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American Imperialism Off the Rails
Haroon Siddiqui Toronto Star October 30, 2003
October 30, 2003, Summary: President George Bush's logic is as frightening as it is unenlightened. Bush actually says that more deaths among US soldiers fighting in Iraq means victory is on the horizon. This must be one of the most insane comments by a world leader ever. Maybe the prezel Bush ate choked off the oxygen supply to Bush's brain? ...
Eyes Wide Shut
Maureen Dowd New York Times October 30, 2003
October 30, 2003, Summary: President George Bush is so deep in lies, he has no other option other than to paint himself, and our Nation, further into the corner of violence and war ...
Bush Ignores Soldiers' Burials
Christopher Scheer AlterNet.org October 30, 2003
October 30, 2003, Summary: Seven months into the renewed fighting in Iraq, and with more than 350 US killed in the war zone, President George Bush hasn't attended a single funeral for a US service member from the war Bush started. Now veterans are speaking out against Bush's hypocracy toward soldiers and veterans ...
Cheney's Hawks 'Hijacking Policy'
Ritt Goldstein Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) October 30, 2003
October 30, 2003, Summary: This article provides an eyewitness account of how a 1992 policy prepared by then-US Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney (now Vice President), sought to promote US world dominance. When former US President George H.W. Bush was defeated in 1992, this policy died with them. With the rise of US President George W. Bush in 2000, the policy was implemented with devastating global impact ...
Washington Post Headline: The Danger of Defeat
Fred Hiatt Washington Post October 29, 2003
October 29, 2003, Summary: For the first time in a major US newspaper, the prospect of a US defeat in Iraq is mentioned as a potential outcome. This is a remarkable reversal of fortunes for what US President George Bush asserted was a "Mission Accomplished" a few months ago. However, many Gulf War veterans predicted before Bush's invasion of Iraq that urban warfare would result in heavy US casualties ...
Bush Supports Uzbekistan Dictator Who Kills Opponents by Boiling Them to Death
George Monbiot Guardian (United Kingdom) October 29, 2003
October 29, 2003, Summary: US President George Bush wants is both ways. He said he invaded Iraq to depose of the dictator Saddam Hussein. However, Bush's reasoning turns out to be another lie. Bush is currently supporting Islam Karimov, the president of Uzbekistan, who boiled to death an opponent. When Bush promotes friends like these, who needs enemies ...
Soldier's View From Iraq
Tom Gascoyne Chico News & Review (California) October 29, 2003
October 29, 2003, Summary: Here is an article about a letter a soldier wrote to his hometown newspaper in Chico, California. The sergeant's letter questions the reasons for going to war and occupying Iraq: "If it's not evident, a lot of the folks over here are starting to get pretty damn bitter, and with good reason" ...
Republican Senator Lott on Iraq: "Just Mow The Whole Place Down"
Geoff Earle The Hill October 29, 2003
October 29, 2003, Summary: President George Bush and the Republican Party, who led the charge to start a unilateral war against Iraq, are facing a strong and broad public opposition to the war. Now Republicans appear split on the war ... Is the neo-conservative foreign policy of pre-emptive war on the ropes? And what does Senator Trent Lott intend for Iraqi civilians when he says, "just mow the whole place down"? What, exactly, does Lott propose? ...
Republican Congressman Nethercutt Defends the Indefensible
Associated Press New York Times October 29, 2003
October 29, 2003, Summary: US Representative George Nethercutt said, "The story of what we've done in the post-war period is remarkable. ... It is a better and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day." Nethercutt should just admit he blew it and say the lives our Nation's young men and women are far more important than President George Bush's public relations campaign in support of pre-emptive war? If Nethercutt doesn't want US soldiers killed as he claims, then why did Nethercutt vote to start a war in Iraq? ...
Army Scandal Explodes: 400 More Sick and Wounded Soldiers Warehoused at Fort Knox
Mark Benjamin United Press International October 29, 2003
October 29, 2003, Summary: UPI uncovered an explosive scandal, revealing 1,055 sick, wounded, and injured veterans hidden away by the US Army on "medical hold" -- 633 at Fort Stewart, Georgia, plus 422 at Fort Knox, Kentucky. There is now a clear pattern pf neglect of our Nation's disabled soldiers, all of whom are Reserve or National Guard on active duty for Operation Enduring Freedom. Some were wounded in Afghanistan or Iraq. One Army Lieutenant told UPI: "I have never been so treated like dirt" ...
Support for Bush's Iraq War Dives to 39 Percent
United Press International October 28, 2003
October 28, 2003, Summary: As the costs and casualties escalte, President George Bush's ratings in the polls drop like a rock. Interestingly, as the costs and casutalties soar, Bush claims victory. Here are three articles about a recent poll by CNN-USA Today-Gallup. Notice the different spin in each article (look close at CNN, as the presidential poll is buried at the end) ...
Pentagon Press Release Regarding 40 Deaths and 200 Wounded in Iraq on Monday
Jim Garamone DefenseLink October 27, 2003
October 27, 2003, Summary: The US Department of Defense press release is very interesting. For example, no group claimed responsibility for today's attacks against the Red Cross in Iraq. However, the Pentagon uses "terrorist" four times in a 365-word press release. With many factions in Iraq fighting both each other and the US, the situation in Iraq may be stumbling toward civil war. The press release doesn't contain condolences for the victims and familes, including US soldiers killed ...
Families of US Soldiers in Iraq Lead Anti-War Protests
Suzanne Goldenberg Guardian (United Kingdom) October 26, 2003
October 26, 2003, Summary: This article shows the foreign perspective of the recent protests against President George Bush's war against Iraq. This article mentions the families of soldiers in the march and also prints e-mails from soldiers (and some from families) who are in the war ...
Bush's Big Lie Exposed: No Nukes in Iraq
Barton Gellman Washington Post October 26, 2003
October 26, 2003, Summary: Condoleezza Rice, President George Bush's national security adviser, said this on CNN on September 8, 2002, "We don't want the smoking gun [of Iraq's nuclear weapons program] to be a mushroom cloud." On national TV, Rice said very clearly that Iraq posed an immediate threat to the lives of people in the US. The Washington Post exposed her lie. When will Congress begin impeachment of Rice, Bush, and Vice President Richard Cheney for their intentional lies that ignited the US - Iraq War? ...
Eyewitness in Iraq: "They're Getting Better"
Robert Fisk The Independent (United Kingdom) October 26, 2003
October 26, 2003, Headline: "The worst problem facing US forces in Iraq may not be armed resistance but a crisis of morale. Robert Fisk reports on a near-epidemic of indiscipline, suicides and loose talk." Iraq plumet into anarchy as US helicopter gets shot down and the hotel housing US Deputy Secretary of Defense gets hit with rocket attack ...
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