[Media-watch] How to end the Iraq war

David McKnight david at milwr.freeserve.co.uk
Thu Nov 25 00:06:36 GMT 2004


Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear: Harry S Truman 

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We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." ~Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963

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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it: Albert Einstein

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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever: Clarence Darrow

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Exposed: The Carlyle Group 

Shocking documentary uncovers the subversion of Americas democracy. 

I defy you to watch this 48 minute documentary and not be outraged about the depth of corruption and deceit within the highest ranks of our government

 Watch it online now!
http://207.44.245.159/article3995.htm

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3 Kurdish Fighters Killed in Northern Iraq: 

Gunmen ambushed a convoy of Kurdish militiamen as they traveled to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, killing three and wounding nine, hospital sources in the nearby town of Arbil said.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6908494

http://snipurl.com/avlw

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Mosul: Two killed in attack on deputy Iraqi governor convoy : 

A convoy of Nineveh province's deputy governor came under fire Wednesday in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, killing one of his bodyguards and a member of the Interior Ministry special forces, the deputy governor said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/24/content_2257291.htm

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Two dead in Kirkuk as ''Zarqawi'' slams Muslim scholars : 

Gunmen in the northern city of Kirkuk attacked Iraqi National Guard forces, killing one soldier and a civilian in the drive-by shooting, the US military said Wednesday.
http://www.albawaba.com/news/index.php3?sid=289523&lang=e&dir=news

http://snipurl.com/avlx

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Two killed in Baghdad suicide car bomb: 

Suicide car bomb attack kills two in Kharkh district of western Baghdad, person filming explosion arrested.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=11978

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Blast Kills Two U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan: 

Two U.S. soldiers were killed and one wounded on Wednesday in a blast caused by an improvised bomb while they were on patrol in central Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6908624

http://snipurl.com/avly

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Afghanistan: 5 US soldiers killed in Nangarhar explosion : 

According to Radio Tehran, these soldiers were killed when a US tank was destroyed by a landmine explosion. Iindependent sources have not confirmed this claim.
http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=84439

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Fallujah: Witnesses say US forces killed unarmed civilians: 

A large number of people including children were killed by American snipers. US forces refused repeated calls for medical aid for injured civilians, they said.
http://207.44.245.159/article7361.htm

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Frayed nerves on Baghdad streets leading to `friendly-fire' incidents: 

In a sign of the hair-trigger nerves on the streets of Baghdad, U.S. troops and Iraqi police sometimes mistakenly fire at cars carrying friendly foreign-security contractors, even setting off helter-skelter gunfights.
http://207.44.245.159/article7362.htm

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Rebels' killings intensify in Mosul : 

Iraq Insurgents are kidnapping and killing Iraqi soldiers and national guardsmen with shocking regularity in Mosul, the third-largest city in Iraq and the scene of a ferocious insurgent uprising two weeks ago that followed the U.S.-led invasion of Falluja.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/11/23/news/mosul.html

http://snipurl.com/avm0

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Iraqi Journalist Tells of U.S. Captivity: 

An Iraqi journalist who stayed in Fallujah to report on the battle for his hometown says he and hundreds of other civilians who eventually turned themselves in to escape the violence suffered tough, sometimes humiliating, treatment from American and Iraqi guards.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/world/10256509.htm

http://snipurl.com/avm1

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Dead-Check in Falluja: 

"What does the American public think happens when they tell us to assault a city?" one of them said. "Marines don't shoot rainbows out of our asses. We *ucking kill people." 
http://207.44.245.159/article7359.htm

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Shoot the Messenger : 

When Darrin Mortenson, a former embed for a California paper, defended the NBC reporter who videotaped a U.S. Marine in Fallujah executing an injured insurgent, he got a lot of hate mail. "Go back to Iraq with a target on your back," wrote one.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000725240

http://snipurl.com/avm2

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Medics testify to Fallujah's horrors: 

The first time Jose Ramirez saw a human body ripped apart by a rocket, it took hours for him to regain his composure. Nothing in his training as a Navy medical corpsman had prepared him for the sight of the dead Marine brought in September to the military field hospital outside Fallujah.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6570940/

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Woman dies after seeing soldier son's body: 

A woman who collapsed and died hours after viewing the body of her son killed while serving in Iraq suffered a heart attack, authorities said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=BRF%20Soldier%20Mom's%20Death

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Tom Hayden: How to End the Iraq War: 

Instead of assuming that the Bush administration has an "exit strategy", the movement needs to force our government to exit. The strategy must be to deny the U.S. occupation funding, political standing, sufficient troops, and alliances necessary to their strategy for dominance.
http://207.44.245.159/article7365.htm

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A Formula for Perpetual War: 

George Bush has declared war on "international terrorism," and Putin and Sharon have eagerly joined up, using that war as an excuse to justify any act of oppression. By treating militant forces as criminals and responding only with force, the three leaders are guaranteeing that the "war on terrorism" will have no end.
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/November_2004/0411006.html

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Video: Israeli Soldiers Going In For The Kill: 

A 13 year old Palestinian school girl is about to die.
http://207.44.245.159/article7363.htm

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Israeli officer: I was right to shoot 13-year-old child : 

An Israeli army officer who repeatedly shot a 13-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza dismissed a warning from another soldier that she was a child by saying he would have killed her even if she was three years old.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1358173,00.html

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IDF chief: probe of killing of girl, 13, was 'grave failure' : 

According to witness accounts by soldiers serving in the area, after the girl was mortally wounded by troops firing from the Girit outpost near Rafah, the commander of a Givati infantry company at the site fired an entire magazine of automatic fire at her prone body.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/505715.html

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Abbas supports Arafat path: 

"We will not fall silent until our right of return is exercised and the plight of the refugees is solved," he added.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11483087%255E1702,00.html

http://snipurl.com/avm5

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Former Israeli army chief Rafael Eitan drowns: 

Eitan, who became an outspoken rightist politician who once said Arabs should be placed in a bottle like drugged cockroaches, was swept into stormy seas at the Ashdod port on Tuesday
http://www.swisspolitics.org/en/news/index.php?section=int&page=news_inhalt&news_id=5357493

http://snipurl.com/avm6

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Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 11/23/04: 

The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime Video.
http://snipurl.com/avm7

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UK: Home Office 'linked to discredited claim of al-Qa'ida plot': 

Supporters of David Blunkett were accused of trying to exploit public fears in an attempt to help the Government introduce anti-terrorism legislation.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=586062

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US rejects Ukraine poll result 

Sarah Left, George Wright and agencies

A supporter of Viktor Yanukovich waves a blue flag as a Yushchenko supporter drives past in a car decorated with orange ribbons in central Kiev, Ukraine. Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,15569,1358483,00.html

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The US secretary of state, Colin Powell, today said his government refused to accept the results of the Ukrainian presidential election, which has been marred by reports of widespread electoral fraud.

Ukraine political crisis deepens

Declared victor seeks talks with opponent; U.S. rejects vote results
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6374820/

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Chavez visit to Spain sparks coup controversy: 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's fence-mending visit to Spain sparked political uproar on Tuesday when Madrid for the first time backed his allegations that the former Spanish government backed a coup against him.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L23375923.htm

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U.S. kept quiet on Chávez plot: 

The U.S. government knew of an imminent plot to oust Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chávez, in the weeks prior to a 2002 military coup that briefly unseated him, newly released CIA documents show, despite White House claims to the contrary a week after the putsch.
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wovene244053424nov24,0,5440783.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines

http://snipurl.com/avm8

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U.S. Media Miss Rumsfeld's 'Dirty Wars' Talk : 

If three, five, or 10 years from now, Latin America returns to the military dictatorships and ''dirty wars'' of its all-too-recent past, analysts may point to the past week's conference in Quito of the hemisphere's defence ministers -- and particularly Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld's role in it -- as a milestone in that journey.
http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=26410

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Rumsfeld in Nicaragua : The reason?: Fallujah and SAM-7s.: 

It is unlikely that the peoples of Latin America are likely to ignore the experience of Iraq, of Fallujah. They may well consider it simple prudence to prepare adequately for armed resistance to the coming aggressions being planned against them by the government of the United States and its local allies in the region.
http://207.44.245.159/article7360.htm

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Economic `Armageddon' predicted:

 Stephen Roach, the chief economist at investment banking giant Morgan Stanley, has a public reputation for being bearish. His prediction: America has no better than a 10 percent chance of avoiding economic ``armageddon.''
http://207.44.245.159/article7364.htm

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Krugman: Economic Crisis a Question of When, Not If:

 The economic policies of President Bush have set the country on a dangerous course that will likely end in crisis, Princeton economics professor Paul Krugman told Reuters in an interview.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6888422

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China: The hunt for friends, and oil: 

The Chinese Dragon is flexing its muscles in its Central Asian back yard. It is conducting major trade and business deals, searching for oil and resources and building infrastructure to ensure a stable, friendly environment. Russia and the US are watching closely.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FK23Ad03.html

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China-ASEAN new trade agreements: 

A major step to Asian integration
http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/business/userobject1ai672063.html

http://snipurl.com/avmb

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Congress Funds Psychological Tests for Kids : 

One of the nation's leading medical groups, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS), decried a move by the U.S. Senate to join with the House in funding a federal program AAPS says will lead to mandatory psychological testing of every child in America - without the consent of parents.
http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/11/22/215244.shtml

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Bush Wayne - A " Caped Crusader" in a comic book world.  
http://207.44.245.159/article7344.htm

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