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The Slow March: Russia, Iran, And The Coming Conflicts
Post Date: 2007-01-03 13:02:41 by Brian S
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January 2, 2007 Many throughout the world have believed futilely that Russia, her Islamic allies, and the U.N. have worked for positive change. The 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, have illustrated the serious escalation of radical Islamic attacks and their true intent to destroy Israel and America. During the 1980’s, The United States actively engaged in the fight against communist and socialist agendas that were rapidly spreading around the world. We even dealt with a terrorist leader named Mohammar Kahadfi. We all remember President Reagan’s resolve when he directly dealt with the Libyan Dictator. American pilots paid him a night time visit, bombed his residence and ...
Saddam Hussein, The Martyr of the Arab people
Post Date: 2007-01-03 10:45:22 by robin
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Saddam Hussein, The Martyr of the Arab people By Dyab Abou JAhjah, Arab-European League Jan 1, 2007, 22:20 30 December, 2006What a sad day , and what a humiliation to our Arab people and Arab masses when the enemy of our people, The American occupier and its puppets and collaborators execute the legitimate president of Iraq on the day of Eid.Let me set one thing straight, I have never been a fan of Saddam Hussein nor of his regime and I always hoped that the Iraqi people would be able of ousting him and bringing him to justice like I wish he same for all dictators and war criminals around the world including Bush, Olmert and Blair. Nevertheless, not one hair on my head would envisage ...
US hipocracy reaches all-time high
Post Date: 2007-01-03 05:49:29 by Ada
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One of the lessons of the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials of Germans after Germany’s defeat in WW II was that obeying orders is no excuse for war crimes. US prosecutors took the position that the German military should have refused to obey Hitler’s orders. Chief US prosecutor Robert Jackson established that military aggression was a war crime. US Army Lieutenant Ehren Watada took the Nuremburg lesson to heart. He refused to deploy to Iraq on the solid grounds that the war is illegal, which it is under the Nuremburg standard, and that he cannot order troops under his command to commit illegal actions. Watada is correct. If the US general staff had the integrity of Lt. Watada, ...
Life is not an embassy party
Post Date: 2007-01-03 05:43:30 by Ada
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DIGG THIS It occurs to me that a surfeit of money, and the associated life within an invisible plastic bubble that seems to accompany it, may explain much of our curious political lunges. I have nothing against money (you can test this by sending me a lot) or people who have it. But it has side effects. Two incidents come to mind, of no shattering import but serving as windsocks. First, a politician I barely know, but of import in the making of national policy, told me recently that he had never been in Washington’s subway, though he lives in Washington. Second, there was the astonishment of the senior Bush on observing the technology of a checkout line in a supermarket, into none of ...
Wrapped around a Bullet
Post Date: 2007-01-02 23:16:59 by tom007
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Wrapped around a Bullet by Kathy Kelly An Iraqi friend whom I've known for ten years looked worn and very weary yesterday when he came to visit me in my apartment here in Amman, Jordan. He hadn't slept the night before because he'd been on the phone with his wife who, throughout the night, was terrified by cross fire taking place over the Iraqi village where she stays with their four small children. My friend longs to soothe and protect his wife and kids. But now he lives apart from them, in another country. His life was completely changed when a piece of paper was tossed into his kitchen in Baghdad. It read: "Leave now or you will die like a dog." Many Iraqis have ...
For all the talk about the violence in Iraq, Americans are focusing little attention on the human costs to the Iraqis.
Post Date: 2007-01-02 22:53:47 by tom007
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For all the talk about the violence in Iraq, Americans are focusing little attention on the human costs to the Iraqis. The Iraq Study Group report, for example, which is a kind of national temperature gauge of the public's mood, fails to express much sympathy or regret for the chaos and colossal loss of Iraqi lives. In this oversight, if that's what it is, an essential lesson is lost about this war. The Iraq Study Group includes a number of references to the hardship and danger for U.S. forces. It speaks of growing violence caused by insurgents, militias and criminals. But where is the analysis of the role of the U.S. military in the violence and carnage suffered by the Iraqi ...
The insurgents have decided to do it the easy way.
Post Date: 2007-01-02 22:50:37 by tom007
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The insurgents have decided to do it the easy way. As long as they can use IEDs, their low-tech standoff weapon, why should they risk close combat? The real question is why they can get away with it. And here-well, I hate to keep saying this, but somebody needs to. The reason they can do it is because we still have NO INTEL on them. It's the biggest failure of the war, and nobody talks about it. CI warfare is about people, not hardware. We're all hardware and no intelligence, like a Tim Allen show. Makes me sick. That makes the decision to go with IEDs a no-brainer for the insurgents. In the standard ambush, the kind we were facing a year ago, the insurgents detonated an IED under ...
Baghdad Burning Riverbend
Post Date: 2007-01-02 22:40:20 by tom007
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Baghdad Burning ... I'll meet you 'round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls can mend... Sunday, December 31, 2006 A Lynching... It's official. Maliki and his people are psychopaths. This really is a new low. It's outrageous- an execution during Eid. Muslims all over the world (with the exception of Iran) are outraged. Eid is a time of peace, of putting aside quarrels and anger- at least for the duration of Eid. This does not bode well for the coming year. No one imagined the madmen would actually do it during a religious holiday. It is religiously unacceptable and before, it was constitutionally illegal. We thought we'd at least get a few days of ...
The Freedoms We're Fighting for But Not Allowed to Have
Post Date: 2007-01-02 22:33:17 by tom007
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The Freedoms We're Fighting for But Not Allowed to Have by Bob Ellis It's fair to say, I think, that the freedom we fought for was evident in our view of the last moments of Saddam Hussein. He was free to wear a hood, and chose not to. He was free to speak to his captors, but we were not free to hear what he said. He was free, I suppose, to make a mighty speech, but we were not free to hear it. His black-hooded executioners were free to conceal their identities, but he, in the last five minutes of his life, was allowed no similar privacy. We did not see him drop, his neck break, his neat suit fecally stained, nor the vengeful witnesses dance around his body, spitting on it if ...
Fallout From Saddam's Execution
Post Date: 2007-01-02 19:51:07 by tom007
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Fallout From Saddam's Execution The Scoop From Key Arabic-Language Web Sites By ZEYAD Posted 9 hr. 45 min. ago Aswat Al-Iraq News Agency (Voices of Iraq): Two members of Iraqi parliament demanded an investigation into the "provocative sectarian behavior" that was demonstrated during the execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. MP Hussein Al-Falluji (Sunni), of the Iraqi Accord Front, called for forming a parliamentary committee to investigate the final moments of the execution and the exchange between Saddam and officials who witnessed the execution. He added that the constitution requires for the head of state to sign execution orders, while Iraqi trial laws ...
Hussein and Ford = Two Dead Criminals
Post Date: 2007-01-02 19:45:28 by Brian S
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If there is anyone left who questions the depth of the hypocrisy and the blood lust of the American Empire, the events of the last week left little doubt. The hanging of Saddam Hussein was greeted with unmitigated glee by god's country. No detail was spared in describing the holiday season execution to a hungry and receptive U.S. audience. Consider this excerpt from the liberal (sic) media's role model, the New York Times: "At 6:10 a.m., the trapdoor swung open. He seemed to fall a good distance, but he died swiftly. After just a minute, his body was still. His eyes still were open but he was dead. Despite the scarf, the rope cut a gash into his neck. His body stayed hanging ...
What's Really Behind Saddam's Execution
Post Date: 2007-01-02 19:27:32 by tom007
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What's Really Behind Saddam's Execution This Is About Iran More Than Anything Else 12/29/2006 9:55 PM ET The following posting is from Larisa Alexandrovna, whose blog at-Largely, is for journalists and others who like examining the landscape of investigative reporting. She argues that Saddam's execution is really about Iran: Her posting appears on Juan Cole's blog, Informed Comment. She writes: "What the Bush administration appears to be waiting for, stalling for, while they allegedly mull over the Iraq question, is for the naval carriers and other key assets to fall into position. This will happen in the first week of January. Saddam Hussein is being executed (and I ...
Voice of the White House 1 January
Post Date: 2007-01-02 18:09:38 by Eoghan
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Washington, D.C, December 31, 2006: “There has been a very high level of interest in the CIA report on the Bali bombing incident of 2002. (Over 250,000 viewers in two days. Ed) The man behind this uproar is a newspaper editor and journalist, Robert Finnegan. He was ejected from Jakarta, Indonesia, because of orders to the Indonesian government from U.S. Ambassador Ralph Boyle. It is interesting to note that prior to his employment in Jakarta, Finnegan had been officially investigating a ring of pedophilic judges in Alaska. These investigations caused political uproar, both in Alaska and Washington and he was compelled to stop his digging. His reputation, however, did him no harm ...
The Tyranny of Liberalism
Post Date: 2007-01-02 16:15:38 by Zoroaster
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The Tyranny of Liberalism By Israel Shamir – Israel http://Shamir.net December 29, 2006 A Talk given at the conference on Religion in the International Relations: Liberalism and Tradition, International Relations Faculty, St Petersburg State University, 24 November 2006 Modern Liberalism is the dominant paradigm in the US, and it plays a major role in Europe, in post-Soviet Russia and elsewhere. This line is preached by the powerful world-wide mass media syndicate whose elements are ostensibly independent yet they transmit the identical message James Petras has called The Tyranny of Liberalism. A “liberal tyranny” may strike some as oxymoronic if not a contradiction in ...
Wolfowitz And The Bank; Why Do So Many People Mistrust Him...
Post Date: 2007-01-02 12:34:30 by Brian S
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Tuesday, January 2, 2007 When Paul Wolfowitz speaks publicly these days, he is usually making good sense. The head of the World Bank (formerly No. 2 at the Pentagon) has criticized Chinese banks for ignoring environmental and human rights standards when they lend to Africa, told the White House it needs to do more to alleviate African poverty, and has vowed that corrupt officials won't be allowed to siphon off money from projects that are supposed to benefit the poor. So why do so many people at the bank mistrust him — including many of the leading shareholders? At last autumn's annual meeting, European ministers insisted that the bank's board would oversee ...
Rep. Defends 'Anti-Muslim' Letter; Save Judeo-Christian Values
Post Date: 2007-01-02 11:43:56 by Brian S
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Immigration leaves USA vulnerable to Muslim extremists’ infiltration. By Virgil Goode A letter I sent in early December was written in response to hundreds of e-mails from constituents upset about Rep.-elect Keith Ellison's decision to use the Quran in connection with his congressional swearing-in. Their communications followed media reports that Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat, had said that he would swear on the Quran. He repeated that at a gathering of Muslims in Detroit on Dec. 26. My letter did not call for a religious test for prospective members of Congress, as some have charged. Americans have the right to elect any person of their choosing to represent them. I indicated ...
Buchanan: America Doesn't Have To Run The World
Post Date: 2007-01-02 11:28:57 by Brian S
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If there was a defining moment in 2006, it was the public firing of Donald Rumsfeld, just hours after the Republican rout of Nov. 7. George Bush was bowing to public repudiation of his war policy, his war minister and, indeed, his war presidency. Yet one senses voters were doing more than rejecting Bush's leadership on Iraq. They were rejecting the very idea of spilling blood and treasure in crusades for "global democracy," "ending tyranny on earth" or a "New World Order." By saying, as most of us are saying now, "In the end, it's the Iraqis' problem," Americans seem to be bidding goodbye to all that. And as we turn our backs upon the ...
US Tactics Fuel for Islamists; Hussein's execution on Eid day angered even his enemies...
Post Date: 2007-01-02 10:59:38 by Brian S
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The secular, moderate or non-extremist Muslims have been leaning or becoming Islamist as a result of the activities of the United States in the Muslim world, especially when related to religious issues. The best example is former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who turned to hard-line Islam from secularism and encouraged other Muslims to wage jihad against the U.S. U.S. policies also provoked others to turn religious. Hussein's execution on Eid day, one of Islam's major religious festivals, upset Muslims all over the world. Muslim leaders have been quick to condemn the trial as unfair, arguing that he was arrested and tried by a foreign country that has taken control of Iraq. (The ...
CYA for the USA: The Coverup of Complicity Continues
Post Date: 2007-01-02 05:55:33 by Ada
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Rush to Hang Hussein Was Questioned (New York Times) This is a very curious story. Some of it is probably true, some of it is patently false – and all of it is a massive, panicky CYA job by American officials. However, through the heavy fog of this assemblage of spin, it seems fairly obvious what has really happened: the same group of dim-witted fools, ideological cranks and violent sectarians who have driven the whole misbegotten enterprise in Iraq came up with yet another plan that they thought was a great idea. But as always, it turned out to be a botched job that has made a hellish situation even worse. Two things stand out in this story by Burns and Santora – or rather, two ...
Shameless Clintonistas!!
Post Date: 2007-01-01 18:57:39 by BAC
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Everyone on LP has me on Bozo. No one will discuss my hairbrained Ron Brown conspiracy theory with me. Clinton had Ron Brown brought back to life and used him to move Saddam's WMD to Syria! If you want to inspect my database you can see this. There is a six year old NewsMax article and an entry from some kook blog back in 1998 to support my theory. Here is the link: http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=171335&Disp=27#C24 ROTFLOl!! KOOKS!!! Clintonistas!!
We Hung the Wrong Guy!
Post Date: 2006-12-31 23:57:46 by christine
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My name is Edgar J. Steele. This is a Nickel Rant. "Jesus is coming," goes the old joke, "and, boy, is he pissed!" I've no doubt. If Jesus really is coming, I can't imagine His being anything but truly and righteously angry about what has been going on lately. Not that humankind ever has comported itself with anything resembling the behavior of any but the most whacked-out among us. What the religious fundamentalist, dispensationalist, Zionist nut jobs who have hijacked America already have done, and promise to continue doing, all in the name of God, truly boggles my mind. Your mileage may differ, of course. Here's the real irony: These peculiarly ...
Bush Breakdown Dead Ahead?
Post Date: 2006-12-31 22:49:52 by Brian S
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Although the thought has crossed my mind many times in the past, I have to admit that my concern for the psychological stability (or lack thereof) of George Dubya has increased tenfold since his joint appearance with Tony Blair a few weeks ago. In the wake of the release of the ISG Report the day before, Bush’s statements and mannerisms during that press conference revealed a level of disconnect and desperation that I had to wonder if the men with the big nets and white coats might be lurking in the White House somewhere.Bush’s statements were not anything that we hadn’t heard in the past, but when taken in the context of the present situation he and his administration find ...
TURN OFF THE SILENCE; MY EARS ARE KILLING ME!
Post Date: 2006-12-31 12:59:20 by SKYDRIFTER
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THINK! There were no ex-Presidents at Ford's State Funeral - what did Ford request? A little privacy - with no political leveraging, at the expense of his last remains? THINK! The media quit reporting GI deaths at 2,998 - are they "mass controlled" - or what? Is "3,000" such a difficult statistic? Did Saddam take a perfect 3,000 with him? Funny, how all this works. Sometimes, what's missing is more important, than what's present.THINK (for yourself)
Too Little Too Late
Post Date: 2006-12-31 08:57:49 by BTP Holdings
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Too Little Too Late By Mary Pitt December 29, 2006 As the time nears for the Democratic Congress to take office, debate is beginning to rage about whether the Pelosi approach is the correct one and it is more prudent for the Congress to launch investigations to hold responsible certain individuals in reverse chain-of-command fashion, dealing with rapscallions on each level in order to obtain testimony against those higher on the food chain or whether the direct attack would be more immediate and productive and follow the leadership of outgoing-Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and others of like mind and go directly to impeachment. It is the opinion of this writer that both approaches to ...
The Black Bull died today
Post Date: 2006-12-30 16:48:23 by innieway
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They did it. They gave this Ummah a sacrifice on the day of Eid ul Adha. What an unforgettable Eid!! A human sacrifice. Not a sheep or goat. What a message!! Wow!! What a powerful message that I am sure has shaken all the thrones of the puppets who are watching the events. Poor puppets!! Saddam Hussain, they say, is dead. The news reporting is one good example of the pimp press in full swing. If anyone who is not suffering from amnesia can recall, 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' was a phrase coined by American foreign policy experts to lie to their own nation and the world and justify their invasion of Iraq. Then their lie was exposed but by then their objective of looting Iraq's ...
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