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Jimmy Carter: 'I worship Christ...prince of peace, not pre-emptive war'
Post Date: 2007-09-11 12:37:39 by robin
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Former US president Jimmy Carter joined the ranks of movie stars like Brad Pitt and George Clooney at the world premiere of "Man from Plains," the biopic about his life, which premiered Monday at the Toronto film festival. The documentary by Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme ("The Silence of the Lambs" and "Philadelphia") follows Carter on a promotional tour eight months ago for his controversial book "Palestine Peace, not Apartheid." It also touches on his life since his one-term presidency (1977-1981). While thousands of Clooney and Pitt fans crushed barricades around their hotel, a smaller, but duly awestruck group gathered outside a ...
Damn, it's 'Nam -- Americans are now in a familar tight spot
Post Date: 2007-09-11 11:23:28 by richard9151
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09/10/07 "Toronto Sun" --- - We all know what "deja vu" is. But I recently read of a condition psychiatrists call "jamais vu." That's where one sees something very familiar, but cannot identify it. Both the White House and U.S. military seemed gripped by jamais vu. Many of the same mistakes made in the Vietnam War are being repeated in Iraq and Afghanistan, but neither the White House, Pentagon, nor U.S. field commanders seem to recognize or understand them. This week, Gen. David Petreaus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, will issue a report on the "progress" his troops are making in Iraq in the face of serious problems, and hint at future ...
As the Iraqis Stand Down,...We'll Stand Up
Post Date: 2007-09-11 11:19:58 by richard9151
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09/10/07 "NY Times" Op-Ed: September 9, 2007 -- IT will be all 9/11 all the time this week, as the White House yet again synchronizes its drumbeating for the Iraq war with the anniversary of an attack that had nothing to do with Iraq. Ignore that fog and focus instead on another date whose anniversary passed yesterday without notice: Sept. 8, 2002. What happened on that Sunday five years ago is the Rosetta Stone for the administration's latest scam. That was the morning when the Bush White House officially rolled out its fraudulent case for the war. The four horsemen of the apocalypse - Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell and Rice - were dispatched en masse to the Washington talk shows, ...
Damn, It's Nam - Again
Post Date: 2007-09-11 10:27:44 by ghostdogtxn
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Stop the DC Establishment
Post Date: 2007-09-11 03:17:44 by nolu_chan
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lz-PxpPGXo Glenn Greenwald: Stop the DC Establishment 9/10/2007 6m 6s Tell the DC Establishment: Enough! In 2006, the Americans elected a new Congress to end the occupation of Iraq. Despite this mandate, the political leadership in both parties have refused to heed the public will. Worse still, these leaders, as well as various reporters and think tank 'experts' have been rolled by a PR campaign to justify the military surge by General David Petraeus, a man who has consistently touted progress in Iraq since 2003. By signing this petition, you are demanding that reporters acknowledge Petraeus's long record of errant judgment in Iraq. You are ...
New Bin Laden Video: 100% Forgery
Post Date: 2007-09-11 01:15:08 by wudidiz
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New Bin Laden Video: 100% Forgery Introduces martyrdom of hijacker who is still alive, references to current events occur during video freeze Steve Watson http://Infowars.net Monday, Sept 10, 2007 The newly released Osama Bin Laden video is a an iron clad forgery, and not even a good one at that. All references to current events made by the figure said to be Bin Laden occur at a point in the video where the picture freezes and only audio is present. Bin Laden also presents a pre recorded martyrdom video of one of the alleged 9/11 hijackers, Waleed al Shehri, who was reported by the BBC as still alive and well in Saudi Arabia. Hits to Blogs such as this one have sky rocketed as they have ...
(BREAKING NEWS)Hayat sentenced to 24 years in terror case
Post Date: 2007-09-10 22:11:21 by freepatriot32
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A federal judge on Monday sentenced Hamid Hayat, a 25-year-old Lodi cherry packer, to 24 years in prison for his conviction on charges that he underwent terrorist training in Pakistan and then returned to Lodi prepared to wage holy war against fellow Americans. Hayat, who also was convicted in April 2006 of lying to the FBI, had faced a sentence of up to 39 years. Hayat is a U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent with a seventh-grade education and spent much of his life in Pakistan. His father, Umer Hayat, fought off charges that he knew of his son's activities, with jurors deadlocking in his trial. He later pleaded guilty to lying to customs officials in 2003 about the amount of money he ...
The view from Baghdad: Mounting death toll which makes a mockery of US optimism
Post Date: 2007-09-10 21:39:19 by Brian S
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Published: 11 September 2007 By the time General Petraeus had finished speaking yesterday the slaughter in Iraq for the previous 24 hours could be tallied. It was not an exceptionally violent day by the standards of Iraq: seven US soldiers lay dead and 11 injured in the capital; other instances of sectarian violence included a suicide bomb which had killed 10 and wounded scores near Mosul while 10 bodies were found in Baghdad. Three policemen were killed in clashes in Mosul, and a car bomb outside a hospital in the capital had exploded, killing two and wounding six. In Baghdad, on the surface the overt violence appears to have diminished. There are fewer loud explosions. But, the city is ...
Poll: Nearly 70 Percent Of Iraqis Say Escalation ‘Has Worsened’ Their Lives'
Post Date: 2007-09-10 20:48:58 by Zipporah
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Poll: Nearly 70 Percent Of Iraqis Say Escalation ‘Has Worsened’ Their Lives In June, outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace argued that U.S. success in Iraq “is not about levels of violence” but that “it’s about progress … in the minds of the Iraqi people“: What’s most important is do the Iraqi people feel better about today than they did about yesterday, and do they think tomorrow’s going to be better than today? If the answer to those two questions is yes, then we’re on the right path. By Pace’s own metric, the U.S. is on the wrong path. An ABC/BBC/NHK poll released today shows that since the escalation began, Iraqi ...
Monday: 13 GIs, 75 Iraqis Killed; 132 Iraqis Wounded
Post Date: 2007-09-10 19:58:26 by Brian S
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Updated at 6:30 p.m. EDT, Sept. 10, 2007 At least 75 Iraqis were killed and 132 Iraqis were wounded during the latest violence. Thirteen GIs were killed and at least 16 injured in separate incidents, including a pair of vehicular accidents. Also, the holy city of Karbala reopened to visitors three weeks after clashes spoiled a religious observance there. Seven American soldiers were killed and 11 were wounded in a non-combat vehicular accident today; two detainees were also killed and a third was injured. East of Baghdad, another soldier was killed and two more were injured in a separate accident. Yesterday, a Task Force Lightning soldier was killed in a rocket attack in At Ta’mim ...
Rumsfeld faults Iraq pols for failures there
Post Date: 2007-09-10 19:32:29 by Zipporah
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Rumsfeld faults Iraq pols for failures there Former SecDef calls Afghanistan a big success By Richard Pyle - The Associated Press Posted : Monday Sep 10, 2007 17:39:11 EDT http://www.marinecorpstimes.com. To view the contents go to:" type="hidden"> NEW YORK — In an interview billed as his first since leaving the top Pentagon post, Donald Rumsfeld calls Afghanistan “a big success,” but says U.S. efforts in Iraq are hampered by the failure of Iraq’s government to establish a foundation for democracy.“In Afghanistan, 28 million people are free. They have their own president, they have their own parliament. Improved a lot on the ...
Troop blogs show increasing criticism of war
Post Date: 2007-09-10 19:29:50 by Zipporah
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Troop blogs show increasing criticism of war By Robert Weller - The Associated Press Posted : Sunday Sep 9, 2007 13:03:28 EDT http://marinecorpstimes.com. To view the contents go to:" type="hidden"> DENVER — With the world being bombarded by all factions on their side on the war in Iraq, U.S. soldiers Internet blogs provided the kind of public relations Madison Avenue would drool over.Soldiers told of helping Iraqi families, the loss of friends and their dangerous daily missions.In the past year, as soldiers and Marines return for the second, third or even fourth deployments, and the death toll approaches 4,000, some soldiers began questioning the war.At the ...
IRAQ COMMANDER PETRAEUS: Opening statement to Congress 9/10/07
Post Date: 2007-09-10 19:28:33 by Zipporah
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Poster Comment:Current U.S. commander in Iraq gives his opening statement and summary report to the U.S House of Representatives during a joint committee session today. September 10, 2007.
The Iraq War Report: Rep. Lantos “We can not take ANY of this Administration’s assertions on Iraq at face value anymore”
Post Date: 2007-09-10 19:24:36 by Zipporah
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Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA12) gave the most honest assessment of Gen. Petraeus and Amb. Crocker’s testimony before the house. The Gavel:We can not take ANY of this Administration’s assertions on Iraq at face value anymore, and no amount of charts or statistics will improve its credibility. This is not a knock on you, General Petraeus, or on you, Ambassador Crocker. But the fact remains, gentlemen, that the Administration has sent you here today to convince the members of these two Committees and the Congress that victory is at hand. With all due respect to you, I must say … I don’t buy it. And neither does the independent Government Accountability Office or the Commission ...
Cindy Sheehan arrested at Petraeus hearing
Post Date: 2007-09-10 15:53:11 by aristeides
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Cindy Sheehan arrested at Petraeus hearing By Klaus Marre September 10, 2007 Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday in or near the hearing room where Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker are testifying on the situation in Iraq, according to the U.S. Capitol Police. Four anti-war protesters were arrested for disorderly conduct. One of them, who was not named, is being taken to George Washington Hospital “due to complaint of injury” and is also charged with assault on a police officer. According to the information from the Capitol Police, Sheehan and the other three were shouting in a hallway. Sheehan was the face of the anti-war movement ...
Is the Latest Osama Video a Fake?
Post Date: 2007-09-10 15:25:08 by ghostdogtxn
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Vehicle Rollover Kills Seven U.S. Troops Near Baghdad
Post Date: 2007-09-10 12:09:50 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Seven U.S. troops were killed near Baghdad early Monday in a vehicle rollover accident, U.S. officials told CNN. Officials do not believe any hostile fire was involved. The exact location and the unit were not available as officials attempted to notify next of kin in the United States. The U.S. military announced early Monday that a Task Force Lightning soldier died on Sunday from injuries caused by rocket fire during a patrol in Tameem province in northern Iraq. The number of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq war now stands at 3,770, including seven civilian employees of the Defense Department. Twelve militants were killed in fighting on Monday between troops and ...
US 'poised to strike Iran'
Post Date: 2007-09-10 10:59:22 by richard9151
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Geoff Elliott, Washington correspondent | August 25, 2007 BOB Baer, the former Middle East CIA operative whose first book about his life inspired the oil-and-espionage thriller Syriana, is working on a new book on Iran, but says he was told by senior intelligence officials that he had better get it published in the next couple of months because things could be about to change. Baer, in an interview with The Weekend Australian, says his contacts in the administration suggest a strategic airstrike on Iran is a real possibility in the months ahead. "What I'm getting is a sense that their sentiment is they are going to hit the Iranians and not just because of Israel, but due to the ...
Decoding bin Laden's Latest: An Odd Congruence
Post Date: 2007-09-10 01:04:44 by ...
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Decoding bin Laden's Latest: An Odd Congruenceby FMArouet [Subscribe] Sun Sep 09, 2007 at 06:32:25 AM PDTThe quality of any public discussion of Osama bin Laden and his strategic objectives tends to be degraded from the start by assertions that bin Laden is "crazy" and "evil," adjectives used by the usually judicious David Kurtz and Josh Marshall at TPM this week. Even the reliably analytical Juan Cole dismisses bin Laden's newly issued video statement as the work of a mere "cultist" and mocks bin Laden for having adopted "jejune leftist rhetoric." Having posited that bin Laden is a madman apparently exempts the observer from listening ...
Graham: We’re ‘Kicking Ass’ In Iraq, Political Reconciliation Likely ‘Within Weeks’
Post Date: 2007-09-09 20:24:11 by Zipporah
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Graham: We’re ‘Kicking Ass’ In Iraq, Political Reconciliation Likely ‘Within Weeks’ Yesterday, prominent Iraq war proponents were featured at a panel at the American Enterprise Institute, including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a vocal supporter of President Bush’s escalation. Graham cheerfully explained that in his eight visits to Iraq, he has never come back as optimistic as after his most recent one. Graham claimed political reconciliation is on the horizon and is now “all over the country.” Within the next weeks, not months, there will be a major breakthrough on the benchmarks regarding political reconciliation. And after the last two weeks of ...
Kristol: ‘Sober, Serious’ People Want Over 100,000 Troops In Iraq When Bush Leaves Office
Post Date: 2007-09-09 20:18:31 by Zipporah
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Kristol: ‘Sober, Serious’ People Want Over 100,000 Troops In Iraq When Bush Leaves Office » Tomorrow, Gen. David Petraeus will testify to Congress to provide his perspective on the escalation in Iraq. The Washington Post reports this morning that the White House political office has been coordinating with Petraeus for months to market Bush’s strategy to the public: Ed Gillespie, the new presidential counselor, organized daily conference calls at 7:45 a.m. and again late in the afternoon between the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, and the U.S. Embassy and military in Baghdad to map out ways of selling the surge. Petraeus’ testimony should be seen ...
Thousands Of Troops Coping With Brain Damage, Uncertain Futures
Post Date: 2007-09-09 19:58:41 by Brian S
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The war in Iraq is not over, but one legacy is already here in this city and others across America: an epidemic of brain-damaged soldiers. Thousands of troops have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury, or TBI. These blast-caused head injuries are so different from the ones doctors are used to seeing from falls and car crashes that treating them is as much faith as it is science. "I've been in the field for 20-plus years dealing with TBI. I have a very experienced staff. And they're saying to me, 'We're seeing things we've never seen before,"' said Sandy Schneider, director of Vanderbilt University's brain injury ...
Reporting From Baghdad
Post Date: 2007-09-09 16:28:44 by Zipporah
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Reporting From BaghdadBy Scott Ritter 09/08/07 "Truth Dig" -- -- It should come as no surprise that the Bush administration’s newest military-man-of-substance-turned- political lapdog, General Petraeus, maintains that the situation in Iraq is not only salvageable, but actually improving, due to the “surge” of U.S. combat troops into Iraq over the past year. All the president and his collection of GI Joe hand-puppets ask for is more time, more money and more troops. There is no reason to believe that the compliant war facilitators who comprise the “anti-war” Democratic majority in Congress will do anything other than give the president what he is asking ...
Brutal Iraq film is Venice hit-Award for real-life story of rape by US soldiers
Post Date: 2007-09-09 11:05:57 by Zipporah
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Brutal Iraq film is Venice hit Award for real-life story of rape by US soldiers Jason Solomons in VeniceSunday September 9, 2007The Observer A film that shocked audiences with its brutal reconstruction of the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by US soldiers has won the Silver Lion award for best director at the Venice Film Festival. Redacted, a docu-drama by Amercian director Brian De Palma based on the Mahmudiyah killings of March 2006 in Iraq, was a surprise winner and one that some may view as a cultural indictment of the behaviour of American troops.The top prize, the Golden Lion for best film, went to Chinese director Ang Lee, for a second time. Lee's gay cowboy ...
Resolved: The bin Laden video is a transparent fake
Post Date: 2007-09-09 10:44:26 by Zipporah
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Resolved: The bin Laden video is a transparent fake. Updatedby Sylvester McMonkey Mcbean Sun Sep 09, 2007 at 06:15:53 AM PDTMy troll-dar has been ringing full volume ever since I first read the transcript of this latest bin Laden video. But then I read this: American officials said the US government had obtained a copy of the video even though it had not been posted on Islamist websites - sparking speculation that US intelligence has developed an informant or cracked al-Qaeda's cyber security. Game over. Discussion on the flip. Sylvester McMonkey Mcbean's diary :: :: I think that every bin Laden video should be viewed with some skepticism. There are all too many groups out ...
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