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Latest Articles: War, War, War
President Bush Was Lying, Is Lying, And Will Lie About Iranian Nukes (MY TITLE: BUSH'S WAR ON KNOWLEDGE)
Post Date: 2007-12-05 11:48:22 by aristeides
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President Bush Was Lying, Is Lying, And Will Lie About Iranian Nukes Posted December 5, 2007 | 09:11 AM (EST) Knowledge has been the president's enemy ever since his skull failed to completely fuse, leaving him with a spongy head and a brain that's susceptible to bruising. His other lifelong enemy, by the way, is a fork without a protective wine cork pressed onto its dangerous, eye-poking tines. I'm joking about the skull thing. But now it appears as if having the knowledge to be able to build a nuclear bomb is enough to let slip the neocon jagoffs of war -- whether or not a nuclear weapon is actually being constructed. President Bush during Tuesday's press conference: ...
The McCain doctrine
Post Date: 2007-12-05 06:16:27 by Ada
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The McCain doctrine is "war, war, and more war," a condition Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman would have decried as permanent hell. And all the blood, sweat and tears Sen. John McCain would have Americans sacrifice to conduct perpetual warfare abroad would not be to secure unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He would be satisfied if the people for whom Americans fought to save from purported tyrannies voted into power the likes of Adolf Hitler's National Socialists, Hamas or Hezbollah. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Didn't the French Bourbons, in anticipation of Mr. McCain, also forget nothing and learn nothing? The ...
Study: U.S., Israel should begin planning strike on Iran nuclear sites
Post Date: 2007-12-04 21:42:48 by Zipporah
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Israel and the United States should begin an intense dialogue on ways to deal with Iran's nuclear plans and should examine ways to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, according to a new study published by an influential Washington think tank. The report, by a former deputy head of the National Security Council, Chuck Freilich, says Israel and the U.S. should discuss nuclear-crisis scenarios between Israel and Iran. The report, entitled "Speaking About the Unspeakable," was released over the weekend by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. F Advertisement reilich assumes that detailed talks between the U.S. and Israel on Iran do not extend beyond exchanges of ...
Sadr Tells Bush To Get Out of Iraq
Post Date: 2007-12-04 19:56:01 by Brian S
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RADICAL Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr overnight blasted US President George W. Bush for signing a deal with Baghdad that ensures a long-term American military presence in Iraq. "I say this to the evil Bush - leave my country," Sadr said in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. "We do not need you and your army of darkness," he said. "We don't need your planes and tanks. We don't need your policy and your interference. We don't want your democracy and fake freedom. Get out of our land." Sadr's salvo comes a week after the US president and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced a deal ensuring a long-term presence of US forces in the country. ...
Threat estimate of Iran changes; tough treatment by U.S. does not
Post Date: 2007-12-04 19:37:10 by Dakmar
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WASHINGTON — A new intelligence estimate that reverses previous U.S. claims that Iran is developing nuclear weapons will not change the Bush administration's policy of tough sanctions and diplomacy. "That was our policy … and that's our policy going forward," said Stephen Hadley, the president's national security adviser. "We have the right strategy." Iran ceased its secret nuclear weapons program in 2003 and has not resumed work toward building nuclear arms, a National Intelligence Estimate released Monday says. The estimate reverses claims the intelligence community made two years ago that Iran appeared "determined to develop" a ...
Five Guard Brigades Alerted for 2009 Deployments
Post Date: 2007-12-04 18:19:40 by Peppa
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Five Guard Brigades Alerted for 2009 Deployments By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2007 – Defense officials announced today the deployment of five National Guard brigade combat teams to begin in summer 2009. These units will replace units that have not yet deployed. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters the units are being identified well in advance to give maximum time possible for mission-specific training. “It’s a tribute to the military planners who are trying to provide -- particularly for our National Guard brigades -- the type of timely notification so they can be prepared for the specific missions, but also to give the ...
The NIE is precisely why Iran must be bombed now
Post Date: 2007-12-04 17:21:25 by aristeides
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The NIE is precisely why Iran must be bombed now by clammyc [Subscribe] Tue Dec 04, 2007 at 12:51:42 PM PST See, y’all got it all backwards. None other than Norman Podhoretz just knows that this is a vast left wing and intelligence community conspiracy. Mister Bush says that this is proof that we need to step up pressure on Iran - precisely because they stopped their weapons program. And that goes exactly with the thinking of the chest thumping "send others off to kill and die" crowd. Are you "formidable" and do you have nuclear weapons? Then sorry, we don’t want to mess with you. But if you appear to be formidable and "evil", but aren’t ...
Statement from Lee Feinstein, Clinton Campaign National Security Director (HILLARY CAN DEAL WITH IRAN'S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS)
Post Date: 2007-12-04 16:15:37 by aristeides
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Statement from Lee Feinstein, Clinton Campaign National Security Director "The new declassified key judgments of the Iran NIE expose the latest effort by the Bush administration to distort intelligence to pursue its ideological ends. The assessment of the NIE vindicates the policy Senator Clinton will pursue as President: vigorous American-led diplomacy, close international cooperation, and effective economic pressure, with the prospect of carefully calibrated incentives if Iran addresses our concerns. Neither saber rattling nor unconditional meetings with Ahmadinejad will stop Iran's nuclear ambitions. Senator Clinton has the strength and experience to conduct the kind of ...
Sen. Clinton Urges U.N. Sanctions Against Iran (JAN. 2006)
Post Date: 2007-12-04 16:01:37 by aristeides
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Sen. Clinton Urges U.N. Sanctions Against Iran By Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 20, 2006; Page A06 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) accused the Bush administration of playing down the threat of a nuclear Iran and called for swift action at the United Nations to impose sanctions on the Iranian government. The senator's statements, in which she said the administration should make it clear that all options remain on the table for dealing with the Iranians, came during a speech about the Middle East on Wednesday night at Princeton University. She criticized the White House for turning the problem over to European nations and said Iran must never be permitted ...
POLITICS-US: Cheney Tried to Stifle Dissent in Iran NIE
Post Date: 2007-12-04 15:37:42 by tom007
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POLITICS-US: Cheney Tried to Stifle Dissent in Iran NIE By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (IPS) - A National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran has been held up for more than a year in an effort to force the intelligence community to remove dissenting judgments on the Iranian nuclear programme, and thus make the document more supportive of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's militarily aggressive policy toward Iran, according to accounts of the process provided by participants to two former Central Intelligence Agency officers. But this pressure on intelligence analysts, obviously instigated by Cheney himself, has not produced a draft estimate without those dissenting views, these ...
Right Claims Iran NIE a CIA Plot Against Bush
Post Date: 2007-12-04 15:19:24 by aristeides
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Right Claims Iran NIE a CIA Plot Against Bush President Bush's amen corner in the conservative commentariat is apoplectic over the new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran. After all, the report's conclusion that Tehran suspended its nuclear weapons program inn 2003 knocked the legs out from their "World War III" rhetoric. And as you'd expect, the same people who helped bring you the war in Iraq are now quick to claim CIA incompetence and conspiracies are behind the new assessment. At the head of the list of the usual suspects, of course, is Norman Podhoretz. The neo-conservative icon made the case Monday that the new NIE is part of an anti-Bush cabal at the ...
A Miracle: Honest Intel on Iran Nukes (RAY MCGOVERN)
Post Date: 2007-12-04 14:09:44 by aristeides
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A Miracle: Honest Intel on Iran Nukes By Ray McGovern For those who have doubts about miracles, a double one occurred today. An honest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's nuclear program has been issued, and its "Key Judgments" were made public. With redraft after redraft, it was what the Germans call eine schwere Geburt – a difficult birth, 10 months in gestation. I do not know how often Vice President Dick Cheney visited CIA headquarters during the gestation period, but I am told he voiced his displeasure as soon as he saw the first sonogram/draft very early this year and is so displeased with what issued that he has refused to be the godfather. This ...
A Blow to Bush's Tehran Policy(WHY RELEASE REPORT NOW? BECAUSE BUSH LIED)
Post Date: 2007-12-04 13:58:14 by aristeides
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A Blow to Bush's Tehran Policy By Peter Baker and Robin Wright Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, December 4, 2007; Page A01 President Bush got the world's attention this fall when he warned that a nuclear-armed Iran might lead to World War III. But his stark warning came at least a month or two after he had first been told about fresh indications that Iran had actually halted its nuclear weapons program. The new intelligence report released yesterday not only undercut the administration's alarming rhetoric over Iran's nuclear ambitions but could also throttle Bush's effort to ratchet up international sanctions and take off the table the possibility of ...
U.S. Soldiers Shoot 4 Iraqi Civilians, One Killed
Post Date: 2007-12-04 11:07:21 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers mistakenly shot four Iraqi civilians, killing one, during operations against al Qaeda militants, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. U.S. soldiers had detained a suspected al Qaeda fighter in Tarmiya, 30 km (20 miles) north of Baghdad, on Monday when they were approached by a car that did not obey an order to stop. The car continued moving towards the soldiers despite two sets of warning shots. U.S. soldiers then fired on the car, hitting the four people inside. One of the passengers died while being taken to a military hospital for treatment. "We regret when Iraqis are hurt or killed while coalition forces work diligently to rid this country of ...
Christmas in Fallujah (new from Billy Joel)
Post Date: 2007-12-03 20:19:30 by Indrid Cold
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Poster Comment:Very haunting--this is gonna be a hit!
60 Minutes: Reverend Canon White says: The situation is clearly worse in Iraq now for Christians
Post Date: 2007-12-03 18:18:15 by Zipporah
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Play (1126) Scott Pelley’s disturbing report on 60 Minutes shows just one angle of the carnage that continues in Iraq despite the surge — the cleansing of Iraqi Christians. Pelley interviews Andrew White, a minister who suffers from Multiple Sclerosis and runs one of the few remaining Christian churches left in the country. Transcript: The situation now is clearly worse” than under Saddam, White replied. “There’s no comparison between Iraq now and then,” he told Pelley. “Things are the most difficult they have ever been for Christians. Probably ever in history. They’ve never known it like now.” “Wait a minute, Christians have been here ...
Miami terror trial wraps up
Post Date: 2007-12-01 12:43:09 by Kamala
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http://MSNBC.com Miami terror trial wraps up Miami men allegedly wanted to work with al-Qaida to destroy Sears Tower The Associated Press updated 8:58 p.m. CT, Thurs., Nov. 29, 2007 MIAMI - A construction worker commanded a homegrown terrorism cell that sought an “unholy alliance” with al-Qaida to destroy Chicago’s Sears Tower and bomb several FBI offices, a federal prosecutor said Thursday in closing arguments at the group’s trial. Narseal Batiste and his “soldiers” ultimately aimed to topple the U.S. government, and intended to use the attacks to spark a broader insurrection — even freeing prisoners to become guerrilla fighters, prosecutor ...
US Roman Catholic Bishop: 9/11 was inside job
Post Date: 2007-12-01 03:53:29 by wudidiz
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US Roman Catholic Bishop: 9/11 was inside job by Matt C. Abbott Global Research, November 29, 2007 Bishop Richard Williamson, seemingly the most outspoken and controversial bishop of the Society of St. Pius X, asserted in a recent talk that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were committed "to get the American public to accept the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq," according to a news item by Jack Kenny in the Nov. 15, 2007 issue of The Wanderer. Bishop Williamson, whose talk was held Nov. 4, 2007 in Bedford, Mass., is quoted as saying: "Without 9-11, it would have been impossible to attack Afghanistan or Iraq. The forces inside the United States government and ...
Turkish Army 'Authorised' For Iraq Strike: PM
Post Date: 2007-11-30 13:32:16 by Brian S
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ANKARA (AFP) — The Turkish government authorised the army this week to carry out a cross-border strike against Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday. "We made a decision at the cabinet meeting on November 28 and, with the president's approval, the Turkish armed forces were authorised regarding a cross-border operation," Erdogan told reporters in televised remarks. He did not give any indication whether such an operation was imminent. Faced with mounting violence, the government last month secured a parliamentary approval to order a cross-border military operation, if necessary, to crack down on separatist Kurdistan ...
The Method to Bush’s Madness in Overthrowing Venezuela
Post Date: 2007-11-30 10:46:43 by richard9151
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11/29/07 "ICH" -- -- Have George w. Bush and the entire U.S. Government gone insane, are they just totally incompetent or worse, is there a method to the madness which is just part of the most ingenious evil plan ever devised? Note: Our last article linked below described how the US might invade Venezuela and the scenario assumes this happens before they bomb Iran. This articles assumes the Venezuela take over happens later. In each article I have read in the past few years concerning all the insane things happening worldwide one thing comes to my attention more than anything else, that each article is focused on one particular event and in most cases is written by journalist ...
The Truth about Colin Powell
Post Date: 2007-11-30 10:11:24 by richard9151
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This excerpt from the new book, Neck Deep, describes the real Colin Powell, the ambitious military bureaucrat who followed orders and put his career interests first: By Robert, Sam and Nat Parry 11/29/07 "Consortiumnews.com" -- - -Carrying an M-2 carbine, Capt. Powell was starting his first – and only – combat assignment. He was the new adviser to a 400-man unit of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Across jungle terrain, these South Vietnamese government troops were arrayed against a combined force of North Vietnamese regulars and local anti-government guerrillas known as the Viet Cong. The 25-year-old Powell was arriving at a pivotal moment in the Vietnam ...
"A Crude War Of Revenge"
Post Date: 2007-11-29 23:25:23 by richard9151
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Tariq Ali on Afghanistan 11/29/07 "ICH" -- -- -The United States is on its way to losing the war in Afghanistan. The eventual defeat will be political not military. Public sentiment is shifting in Europe. The people have had enough. They want to get out. When European troops withdrawal from Afghanistan; NATO will gradually unravel and the Transatlantic Alliance will collapse. That will be a disaster for America. The US will again be isolated by two great oceans. But not by choice. America's days as an empire will be over. That's why the US perseveres in Afghanistan even though there is nothing to gain. Pipelines corridors will continue to be blocked by enemy fighters for ...
A senior commander in Iran's naval force said the country's navy enjoys the required capabilities to respond to any possible military aggression against Iran's territorial waters with an iron feast.
Post Date: 2007-11-29 20:48:02 by tom007
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Navy Commander Highlights Iran's Military Power TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior commander in Iran's naval force said the country's navy enjoys the required capabilities to respond to any possible military aggression against Iran's territorial waters with an iron feast. Speaking to FNA in the northern city of Rasht on Wednesday, commander of the fourth base of the Islamic Republic of Iran's naval force Seyed Mahmoud Moussavi said Iranian navy is needless of imports of military tools, equipments and weapons for defending the country against possible aggressions. "We have now entered a stage in which all armors, weapons and equipment of our battle units as ...
U.S. denies seeking permanent bases in Iraq (More Comedy From The Bush Admin)
Post Date: 2007-11-29 19:35:36 by tom007
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U.S. denies seeking permanent bases in Iraq www.chinaview.cn 2007-11-30 00:19:52 Print WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- The White House said on Thursday that the U.S. government is not seeking permanent military bases in Iraq. "We do not seek permanent bases in Iraq," spokeswoman Dana Perino said at the press briefing. The remarks ran against what the U.S. "war czar," Lieutenant General Douglas Lute said on Monday that establishment of permanent military installations would "certainly be a key item" for U.S.-Iraq negotiation on long-term security ties next year. Lute was appointed by President George W. Bush in May to serve as assistant to the president and ...
Daley picks FBI agent to lead Police Department
Post Date: 2007-11-29 16:50:50 by Kamala
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Daley picks FBI agent to lead Police Department Jody Weis, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent from the Philadelphia bureau, will take over the Chicago Police Department. (Bloomberg photo Bradley C. Bower / May 8, 2007) By Gary Washburn and Angela Rozas | Tribune staff reporters 12:20 PM CST, November 29, 2007 Mayor Richard Daley today named a veteran FBI boss to become the city's top cop, saying he was the best choice to repair trust in a Police Department beset by problems of corruption and brutality. Daley introduced J.P. "Jody" Weis, the special agent in charge of the Philadelphia FBI office, at a news conference where he touted both the veteran agent's ...
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