[uruknet] - NL 22 June - Part One

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IRAQI HOSPITALS AILING UNDER OCCUPATION
Dahr Jamail, http://dahrjamailiraq.com/
BRussells Tribunal
...This report supports the conclusion of many observers that the war and
occupation -- and sanctions prior to that -- are primarily to blame for the
appalling state of healthcare in Iraq today. Up to 1990, Iraq had one of
the best healthcare systems in the Middle East. This was the result of a
deep commitment by the Iraqi health professionals to serve their patients
well; a long-term, quality-oriented plannin! g by successive Iraqi
governments since the 1930s; and well-functioning and disciplined -- albeit
sometimes heavy-handed -- government structures. Since a few months, an
autonomous government is claimed in Iraq, although both its legitimacy and
its autonomy are highly questionable. It can easily be argued, based on
international law, that the existence of this government doesn’t change the
US’s status as an occupying power. In any case, the US was the occupying
power in Iraq for the period covered by this report. As such, the US was
responsible for conforming with all international law, especially
humanitarian law and human rights law, regarding the situation of
healthcare in Iraq...

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"Bring 'em on!"
Bush's Legacy of Death in Iraq
Michael Rivero, What Really Happened
...It's amazing how the media outlets decided to show the graphic loss of
life from the December 26, 2004 killer tsunami waves -- the bodies washed
ashore, many bloated as they piled up in numbers that far outdistanced the
ability of loved ones to identify and bury them. I'm truly amazed the media
deemed it proper and appropriate, since televising dead service-members
arriving home at Dover Air Force Base in the dead of night! , in neat
flag-draped coffins is still not allowed. Obviously, the same standards do
not apply...


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Report: Rumsfeld considers striking Hizbullah to provoke Syria
DOUGLAS DAVIS, Jerusalem Post
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is considering provoking a military
confrontation with Syria by attacking Hizbullah bases near the Syrian
border in Lebanon, according to the authoritative London-based Jane's
Intelligence Digest. In an article to be published on Friday, the journal
said multi-faceted US attacks, which would be conducted within the
framework of the global war on terrorism, are likely to focus on Hiz!
bullah bases in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon...

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Secret" Air Base for Iraq War started prior 9-11
Duke 1676, MyDD
...The true story of the building of Al-Udeid is actually quite different.
The planning for the mammoth base had in fact taken place long before Sept.
11, and actual work on the base began as early as the spring of 2001. The
building of Al Udeid turns out not to be a "miracle in the desert" in
response to a heinous attack, as touted by the military, but rather a
required step on the path to regime change in Iraq. It has long been
accepted knowledge! that the Bush Administration was working feverishly
towards regime change in Iraq during the 18-month period between 9-11 and
the official start of the war in March of 2003...

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Another brutal offensive in Iraq sees Bush support shrivel
John Catalinotto, Workers World
...Much like the body-count reporting during the U.S. war against Vietnam,
U.S. officers make a rough estimate of the dead Iraqis and count everyone
killed, even children, as an enemy combatant. To guess at the real progress
of the battle in Iraq, it is perhaps more helpful to see the reaction of
the ruling politicians in Washington and their pundits...

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Fixed Is Fixed
Ray McGovern, TomPaine.com
With last week's hearings on the Downing Street memos concluded, much work
lies ahead. Now, the information in the Downing Street memos needs to be
collated carefully with evidence from the mainstream media, on the
Internet, and from other sources regarding what was going on in top
policymaking circles in Washington in the preparations for the invasion of
Iraq. All this can be expected to take some time...

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Cancel Your Subscriptions - The Time Has Come
WE MUST STOP FUNDING THE ENEMY AND THE ENEMY IS OUR CORPORATE MEDIA!
TvNewsLies.org
...TvNewsLIES is calling for an all out, 100% boycott of corporate news. We
are asking our readers to do the following: 1. Cancel all subscriptions to
the corporately owned newspapers & magazines that have been complicit in
deceiving the public about the many crimes committed by the Bush
administration and about the many outrageous actio! ns taken by our
Congress to undermine our democracy, our environment and our civil rights
while they put forth an agenda that is designed to hand ownership of our
nation to a few wealthy individuals and corporations. 2. Call your cable
company and cancel the following news channels: all CNN networks (CNN
Headline News and CNN International), all FOX networks that air news
including your local FOX affiliate...

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AIPAC can place you by the elbow of the president
Ahmed Amr, Editor NileMedia.com, via OrbStandard.com
Early next September, the U.S. District court in Alexandria, Virginia will
be the scene of a very interesting trial. One Lawrence Franklin will stand
before a judge to defend himself against a six-count indictment accusing
him of conspiring to disclose national defense and classified information
to senior AIPAC officials – who then passed it on to Israeli intelligence
operatives...

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The Bizarre, Evolving, Contradictory War on Terror
Stan Moore, MMN
...Apparently, "terrorism" is a very flexible term. It seems to be a
situational term, one that demonizes anyone America wants to demonize, even
if the same exact persons called terrorists were formerly allied with us
and armed and financially aided by us for engaging in the same exact
behaviors for which they become labeled as terrorists..

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Downing Street Is For Liars
Mark Morford
...Oh, and rest assured, Iraq is indeed a new Vietnam. The parallels are
undeniable and mounting -- all the elements are in place: staggering
civilian death tolls, inmate abuse and torture, international
embarrassment, economic pillaging, executive impudence, a vicious drive
toward empire and power, a false sense of "victory" and the overpowering
sense we are so deeply entrenched in this violent, chaotic quagmire, it
will take many more years and many thousands of more U.S! . dead and
countless more billions before we are anywhere near stabilization...



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Yes, Virginia, There Really Are Downing Street Memos (satire)
Mary Titus, Citizens For Legitimate Government
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below,
expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful
author is numbered among the friends of The Post: I am 8 years old. Some of
my little journalist friends say there are no Downing Street Memos. Papa
says, "If you see it in The Washington Post, it's so." Please tell me the
truth, are there Downing Street Memos? --! Virginia O'Falon


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Wolfowitz won't discuss critical British memos
Jon Sawyer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq war
during his service as Deputy Defense Secretary, said Tuesday that he hasn't
read any of the recently disclosed British government memos that call into
question his role and that of other senior administration officials in the
run-up to war during 2002. At a breakfast meeting with reporters, Wolfowitz
said he hasn't read the memos because he doesn't want to be di! stracted by
history from his new job as head of the world's leading development bank...

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An Interview with Col. Sam Gardiner
The Bush Administration's Psy-Ops on the US Public
KEVIN ZEESE, CounterPunch
Sam Gardiner has taught strategy and military operations at the National
War College, Air War College and Naval War College. He was recently a
visiting scholar at the Swedish Defence College. During Gulf II he was a
regular on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer as well as on BBC radio and
television, and National Public Radio. He authored “The Enemy is Us” an
article describing how the Bush Admini! stration used disinformation and
psychological warfare – weapons usually used against the 'enemy' – against
the American public in order to support the war in Iraq...

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Urgent : watch out, US people!
Abu Assur
...He is a liar. He lied and he is still lying. The US government of whores
lied about WMD. They lied about Iraq and links with al Qaeeda. They lied
about the power transfer to Iraqis. They lied about the circus of the
elections under the US bayonets. They are lying about foreign fighters,
about Zarkawi.. They are helped spreading these lies by the CNN cowards and
Corporate media . They are lying about the real figures of the US
casualties. The US whores are massacring who! le villages in Iraq. All Iraq
is resistance...

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Protest against Iraq conference in Brussels
IRNA
The 'Brussels Tribunal' Tuesday condemned holding of the international
conference on Iraq to be held in Brussels on Wednesday. "We feel the
necessity to alert the Belgian and European public opinion and authorities
that the Brussels conference is a dead-end initiative," Lieven De Cauter, a
Belgian professor of philosophy and member of the Tribunal told a press
conference here Tuesday afternoon...

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Premature Burial
William Bowles, I'n'I
No matter, the BBC and the rest of the state’s media/propaganda arsenal
have effectively buried the Downing Street Minutes here in the UK,
preferring to ignore the story rather than mount a counter offensive, no
doubt operating on the principle of ‘out of sight, out of mind’. In the US
however, the story is somewhat different if only because the corporate
press has been hoisted on its own propaganda petard and forced onto the
defensive as the petulant (and slanderous) piece ! by the Washington Post
so clearly demonstrated.

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The Nuremberg Trial incictments
Xymphora
...The American WMD justification for the inevitable attack on Iraq exactly
parallels the lying excuses which the Germans provided in their memoranda
to the various occupied governments. The provision of elaborate excuses
actually proves the fact that the Germans, and the Americans, were
attempting to create a legal excuse for their inevitable invasions, which
proves knowledge of guilt. The Americans are actually in a worse legal
state than the Germans, who didn't have the! benefit of the clarifications
in international law provided by the Nuremberg Trial judgment...

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“A healthier, happier” president
P.M. Carpenter
At first I thought it was a joke. We have in the White House a “healthier,
happier and sharper chief executive,” read a line quoted in the Washington
Post, because “once a day, he puts his desire for a workout ahead of the
nation…. In pursuit of a workout, the president is willing to risk the
disapproval of some who might question his priorities. But in a largely
sedentary nation, the president stands apart for appreciating the value of
a workout.” The passage was ! reminiscent of those 1950s Boy Scout magazine
pieces in which virtuous personal habits were lauded by such virtuous
persons as J. Edgar Hoover. Thinking it was clever parody to be savored in
full, I clicked on the story link...

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Did Drugs Make Limbaugh a Torture Fan?
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
No, it wasn’t the OxyContin that made Rush Limbaugh a torture fan—more than
likely the loudmouth radio talk show host has lacked sufficient human
compassion and a sense of fair play since he was a kid. Completely void of
any sense of propriety, Limbaugh “has plumbed a new low in both sickness
and inaccuracy,” writes Prison Planet, by “hawking a new line of caps,
T-shirts and mugs that depict the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba as
a! holiday home”...

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Yes, they did lie to us
Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian
...In Washington Iraq remains close to the centre of politics while in
Britain it has all but vanished. So the big news on Capitol Hill is the
Democrats' refusal to confirm John Bolton, the man Bush wants to serve as
US ambassador to the UN, in part because of suspicions arising from the
lead-up to war. Meanwhile, RAF planes were involved last weekend in bombing
raids in north-west Iraq - a marked escalation of their role - and British
politics barely stirs! . America has woken up; we are aslumber. The best
illustration of this strange reversal is the curious fate of the Downing
Street memo...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 21 June 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice. ( http://www.freearabvoice.org )
In a dispatch posted at 11am Mecca time Tuesday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam
reported that more than 500 US troops withdrew from the eastern and
northern approaches to the city of al-Qa’im on the border with Syria after
grueling fighting over several days in which the Americans failed to break
the defenses of the Iraqi Resistanc! e...

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