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Military action won't end insurgency, growing number of U.S. officers believe BY TOM LASSETER Knight Ridder Newspapers Posted on Sun, Jun. 12, 2005 Military action won't end insurgency, growing number of U.S. officers believe BY TOM LASSETER Knight Ridder Newspapers BAGHDAD, Iraq -...

June 11, 2005 American Gulag by Charley Reese In case you haven't noticed it, the Bush administration's standard response to any criticism is to attack the critic. Ad hominem attacks are designed, of course, to avoid the subject of the criticism. Such a tactic greatly appeals to armchair...

http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=8903 Abusing even their own people. What a shame.

Terry Thurber June 6, 2005 I am troubled. The issue is the sperm stain on Monica Lewenski’s blue dress. DNA testing proved the stain was the sperm of Bill Clinton, and subsequent attempts by Bill Clinton to deny the stain, led to articles of impeachment. Now, after a school boy’s gloat of...

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Iraq-Vietnam comparison inevitable by Scott Taylor Monday 06 June 2005 7:40 AM GMT It has been two years now since the first signs became evident that the US occupation of Iraq would become a bloody fiasco. On 26 May 2003 the White House announced that the interim military Governor of...

Germany had the Hitler Youth Corps, the US has the Middle School Cadet Corps! Military programs are moving into middle schools to fish for future soldiers, training students as young as 11 to march in formation and carry weapons. http://www.alternet.org/story/22192/

How many reporters are waiting to find out of the President lied us all into a war? The answer to that question will tell you why the public is starting to move away from the mainstream media. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050610/ap_en_mu/michael_jackson_29

"Some people are going to look at that document called the Constitution, which says that no money will be drawn from the Treasury unless appropriated by Congress," Woodward says in his CBS interview. http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/world/8458386.htm

The brutal system of torture, corruption, lawlessness and war established in Washington by the faction of President George W. Bush is now backed by the greatest military power in history, able to wipe whole nations from the face of the earth in minutes. With the illegal invasion of Iraq and the...

Sometime in early July, I expect Chief Justice William Rehnquist to resign from the Supreme Court because of his failing health. President Bush will then have the opportunity to select a new Chief Justice and a new Associate Justice. Other Justices will likely leave before he finishes his second...

President George W. Bush has got a very serious problem. Before asking Congress for a Joint Resolution authorizing the use of American military forces in Iraq, he made a number of unequivocal statements about the reason the United States needed to pursue the most radical actions any nation can...

Harry Truman once said of Richard Nixon, "He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides", but if ever a description was to be applied to Bush and Blair, this would be it. Bush and...

Routine airport security won't thwart jihadists, but it does inconvenience and endanger the rest of us. http://slate.msn.com/id/2120330/

By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, May 28, 2005; Page A01 Two Army analysts whose work has been cited as part of a key intelligence failure on Iraq -- the claim that aluminum tubes sought by the Baghdad government were most likely meant for a nuclear weapons program rather...

By Robert Parry June 7, 2005 The clues are falling into place, pointing to the incontrovertible judgment that George W. Bush willfully misled the United States into invading Iraq, in part, by eliminating the possibility of the peaceful solution that he pretended to want. Many of the clues...

Activism / From After Downing Street Dot Org Posted by downing on Jun 05, 2005 - 10:11 PM Iraq has been the tragic Lie of Historic Proportions of Washington, DC since before the first Gulf war. For years, Saddam was one of our government’s propped up and militarily supported puppets. Many...

This past week, widely scattered newspaper editorialists roused themselves from seeming acceptance of the continuing slaughter in Iraq to voice, for the first time in many cases, outright condemnation of the war. (June 06, 2005) -- Suddenly there seems to be something in the air -- the smell...

What causes the fall of empires? Why, stubborn leaders who speak like toddlers and never admit mistakes By Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle Know what real men do? They admit their mistakes. Know what real people do in times of great stress and strife and economic downturn? They seek help...

THE POLITICAL WAR Issue of 2004-09-27 Posted 2004-09-20 Earlier this year, the United States Agency for International Development, or U.S.A.I.D., hired a team of independent experts to go to Iraq and evaluate the agency’s programs there. The experts came back with a mixed review that included...