different...



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Iraq's Al-Madain…Symbol of "Glory"
Samir Haddad, IOL Correspondent
The Iraqi city of Al-Madain, one of the ancient cities of Mesopotamia and
the onetime capital of collapsed empires under the name Ctesiphon, has
always been a haven for both Sunnis and Shiites. But the recent turmoil in
the city created by the hostage hoax has given a cause for concern and
raised "imperial" fears. "Those behind the borders are considering the city
and the ancient Taq-i Kasra (the vault of Caeser) as the seat of their
collapsed emp! ire," Adnan Al-Delimi, head of the Sunni Waqfs in Iraq, told
IslamOnline.net Tuesday, May 3. "They want to revive the past glories of
the Persian Empire under the cloak of ethnicity, not Islam," he said, in a
veiled reference to Iran...


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Fighting mad
The Guardian
Dave Corrigan was proud to be a British soldier serving in Iraq. Then he
was wounded and his nightmare began. He tells Ed Vulliamy why, as the only
war casualty in Tony Blair's constituency, he'll be voting against the PM -
and why his old comrades should all be brought home...

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U.S. policy fosters abuse
Paul Vitello
...It is ironic that a person such as she, with little education, no
authority, and zero training as a prison guard, becomes the poster child
for our depravity, while the authors of the American policy toward Iraqi
detainees remain virtually untouched by the scandal. The authors are
Gonzales, who drafted the policy; President Bush, who approved it; and
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who put it into effect...

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Roadside bombs kill two U.S. soldiers in Iraqi capital
Associated Press
Two American soldiers died in roadside bomb attacks by insurgents in
Baghdad, the U.S. military said Wednesday. The two separate attacks on U.S.
convoys in the capital occurred Tuesday, and further information was being
withheld pending notification of the victims' relatives...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 3 May 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
...The puppet so-called "minister of human rights" in the US-installed
"Iraqi regime" on Tuesday lifted the veil on a report that states that a
number of US occupation troops raped Iraqi youths ranging in age from 15 to
17 years in the city of at-Tarimiyah, north of Baghdad in February. The
report was released in a press conference in! Baghdad attended by a
correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam...

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Suicide bomber kills 60 in Iraqi city
Reuters
A suicide bomber struck the offices of a Kurdish party in northern Iraq on
Wednesday, killing at least 60 people in the bloodiest attack since a new
government promising stability was formed a week ago. Witnesses said a
crowd had gathered outside the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) office,
which also served as a police recruiting centre, when the bomber hit. A
health ministry official in Arbil said 150 people were wounded. Hospitals
said they were overwhelmed with ca! sualties...

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Insurgents find new ways to bedevil U.S. in Iraq
Associated Press
About as quickly as the U.S. military finds a way to thwart insurgents'
roadside bombs and other methods of attack, the insurgents counter with a
new move of their own. On foot or in vehicles, U.S. troops are killed and
maimed almost daily by the insurgents' weapon of choice, the roadside bomb,
known in the U.S. military as an improvised explosive device, or IED. The
insurgents also use car bombs, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and small
arms..! .


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Iraq: When Was The Die Cast?
John Prados, Tompaine.com
...Emerging in the final days before the UK's parliamentary election, a
memo leaked to the London Sunday Times reveals that Bush decided to go to
war by April of 2002, and that by July of that same year it was clear that
the United States would fabricate the intelligence necessary to justify the
war. The Bush administration's pious rhetoric about strengthening the
United Nations was strictly for public consumption. Its talk about alleged
Iraqi weapons of mas! s destruction—as Lord Goldsmith's legal opinion
demonstrates—was crucial because the only avenue offering a fig leaf of
legal justification for war was to claim to be enforcing U.N. disarmament
resolutions. And President Bush's repeated assertions that no decision had
been made about attacking Iraq were plainly false...


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Creating Reasons to Go to War
Congressman John Conyers, Daily Kos
Unfortunately, the mainstream media in the United States was too busy with
wall-to-wall coverage of a "runaway bride" to cover a bombshell report out
of the British newspapers. The London Times reports that the British
government and the United States government had secretly agreed to attack
Iraq in 2002, before authorization was sought for such an attack in
Congress, and had discussed creating pretextual justifications for doing
so...

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