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More Shame, More Sorrow (PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: GENOCIDE IN IRAQ)
Post Date: 2007-11-03 11:55:59 by aristeides
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More Shame, More Sorrow In the administration of George W. Bush, the Republican Party has achieved the greatest combination of idiocy and evil in human history. The Republicans have bogged America down in a gratuitous and illegal war. The war has destroyed Iraq, killed between 650,000 and 1 million Iraqi civilians, displaced 4 million Iraqis, and littered the country with depleted uranium. Bush's war remains unwon despite its five-year duration and $1 trillion in out-of-pocket and incurred future costs. Bush's invasion of Iraq is a war crime under the Nuremberg standard, a direct counterpart to Hitler's invasion of Poland. Both were based on lies and deception, and the ...
US Diplomats balk at going to Iraq. It turns ugly:”Who will raise our children if we’re dead or seriously wounded?”
Post Date: 2007-11-03 11:08:05 by Zipporah
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Updated: Foreign service officers were screaming at the Director General’s Town Hall meeting on Iraq staffing because they are being forced to serve in Iraq. Jack Crody was especially honest calling it a “death sentence” if they are forced to go. The State Dept. didn’t even have the guts to tell them face to face. They read about it in the Washington Post. Play (2203) Crody: Who will take care of our children? Who will raise our children if we’re dead or seriously wounded? I absolutely have no respect for the whole process because you’ve demonstrated a lack of respect for your own colleagues. Thomas: Thank you for that comment. It’s full of ...
Iran welcomes amicable, fair ties: Ahmadinejad
Post Date: 2007-11-02 20:18:45 by tom007
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Iran welcomes amicable, fair ties: Ahmadinejad ASSALOUYEH, BUSHEHR (IRNA) -- President Mahmud Ahmadinejad here on Thursday said that Iran welcomes friendly and fair relations instead of tension regarding its peaceful nuclear program. Ahmadinejad was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of Ghadir Urea and Ammonia Petrochemical Complex in Assaluyeh. He recommended certain bullying powers to ""be a friend to the Iranian nation"" stressing that the time of speaking about war and sanctions has come to an end. He also advised certain European countries to review their stands asking, ""Until when do you intend to pay the cost of selfishness of an aggressive ...
Why Diplomats Won't Go to Iraq (They Don't Support the Occupation of the Country
Post Date: 2007-11-02 20:13:57 by tom007
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Why Diplomats Won't Go to Iraq Friday, Nov. 02, 2007 By CHARLES CRAIN The U.S. Embassy under construction in Baghdad The U.S. Embassy under construction in Baghdad, October 2007. S On Oct. 26, the State Department e-mailed 250 diplomats and told them that they might be ordered, whether they like it or not, to fill about 50 positions in Iraq next year. It was no secret the U.S. was considering compulsory Iraq service for its diplomatic corps, but the e-mails sparked outrage nevertheless. Related Articles Can the U.S. Live Without Blackwater? Members of the private security firm Blackwater escort U.S. administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer to a h... The Death of A Diplomat The killing of ...
Family sues government over Iraq veteran's suicide
Post Date: 2007-11-02 18:30:17 by Zipporah
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A recent study by the Veterans Affairs Department showed that since 2001, 430 combat veterans have committed suicide either while serving in Afghanistan or Iraq or after leaving the service. Others died after returning from combat but while still in uniform. One of those veterans was Marine Lance Corporal Jeffrey Lucey, who died by his own hand in June 2004. His parents, Kevin and Joyce Lucey, are now suing both the government and the former Secretary of Veterans Affairs over their son's death. The Luceys are members of an anti-war group, Military Families Speak Out, and hope their lawsuit will help force an overhaul of the VA system. Jeffrey Lucey returned from Iraq in 2003, ...
Deadly Month in Iraq Dulls US Claims of Progress
Post Date: 2007-11-02 15:34:44 by ghostdogtxn
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Drone Kills 5 In Pakistan, Pentagon Denies Hand
Post Date: 2007-11-02 13:28:03 by Brian S
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A missile attack launched by a drone on Friday killed at least five people near a madrasa run by pro-Al Qaeda mujahideen in Pakistan's Waziristan region, witnesses said blaming the U.S., but the Pentagon denied involvement. The sprawling religious school or madrasa was founded by a veteran mujahideen commander, Jalaluddin Haqqani -- an old friend of Osama bin Laden. There were unconfirmed reports earlier this year that the aging and infirm Haqqani had died, but his son Sirajuddin has emerged as a major militant leader in his place. "A drone was flying very low and fired the missile. It destroyed three houses," a resident of Dandi Darpakheil village ...
'60 Minutes' Identifies 'Curve Ball' Source Who Led U.S. to Invade Iraq
Post Date: 2007-11-02 11:46:05 by Alan Chapman
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Rafid Ahmed Alwan, known as "Curve Ball" in intelligence circles, is not a chemical engineering expert, according to the report, which instead characterized Alwan as a liar, a thief and poor student. The CIA received hundreds of summaries of debriefings with Alwan, contributing to other intelligence reports that led the United States to bomb and invade Iraq. Former CIA Director George Tenet gave Alwan's allegations to Secretary of State Colin Powell for his report to the United Nations in the argument to take military action against Iraq, the news magazine reports. The two-year investigation undertaken found that Alwan arrived in a refugee camp in Germany in 1999 and claimed ...
Redacted - Brian DePalma's new film
Post Date: 2007-11-01 23:56:40 by kiki
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'Redacted' stuns Venice Brian De Palma's film about the rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers leaves festival-goers in tears. VENICE -- A new film about the real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family stunned the Venice festival, with shocking images that left some viewers in tears. "Redacted", by U.S. director Brian De Palma, is one of at least eight American films on the war in Iraq due for release in the next few months and the first of two movies on the conflict screening in Venice's main competition. Inspired by one of the most serious crimes committed by American soldiers in ...
US network names Iraqi {code name Curveball} who pushed US case for war
Post Date: 2007-11-01 22:48:05 by Zipporah
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US television network CBS said Thursday it had identified a man known to intelligence agents as "curve ball," whose fake story of biological weapons drove the US argument for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The network's 60 Minutes program identified the man as an Iraqi defector named Rafid Ahmed Alwan who arrived at a German refugee center in 1999. The program said that after a two-year investigation it had found that Alwan had lied about being a chemical engineer in charge of a facility making mobile biological weapons in order to bolster his case for asylum in Germany. 60 Minutes had learned that Alwan did study chemical engineering but that he was far from a star pupil ...
Faulty Intel Source "Curve Ball" Revealed
Post Date: 2007-11-01 21:02:14 by robin
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60 Minutes: Iraqi's Fabricated Story Of Biological Weapons Drove U.S. Arguments For Invading Iraq CBS) 60 Minutes has identified the man whose fabricated story of Iraqi biological weapons drove the U.S. argument for invading Iraq. It has also obtained video of "Curve Ball," as he was known in intelligence circles, and discovered he was not only a liar, but also a thief and a poor student instead of the chemical engineering whiz he claimed to be. 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon's two-year investigation will be broadcast this Sunday, Nov. 4, at 7 p.m. ET/PT. Curve Ball is an Iraqi defector named Rafid Ahmed Alwan, who arrived at a German refugee center in 1999. To ...
Gates: Iran assured Iraq on weapons
Post Date: 2007-11-01 17:36:27 by aristeides
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Gates: Iran assured Iraq on weapons By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer 11 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Iran apparently has assured the Iraqi government that it will stop the flow into Iraq of bomb-making materials and other weaponry that U.S. officials say has inflamed insurgent violence and caused many American troop casualties, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday. "It is my understanding that they have provided such assurances," Gates told a Pentagon news conference. "I don't know whether to believe them. I'll wait and see." He said he did not know who in Tehran made the promise. Gates also offered one of his most upbeat assessments of the overall ...
At Least 430 Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans Have Committed Suicide
Post Date: 2007-11-01 16:11:11 by aristeides
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At Least 430 Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans Have Committed Suicide Posted on: October 31, 2007 - 1:14pm by Aaron Glantz It’s time to change of count of American war dead upward. The Associated Press has got hold of a preliminary government study on suicides by Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. According to the VA, at least 283 combat veterans who left the military between the start of the war in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 and the end of 2005 took their own lives. In addition, 147 troops have killed themselves in Iraq and Afghanistan since the wars began bringing the government count to 430. The VA’s count is not a complete one, however. It does not include members of the ...
Rice answers anger over Iraq assignments
Post Date: 2007-11-01 15:30:28 by tom007
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Rice answers anger over Iraq assignments By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer 26 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is trying to quell a revolt among U.S. diplomats angry over moves to force foreign service officers to work in Iraq under threat of dismissal. ADVERTISEMENT Rice plans to send a cable to all U.S. embassies and missions abroad explaining the decision to begin the largest diplomatic call-up since Vietnam, following a contentious "town hall meeting" at the department in which diplomats raised deep concern about being ordered to work in Iraq, the State Department said. "The secretary is going to send out a cable worldwide to people ...
Abizaid: Mideast wars may last 50 years
Post Date: 2007-11-01 13:51:32 by kiki
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PITTSBURGH - It might take as long as half a century before U.S. troops can leave the volatile Middle East, according to retired Army Gen. John Abizaid. "Over time, we will have to shift the burden of the military fight from our forces directly to regional forces, and we will have to play an indirect role, but we shouldn't assume for even a minute that in the next 25 to 50 years the American military might be able to come home, relax and take it easy, because the strategic situation in the region doesn't seem to show that as being possible," Abizaid said Wednesday at Carnegie Mellon University. Abizaid, the former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, stepped down ...
Congressional Shame and Duplicity
Post Date: 2007-11-01 06:38:44 by Stephen Lendman
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Congressional Shame and Duplicity - by Stephen Lendman The latest October Reuters/Zogby Index shows record low approval ratings for George Bush and Congress - 24% for the president that looks almost giddy compared to the bottom-scraping 11% level for the nation's lawmakers. It's more evidence that the criminal class in Washington is bipartisan and hoping November, 2008 will change things is pure fantasy. A voter groundswell sent a message last November to end the Iraq war and occupation. Instead, the Democrat-led 110th Congress continues to fund it generously. In May, the House overwhelmingly passed HR 1585, the FY 2008 National Defense Authorization Act. It calls for $506.8 ...
An attempt to douse the flames of war
Post Date: 2007-10-31 23:07:21 by kiki
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WASHINGTON - L Bruce Laingen was working as a senior US Foreign Service officer in Tehran in 1979 when student protestors - caught up in the fervor of Iran's Islamic Revolution - seized the US Embassy and irrevocably changed the course of relations between the two nations. Laingen and 51 other US diplomats endured 444 days in captivity until their release on January 20, 1981. On that day, as he prepared to board the Algerian airliner that would finally take him to freedom, the US charge d'affaires turned to one of his Iranian captors and said, "I look forward to the day your country and mine can have a normal diplomatic relationship." Next Sunday will mark 28 years ...
American Halloween 2007
Post Date: 2007-10-31 21:58:23 by tom007
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Petraeus Personally Introduces Disgraced Ahmed Chalabi To U.S. Troops In Iraq
Post Date: 2007-10-31 20:51:21 by Zipporah
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Petraeus Personally Introduces Disgraced Ahmed Chalabi To U.S. Troops In Iraq On Sunday, McClatchy reported that disgraced Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi had “re-emerged as a central figure” in the U.S. strategy for Iraq. His latest job: to press Iraq’s government to “deliver better electricity, health, education and local security services to Baghdad,” as “the next phase” of the escalation. Today, Blackanthem.com reports that Petraeus has been trumpeting his new alliance with Chalabi, introducing him to U.S. troops serving in Iraq: Gen. David Petraeus, commanding general, Multi-National Force-Iraq, Dr. Ahmad Chalabi, director of services in Iraq, and ...
Who's Behind the PKK? In A Word, Washington
Post Date: 2007-10-31 15:15:34 by ghostdogtxn
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Iran Warns U.S. of "Quagmire"
Post Date: 2007-10-31 12:27:59 by Brian S
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran warned the United States on Wednesday it would find itself in a "quagmire deeper than Iraq" if it attacked the Islamic state, and Russia stepped up efforts for a diplomatic solution to Tehran's nuclear row with the West. The warning by the head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, a target of new U.S. sanctions announced last week, added to angry rhetoric between the two old foes that has prompted speculation of possible U.S. military action. U.S. President George W. Bush this month suggested a nuclear-armed Iran could lead to World War Three but the White House said on Tuesday it remained determined to resolve the stand-off peacefully. "If ...
Younger, White Veterans At Higher Risk Of Suicide
Post Date: 2007-10-31 11:45:14 by Brian S
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BEIJING, Oct. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- A new study of suicides among depressed U.S. military veterans, published Tuesday, shows that the risk for suicide appears highest among younger, white, non-Hispanic veterans. This large Veterans Affairs study, conducted by researchers from the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and the University of Michigan Health System and U-M Depression Center, uses government data for 807,694 veterans of all ages diagnosed with depression and treated at any Veterans Affairs facility nationwide between 1999 and 2004. The investigators found the overall suicide risk was 7 to 8 times higher compared with that in the general population. Veterans with substance abuse issues, ...
52% of Americans support military strike against Iran
Post Date: 2007-10-31 10:53:18 by SmokinOPs
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More than half of likely voters in the United States would support a U.S. military strike against Iran to prevent it from building a nuclear weapon, according to a poll released Monday. The poll found 53 percent of Americans believe it is likely the United States will be involved in a military strike against Iran before the November 2008 presidential election. The nationwide telephone survey, conducted by polling firm Zogby International, found 52 percent of U.S. adults interviewed would support such a strike. In the months leading up to the United States' imposition of fresh sanctions against Iran on Oct. 25, top officials of the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush such ...
Blackwater Immunity Deal: Huge Conflict-of-Interest
Post Date: 2007-10-30 21:38:13 by tom007
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Blackwater Immunity Deal: Huge Conflict-of-Interest By Noah Shachtman EmailOctober 29, 2007 | 8:22:17 PMCategories: Mercs Bw_action State Department investigators of the September 16h Blackwater Nisour Square shooting have granted limited immunity to Blackwater operators who were present at the incident, according to the Associated Press. But the press reports missed a key fact: The State Department's investigators are from the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the very bureau of the State Department that contracts with Blackwater for the services in question and that is responsible for operational control of those missions. Can you say conflict of interest? This is a milestone in ...
IRAQ: Child prisoners abused and tortured, say activists
Post Date: 2007-10-30 19:15:29 by Zipporah
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IRAQ: Child prisoners abused and tortured, say activists Photo: Afif Sarhan/IRIN Children are victims of abuse in Iraqi prisonsBAGHDAD, 25 October 2007 (IRIN) - Iraqi NGOs have raised concerns about the condition of children in local prisons, saying they are abused and tortured during interrogation. "Children are being treated as adults in Iraqi prisons and our investigations have shown that they are being abused and tortured," said Khalid Rabia'a, a spokesman for the Prisoners' Association for Justice (PAJ). "Our investigation started after families brought their five sons to our organisation looking for psychological help for their children who were recently ...
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