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| Iraq
War |
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| "The
propagandist's purpose, is to make one set of people forget
that certain other sets of people are human."
Aldous Huxley |
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| CHENEY
ENERGY TASK FORCE DOCUMENTS FEATURE MAP OF IRAQI OILFIELDS |
| The
documents, which are dated March 2001, concerning the activities
of the Cheney Energy Task Force, contain a map of Iraqi oilfields,
pipelines, refineries and terminals, as well as 2 charts detailing
Iraqi oil and gas projects, and “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi
Oilfield Contracts.” |
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| Oval
Office failure |
| Tenet,
Woodward writes, "rose up, threw his arms in the air. `It's
a slam dunk case' . . . Bush pressed. `George, how confident
are you?'"
Tenet: "Don't worry, it's a slam dunk."
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| Speech
by Former Vice President Al Gore |
| "The
direction in which our nation is being led is deeply troubling
to me -- not only in Iraq but also here at home on economic
policy, social policy and environmental policy. Millions
of Americans now share a feeling that something pretty basic
has gone wrong in our country and that some important American
values are being placed at risk. And they want to set it right." |
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| Hey,
Let's Call In The UN |
| Did
America and Britain have a legal right to go to war without
the backing of the United Nations? An inquiry into that would
be a short one: it doesn't take long to say "nope".
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IRAQ
ON THE RECORD
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S PUBLIC STATEMENTS ON IRAQ-PDF |
This
report, which was prepared at the request of Rep. Henry A. Waxman,
is a comprehensive examination of the statements made by the
five Administration officials most responsible for providing
public information and shaping public opinion on Iraq: President
George Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and National
Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. It finds that the five officials
made misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq in
125 public appearances.
The report and an accompanying database identify 237 specific
misleading statements by the five officials. |
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| The
new Pentagon papers |
| A
high-ranking military officer reveals how Defense Department
extremists suppressed information and twisted the truth to drive
the country to war. |
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| IRAQ:
Far-Bungled Banner |
| GIVEN
EVERYTHING ELSE that's gone wrong with the U.S. incursion in
Iraq, the unveiling of Iraq's newly designed national flag would
seem to be a minor matter. That is unless you happen to be an
Iraqi citizen, in which case the new flag becomes salt rubbed
into a festering wound. |
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| Just
Trust Us |
| From
the day this administration took office, its slogan has been
"Just trust us." No administration since Nixon has
been so insistent that it has the right to operate without oversight
or accountability, and no administration since Nixon has shown
itself to be so little deserving of that trust. |
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| Pentagon
Delays U.S. Troops' Trip Home |
| On
Monday, a senior official with U.S. Central Command said that
the return home of about 24,000 U.S. troops who were scheduled
to leave in the next few weeks would be delayed as their replacements
arrive. Central Command's responsibility includes the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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| The
Awful Truth |
| People
are saying terrible things about George Bush. They say that
his officials weren't sincere about pledges to balance the budget.
They say that the planning for an invasion of Iraq began seven
months before 9/11, that there was never any good evidence that
Iraq was a threat and that the war actually undermined the fight
against terrorism. |
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| Stumbling
Into War |
| Summary:
Why did most of the world abandon Washington when it went after
Saddam Hussein? The war in Iraq could never have been an easy
sell, but nor should it have been such a difficult one. The
Bush administration badly botched the prewar maneuvering, presenting
a textbook study in how not to wage a diplomatic campaign. 10
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| Bush
Sr. Said In 1996 That War With Iraq `Would Turn Entire Arab
World Against Us’ |
Former
President George Bush predicted in 1996 that if the United States
were to engage in another war with Iraq, one aimed at overthrowing
Saddam Hussein, the “entire Arab world would turn against
us” and the U.S. would alienate its allies in the international
community.
Moreover,
Vice President Dick Cheney said at an energy conference six
years ago that hundreds of thousands of United States soldiers
and Iraqi civilians would die if a war in Iraq were ever fought
on the streets of Baghdad. |
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| With
God on His Side ... |
| So,
it was a holy war, a new crusade. The Constitution reserves
to Congress the authority to allocate funds and to declare war.
Thus it would seem to be an impeachable offense to misappropriate
$700 million that had been earmarked to restore order to Afghanistan
and put it toward planning an invasion of Iraq.
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ALL
WAR ALL THE TIME
The Battle on Terrorism is an Excuse to Make Fighting Permanent
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| If
you did want to have a permanent war, what would you need in
order to make such a policy viable in a democratic society such
as the United States? You would need periodic crises, because
without them the public becomes complacent, unafraid, and hence
unwilling to bear the heavy burdens that they must bear if the
government is to carry on a permanent war. |
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| Bush's
Failed Mideast Policy Is Creating More Terrorism |
| With
760 dead in Iraq and over 3,000 maimed for life, home folks
continue to argue why we are in Iraq – and how to get out.
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| Invade
Iraq? It's a no brainer |
| Everyone
agrees that President George Bush's lobotomy has been a tremendous
success. It is scarcely surprising that Tony Blair should have
decided to follow suit and undergo similar psychosurgery. |
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| The
"Year Zero" Strategy |
| "As
the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq stumbles from one problem to
the next, suddenly everything seems to be up for grabs, and
an administration that once seemed sure of its goals and its
strategy now appears to be trying anything that might work. |
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| Cost
of War |
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| The
War in Iraq Cost the United States |
| To
the right you will find a running total of the amount of money
spent by the US Government to finance the war in Iraq. |
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| The
Wastrel Son |
| Last
week Mr. Bush asked Congress for yet more money for the "Iraq
Freedom Fund" — $25 billion for starters, although
Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, says that the
bill for the full fiscal year will probably exceed $50 billion,
and independent experts think even that is an underestimate.
And you know what? He'll get it. |
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| Fistfuls
of Dollars |
| The
Coalition Provisional Authority, which has been operating partly
on seized Iraqi assets, is about to run out of money. |
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| Who
is Getting Rich? |
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| 9-11
Profiteering: A Framework for Building the "Cui Bono?"
UnAnswered Questions |
| Much
has transpired since September 11, 2001. We have learned that
numerous heads of state and foreign intelligence agencies tried
to warn us before 9-11 (2); We have watched many deeply disturbing
unanswered questions of 9-11 emerge through global Internet
media (3); |
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| Civilian
Casualties |
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| U.S.
Massacre in Fallujah, Iraq: Death Toll for Week More Than 600 |
| More
than 600 Iraqis have been killed in Fallujah since U.S. Marines
began a siege against Sunni insurgents in the city a week ago,
most of them women, children and the elderly, the head of the
city's hospital said Sunday. |
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| The
Worldwide Update of Reported Civilian Deaths in the Iraq War
and Occupation. |
| Iraq
Civilian Body Count's new generation of IBC web counters include
live-updating, scrolling text. |
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| Abuse |
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"A year
ago, I did give the speech from the carrier, saying that
we had achieved an important objective, that we'd accomplished
a mission, which was the removal of Saddam Hussein. And
as a result, there are no longer torture
chambers or rape rooms or mass graves in Iraq."
President Bush, April 30, 2004 |
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| Interrogation
abuses were 'approved at highest levels' |
| New
evidence that the physical abuse of detainees in Iraq and at
Guantanamo Bay was authorised at the top of the Bush administration
will emerge in Washington this week, adding further to pressure
on the White House. |
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Locked
in Abu Ghraib
The prison scandal keeps getting worse for the Bush administration. |
| If
today's investigative shockers—Seymour Hersh's latest article
in The New Yorker and a three-part piece in Newsweek—are
true, it's hard to avoid concluding that responsibility for
the Abu Ghraib atrocities goes straight to the top, both in
the Pentagon and the White House, and that varying degrees of
blame can be ascribed to officials up and down the chain of
command. Read together, the magazine articles spell out an elaborate,
all-inclusive chain of command in this scandal. Bush knew about
it. Rumsfeld ordered it. His undersecretary of defense for intelligence,
Steven Cambone, administered it. |
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| AN
ARMY OF . . . |
| George
W. Bush's new gulag archipelago, a string of concentration camps,
military and INS prisons that span the globe from North Carolina
to Iraq to Afghanistan to Guantánamo Bay to New York
City, has been designed to give torturers the veil of secrecy
they require to carry out their hideous acts as well as the
tacit understanding that they won't be held accountable.
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| Early
Iraq Abuse Accounts Met With Silence |
| Detailed
allegations of psychological abuse, deprivation, beatings and
deaths at U.S.-run prisons in Iraq were met by public silence
from the U.S. Army last October six months before shocking photographs
stirred world outrage and demands for action. |
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| 18,000
Iraqis Illegally Held In Jails and Prison Camps By U.S. |
| According
to the Baghdad-based Organisation for Human Rights, at least
18,000 Iraqis are now being illegally held in jails and prison
camps. The prisoners are held without charge and denied access
to lawyers, family and friends for months on end. April 22,
2004 |
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| General
said to urge use of dogs at prison |
| A
U.S. Army general dispatched by senior Pentagon officials to
bolster the collection of intelligence from prisoners in Iraq
last fall inspired and promoted the use of guard dogs there
to frighten the Iraqis, according to sworn testimony by the
top U.S. intelligence officer at the Abu Ghraib prison. The
idea came from Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, who at the time commanded
the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and was implemented
under a policy approved by Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the
top U.S. military official in Iraq. |
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| Covering
up the coverup, by Alan Dershowitz |
| The
New York Times has reported that a CIA official was told that
Bush had informed the CIA that he did not want to know where
[the high value detainees] were [being held.] If this is true,
it reflects a breakdown of responsibility. |
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‘Definitely
a Cover-Up’
Former Abu Ghraib Intel Staffer Says Army Concealed Involvement
in Abuse Scandal |
| Dozens
of soldiers — other than the seven military police reservists
who have been charged — were involved in the abuse at Iraq's
Abu Ghraib prison, and there is an effort under way in the Army
to hide it, a key witness in the investigation told ABCNEWS. |
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| Bloggers
doubt Berg execution video |
| Revolting
millions around the world, the video footage of an American
citizen Nick Berg's execution has also raised numerous questions
concerning its authenticity. |
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| British |
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| Bush
and Blair made secret pact for Iraq war |
| President
George Bush first asked Tony Blair to support the removal of
Saddam Hussein from power at a private White House dinner nine
days after the terror attacks of 11 September, 2001 According
to Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British Ambassador to Washington,
who was at the dinner. |
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| Disillusionment
Over Iraq |
| In
March 2003, British Prime Minister Tony Blair apparently believed
that there was an imminent threat that Iraq might use weapons
of mass destruction. A majority of British voters were accordingly
persuaded that Britain was probably justified in taking part
in an attack on the tyrannical regime of Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein. |
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Tony
Blair must be more honest over Iraq
There
has been a serious lack of candour about his discussions with
President Bush. |
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