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Green: Altered State of the Union
Michael Green, The State Press
... Obviously, we did the right thing. We never said Hussein had the
intentions to have the capabilities to make weapons. We said he thought
about having the intentions to have the capabilities to make weapons. And
we know al-Qaeda was helping him think about it because our intelligence
says that at one time Osama bin Laden lived in Hussein's country house. We
think Michael Moore lived there too. Look, I've seen the findings. I know
Hussein doesn't ! even exist. But my administration never said he existed.
Our position has been consistent all along. We said had Hussein existed he
would have thought about having the intentions to possess the capabilities
to make weapons that could have along with al-Qaeda -- destroyed the
world...

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Shiite Fighters Turning in Weapons in Iraq
SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer
Followers of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr trickled in to police stations
in Baghdad's Sadr City district to hand in weapons Monday under a deal seen
as a key step toward ending weeks of fighting with U.S. and Iraqi forces in
the Shiite militant stronghold...

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Iraq: ‘Liberation’ or War Crimes?
Ghali Hassan
...Iraq is far worse today than under the rule of Saddam Hussein. There is
no security, no electricity and no drinking water. The construction of Iraq
promised by the US is turned out to be the continuing destruction of the
country. There is no work for Iraqis, and unemployment is more than seventy
percent. The health and education services, once the envy of the Middle
East, are in total collapse. The only employment is in the new army and
police. The US is bribing y! oung and unemployed Iraqis to join the army
and the police in order to protect the Occupation and provide “soft”
targets for the Resistance...

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Iraq's Green Zone Turns Redder by the Day
Luke Baker, Reuters
It was supposed to be the safest patch of land in Iraq, but instead is
slowly succumbing to the creeping dangers stalking the rest of the country.
Baghdad's Green Zone, home to thousands of U.S., British and other
coalition officials, as well as the headquarters of the U.S. military and
the interim Iraqi government, was set up as an impregnable fortress against
the mayhem outside (...) But over the past year, and especially in recent
weeks, life in the! Green Zone has grown steadily more precarious. "It's
definitely getting riskier," said one British official who lives and works
in the zone but declined to be named. "Sometimes it feels like you're
living on a firing range, or on a really well-defended but dangerous
housing estate"...

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Kerry Caught in the Big Lie
Paul Craig Roberts, Antiwar
The presidential debates are going nowhere. Why? Because both President
George Bush and Senator John Kerry are encapsulated in a big lie. The lie
is too big to be acknowledged. Both candidates repeat the mantra that
Saddam Hussein was dangerous to America and had to be removed (...) Saddam
Hussein was no danger to the U.S. However, he was a potential check, with
Syria, on Israel's right-wing Likud Party's desire to expel the
Palestinians to Jordan and to sei! ze Lebanon. The expulsion and the
Lebanon grab may yet come to fruition, because it is supported by the
neoconservatives who control the Bush administration. Installing a puppet
regime in Iraq and constructing a dozen or more permanent U.S. military
bases in Iraq, as the U.S. is doing, opens a field of conquest to Israel...

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US convoy hit in Mosul. Two soldiers die in Baghdad rocket attack
Aljazeera.net
A car bomb aimed at a US military convoy in the northern Iraqi city of
Mosul has caused several casualties, witnesses say. A pickup truck sped up
beside the US convoy and exploded in Mosul's southern Yarmuk district at
0800 GMT (11am) on Monday, said Iraqi police First Lieutenant Jar Allah
Muhammad Said. The blast rattled the city and blew a deep crater in the
road, he said....

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Kerry on the 'Good Foot': Expect Push to Partition Iraq
The Black Commentator
Lesser Evil John Kerry danced like James Brown atop the precarious, tiny
table that he calls his “plan” for Iraq, easily out-presidentialing the
Pure Evil Pirate, George Bush, in last week’s debate. For those of us who
believe the fate of the human species may hang in the balance on November
2, it was a night of great exhilaration. We may yet live to tangle with a
President Kerry – and tangle we must for, as Freedom Rider columnist Marg!
aret Kimberley has written, “President Kerry should face thousands of
demonstrators if he continues the disastrous occupation of Iraq and the
take over of Haiti”...

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IRAQ: US military `recaptures’ Samarra
Doug Lorimer, Green Left Weekly
...US officials now routinely refer to those fighting their troops in Iraq
as AIF (“anti-Iraqi forces”) in an attempt to portray Iraqi anti-occupation
fighters as “foreigners”. However, in a television interview on September
26, General John Abizaid, head of the US Central Command, estimated that
the number of foreign anti-occupation fighters in Iraq was below 1000,
i.e., less than 5% of the estimated 20,000 full-time resistance fighters.
AP ! reported on October 5 that US commanders privately acknowledged that
the “largest insurgent bloc is composed of Iraqi nationalists fighting to
reclaim secular power lost when Saddam Hussein was deposed in April 2003".
Of course, there are large numbers of foreign fighters in Iraq — 160,000 US
and other foreign troops and 20,000 foreign mercenaries (“private security
contractors” in Pentagonese)...

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Daniel Ruth: 'Whew, at least he wasn't fooling around'
Daniel Ruth, Tampa Tribune
If it weren't for all the body bags, the lost limbs, the dead civilians,
the imploded infrastructure, the civil war, the car bombings and the lost
prestige and honor around the globe, George Bush's adventure in Iraq might
serve as a dark "M-A-S-H" meets a poor man's Huey Long- lite satire...

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Every attempt will fail
Ibrahim Ebeid, Al-Moharer
...Now Iraq is under occupation and its neighbors are taking part with the
American Zionist forces to change the face of Iraq and its character. The
tragedy of Palestine is being repeated in Iraq in partnership with the Arab
league and some Islamic countries..As a result of pressure by the United
States the Arab League recognized the Allawi appointed government. By
recognizing and supporting such government the members of the League gave
an official “Arab” legitim! acy and support to the occupation of Iraq. The
"Arab" League knows very well that the fight between the Iraqi people and
its liberation forces against the invaders is still going strong and is
gaining strength by the day. They know that all of the Iraqi districts
except the North are under the control of the Resistance, including Baghdad
itself. Unfortunately they chose to join the other trench and became part
of the occupation...

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Bush Administration Lies Come Exposed
Firas Al-Atraqchi, IslamOnline
I considered calling this article “America owes the world an apology.” But
then I reconsidered because the carnage, chaos, and widespread massacring
of the Iraqi people at the hands of the compassionate US military are only
felt by the Iraqi people themselves. Perhaps, “America owes every Iraqi an
apology” would have been a better title (...) The US government—from its
intelligence services to its military to its war supporters—lied. And
continu! e to lie on a daily basis...

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The source Duelfer didn't quote. The head of the Iraq Survey Group knows
regime change was the aim
Scott Ritter, The Guardian
...Saddam Hussein has yet to be contradicted on a single point of
substantive fact. Iraq had disarmed; no one wanted to accept that
conclusion. Charles Duelfer has to date provided no documentation to back
up his assertion regarding Saddam's "intent". Nor has he produced any
confession from Saddam Hussein or any senior Iraqi official regarding the
same. What has been offered is a compilat! ion of hearsay and conjecture
linked to unnamed sources whose identities remain shrouded in secrecy.
There is one source I am certain will not be quoted in Duelfer's report - a
former officer in Saddam Hussein's intelligence service, who was
interviewed by the ISG repeatedly in the summer of 2003...

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America’s ‘Strongman Strategy’ Redux
Jeff Berg, World Crisis Web
Once again America invades a country on the pretext of instituting
democracy and once again America, at best, promises to deliver the worse
kind of military terror state. In case any of you missed it, on national
television, during the Vice Presidential debate Dick Cheney extolled the
virtues of the strategy used to turn El Salvador into hell on earth and
promised the same for Iraq. If any doubt that he means what he says
remember that John Negropon! te has been appointed Viceroy of Iraq. This in
most ways, as horrible as it is, comes as no surprise given what we know of
the Wolfowitz/Bush doctrine and the track record of the reconstituted
Reaganites that today control America’s foreign policy. What is still
surprising, to me at least, is after decades of replaying the same
mythology followed by the same results that American journalism has not
tired of reporting the tired old shibboleth of “good intentions gone wrong”
to explain the horror...

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The Missing WMD: Bush's Red Herring
Harold Williamson, www.dissidentvoice.org
...The conjecture that Saddam Hussein's regime might have become a "de
facto or real ally of the Islamic extremist forces with which the United
States is at war" is counterfactual because it completely ignores the
history of Hussein's secular Ba'athist regime. The rest of the world
smelled a red herring long before the invasion of Iraq, but that wasn't the
case here in the United States...

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If You Had Seen What I Have Seen. The Inspection Process was Rigged to
Create Uncertainty Over WMD to Bolster the US and UK's Case for War
Scott Ritter, The Independent
... The mantra from both camps remains that the world is a safer place with
Saddam behind bars. But is it? When one examines the reality of the
situation on the ground in Iraq today, it seems hard to draw any conclusion
that postulates a scenario built around the notion of an improved
environment of stability and security. (...) The ultimate conde! mnation of
the failure and futility of the US-UK effort in Iraq is that if Saddam were
released from his prison cell and participated in the elections scheduled
for next January, there is a good chance he would emerge as the popular
choice...


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