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The Lords of War
Mike Whitney
...Even more noteworthy, is the language in the constitution that provides
for “vast autonomous regions” in the oil-rich north and south that will be
controlled by the Kurds and Shiites respectively. That means that the
central oil-poor region will be left to the Sunnis, who will lose political
power accordingly. Was the United States behind this strategy to divide
Iraq into three parts? In a word; yes (...) It was the US that introduced
the deceptive language of “federalism”, probab! ly conjured up in a
right-wing think tank, to disguise their real intention of breaking the
country up into smaller, more manageable mini-states. The principle of
“divide and conquer” is still the time-honored strategy of imperial
powers...

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Iraq's Constitutional Process
Circus in Baghdad
LAITH AL-SAUD, CounterPunch
The so-called constitutional crisis in Iraq is nothing short of a scandal.
The analysts who have been assigned by the forces-that-be to cover the
negotiations in Iraq have adamantly blamed the obstinate "Sunnis" for the
failure of negotiations. And once again, rather than dealing with the
facts, the media coverage has been complicit in perpetuating illegality.
Instead of silencing international law, as they did during the elect! ions,
the media has now conveniently chosen to ignore the basic legality of the
drafting process. The political events currently taking place in Iraq are
in violation of the Transitional Administrative Law, the very law the US so
carefully put together during their "official" occupation of the country...

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Pat Boone: Cindy Sheehan is a Pot-Addled Hippie
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
You know it's going bad for the right-wingers when they drag old Pat Boone
out of retirement and let him loose on Cindy Sheehan. "This lady and the
groups that have been demonstrating in front of the president's ranch in
Crawford and following him around are the very same people that were the
dropout, turn-on, anti-war peace activists back [in the Vietnam War era],"
said the ancient one. "They still have this crazy notion that b! y just
being peaceful and maybe toking up or something like that -- it's like an
ostrich with its head in the sand -- maybe the danger and the bad guys will
go away and leave you alone, which is not gonna happen." In other words,
Pat does not seem to have a firm grasp on reality -- anti-war demonstrators
are not generally pot-smoking hippies, although right-winger Rush Limbaugh
is a documented pill-popping drug addict -- and appears to be suffering
from a touch of Alzheimer's...

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Two “Green Zones”
Dahr Jamail
As the US-backed Iraqi puppet government flails about arguing over the
so-called constitution, Iraq remains in a state of complete anarchy. There
is no government control whatsoever, even inside the infamous “Green Zone”
where the puppets seem to have tangled their strings. Why the harsh tone
for the conflagrations of the so-called Iraqi government? Because the price
paid for this unimaginably huge misadventure of the neo-conservative driven
Bush junta is being paid by real human bei! ngs who shed real blood and cry
real tears. Because well over 100,000 Iraqis and over 1,800 US soldiers
would be alive today if it wasn’t for the puppeteers of Mr. Bush...

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State Violence, Free Speech and the Rise of Xenophobia
Yamin Zakaria, GlobalResearch.ca
...In any legal system, the testimony of a proven liar has little merit if
any at all, but why then do we have to accept and abide by the words of
those who openly lied about Iraq's WMDs, or is this a virtue of a
capitalist-democracy! Now we have mass murderers that have slaughtered over
100,000 civilians in Iraq, preaching about non-violence and the sanctity of
innocent civilians, or is that UK civilians only? Words of hypocr! ites and
liars are always exposed by their inconsistent deeds, and the following
examples from recent events will further illustrate...

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Black Op al-Qaeda in Iraq Releases Manifesto
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
...Of course, there is absolutely no evidence of an "al-Qaeda in Iraq," a
supposed mutation of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, but this
does not stop CNN and the corporate media from declaring such a beast
exists. It was only a couple weeks ago the dead Osama was said to be on his
way to Iraq to micromanage his organization, and in November of last year
it was "reported" the Army of Ansar al-Sunnah (allegedly an Iraqi r!
esistance group) had merged with al-Qaeda, although as usual there "was no
way to confirm the veracity of the statement" posted on the internet,
according to CBS News. And thus a large chunk of the resistance is now
indistinguishable from al-Qaeda, the CIA manufactured terror organization
named after a database, or so the corporate media tells us...

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Assyrian in North Iraq Murdered By Kurdish Militia
Assyrian International News Agency.
Witnesses in Bartilla reported yesterday that a group of Peshmarga fighters
(Kurdish fighters under the name of Iraqi National Guards) killed 37 year
old Nabil Akram Amona by shooting him in the head execution style. Mr.
Amona, a father of two, was filling his car with gasoline at the local gas
station when the Peshmarga militia drove in, ran from their car to the gas
pump and took the gas nozzle out of his car. Seconds later, ! they put a
gun to his head and shot him. A second Assyrian, Matta Shamoun Zora Sha'ya
who attempted to bring Mr. Amona to the hospital was also shot to the head
twice (...) The murder is widely seen as a retaliation for the
anti-constitution protests (AINA, 8-24-2005) the Assyrians held two days
earlier...

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ORDER 81: Re-engineering Iraqi agriculture
The ultimate war crime: breaking the agricultural cycle
Jeremy Smith, Globalresearch
...Iraqi farmers have been made vassals to American corporations. That they
were baking bread for 9,500 years before America existed has no weight when
it comes to deciding who owns Iraq’s wheat. Yet for every farmer that stops
growing his unique strain of saved seed the world loses another variety,
one that might have been useful in times of disease or drought. In sho! rt,
what America has done is not restructure Iraq’s agriculture, but dismantle
it. The people whose forefathers first mastered the domestication of wheat
will now have to pay for the privilege of growing it for someone else...

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A bloody trade-off
Britain has bought a way out by abandoning Basra to intolerance
Rory Carroll and Osama Mansour, The Guardian
The truth about Steven Vincent's murder may never be known, but that should
not cloud the truth about Basra's police. In an opinion piece in the New
York Times on July 31, the American journalist said Shia militias had
infiltrated the force and were assassinating opponents in Iraq's second
city. He was right.
Two days later, Vincent and his female interpreter, Noriya Ita'is, were
abducted outside his hotel in downtown Basra. The next day his body was
found riddled with bullets. Ita'is had been shot twice in the leg and once
in the shoulder, according to a doctor who treated her...

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GI Special 3C34; "Bush And America Out" -August 27, 2005
www.militaryproject.org
A hundred thousand Iraqis across the country marched on Friday in support
of a maverick Shi'ite cleric opposed to a draft constitution that
U.S.-backed government leaders say will deliver a brighter future. The
protest could reinforce the opposition of Sunni Arabs who dominate the
insurgency and are bitterly against the draft. Supporters of young Shi'ite
firebrand Moqtada al-Sadr, who has staged two uprisings against U.S.
troops, als! o protested against poor services during their marches,
stepping up the pressure on the government...

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We Owe Pat Robertson and Ann Coulter a Big Thank You
Mark Green
We owe Pat Robertson and Ann Coulter a big thank you. These two American
mullahs of the far (f)right are helping to expose how The Bush Team is in
the extreme and we who question this war – most prominently Cindy Sheehan –
are in the mainstream. By now Ann Coulter should have reached a tipping
point where serious journalists would stop treating her antics and comments
seriously...

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Slow day at morgue: all space taken
Rory Carroll
IT WAS a slow morning at the morgue. Just 20 new bodies, but all the slabs
were occupied. Every day the same problem at Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital;
every day the same solution: move the worst bodies to the floor, freeing
space for the rest. The metal door of a walk-in fridge swung open. Inside
you could see the logic. On the slabs lay cadavers, heads protruding from
one end of blankets or sheets, yellowing feet from the other. Most had been
shot...

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Able Danger adds twist to 9/11
9/11 Ringleader connected to secret Pentagon operation
Dr. Daniele Ganser, GlobalResearch.ca
...Now, almost exactly four years after 9/11, the facts appear to have been
turned upside down. We now learn that Atta was also connected to a top
secret operation of the Pentagon’s Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in
the US. According to Army reserve Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Shaffer, a top
secret Pentagon project code-named Able Danger had identified Atta and
three other 9/11! hijackers as members of an al-Qaida cell more than a year
before the attacks...

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Feds target Voices in the Wilderness
Punished for delivering aid to Iraqis
Nicole Colson, Socialist Worker
A FEDERAL judge this month ordered the human rights group Voices in the
Wilderness to pay a $20,000 fine--for the “crime” of delivering
humanitarian aid to the people of Iraq. Voices openly violated the
U.S.-sponsored policy of United Nations (UN) sanctions against Iraq that
was imposed prior to the 1991 Gulf War and continued until 2003. As the
group points out, the policy targeted innocent Iraqi! civilians,
particularly children, by barring everything from routine medical equipment
and drugs (like vaccines for infant hepatitis, tetanus and diptheria), to
spare parts for water sanitation systems, electric plants, buses and
communications systems. The sanctions killed more than 1 million Iraqis,
according to UN estimates...

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UPDATES ON CINDY SHEEHAN VISIT TO CRAWFORD
Saturday, August 27, 2005
The Lone Star Iconoclast
Joan Baez sang about four times this afternoon, a couple of the songs being
Joe Hill, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. Cindy Sheehan spoke at the
rally and at a press conference just after that. Sheehan said that before
she came down here, someone told her, "You should go down in a pasture near
Bush's ranch and thousands of people would come and you ought to call it
Turdstock, so let's call it Turdstock." ! She said that one question in her
mind when she first arrived in Crawford was, "When will America care?" Now,
she says, she knows that America cares(...)At Camp Casey I, the Bush side
is chanting "George Bush!" and the anti-war side is finishing their
sentence by chanting "War criminal!" The Bush side is loudly calling out,
"Where is your anti-semitic leader?" One pro-war sign says, "Cindy and
Osama sitting in a tree."...

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Exhaustion
The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford - Day 20
Cindy Sheehan, BUZZFLASH
I finally figured out George Bush's NEW reason for staying in Iraq. This
reason has also been co-opted by the Move America Forward (forward to what:
Fascism?) and the poor mothers who would be honored if their sons were
killed in George Bush's war for greed and power. Since the Freedom and
Democracy thing is not going so well and the Iraqi parliament is having
such a hard time writing their constitution, since viol! ence is mounting
against Iraqis and Americans and since his poll numbers are going down
everyday, he had to come up with something...

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Galloway to go on anti-war tour of US with Jane Fonda
Andrew Buncombe
George Galloway, the anti-war MP for Bethnal Green and Bow who rocked the
US Senate earlier this year, is to be accompanied on a speaking tour of
America by the actress and activist Jane Fonda. Few things are more likely
to antagonise US conservatives than the combination of Mr Galloway and Ms
Fonda - still hated by the right because of her outspoken opposition to the
war in Vietnam - joining to condemn the American presence in Iraq. But Mr
Gal! loway can expect a thunderous reception from those he impressed with
his performance before a Senate committee last May...

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ORDER 81: Re-engineering Iraqi agriculture
The ultimate war crime: breaking the agricultural cycle
Jeremy Smith, Globalresearch
...Iraqi farmers have been made vassals to American corporations. That they
were baking bread for 9,500 years before America existed has no weight when
it comes to deciding who owns Iraq’s wheat. Yet for every farmer that stops
growing his unique strain of saved seed the world loses another variety,
one that might have been useful in times of disease or drought. In sho! rt,
what America has done is not restructure Iraq’s agriculture, but dismantle
it. The people whose forefathers first mastered the domestication of wheat
will now have to pay for the privilege of growing it for someone else...

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Bill O’Reilly Wants to Suppress Abu Ghraib Evidence
William Hughes
The ACLU is fighting in court for the release of all evidence that might
tie high level policy makers to the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. The
Pentagon said the release of that evidence will “increase the likelihood of
violence” against U.S. troops. Fox News’ Chickenhawk, Bill O’Reilly, agrees
that it is not only unpatriotic to do so, but that it would “help the
jihadists.” He also smeared CBS, NBC and the NY Times for supporting the
ACLU’s legal po! sition...

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Our arrogance will be the end of us
Christine Rose
“At first, I thought ‘How dare you say that about my America,’ she said
looking at me through squinted eyes, “but then I saw it, our arrogance will
be the end of us.” She explained to me how she and her husband voted for
Bush. She said they were conservative and watched Fox News regularly;
however, something touched her in seeing and hearing everyday people from
around the world talk about her beloved country as a bully; a hypocrite.
Something touched her when f! aced with the sobering charge of War Crimes
and the images of torture at the hands of Americans under orders from the
US Government...

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Bush's Exit Strategy: Escape to Crawford
Gar Smith
On August 2, George W. Bush fled the clamor of the Capitol and hopped
aboard Air Force One for a two-and-a-half-hour flight to his Texas ranch -
1,300 miles from the Oval Office. Bush's five-week vacation has set a new
record for the longest presidential hiatus in US history. It also marks a
personal best for Bush, who had already established several benchmarks for
excessive executive layoffs...

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