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Interview by Karen Button
An Interview with George Galloway
Karen Button
...Iraqis know that the imperial powers and Israel want to break Iraq,
because they don’t want to see any strong Arab country. An Arab country
with a population with water, with oil, with gas, with educated people,
with a sense of itself as a nation…they don’t want to see such an Arab
country. They want to break Iraq and the Iraqis know this! If I have one
message for the Iraqi people, it’s to stay at one people! Don’t allow t! he
enemy to break Iraq!...

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The Denmark Cartoons
Anwaar Hussain, Fountainhead
...Has it all happened innocuously and accidentally or is it a deliberate
attempt towards an ulterior motive? To answer this question let us go back
in time to May 2005. Only four months before the crisis, between May 5 to
May 8, 2005, a group of powerful men from today’s finance, industry and
politics huddled together in the warm and cozy rooms of the 5-star Dorint
Sofitel Seehotel Überfahrt in Rottach-Egern, Germany. Outside the hotel,
private and state guards ! patrolled with automatic weapons and sniffer
dogs. The gray Bavarian skies rained on. This secretive cabal of powerful
men otherwise goes by the name of Bilderberg Group (a simple Google query
will throw up thousands of results). The Bilderberg Group is the only
private international organization that Time magazine rated 10 for secrecy
on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being most secret). So what do the defamatory
cartoons have to do with the Bilderbergs?...

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Attempting to Defraud the Nation Into War
Congressman John Conyers
...In sum, a new Downing Street Memo exists -- which my staff was chasing
down but was unable to obtain for inclusion in "The Constitution in
Crisis." The Memo says the following, according to the Guardian: "Mr Bush
told the Mr Blair that the US was so worried about the failure to find hard
evidence against Saddam that it thought of 'flying U2 reconnaissance
aircraft planes with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours'. Mr
Bush added: 'If S! addam fired on them, he would be in breach [of UN
resolutions]'." What was really going on here? If Saddam shot down a U.S.
spy plane, was the President set to claim that he had actually shot down a
U.N. plane in an effort to gain world support? Is there any other
reasonable explanation than that? If so, it shows that -- at the highest
levels on the United States government -- previously undisclosed attempts
to deceive the American people, the Congress, and the entire world into
war...

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The Hillary and George Show
Partners in War
Joshua Frank
There aren’t many elected officials in Washington who want to throw the
gantlet down on Iran more than Hillary Clinton. The New York Senator
believes the president has been too soft on the militant Islamic country,
claiming that Bush has played down the threat of a nuclear-armed Tehran. "I
believe we lost critical time in dealing with Iran because the White House
chose to downplay the threats and to outsource the negotiations," Clinton
told an au! dience at Princeton University on January 18...

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IRAQ: Children's mental health affected by insecurity, say specialists
IRIN
The Association of Psychologists of Iraq (API) has released a report
stating that the US-led invasion and occupation of the country have greatly
affected the psychological development of many Iraqi children (...) More
than 1,000 children were interviewed countrywide over the past four months
for the study, the findings of which were released on 5 February. According
to Abdullah, the survey was undertaken after a noticeable increase in the!
number of children seeking psychological counselling, many of whom were
found to have learning difficulties. "It was incredible how strong the
results were," said Abdullah. "The only things they have on their minds are
guns, bullets, death and a fear of the US occupation."...


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Cities and State Parties Pass Impeachment Resolutions
David Swanson, AfterDowningStreet.org
The past month has seen a burst of resolutions supporting impeachment in
city councils, state democratic parties, and even chapters of Democrats
Abroad. On January 6, the City Council of Arcata, Calif., passed a
resolution demanding the impeachment or resignation of President Bush and
Vice President Dick Cheney, citing violations of international and
constitutional law. On January 15, the Executive Committee of Democrats A!
broad France unanimously passed a resolution calling upon Congress to
determine whether impeachable offenses have been committed by the
Bush/Cheney Administration and if necessary to immediately begin
impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney...

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Ex-U.N. Inspector: Decision Already Made To Attack Iran
Brandon Garcia
The former U.N. weapons inspector who said Iraq disarmed long before the
U.S. invasion in 2003 is warning Americans to prepare for a war with Iran.
"We just don't know when, but it's going to happen," Scott Ritter said to a
crowd of about 150 at the James A. Little Theater on Sunday night. Ritter
described how the U.S. government might justify war with Iran in a scenario
similar to the buildup to the Iraq invasion. He also argued that Iran wan!
ts a nuclear energy program, and not nuclear weapons. But the Bush
administration, he said, refuses to believe Iran is telling the truth...

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Interview with Samir Khader, Program Editor for Al-Jazeera
Dahr Jamail
On 1 February 2006 in Doha, Qatar, I interviewed Mr. Samir Khader, Program
Editor for Al-Jazeera Channel. Mr. Khader was a key personality in the
highly acclaimed documentary "Control Room" about Al-Jazeera. I asked him
questions about his channel, Bush’s plans to bomb Al-Jazeera, present and
future goals of Al-Jazeera, Iraq and the state of journalism...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 7 February 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice
n a dispatch posted at 11:25am Mecca time Tuesday morning, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that fighting had been raging for about half an hour
between Iraqi Resistance fighters and US troops in the al-Mu'allimin
neighborhood in the middle of ar-Ramadi, some 110km west of Baghdad. The
correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the Resistance fighters
were a! rmed with shoulder fired rocket launchers and locally upgraded S5K
and RPG7 rockets and rocket propelled grenades in addition to light and
medium weapons. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported a member of
the Resistance in the rear lines supplying the Resistance fighters in the
al-Mal'ab neighborhood as saying that the Resistance had damaged an
American Apache helicopter that was attempting to rocket a group of
fighters...

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Yet Another Bush Lie
Robert Parry, Consortium News
George W. Bush has assured Americans that they can relax about his
warrantless wiretapping because the program is reviewed by lots of lawyers
and intelligence professionals. What he doesn’t say is that officials who
object too much find themselves isolated, ridiculed and pushed out of their
jobs. For instance, when Deputy Attorney General James Comey refused to
recertify the spying program in March 2004 – while Attorney General John
Ashcroft was in the hospital –! Bush gave Comey a derisive nickname, as
"Cuomey" or "Cuomo" after New York’s former liberal Democratic Gov. Mario
Cuomo, Newsweek has reported...

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Flemming Rose and the Straussian Art of Provocation
Kurt Nimmo, Another day in the empire
As suspected, and claimed on this blog over the weekend, the inflammatory
anti-Muslim cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten were
a deliberate provocation designed to outrage and incite Muslims and thus
engender support in Europe and America for the manufactured "clash of
civilizations" engineered by the Straussian neocons. As Christopher Bollyn
writes for the American Free Press, the neocon operative beh! ind the
cartoon scheme is Flemming Rose, cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten, who
has "has clear ties to the Zionist Neo-Cons." Rose "traveled to
Philadelphia in October 2004 to visit Daniel Pipes, the Neo-Con ideologue
who says the only path to Middle East peace will come through a total
Israeli military victory. Rose then penned a positive article about Pipes,
who compares 'militant Islam’ with fascism and communism," Bollyn reveals...

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Following Orders is No Excuse
Colin Powell's Career as a "Yes Man"
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
"A hoax on the American people, the international community, and the United
Nations Security Council." That is how Secretary of State General Colin
Powell's February 2003 Iraq WMD speech to the UN was described last Friday
(Feb. 3) on PBS by one who ought to know, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of
staff to Secretary Powell. In a February 2005 interview with Barbara
Walters on ABC News "20/20" program, Powell hi! mself declared his UN Iraq
speech to be a blot on his reputation...

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Cartoonish conspiracies
Xymphora
You know that it has hit the fan when you start to see alternative
conspiracy theories in an attempt to deflect attention from the real
conspiracy. There are at least two: 1. the Saudis stirred up the cartoon
issue in the Muslim world in an attempt to deflect attention away from the
deaths that occurred during the Hajj; and 2. Danish Imams created the
controversy by spreading the cartoons to the Middle East. Juan Cole takes
care of the Saudi conspiracy by considering the timing is! sues in how the
protests arose. In fact, if we look at the timing issues, we can see how
the real conspirators, who were all non-Muslim Europeans, worked. The
intention was to provoke the kind of response in the Middle East that we
are seeing now...

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Bush proposes $2.8 trillion budget to boost military spending and slash
social programs
Kate Randall, WSWS
President Bush sent a $2.77 trillion budget plan to Congress on Monday that
includes record spending for the military and cuts funding for a wide range
of social programs. Included is $65 billion in cuts to entitlement programs
over the next five years, more than half of this from Medicare. Bush is
also seeking to make his first-term tax cuts permanent. The plan is in line
with the agenda set forth by the pr! esident in his State of the Union
address last week—to boost funds for the "war on terror" and domestic
policing and slash federal spending on programs relied on by working
Americans, retirees and the poor...

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An American tragedy—the plight of the US war wounded
James Cogan, WSWS
One of the terrible legacies of the criminal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
is the number of maimed, sick or traumatised former US soldiers—many of
them just in their twenties—who will require medical assistance for the
rest of their lives. For political reasons, the scope of the tragedy is
barely being reported despite the impact it is having on a significant
layer of young men and women, their families and communities. Due to
improvements in s! urgical techniques, medicine, body armour and
transportation, only nine percent of American casualties in Iraq die from
their wounds, compared with 17 percent in Vietnam and 23 percent during
World War II. The official US death toll since November 2001 stood at 2,513
as of February 7—261 deaths in Afghanistan and 2,252 deaths in Iraq. The
official wounded number stood at 17,096—676 in Afghanistan and 16,420 in
Iraq...

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GI Special 4B6: "My Brother's Body Was Left To Rot" - Febraury 7, 2006
Thomas F. Barton
...On August 15th, 2005, my brother, Sgt. Paul A. Saylor of the 48th
Brigade, 108th Scout Division lost his life while fighting for our country
in Iraq. A HUMVEE he was in accidentally rolled off the road and fell down
an embankment into a canal. He was knocked unconscious and drowned. Paul
was 21. He was, is, and always will be a hero like every other soldier
fighting for America. Upon his return home my family was told t! hat my
brother's body would not be viewable. We were told he was non-viewable due
to injuries sustained from the accident. This was not true. We asked our
funeral director to open Paul's casket and see if there was any way we
could view him to say our last goodbyes. He notified us that there was no
way he could repair or cover the damage done to Paul due to neglect and no
refrigeration. Paul was non-viewable not because of injuries he sustained,
but because our United States Army failed to care for his body...


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Four Camp Lejeune Marines killed in two bomb attacks
Associated Press
Four Marines with units based at Camp Lejeune were killed by roadside
bombings in western Iraq's volatile Anbar province, the military said
Tuesday. Three Marines were killed by a bomb blast Monday in Hit, 85 miles
west of Baghdad, according to a military statement. The victims were
assigned to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit that has operated in Anbar
province since mid-December with an Iraqi Army battalion...

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Bush and Blair's Secret Pact
Peter Rothberg, The Nation
A new memo leaked to the British media last week asserts that George Bush
and Tony Blair agreed in January 2003 to go to war in Iraq--not March 2003,
as they insist. It also suggests that the leaders knew there was no
legitimate case for war, and that Blair told Bush that he was "solidly"
behind US plans to invade Iraq before he sought advice about the invasion's
legality. Most shocking, it reveals that Bush was so desperate to provoke a
war that he proposed! painting US planes to look like UN aircrafts and
flying them low over Iraq in hopes of inciting an Iraqi attack (...) As
with the Downing Street Minutes last spring, international media are
covering this story thoroughly, while US counterparts are sitting on their
hands. Public education and outrage have forced the US media to pay
attention before. Let's do it again!...

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The Secret World of Stephen Cambone
Rumsfeld's Enforcer
JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
The grave fellow in the business suit sitting between two uniformed
generals at the witness table during the senate hearings about the abuse of
Iraqi prisoners of war at Abu Ghraib was Dr. Stephen Cambone, the
undersecretary of defense for intelligence, known throughout the Pentagon
as Donald Rumsfeld's "chief henchman". In his testimony before the
committee, Cambone was unapologetic and almost as dismissive as the
ridiculous Sen! . James Inhofe about the global disgust which erupted over
the abuse and murder of Iraqi prisoners of war. Cambone, an apex neo-con
and veteran of the Project for the New American Century, evinced disdain
not only for the senatorial inquiry but also at a squeamish Lieutenant
General Antonio Taguba, who sat next him, looking as if he suspected that
he might well be the next one leashed to Cambone's bureaucratic pillory...

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Soldier pays for armor
# Army demanded $700 from city man who was wounded
Eric Eyre
The last time 1st Lt. William "Eddie" Rebrook IV saw his body armor, he was
lying on a stretcher in Iraq, his arm shattered and covered in blood. A
field medic tied a tourniquet around Rebrook’s right arm to stanch the
bleeding from shrapnel wounds. Soldiers yanked off his blood-soaked body
armor. He never saw it again. But last week, Rebrook was forced to pay $700
for that body armor, blown up by a roadside bomb more t! han a year ago...

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The Muhammad caricatures: Freedom of suppression
Jan Oberg, transnational.org
Jyllands-Posten's drawings are caricatures with a tendency. They associate
the Prophet with terrorism, criminality and repression of women. None of
them could possibly serve dialogue, mutual understanding or much needed
public education between Danes and the Muslims anywhere. They are
ill-willed. The intensity of the negative reaction may be surprising. But
seen in the context of our contemporary, globalizing world, their
publication wa! s both thoughtless and purposeless. It reveals a
mind-boggling deficit in general education and good (journalistic)
manners...

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