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It's Time to Wake Up, America:
Fri Nov 7 17:56:20 2003
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It's Time to Wake Up, America:

The truth about the war and occupation of Iraq is that it was planned long before 9/11. The tragic events of that day were used by the Bush Administration to push through a plan that had long been in the works to overthrow Saddam Hussein and take control of Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5176.htm

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8 U.S. Soldiers Killed In Iraq:

The latest confirmed U.S. military fatalities bring to at least 31 the number of American troops killed action in 7 days.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20031107/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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US Officers: Hostile Fire Downed Black Hawk, Killing 6
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/sh/news/stories/news-261902120031107-051147.html

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Saddam's desperate offers to stave off war :

Washington dismissed Iraq's peace feelers, including elections and weapons pledge, put forward via diplomatic channels and US hawk Perle
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5172.htm

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U.S. Rejects Iraqi Peace Offer? :

A series of articles explores the evidence that the U.S. rejected Iraqi peace overtures prior to the invasion.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5173.htm

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Iraq Spins Out of Control: Where are the Democrats and the peace movement?

This official sense of denial is the scariest part of the whole Iraqi debacle. At least Richard Nixon came into office recognizing that somehow or other, the U.S. had to figure a way out of Vietnam.
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/51/dissonance-cooper.php

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Neocon-Friendly Solutions for Manning Shortfalls in the War Against Terror:

Wounded soldiers cause media problems when they mention they are required to pay for their hospital meals or don’t have air conditioning.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski47.html

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Canadian Man Deported by U.S. Details Torture in Syria:

Anonymous officials told the Washington Post that the U.S. knowingly sends suspects abroad to be tortured. Democracy Now speaks with Maher Arar.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5174.htm

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Iraq: Cancel the contracts. Ditch the deals. Rip up the rules:

Any movement serious about Iraqi self-determination must call not only for an end to Iraq's military occupation, but to its economic colonization as well. That means reversing the shock therapy reforms that US occupation chief Paul Bremer has fraudulently passed off as "reconstruction"
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031124&s=klein

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Where Is The $87 That Bush Asked For Going?:
http://www.lonsberry.com/writers/LBonsberry/index.cfm?story=5627

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Foreign central banks hold $1 trln of US debt-Fed:
http://www.forbes.com/home_asia/newswire/2003/11/06/rtr1138988.html

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Read It and Weep:

I visited a public school in Northwest Washington. Some friends were holding a benefit to raise money for a library that had no books, desks, chairs or computers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6687-2003Nov5.html

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Report: Pentagon Officials Fly in Style :

Military and civilian defense officials improperly used government credit cards to buy 68,000 first-class or business-class airline seats when they were supposed to fly coach, congressional investigators concluded Thursday.
http://tinyurl.com/u0pn

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Ricky Nelson Wasn't The Only "Poor Little Fool":

Take our illustrious conservative movement for example. The only people who are paid any attention are the "big" people. Unless your wallet is fat enough, or you happen to stumble upon fame and fortune by some quirk of fate, there isn't a conservative leader out there who would give you the time of day.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5175.htm

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'Making Iraq permanently dependent on the US for its defence':

Reports from knowledgeable Iraqi sources suggest that U.S. bases are already being built in the western desert, in the north, center and south of Iraq
http://www.jordantimes.com/Thu/opinion/opinion2.htm

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Iraqi Doctors Dispute Lynch Rape Claim
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq-Jessica-Lynch.html?ex=1069236089&ei=1&en=56ec58d2aa6d1f90

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Jessica Lynch Criticizes US Accounts of Her Ordeal:

In her first public statements since her rescue in Iraq, Jessica Lynch criticized the military for exaggerating accounts of her rescue and re-casting her ordeal as a patriotic fable.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/07/national/07LYNC.html?ex=1069186468&ei=1&en=1555f6066fdd84cb

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US television documentary:

Arafat has accumulated in his private accounts more than $800 million from aid originally appropriated to the Palestinian Authority.
http://www.albawaba.com/news/index.php3?sid=262816&lang=e&dir=news

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`Israel is bad for the Jews' :

The behavior of a self-described Jewish state affects the way everyone else looks at Jews... but the depressing truth is that Israel today is bad for the Jews ...to convert Israel from a Jewish state to a binational one would cause far less disruption to most Jews and Arabs
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/357713.html

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Israel faces a new enemy: poverty

While the bloody Israeli-Palestinian conflict captures headlines, for many Israelis a more intractable problem is now the daily struggle to get by.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/07/1068013392249.html

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The spy who was left out in the cold:

The US Department of Justice is doing everything in its power - and some things that aren't - to prevent even the tiniest detail of Lau's highly classified work from becoming public.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/EK07Ad03.html

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Spotlight on war in the shadows :

Perhaps the ultimate secret of the undercover war in Iraq is an organisation known to insiders as "The Activity" and to others by the codename "Grey Fox" - Its operations were originally hidden from even the scrutiny of the US Congress.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5169.htm

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Woolsey Pushes Constitutional Monarchy for Iraq:

Some observers saw the proposal as a backhanded strategy to advance two regional actors — former Jordanian Crown Prince Hassan and Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi
http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.11.07/news3b.woolseyside.html

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War declared on resistance:

The Los Angeles Times has ordered its journalists to stop describing anti-American forces in Iraq as resistance fighters
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/06/1068013331454.html

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U.S. Foreign Military Sales By Country:

The United States administration is required by Congress to prepare an annual report on military assistance, military exports, and military imports . This report provides the most detailed official accounting available of specific U.S. weapons systems exported or licensed for export to governments or private buyers around the world.
http://www.fas.org/asmp/profiles/655-2002/6552002.html

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Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams