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The Path of War Timeline
Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane, Raw Story
January 26, 1998: The Project for a New American Century urges President
Clinton to oust Saddam Hussein. Among the eighteen signers are Donald
Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and John Bolton.
May-July 1999: In 1999, Mickey Herskowitz is hired to ghostwrite a campaign
autobiography for George W. Bush, an assignment that was later withdrawn.
Herskowitz later spoke about Bush for an article by journalist Russ Baker:
“He was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999... It was on his mind. He said
to me: ‘One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a
commander-in-chief’ ”...

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The Iraq Factor: Secret Memo to Tony Blair.
Condi committed to regime change in early 2002
www.globalresearch.ca
The following Memo addressed to Prime Minister Tony Blair is purported to
have been written by Blair's foreign policy advisor David Manning. It was
written in anticipation of PM Blair's Visit to the Texas Ranch. It
indicates that now-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was committed to
"regime change" in early 2002. It also outlines some problems a postwar
Iraq might face...

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Send Bush and the Strausscons to Gliese 876
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
In our corporate-dominated Bushzarro world, the trial and acquittal of a
washed-up pop star is more important than documentation proving Bush and
his warmongering cronies are guilty of premeditated murder, war crimes, and
crimes against humanity. In Bushzarro world, it is okay to urinate on
religious texts, beat innocent Afghan taxi drivers to death, and shuffle an
unknown number of abductees to and from Bush’s torture and sexual hu!
miliation gulag. It’s perfectly normal to run black ops and train death
squads to kill university professors and labor leaders...

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Evidence of false statements made by Tony Blair to Parliament and the media
Information Clearing House
The Butler Report of July 2004 highlighted substantial omissions of
evidence regarding Iraq, but did not argue that positively false
information had been given by the Prime Minister to press or Parliament. On
18 September 2004, the Daily Telegraph published extracts from a series of
newly leaked documents from the Cabinet Office. With one exception, none of
these were quoted in the Butler Report (...)Inst! ead, they show that Blair
was fully committed to regime change as early as 8 March 2002, and
communicated this position to Bush and his officials. This is substantive
evidence of positive falsehood on the part of the Prime Minister, not
simply an omission of evidence...

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Iraq Options Paper: Full text
Raw Story - I'n'I
The following, titled “IRAQ OPTIONS PAPER,” was prepared and dated March 8,
2002. It presents possible courses to war. (...) We have two options. We
could toughen the existing containment policy. This would increase the
pressure on Saddam. It would not reintegrate Iraq into the international
community. The US administration has lost faith in containment and is now
considering regime change. The end states could either be a Sunni strongman
or a representativ! e government. Thre [sic] three options for achieving
regime change are:
* covert support to opposition groups to mount an uprising/coup;
* air support for opposition groups to mount an uprising/coup; and
* a full-scale ground campaign.
These are not mutually exclusive...

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‘What Has Changed Is Not The Pace Of Saddam’s Wmd Programs’
Raw Story - I'n'I
This memorandum, said [to be] from Blair political director Peter Ricketts
and dated Mar. 22, 2002, indicates the challenges that an Iraq war would
face. It indicates that it would have been carbon copied to then-Secretary
of State Colin Powell and President George W. Bush. “The truth is that what
has changed is not the pace of Saddam Hussein’s WMD programmes,” the
document says...

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British Foreign Secretary Straw Says Case For Iraq Is Weak
Raw Story - I'n'I
The following is purported to have been penned by the British Foreign
Secretary Jack Straw—U.S. equivalent of Secretary of State—concerning a
possible war in Iraq. Straw indicates the case for war is weak; that the
Iraq situation has remained unchanged; and that the United States would not
have gone to war without September 11...

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Enabling Evil
Paul Craig Roberts
...The situation in America today is quite different from wartime Germany.
There is still a free press even though it is a toady corporate press
without heart or courage. There is an opposition party even thought it is a
toady opposition (...) If Germans were complicit, as Goldhagen claims, how
can Americans avoid the charge of complicity in Bush’s crimes against Iraq
when Americans are in possession of such damning facts and have the power
of impeachment? Why do Americans tolerat! e a liar and a war criminal as
their president? Why has Congress voted still more money for an illegal war
launched in deception?...

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ACTION ALERT: Downing Street Memo Activists “Wing Nuts,” “Paranoid”
FAIR - I'n'I
...Los Angeles Times editorial page editor Michael Kinsley opted for
sarcasm over serious discussion, deriding activists in a June 12 column for
sending him emails “demanding that I cease my personal cover-up of
something called the Downing Street Memo.” Kinsley kidded that the fuss was
a good sign for the Left: “Developing a paranoid theory and promoting it to
the very edge of national respectability takes ideological self-confidenc!
e.” What does Kinsley mean by paranoid? Criticizing the Times for not
giving the story much attention would be accurate..

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Fear As Foreign Policy
John Brown, TomPaine.com
...The fact of the matter, however, is that the administration, in its
usual unsubtle way of dealing with foreigners, does want the outside world
to be aware of what happens if you're "against us": you end up in prison or
a detainee camp. Gruesome disclosures about Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo serve
a purpose: to create the kind of visceral fear abroad about the United
States that the administration can exploit in its global "war on terror."
It is far safer to be feare! d than loved, wrote Machiavelli, a far cry
from the New Testament but what the Bible-reading president—a firm advocate
of capital punishment—seems to ardently believe...

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The Growing Case for a Resolution of Inquiry
Kevin Zeese and Ralph Nader
Article II, Section 4 of the United States Constitution: "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." It is becoming more
evident that an impeachment inquiry is needed to determine whether the
United States was plunged into war with Iraq based on manipulated
intelligence and false! information...

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The use of depleted uranium during war in Iraq
Dr. Siraj Islam Mufti, Ph.D.
Depleted uranium is a waste byproduct of the nuclear reactors. It contains
the highly toxic U-238 isotope with a radioactive half-life of about 4.5
billion years. The breakdown of U-238 creates protactinium-234, which
radiates potent beta particles. It is now generally agreed that radiation
emitted on the breakdown of uranium may result in cancers in humans, as
well as mutations in their germ cells that cause birth defects...

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IRAQ: Increase in TB cases worrying, doctors say
IRIN news
Iraqi doctors say they are concerned over an increase in Tuberculosis (TB)
cases in the southeastern city of Amarah, fueled by a shortage of medicine
and poor living conditions. The disease, which has been under control in
the area for more than 50 years, has been rising steadily since the
conflict in 2003. A survey on living conditions, released by the UN and the
Iraqi government in May, stressed that standards had seriously deteriorated
over the past ! two years with poor access to clean water and adequate
healthcare (...) WHO officials for Iraq said a special health team would be
sent to the area to supply drugs and assist in controlling the spread of
the disease. But they added that poor hygiene in many areas in the south
was opening doors for the spread of diseases previously under control
during the rule of Saddam Hussein...

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Time And Place Fixed For Downing St. Memo Rally
Press Release: afterdowningstreet.org
On Thursday June 16, 2005, Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the
House Judiciary Committee, and other Congress Members will hold a hearing
on the Downing Street Minutes and related evidence of efforts to cook the
books on pre-war intelligence. (Time and place yet to be determined.) Later
on the same day at 5:00 p.m. ET in Lafayette Square Park, in front of the
White House, a large rally will support Congressman Conyers w! ho plans to
deliver to the White House a letter addressed to President Bush and signed
by over 500,000 Americans and at least 94 Congress Members...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 13 June 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice. ( http://www.freearabvoice.org )
...Puppet so-called “Iraqi national guards” and puppet police raided the
largely Sunni Balad Salamah area of Abu al-Khasib near al-Basrah at 3:30pm
local time Monday afternoon, arresting three local Sunni residents,
according to preliminary reports, Mafkarat al-Islam reported. In a dispatch
posted at 8:10pm Mecca time, the Mafk! arat al-Islam correspondent in
al-Basrah reported that Iraqi puppet forces had encircled the area and were
allowing no one in or out...

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Top Ten Things You Wouldn't expect to Happen if You Listened to Bush and Cheney
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
10. You wouldn't expect Muslim detainees at Guantanamo Prison to have been
put in "stress positions," or physically poked and shoved, or subjected to
"The Invasion of Space by the Female," or to have had their heartbeat
driven down to 35 beats a minute by the constant harassment, or to have
them ask for crayons to write a will because they had decided to commit
suicide. Some of the log of an interrogator ha! s been published by Time
magazine. 9. You would not expect that Iraq, instead of being a beacon of
democracy to neighbors like Iran, seems instead to have been a beacon of
car bombings. Nine persons were killed in bombings around Iran on Sunday...

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Silent Death in Iraq
Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar , DemocracyRising.US
...The decline in the health service standards from what it was in 1990
have resulted in the death of no less than 500,000 children under the age
of 5 years due to the UK-USA sanctions. A further decline in health
services as a result of the current occupation is causing the silent death
of thousands of innocent civilians mostly children. This chaotic health
system can not be justified under any circumstances. Sometimes I feel like
UK USA stands for "Un! ited to Kill US All"-- this time silently. Now they
do not have Saddam to blame!!!! Would they have the courage to blame
themselves or their client state? I don't think so...

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Downing Street debacle
Matthew Davis
...If the liars and criminals who started this war get away without
punishment, the legal ramifications will influence every prospective
military adventure in the coming decades. One more signal will be sent that
our executive branch can act with complete impunity, even at the cost of
tens of thousands of lives. Instead, let us send a message of outrage, let
us stand up and say that Americans are tired of being force-fed official
fabrications. The first step is contacting your! representatives and the
media, and urging them to support the current attempts to uncover the
truth...

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Building a New "Movement": The Downing Street Memos
Bernard WeinerCo-Editor, The Crisis Papers
...It's not clear what all the unifying principles and themes could be that
would energize this new Movement. Big issues might include the draft and
Social Security. But one would think that maybe the Iraq War would serve as
the centerpoint, especially given the revelations of the Downing Street
Memos, which verify what many of us have been asserting for years about how
Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/et al. lied and rushed the co! untry into an
unnecessary war for their own twisted, power-hungry ends. Here's a Quick
Chronology of Deception Highlights...

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They Won't Go
BOB HERBERT, NYTimes
W. Bush is in no danger of being ranked among the nation's pre-eminent
commanders in chief. Not only has he been unable thus far to win the war in
Iraq, but on his watch significant sectors of the proud U.S. military have
been rapidly deteriorating. More Columns by Bob Herbert The Army reported
on Friday that it had fallen short of its recruitment goals for a fourth
consecutive month. The Marines managed to meet their recruitment target for
May, but that was their first successf! ul month this year...

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UNFRIENDLY FIRE: HOSTILE INCIDENTS INCREASING BETWEEN US MILITARY AND
PRIVATE MILITARY CONTRACTORS IN IRAQ
Wayne Madsen Report
Reports about armed confrontations between active duty U.S. and coalition
military forces and coalition armed private military contractors in Iraq
have gone from a trickle to a steady flow. While fragging incidents between
U.S. enlisted and officers were more commonplace in Vietnam than ever
admitted by the Pentagon, the violence between active military and
quasi-mercenaries in Iraq is a ! fairly new phenomenon, according to U.S.
military experts. What is occurring in Iraq is not friendly fire but
willful fighting between occupation forces...

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