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Iraq & Afghanistan
Workers World
Each week the truth about Iraq comes through more clearly for those who
choose to look. The U.S. occupation is brutal, criminal, killing civilians
as much as combatants. The Iraqi resistance is growing and gathering more
support from a population that may be war-weary but is determined to free
itself from foreign rule. The equally vicious imperialist occupation of
Afghanistan, which Washington tried to justify with the pretext of the
post-9/11 “war on terror,” is also arousing mas! s opposition...

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Don't demand answers; demand resignation
Jim Smith, The Daily Barometer
...Conyers continues, "These allegations strike at the heart of our
democracy and present the most troubling constitutional questions. Did the
administration lie to the American people about its intentions with respect
to Iraq? Did the administration engineer a confrontation with Saddam
Hussein to justify the war? Did the administration deliberately manipulate
intelligence to deceive the American people about the strength of its case
for war?! " I am glad that Conyers has taken some action, but I am troubled
by the weakness of this action. The answers he seeks are in the memo. The
answer to every one of the above questions is a resounding "yes." And this
is known to Conyers, as he himself refers to the memo as unassailable. Our
congressional representatives should not be demanding answers that cannot
be given, they should instead be demanding resignations and impeachment...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 12 May 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice. ( http://www.freearabvoice.org )
Iraqi Resistance forces attacked the US air base known as ‘Ayn al-Asad in
the western Iraqi city of Hit on Thursday afternoon – the largest US base
in western al-Anbar Province. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam
reported that the Resistance struck the base’s electricity power station
and also blew up the pipes supplying! the American facility with water,
plunging the base into darkness...

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Let's face it - the state has lost its mind
John Pilger, The New Statesman
...Published in the Lancet, the most highly regarded medical journal in the
world, with the tightest peer-review procedures, the study found that "at
least" 100,000 civilians had died violently, the great majority of them at
the hands of the "coalition": women, children, the elderly. He also
described how American military doctors had found that 14 per cent of
soldiers and 28 per cent of marines had killed a civilian: a huge,
unreported ma! ssacre. This great crime, together with the destruction of
the city of Fallujah and the 40 known victims of torture and unlawful
killing at the hands of the British army, as well as the biggest
demonstration by Iraqis demanding the invaders get out, was not allowed to
intrude on a campaign that "never really caught fire". The airbrushing
requires no conspiracy. "The thought," wrote Arthur Miller, "that the state
has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable.
And so the evidence has to be internally denied"...

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Iraqis Suffer “Tragic” Conditions: UN Report
IslamOnline.net
The Iraqi people are suffering from a desperate lack of jobs, housing,
health care and electricity, according to a report prepared by the Iraqi
authorities and the UN and released on Thursday, May 12. “The survey, in a
nutshell, depicts a rather tragic situation of the quality of life in
Iraq,” Planning Minister Barham Saleh during a ceremony in Baghdad attended
by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's deputy representative in Iraq Staffan
de Mistura, repor! ted Agence France-Presse (AFP)...

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Seventeen U.S. soldiers killed since Saturday
Big News Network.com
The U.S. military is reeling from escalating casualties in Iraq. Since last
Saturday at least 15 troops have died in combat in Iraq, mostly from
explosions. Another two died in action in Afghanistan. The death toll is
rivalling that of the six day period following the naming of the Iraq
government on April 28. From that day until May 3, twenty U.S. soldiers
were killed...

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In Iraq's insurgency, no rules, just death
Ehsan Ahrari
...To fight the enemy, America cannot have any strategy other than its
willingness to fulfill the desire of the insurgents. One has to paraphrase
18th century US statesman Patrick Henry's famous statement: "Give me
liberty or give me death." In this instance, the Iraqi insurgents are not
interested in living under what the Americans call a system based on
liberty. They have chosen death as a price of destroying that system...

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Two US helicopter gunships reportedly downed in Qaim
Itar Tass - Iraqwar.ru
Iraqi insurgents downed two US helicopter gunships near the town of Qaim on
the Syrian border on Thursday, the Al-Jazeera TV channel reported quoting
the head of the city post office. He said the fate of the crews was
unknown. Fourteen US servicemen and dozens of Iraqi insurgents were killed
in five days of fighting in areas close to the Syrian border. On Thursday
US marines blocked Qaim and shelled the town with incessant mortar fire a!
nd air raids...

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The family released a statement...
Michael Gillespie, MMN
....Mass round-ups and detentions of innocent civilians, torture and abuse
of prisoners and detainees, America’s honor and prestige at the lowest
point ever, and investigations that whitewash the president’s men and blame
it all on the enlisted personnel. Thus the obscene spectacle of the
grieving families at funerals forced by the president’s dishonesty to
defend the honor of their dead even as they mourn: “He was noble and always
carried himself with ho! nor.” “[He was] a loving husband and father, a
devoted son and brother.” “He wanted to go where good people needed help.”
“He will be dearly missed.” Small wonder that the president, desperately
attempting to hide behind a façade of rigid religiosity that glorifies war
and false patriotism that exalts the very evils it claims to despise, never
attends the funerals of those who have died in the line of duty. How could
he?...

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"What's the Answer to the Holocaust?"
Douglas Feith Bares His Soul to Jeffrey Goldberg
GARY LEUPP, CouterPunch
...This has become the main post-facto rationalization for the war: We must
reconstruct Iraq! But for this rationalization to have any efficacy, the
popular mind must be hypnotized to imagine that the deposed Saddam and his
regime, rather than sanctions and war, destroyed all that which must now be
rebuilt. This is, as General Tommy Franks once said of Feith (this also
mentioned in the Goldberg! article) just "fucking stupid." A new UN study
published last week states that 84% of Iraq's higher education
establishment was "destroyed, damaged and robbed" since the beginning of
the U.S. invasion...

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The Provocateur State:
Is the CIA Behind the Iraqi "Insurgents"--and Global Terrorism?
Frank Morales, www.globalresearch.ca
...It could be that in Iraq--and elsewhere around the world--the
"appropriate occasion" has arrived. Bush's war on terrorism could be the
ultimate manifestation of the provocateur state; carrying out of
clandestine "executive actions" and "special operations" directed against
populations, including our own, who are truly ignorant of the real "enemy"
in the face of the ever-present manuf! actured one, traumatized by
strategic terror designed to engender fear and acquiescence to further
"security measures"--thereby enriching the military, police agencies, and
munitions and nuclear business enterprises...

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Janis Karpinski says Abu Ghraib sex-based torture still on
Reuters - Iraqwar.ru
The former commander of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq blamed a ranking
officer for introducing the use of human pyramids and dog leashes in the
abuse of detainees and said in an interview on Thursday that abuse may be
continuing there. Col. Janis Karpinski, a former one-star Army Reserve
general who was punished in the scandal, said she had no idea what was
going on at the prison and blamed Gen. Geoffrey Miller for the methods that
we! re used to humiliate detainees...

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The people vs. Bush’s war
Put the war on trial
TESTIMONY FROM: Pablo Paredes, Monica Benderman, Howard Zinn, Dr. Salam
Ismael, Jo Wilding, Justin Alexander, Monique Dols, Dahr Jamail, Bill Davis
- Socialist Worker
TWO MEN are being put on trial by the military this week because they
answered their consciences. Pablo Paredes and Kevin Benderman refused to
accept the lies they were told about the U.S. war on Iraq. Refused to
accept the racist dehumanization of the Iraqi people. Refused to !
participate in the violence of the most lethal military machine in the
history of the world. Refused to go to war for oil and empire in Iraq...

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Corporate News Media.
Incompetent, Criminally Negligent or Complicit?
A Direct and Personal Challenge to EVERYONE in the Corporate Media From the
Editor of TvNewsLIES.org - May, 2005
Incompetent journalists, criminally negligent journalists or liars who are
complicit in the mass deception of the American people; there are no other
ways whatsoever to describe the men and women who comprise the corporate
news institutions of the United States. From the hired face you see every
day on the boob tube to the journa! lism intern every person currently
employed in the corporate media today has some soul searching to do.

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Indignation Grows in U.S. Over British Prewar Documents
Critics of Bush call them proof that he and Blair never saw diplomacy as an
option with Hussein.
John Daniszewski, Los Angeles Times
Reports in the British press this month based on documents indicating that
President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair had conditionally agreed by
July 2002 to invade Iraq appear to have blown over quickly in Britain. But
in the United States, where the reports at first received scant attention,
there has been growing in! dignation among critics of the Bush White House,
who say the documents help prove that the leaders made a secret decision to
oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein nearly a year before launching their
attack, shaped intelligence to that aim and never seriously intended to
avert the war through diplomacy...

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IRAQ: People flee al-Qaim as fighting continues
IRIN News
Families are fleeing the Iraqi town of al-Qaim following the start of an
offensive on 2 May by US troops against insurgents linked with wanted
terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is believed to be taking refuge in the
city. Al-Qaim is situated in the western Anbar province bordering Syria 320
km west of the capital, Baghdad...

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Three U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq attacks
Reuters
Three U.S. soldiers were killed in separate bomb attacks in Iraq on
Thursday, the U.S. military said in statements. One, attached to Marine
forces, died when a bomb hit his vehicle during combat operations east of
Musayib, about 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad. Another died when his
vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the east of the capital itself. The third
was killed when an explosion struck a patrol near Samarra, 100 km (60
miles) north of Baghdad...

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Body Counts
Christopher Dickey, Newsweek
The morning news from Iraq today brought fresh chronicles of slaughter.
Yes, even more than usual. American troops are waging an offensive they
call Operation Matador in a remote stretch of desert near the Syrian
border, while suicide bombs are going off in Iraq’s towns and cities,
including the capital. Who’s winning? Who’s losing? Who knows? The military
and political future of Iraq remains so uncertain that the Pentagon in
recent months has gone back to the Vietnam-era ! practice of citing
bodycounts as measures of success. We’re told, for instance, that “as many
as 100” insurgent fighters have been killed by the Matador forces. But of
course that’s just a guesstimate, while the toll on the Americans and their
Iraqi allies is all too concrete...

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IRAQ THE COLONY
Sean Scallon, EtherZone.com
...Although Iraq does have a "native" government recently elected, they'll
be no different than the British raj that ruled India, a native elite that
serves U.S. interests and whose status rest upon those interests. And
really, when did native considerations ever play a part in colonial
development? ...

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Shopping for War at Walmart
By Ian Thompson with Axisof Logic editorial comment and photos
...With the help of a young man in civilian clothes, the young Marine
Recruiter set up an outdoor Marine recruiting station in front of the
Walmart to intercept young people, purchasing gifts for their mothers. So
the "Few and the Proud" are now targeting our young people while they shop
for their mothers. It spoke to me of desperation and lack of honor -
Recruiting our sons and daughters - in partnership with Walmart - to! die
for the corporate war in Iraq - on Mother's Day. How low can they go? In
Ian Thompson's riveting report below, he explains why the U.S. military is
having to take such desperate measures to recruit young people to fight and
die in an unprovoked, genocidal war that the United States has already
lost...

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Indignation Grows in U.S. Over British Prewar Documents
Critics of Bush call them proof that he and Blair never saw diplomacy as an
option with Hussein.
John Daniszewski, Los Angeles Times
Reports in the British press this month based on documents indicating that
President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair had conditionally agreed by
July 2002 to invade Iraq appear to have blown over quickly in Britain. But
in the United States, where the reports at first received scant attention,
there has been growing in! dignation among critics of the Bush White House,
who say the documents help prove that the leaders made a secret decision to
oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein nearly a year before launching their
attack, shaped intelligence to that aim and never seriously intended to
avert the war through diplomacy...

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