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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë“Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato Number Of Iraq Casualties Is Double Official Figures,Says Puerto Rican Government Jesus Davila, El Diario Official US. government reports on soldiers under US command killed in Iraq are so fragmented that they account for less than half of the total number, according to information uncovered as part of an inquiry by the Government of Puerto Rico regarding the total number of Puerto Rican war casualties. This analysis was confirmed by El Diario/La Prensa's review of multiple documents, including official reports issued by the US Department of Defense, the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior and more than 230 battlefront reports, which reveal that more than 4,076 troops under US command have been killed in 799 days of battle... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13547&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13547 Letter to America Eve Ensler, MMN ...I need you to wake up. The house is on fire and you are still sleeping, lulled by the intoxication of smoke and mirrors. I need you to wake up and I know that shaking you, scaring you will only make you cling to your sleep and sleep more. How then do I tell you what's going on? How do I tell you about the one hundred thousand dead Iraqi people that you and I are responsible for murdering. Each one of them valued their life, longed for their morning, cherished their first cup o! f milk or coffee or tea... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13531&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13531 What Goes Around … RevolutionaryFlowerpotSociety The bombings in London on July 7, 2005 were described as ‘barbaric’ by the hypocritical Blair, Bush, and the gang of rich nations’ leaders gathered for the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, to discuss how best to loot the world for an eternity to come. We must agree with the adjective describing the act. We, however, completely disagree with the propaganda presented as the ‘analysis’ of the causes for the act. Blair declared that the terrorists wish to destroy ‘ou! r way of life’ and Monkey Boy Bush managed to get out a few garbled sentences, most coherent of which repeated his latest-memorized phrases, to the effect that ‘they’ want to impose their ‘ideology of hate’. ‘Their ideology of hate’ … As opposed to … ‘our angelic deeds’? Hardly! As opposed to the US/UK’s aggressive war of invasion against the peoples of Afghanistan and Iraq that has resulted in the deaths of well over one hundred thousand innocent people... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13548&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13548 Mission Accomplished Iraq is Broken SAUL LANDAU, CounterPunch It's hard to believe that supposedly intelligent people like Senators Joseph Biden (DE), Hillary Clinton (NY) and John Kerry (MA) call for "staying the course" in Iraq and acting responsibly by sending more US troops with more fire power over there. Don't they understand that American soldiers break, not fix? The more US soldiers in Iraq, the more damage they will do and the more enemies they will make. To limit damage, to act morally and res! ponsibly, remove the cause of violence and chaos in Iraq: the US military presence... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13532&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13532 Rafidan-The Political Committee The Mujahideen Central Command (MCC): Release No. 15 ,Title: Bush Rots in Abu Graib www.albasrah.net ...The ignorant, the greedy, those who rejoice at the misfortune of others, the cowards, and the traitors would accept to negotiate!! The True Iraqi believers, the true sons of the two rivers, will carry on and fight till they retrieve what is rightfully theirs and take their revenge!! Today Bush, is on the stages of his performances, he blabs and trembles in weakness, even the ! Hollywood actors will feel sorry for him. For he was misguided, and is now isolated from his generals and half his people. He is on his way to the pit. Why should we now negotiate when he is most probably reading a book by the title of "How to escape in 7 days without a teacher!"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13535&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13535 Mr. Bush's War Immanuel Wallerstein, World Crisis Web We know now that George W. Bush confided to one of his friends before he was president that he wanted a war with Iraq and that, unlike his father, he would get rid of Saddam Hussein. And so he has. But as the U.S. polls turn seriously against him and a majority of Americans today say that the war wasn’t worth the loss of lives, it is time to take a reckoning of what Mr. Bush has accomplished. He wanted a quick war, and he didn’t get that. The U.S. occupiers ar! e faced today, two years after the invasion was launched, with a stiff Iraqi resistance which the U.S. doesn’t seem to be able to quench... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13536&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13536 A look in the mirror for America Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe ... The world, of course, shares the sympathies of Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York, who said the London bombings were a ''despicable, cowardly act." Yet every invoking of the innocents also reminds us of our despicable, cowardly killing of innocent Iraqi civilians (...) These innocents never existed, either in Iraq or Afghanistan. ''We don't do body counts," said both General Tommy Franks, former Iraqi commander, and Defense Secretary Donald Ru! msfeld. When Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt was asked about the images of American soldiers killing innocent civilians on Arab television, Kimmitt said: ''My solution is quite simple: Change the channel. Change the channel to a legitimate, authoritative, honest news station. The stations that are showing Americans intentionally killing women and children are not legitimate news sources. That is propaganda. And that is lies." <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13541&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13541 Open Letter to George W. Bush Ralph Nader ...Where is the presence of the sons and daughters of the top political and economic rulers in the Iraq theater, where they can see the suffering of millions of innocent Iraqi people? You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of family members serving over there among the 535 members of Congress, and the White House. No specific data is available for the families of the CEOs of the Fortune 500. But we can guess that very few are stationed in and around the Sunn! i triangle these days. Can't get much tennis, golf or sailing in, if that were the case... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13542&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13542 THE LYNCHPIN TO BUSH'S IMPEACHMENT Paul Andrew Mitchell & Carl f. Worden ...But the real reason this Plame incident is so important is that it adds a tremendous amount of credibility to the recently exposed "Downing Street Memo", in which notes were taken at a meeting in Britain that revealed Bush planned to attack Iraq long before the WMD accusations were made, and that the "Intelligence was being fixed" around that policy. The fact that such a petty act of revenge was enacted against Joseph Wilson's wife for th! e "crime" of her husband telling the American people the god's-honest truth, certainly lends credence to those who contend the Downing Street Memo is a smoking gun that reveals deliberate deception upon the Congress and the American people to go to war with Iraq on the basis of entirely false allegations... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13546&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13546 Ambassador Joe Wilson -- Still Fighting the Bush Administration's "Culture of Unaccountability" A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW ...Yet the mainstream corporate media will claim that the White House has been vindicated, if no legal charges are forthcoming. Likewise, Rove and the "Iraq Group" responsible for pulling the rug out from under our covert tracking of Weapons of Mass Destruction will be declared "vindicated" if the Bush-dominated Washington, D.C., Appeals Court overturns any convictions that might be obtained (as J! udges Sentelle and Silberman, GOP activist/partisan federal jurists, did with Oliver North and John Poindexter). A crime against a nation does not need to be legally identified when it is staring us in the face... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13545&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13545 Memo says US, UK readying Iraqi withdrawal-report Reuters A leaked document from Britain's Defense Ministry says the British and U.S. governments are planning to reduce their troop levels in Iraq by more than half by mid-2006, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported. The memo, reportedly written by Defense Minister John Reid, said Britain would reduce its troop numbers to 3,000 from 8,500 by the middle of next year... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13544&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13544 The London Bombings Dave Stratman The terror bombings in London of July 7 differ from the atrocities committed against the people of Iraq only in scale. In Iraq well over 100,000 people have been butchered by the US/UK killing machine. In London as many as 50 people were killed and hundreds injured. In both cases the killed and injured are the victims of actions designed to terrorize, demobilize, and control innocent people. We do not yet know who is responsible for the atrocities in London. Responsibility has be! en claimed by a shadowy “Secret Organization of al-Qaida,” and perhaps that organization is indeed responsible. Far more likely, however, is that security elements of the British or US governments are the real perpetrators... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13543&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13543 RETREAT FROM IRAQ STARTS: BERLUSCONI, SAID THIS SOME TIME AGO AGI The Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has said, "I was really surprised at some of today's headlines about 300 soldiers withdrawing from Iraq. This is something I announced some time back, which is part of our Iraqi military strategy and well-known to both our allies and the Iraqi government. We had already discussed it at length". Berlusconi, who was about to leave Rome, had stopped to have a few words with journalists waiting in Via del ! Plebiscito and tell them that the Italian withdrawal from Iraq had already been announced... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13539&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13539 Disastrous Iraq adventure is a sideshow to the long haul war on terror GERALD WARNER, Scotsman, UK ...Casualties decrease when a war is being won: in Iraq, on the contrary, they are increasing. The inference is obvious. There was a momentary surge of triumphalism last February, after the elections; but the wholly predictable incompetence of the new Iraqi government has ended that false dawn. Meanwhile, the war is costing America treasure as well as blood. By the end of this fiscal year (on September 30) it will h! ave cost US taxpayers $204.6bn. Worse still, there are signs of war weariness among the American public, which President Bush's recent speech anxiously sought to address... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13538&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13538 July 7 bombings: Another reason to end war and occupation Workers World editorial statement Will the July 7 bombings in London be followed by greater opposition to imperialist war and occupation--which has already cost so many lives and so much suffering in so many countries? Or will the political forces of corporate expansion and empire building in the United States and Britain be able to utilize them to further their aggressive agenda of war and plunder? That is the question now before the progressive movement! ... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13537&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13537 The swarm of the madder’n hells, part III SmirkingChimp.com For the millions of Americans who insist on having their smoking guns hot to the touch and still smoldering, the Downing Street Memos (DSM) couldn't be hotter, or even smoldier. The leaked highly classified British documents clearly show the Bushies were hell-bent on invading Iraq despite piffling inconveniences like the lack of any legitimate justification whatsoever. We are the madder'n hells, and we -- all one million of us -- intend to converge at th! e U.S. Capitol on Monday, September 26*, to demand that Congress hold hearings on the memos... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13533&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13533 The Logic of Suicide Terrorism It’s the occupation, not the fundamentalism The American Conservative ...Another point in this regard is Iraq itself. Before our invasion, Iraq never had a suicide-terrorist attack in its history. Never. Since our invasion, suicide terrorism has been escalating rapidly with 20 attacks in 2003, 48 in 2004, and over 50 in just the first five months of 2005. Every year that the United States has stationed 150,000 combat troops in Iraq, suicide terrorism has doubled... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13530&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13530 US Launches Fresh Iraq Offensive IslamOnline.net The US occupation army in Iraq said on Saturday, July9 , it had launched a new offensive, the fourth in a month, against resistance fighters in the country. It said that Operation Scimitar led to the arrest of 22 suspects since it was launched in secret in the village of Zaidon 30 km ( 20miles) southeast of Fallujah on Thursday, July7 , Reuters reported... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13529&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13529 What's Behind the London Attacks? Matt Hutaff ...As I sit in my office today, I hear the whispers of co-workers now utterly convinced our war on terror must continue. Despite American and British involvement in the Middle East birthing wave after wave of rebel forces, the Bush doctrine is now justified in the minds of millions. Petty grievances such as the Downing Street Minutes, the President's flagging support and Karl Rove's treasonous outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame are unimportant. A shadowy conglomeration! is out to kill us. Sound familiar? It should – the same emotional ploy was used to great effect on Americans in the wake of September 11th. Question nothing, particularly your cries for vengeance or that nagging feeling in the back of your head. Justice delayed is justice denied... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13528&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13528 Gonzales' Fatal Flaw Latimes.com ...It's a sad statement of the times we live in that much of the opposition to a Gonzales nomination is coming from social conservatives, for far different reasons. They worry, on the basis of sketchy evidence, that the attorney general may be insufficiently committed to their antiabortion and anti-affirmative action crusades. But where are the liberal advocates and Democratic senators who opposed Gonzales' nomination as attorney general? Is a torture-supporting nominee to the cou! rt really an acceptable lesser-of-evils these days?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13549&s2=10>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13549 <http://www.uruknet.info>www.uruknet.info: a site gathering daily information concerning occupied Iraq: news, analysis, documents and texts of iraqi resistance available in Italian and English. You receive this newsletter because you subscribed it. 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