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Iraq resistance strong, popular anger growing
Greg Butterfield, Workers World
...Resistance fighters have doubled their daily attacks since April, the
Pentagon admitted on May 31 (...) Military actions by the resistance slowed
briefly after the Jan. 30 elections. That led Bush & Co. to virtually crow,
“Mis sion accomplished,” all over again. The military brass spoke of
reducing troop numbers by the end of the year—not as a move to end the
occupation, but because they believed Iraq would shortly be “pacified.”
Ins! tead, it appears the resistance had made a strategic decision: to
retreat temporarily, giving the new occupation-sponsored government time to
expose its true character to any Iraqis who might have harbored hopes that
the election would herald the end of foreign occupation. Today U.S.
“experts” are singing a very different tune...

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WHY THEY FIGHT
Malcom Lagauche
All Muslims are fanatics. They hate the U.S. They are jealous of our
freedoms. They want to kill in the name of Allah. The list of reasons why
the U.S. is not looked upon in good graces in the Arab and Muslim portions
of this planet goes on and on. Unfortunately, most of the statements are as
truthful as the huge Iraqi arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. It seems
that instead of decreasing, the amount of Islamic disinformation being
thrust upon the U.S. public is escalating at a! n alarming rate. Today,
tens of millions of U.S. citizens see Islam as public enemy number one. To
them, all Moslems are terrorists and they are duty-bound to blow up
Americans to gain their place in heaven with 72 virgins...

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Bill Kristol and Israel Want to Draft Your Kids
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
Are you ready to suit up or suit up your kids (and the kids of your kids)
in body armor and die for Israel? Before you dismiss me as an anti-Semitic
crank, consider the following: “Ephraim Halevy, the former chief of
Israel’s Mossad intelligence service and the current national security
adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, says plans have been made
for a substantial U.S. military presence in the Middle East lasting de!
cades,” al-Jazeera reports. “High-ranking U.S. policymakers have ‘raised
the idea of establishing an American trusteeship regime in the areas of the
Palestinian Authority, if it should turn out that the Palestinians are not
ripe for self-rule. That arrangement would require an American operational
military presence along Israel’s border with the Palestinian
territories’”...

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IMPEACH BUSH and CHENEY FOR VIOLATING the CONSTITUTION
Diana Lee, UniOrb
No one is above the law — guaranteed by the Constitution of the United
States. The Founding Fathers of the United States Constitution especially
included an impeachment clause for high officers who violate the principles
of the Constitution as stated in Article II Section 4 — “The President,
Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be
removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason,
bribery, or! other high crimes and misdemeanors”...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 11 June 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice. ( http://www.freearabvoice.org )
...Polluted water has been the cause of many diseases, particularly those
afflicting the children who come down with intense diarrhea and viral
infection in the liver. Five percent of the entire Iraqi population is now
afflicted with such disorders, QudsPress reported Dr. Khalid ‘Adnan as
saying. With 10,000 cases of various ! ailments including typhoid and viral
infection of the liver every month from polluted water a grave threat hangs
over the population, particularly the children...

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What America Must Do Now
Dr. Sam Hamod

Truthfully, there is so much that America must do to repair its democracy
and its name in the world that it’s hard to know where to start. But, I’ll
give it a try and just make a few suggestions. 1. Pull our troops out of
Muslim countries in order to make clear that we do not have a war against
Islam. Until we do this, 90% or more of the Muslims in the world will
continue to believe that America is making war on Islam at the behest of
Israel and other interests that are detrimental to Islam and the world’s
Muslims. One has only to see the number of Muslims being detained in the
world and in American prisons and you can see how Muslims see America’s
behavior in the world. Also, tear down the Israel wall for starters...

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Ministers were told of need for Gulf war ‘excuse’
Michael Smith, TimesOnline
MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking
part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find
a way of making it legal. The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office briefing
paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military action to get
rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W
Bush three months earlier. The briefing paper, for participants at a m!
eeting of Blair’s inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime
change was illegal it was “necessary to create the conditions” which would
make it legal...

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Memo: U.S. Lacked Full Iraq Plan
Advisers to Blair Predicted Instability
Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff Writer
A briefing paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top
advisers eight months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq concluded that
the U.S. military was not preparing adequately for what the British memo
predicted would be a "protracted and costly" postwar occupation of that
country. The eight-page memo, written in advance of a July 23, 2002,
Downing Street meetin! g on Iraq, provides new insights into how senior
British officials saw a Bush administration decision to go to war as
inevitable, and realized more clearly than their American counterparts the
potential for the post-invasion instability that continues to plague Iraq...

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Twenty five U.S. soldiers killed this week in Iraq
Big News Network.com
Twenty five U.S. troops have died this week in separate incidents in
war-torn Iraq. Five U.S. Marines, most in their early 20s, were killed in a
roadside blast in western Iraq Thursday. The attack came in the Anbar
province where 17 Iraqis had been blindfolded and executed. Their bodies
were found on Friday. U.S. officials said the Marines killed were engaged
in combat operations in Haqlaniya...

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Who Shall Inherit the Earth?
Anwaar Hussain, Fountainhead
The present chaos in the world is painted by some as a struggle between
dictatorships and democracy, yet others have termed it a war between
Christianity and Islam, calling it a Crusade. There is neither any such
struggle between democratic and dictatorial forces visible anywhere, nor
are there are any Crusades going on. We are only witnessing a continuing
saga of the Haves and the Have-nots...

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MILITARY FAMILIES CHARGE BLAIR WITH WAR CRIMES – WILL TAKE CASE TO
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
Grace Reid
...But nothing, no bombshell memorandum, no tabloid headlines, no amount of
media or public attention has had the impact of the grief wracked faces of
the bereaved families of the military dead. Ten families have changed the
course of the British government, the course of history in the illegal war
in Iraq, and ultimately the fate of the Bush administration...

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Hell no, they don’t want to go!
Dustin Langley, GI resistance counselor
“Army recruiting is in a death spiral,” says retired Army Lt. Col. Charles
Krohn, a lifelong Republican and former Pentagon public affairs official.
As the bloody colonial occupation of Iraq drags on into its third year, the
Army missed its recruiting goals for three straight months entering
May—falling short by a staggering 42 percent in April. The Army Reserve
fell short 37 percent. The Marine Corps has missed its recruiting target
for four! consecutive months. After months of declining enlistments, the
Pentagon has announced it will postpone the release of its numbers for
May...

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Former soldier prompts investigations with Iraq stories, pictures
- By SETH HETTENA, Associated Press Writer
Since he left the Army in January as a conscientious objector, Aidan
Delgado has traveled the country giving audiences a disturbing account of
routine brutality he claims he saw during his year in Iraq. His grisly
roadshow has triggered two military investigations. Delgado said he saw an
Army master sergeant lash Iraqi children with a Humvee antenna. He recalled
seeing a Marine send another child flying wi! th a boot to the chest, and
men in his unit pelt Iraqi civilians in Nasiriyah with glass soda bottles
thrown from a military vehicle...

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Ex-Mossad Chief: U.S. presence in ME to last decades
Aljazeera.com
Ephraim Halevy, the former chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence service
and the current national security adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon, says plans have been made for a substantial U.S. military presence
in the Middle East lasting decades. "The U.S. campaign in Iraq was
perceived [in the Middle East and Washington] as a signal of long-term
American commitment to do whatever is required and to 'stay in the
neighbourhood' for as lo! ng as needed," Halevy stated in a lengthy op-ed
column in the April 24 issue of Ha'aretz...

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End the Occupation, and Maybe Avoid Civil War
Aaron Glantz, CommonDreams.org
As I travel around this country speaking about my experience as an
unembedded journalist in Iraq, calling for an end to the occupation, I am
inevitably asked the same question: "If the US military leaves Iraq, won't
there be a civil war?" This, I think, is the wrong question. Since toppling
Saddam Hussein in April 2003, the U.S. government has consistently pursued
policies that pit Iraqis against each other. The way I examine the situati!
on, the risk of civil war is one of the reasons to end the occupation...

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The Dreaded “V” Word
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
...According to a recent poll conducted by the Washington Post and ABC
News, “42 per cent of respondents believe the U.S. is heading for the same
kind of involvement in Iraq as it had in the Vietnam War.” Moreover, 64% of
the respondents believe the Bushcons do not have “a clear plan for
eventually withdrawing most U.S. troops from Iraq.” It is obvious the
Bushcons do not have a “plan” to withdraw troops from Iraq—and that is
because they plan to keep tr! oops there indefinitely and that is why they
are building bases in the country. Most Americans are clueless about the
real plan Bush and the Strausscons have in mind for the Iraqis (and the
Iranians and Syrians)...

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Multiple attacks kill many in Iraq
Aljazeera.net
At least 75 people, including eight police officers and 40 fighters, have
been killed in a day of unrelenting violence in Iraq. US air strikes killed
an estimated 40 anti-US fighters in western Iraq on Saturday. Seven
precision-guided missiles were fired at heavily armed fighters near
Karabilah, close to the town of Qaim, the US military said in a statement.
Earlier, 11 people were killed and 29 others injured after a car bomb
exploded overnight in a street in a S! hia area of Baghdad...

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Washington Has Spent 990 Million Dollars on its Embassy in Baghdad So Far
UPI
A report issued by the American congress stated that almost two years after
the invasion of Iraq, the United States has spent approximately 990 million
dollars on the operations of the American embassy in Baghdad. This sum has
not been within the framework of establishing a permanent building for the
American diplomatic delegation in the Iraqi capital...

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Activists to Fast for Ending Iraq Economic "Exploitation"
IslamOnline.net
A group of anti-Iraq war activists from around the globe will begin a fast
at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 16-30
to protest economic injustice suffered by the Iraqi people. “As
international social justice activists, including citizens of Iraq, the US
and the UK, we stand united and resolved to seek an end to the ongoing
economic exploitation of Iraq,” fast organizers, the Voices in the
Wilderness and Ju! bilee Iraq, said in a statement e-mailed to
IslamOnline.net...

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Two Marines killed in Western Iraq
The Hindu
Two U.S. Marines were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near their
vehicle in western Iraq, the military said on Saturday. The Marines died
during combat operations on Friday near volatile Anbar province town of
Saqlawiyah, west of Fallujah, 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad, the
military said in a statement...

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U.S. Army slips further behind recruiting goals
Will Dunham, Reuters
The U.S. Army has slipped further behind its recruiting goals amid the Iraq
war, figures released on Friday showed, as officials developed proposals to
double cash bonuses and offer mortgage aid for enlisting. The Army hopes to
raise the maximum cash bonus for new recruits to $40,000 and begin a pilot
program to give up to $50,000 in home-mortgage assistance to people who
volunteer for eight years of active-duty service, said Lt. Col. Thomas Co!
llins, an Army spokesman...


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