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Huge change in Iraq
ksuwildkat, Daily Kos
US-led forces have bombed eight bridges on the Euphrates River in western
Iraq to stop insurgents using them, US military spokesperson Major General
Rick Lynch said Thursday (...) Why is this a big deal? Because we are
actually destroying infrastructure in a country we occupy. We are saying
that the military value of the bridges to the insurgancy is greater than
the value to us in either a military or economic/social way (...) For the
first time I believe we have lost! . For the first time as a military
professional I think we have no way of winning this. We are willing to
destroy the basic structures of the country to deny the enemy their use.
This means we have no other way to deny them the use of these assets. We
can't stop them, the Iraqi Army can't stop them, the Iraqi police can't
stop them and we can't collect enough intelligence to make the enemy pay
for using what should be choke points...

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Democratic Party USA: Still Around?
RevolutionaryFlowerpotSociety
...And there are good reasons for this eventuality: despite the fact that
the Bush administration is imploding with corruption, illegal wars,
outright cronyism, arrogance, did I mention corruption — despite all this,
the Democratic Party congressional leaders line up to kiss Bush’s ass!!
Well, not all of them of course. Some line up to kiss Cheney’s ass, for
Christ’s sake. Some Democrats are so desperate they line up to kiss up to
any judicial (or ! any other) nominees Bush sends to the Congress...

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Setting Iran up for a preemptive strike, possibly with nukes
Linda S. Heard, Online Journal Contributing Writer
It's a scam. Who would ever have thought after the Iraq tragedy that the US
and its client states would have had the chutzpah to repeat their dismal
performance? When the rumblings from the White House and the Israeli
Knesset first began over Iran's alleged nuclear weapons ambitions, I
thought their accusations would be laughed out of court. I was wrong. I was
wrong because I hadn't realised the depths ! to which some powerful nations
would sink, even to the point of binning international law along with
empirical justice, in furthering their own interests...

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U.S. Soldier Is Among 21 Killed in Iraq
THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer
Insurgents using suicide and roadside bombs killed at least 21 people,
including a U.S. soldier, on Thursday in the latest of a series of attacks
aimed at wrecking Iraq's constitutional referendum next week. The attacks
came as Iraqis began picking up copies of the draft constitution that they
will vote on Oct. 15 after the country's Shiite-led parliament ended a
bitter dispute with Sunni Arabs about how the referendum will be conducte!
d...

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IRAQ: Thousands flee US military onslaught on Haditha
IRIN
Nearly 1,000 families have fled their homes in Haditha in western Iraq
following the launch of a US-led military operation to hunt down in
insurgents in the town in the Euphrates river valley, according to
residents in the area. The Iraq Red Crescent Society said it had sent an
evaluation mission to the town 225 km west of Baghdad to get a more precise
idea of the situation and was preparing to send a convoy of relief items to
the area...

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Bush repeats threat to veto torture curb
Brian Knowlton International Herald Tribune
The White House repeated an earlier veto threat Thursday after the Senate
voted by an overwhelming bipartisan margin for a measure to prevent
mistreatment of prisoners held by the U.S. military. The 90-to-9 vote to
ban "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" of anyone in U.S.
government custody was one of the sharpest political rebukes in Washington
of a system under which abuses occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan and! at the
Guantánamo naval base in Cuba...

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The threat to American democracy
Al Gore
...I thought maybe it was an aberration when three-quarters of Americans
said they believed that Saddam Hussein was responsible for attacking us on
September 11, 2001. But more than four years later, between a third and a
half still believe Saddam was personally responsible for planning and
supporting the attack (...) Are we still routinely torturing helpless
prisoners, and if so, does it feel right that we as American citizens are
not outraged by the practice? And does it! feel right to have no ongoing
discussion of whether or not this abhorrent, medieval behavior is being
carried out in the name of the American people?...

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Karl's Moment of Truth?
Billmon
Well, I can't make heads or tails out of all the rumors and reports flying
around, and I wouldn't know a target letter from a poison pen letter, but
Larry O'Donnell has an outstanding won/loss record with this story so far,
so let's just go with him: What this means is Rove's lawyer, Bob Luskin,
believes his client is defintely going to be indicted...

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US Army in Iraq Occupies 7 Mosques in Ramadi and Turns Them into Barracks
FOCUS News Agency
In a one of a kind military operation the US army occupied 7 mosques
yesterday in the Western Iraqi town of Ramadi and turned the mosques into
barracks, the Iraqi News Agency INA reported. According to information, the
American soldiers have taken the praying out of the mosques, closed them
and banned access to the mosques within a range of 1 kilometer...

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The Nazi Nine
Billmon
The U.S. Senators who voted for torture:
Allard (R-CO)
Bond (R-MO)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Stevens (R-AK)

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Bush to America: I know better!
Ed Naha
You know we're in serious trouble when George W. Bush is on TV more often
than re-runs of "Seinfeld." The last few weeks, the boy's shown up
everywhere there was a stray camera (except "The Surreal Life" because that
was too close to home), making statements, barfing bromides, even holding a
press conference! And what did he actually say to the American people?
Nothing much except: I know better than you do. Nyah-nyah-nyah. Nice...

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Dissent Down Under
When Antiwar Activists Get Mugged
SCOTT PARKIN
Historian Michael Foley said during times of war pacifists often get
mugged. As a non-violent activist working to end the war in Iraq and the
corporate war profiteering that comes with it, September 2005 has been the
most surreal time of my life and I definitely feel like I got mugged by
Australian Attorney General Phillip Ruddock and the Australian government...

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Blundering Into Syria?
The Triumph of Ideology Over Reality
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, CounterPunch
...The diplomatic editor of the London Telegraph reports (Oct. 5) that the
US is aiming at Syrian "regime change." The British newspaper quotes
Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz as saying that a report blaming Syria
for the assassination of a former Lebanese government official will be the
catalyst that starts the ball rolling. Mofaz says the report will be the
pretext for Bush to impose sanctions on Syria, "! beginning with economic
sanctions and moving on to others." The Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, reports
(Oct. 3) that the Bush administration has asked Israel's government to
recommend a successor for Syrian president Bashar al Assad. No doubt, the
Bush administration will describe Israel's selection of Syria's new
president as the workings of democracy...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 6 October 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice. ( http://www.freearabvoice.org )
In the largest operation of its kind in many months, the US occupation
forces backed up by Iraqi puppet army troops have swept through the Upper
Euphrates cities of al-Hadithah, al-Haqlaniyah, ‘Anah, Rawah, and al-Qa’im
making mass arrests among the local population. A spokesman for the Iraqi
puppet army in al-Anbar Provinc! e announced on Thursday afternoon that the
number of people arrested by the occupation authorities in the area in the
last 72 hours was more than 1,000 residents who have ranged in age from 18
to 50...

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Tomgram: Mike Davis, Has the Age of Chaos Begun?
Tom Engelhardt & Mike Davis
Discussions of "tipping points" have, in recent times, largely been
relegated to the war in Iraq where such moments, regularly predicted by the
Bush administration, never arrive. In the meantime, an actual tipping point
may have been creeping up on us on another front entirely, one that is
anathema to this administration -- that of climate change...

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Hasani blames Iran for murders of Shiite clerics
Middle East Online
Iraqi parliament speaker Hajim al-Hasani has accused Iran of being behind
the assassination of two top Shiite Muslim clerics in Iraq in 2003, a
Kuwaiti newspaper reported. "Baghdad has conclusive evidence of Iran's
involvement in the assassination of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim and
Abdul Majid al-Khoie," he was quoted as saying by Islamist sources,
Al-Anbaa said in its Thursday edition...

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