The rise of Iraqi death squads

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Number Of Iraqi civilians Slaughtered In America's War 100,000 +
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7170.htm

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Slaughtered In Bush's War 2110
http://icasualties.org/oif/

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Cheney 'created climate for US war crimes'

By Rupert Cornwell in Washington

A leading aide to the former secretary of state Colin Powell has accused Vice-President Dick Cheney of creating the climate in which prisoner abuse could flourish, and implied that he might have committed war crimes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11178.htm

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"Riding with the Bad Boys";

The rise of Iraqi death squads

By Mike Whitney

"Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador?" one [Pentagon] official asked Hersh. "We founded them and we financed them. The objective now is to recruit locals in any area we want." ... The authorization for the death squads comes straight from the Oval Office. ... The final leg on the stool is the propaganda war that is being directed against the American people to conceal the details of the military’s war crimes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11180.htm

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US paying Iraqi press to run favorable stories

By Mark Mazzetti and Borzou Daragahi

As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11179.htm

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Nine Iraqi soldiers killed in car bomb:

Nine Iraqi soldies were killed and 12 others injured in a car bomb blast in the town of al-Mishada, north of here, police said on Wednesday.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=792501

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Nine Killed In New Minibus Attack:

Gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying Iraqi workers to an American military base on Wednesday morning, killing nine and injuring one.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.234797914&par=0

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Iraq: Armed Forces Sinking into Sectarian Chaos:

"The Iraqi security forces themselves are becoming just another of the players, and if they owe allegiance to anything, it's to their commanders or communities, and not remotely to the state itself."
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31234

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Analysis: Bush wants to 'Vietnamize' Iraq:

President George W. Bush Wednesday unveiled a new strategy of neo-Vietnamization to win the Iraq war.
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051130-123345-7097r

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Mike Whitney : Cheerleading at Annapolis:

It’s pathetic to see the world’s most powerful man, shunted into prearranged venues so he can pitch his snake-oil to college aged boys. That said, Bush’s appearance today at the Naval Academy has got to be a new low for the White House public relations team.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11181.htm

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Victory In Iraq:

The following document articulates the broad strategy the President set forth in 2003 and provides an update on our progress as well as the challenges remaining. Pdf file
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/images/11/30/iraq.strategy.pdf

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Retired general said withdrawal of troops must begin by September:

Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey said President Bush's newly released strategy for Iraq is a signal that he is in a "race against time" to restore the public's confidence in the war effort by withdrawing some troops by September.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/special_packages/iraq/13293867.htm

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Largest Iraq veterans' group says Bush plan falls short:

As a Veteran of this war and someone who talks to other Veterans everyday, I can say that in the eyes of the Troops, this plan still falls short in two important ways.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Largest_Iraq_veterans_group_says_Bush_1130.html

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Robert Dreyfuss : What 'staying the course' really means:

If Iraq manages to avoid all-out civil war, it is likely to end up with a government that is fiercely undemocratic - a Shi'ite theocratic dictatorship that rules by terror, torture, and armed might.
http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GL01Ak01.html

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The World's Most Dangerous Man :

It's George W. Bush : We are, all of us, George W. Bush's hostages, and, what's especially scary is that we don't know what he's going to do next. He seems capable of anything. Hersh reports the creation of a special squadron detailed to crossing over the border and pursuing the insurgents into Syria, and certainly we have every reason to expect this war to spread.
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8185

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The Hallucinations of Joe Lieberman: Is It Madness or Merely More Lying?:

Sen. Lieberman is so divorced from reality that he can no longer be taken seriously. Yet, The Wall Street Journal published this nonsense.
http://www.counterpunch.com/zeese11302005.html

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Iraq: the imperial solution:

There is much speculation about the endgame in Iraq. Most of it assumes that the United States and its allies will pull out as soon as "the job is done", a meaningless phrase concocted by PR consultants and designed to help politicians avoid answering the question, "when will the troops come home?"
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/iraq-the-imperial-solution/2005/11/30/1133311100129.html

http://tinyurl.com/7fae7

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Colin Powell: Always Willing to Let Someone Else Deliver the Bad News:

Colin Powell still can't bring himself to stand up and account for his crucial role. Instead, he's leaving it to a former aide to pin blame on those who remain at the top of the Bush administration.
http://www.counterpunch.com/solomon11302005.html

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Juan Cole: Did Bush plan to bomb Al-Jazeera?:

Some Qataris are calling for the government to end U.S. basing rights in that country. Others are lamenting the hypocrisy of a superpower that represents itself as the leading edge of liberty in the Middle East but has so little respect for press freedom that its leader would cavalierly speak of wiping out hundreds of civilian journalists.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11184.htm

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Video Broadcast of Kidnapped Members of Christian Peacemaker Team:

They were the first people to publicly denounce the torture of Iraqi people at the hands of U.S. forces, long before the media revealed what was happening at Abu Ghraib
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/30/153252

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US, UK blamed for Iraq kidnappings:

The US- and Canada-based Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), has blamed the "illegal" occupation of Iraq by US and British troops for the kidnapping of its four workers in Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/9adf6

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Sgt. Briggs War:

Bob Briggs got a head full of shrapnel in Iraq. Then he came home to more wars: to regain the use of his half-paralyzed body, and to get the U.S. government to pay for his medical care.
http://citypages.com/databank/26/1304/article13914.asp

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Juan Cole: At Hussein's Hearings, U.S. May Be on Trial:

The only conclusion one can draw from available evidence is that Rumsfeld was more or less dispatched to mollify Hussein and assure him that his use of chemical weapons was no bar to developing the relationship with the U.S.,
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11183.htm

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Americans Against Torture, But Believe We Do It :

The survey found that 74% believe the U.S. has tortured prisoners, with 20% disagreeing--with storng majorities of both Democrats and Republicans holding that view.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001572382

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UK airports 'are stop-offs in torture flights':

Eleven police forces were today threatened with legal action if they fail to investigate allegations that UK airports are being used as secret stop-overs by CIA jets transferring terror suspects to torture camps.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1897755,00.html

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Judge Rejects Appeal of CIA Arrest Warrant :

Italian judges have issued arrest warrants for 22 purported CIA agents, including the former station chief Robert Seldon Lady, accused of involvement in the kidnapping of cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5446042,00.html

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Appeals court holds up transfer of Padilla to Justice Department custody :

Jose Padilla's transfer from a military brig to a civilian jail was unexpectedly delayed Wednesday by a federal appeals court, the latest twist in the legal fight over the Bush administration's policy on U.S. terror suspects.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/051130/w113060.html

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Miller 'sorry' for WMD inaccuracies :

Judith Miller, the US journalist at the heart of the CIA leak probe, has apologised to her readers because her stories about WMD and Iraq turned out to be wrong.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4486750.stm

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Breaches of trust:

Judith Miller and Bob Woodward, have been exposed as stooges of power, accomplices of people who distort the truth and feed lies to the public to satisfy their own lusts and ambitions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11177.htm

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None Dare Call It Censorship:

All serious and intelligent journalists today know that the U.S. government has massive media management brigades to carefully control what Americans see in the media and, thus, what they are very likely to believe about things of which they have no direct experience, such as high-level politics, finance and foreign affairs.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/douglas2.html

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Atomic hypocrisy :

Neither Bush nor Blair is in a position to take a high moral line on Iran's nuclear programme
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11185.htm

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Plutonium could be missing from lab :

Enough plutonium to make dozens of nuclear bombs hasn't been accounted for at the UC-run Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and may be missing, an activist group says in a new report.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/30/BAGGQFVT7J1.DTL

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Israel threatens to shut Rafah crossing:

Israel's defence minister has threatened to shut down crossings between the Gaza Strip and Israel if the Palestinians do not improve operations at the Gaza-Egypt border.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/04188D8A-3F87-4576-925D-19E85F019779.htm

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Jailed Fatah leader to be appointed as Abbas deputy: official :

A senior Fatah official hinted on Wednesday that Marwan Barghouti, jailed Fatah leader, could be nominated as deputy to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/30/content_3859905.htm

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Howard Dean's blunt message: Forget Palestine:

Recently Dean returned from a week-long jaunt to Israel sponsored by the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC). Shortly after his return Dean spoke to an elite crowd of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) friends and lobbyists in Philadelphia about his trip to Israel. And the audience was pleased with what they heard.
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_282.shtml

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Jimmy Breslin : Take a stand? Not our Hillary!:

Hillary Clinton is in favor of the war and of executions
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nybres304532927nov30,0,2052451.column

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Hillary Clinton Defends Pro-War Vote Sen.

Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday defended her vote to authorize war in Iraq amid growing unease among liberal Democrats who could determine the potential 2008 presidential candidate‘s future.
http://www.leadingthecharge.com/stories/news-00106235.html

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America's double standard on terrorism :

Cuban expatriate Luis Posada Carriles, an old U.S. terrorist chicken, has come home to roost in Bush's nest, exposing the president's anti-terrorist policies as a hoax.
http://www.walkermn.com/placed/index.php?sect_rank=8&story_id=211779

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Memo: Alito Urged Government to Challenge Roe v. Wade:

Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. was an architect of the Reagan administration's failed 1985 attempt to have the high court consider overruling Roe v. Wade, according to a memo from the period released today.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/30/AR2005113000723.html

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Contractor spends big on key lawmakers :

A San Diego businessman under investigation in the bribery case of former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham is a well-known GOP fundraiser whose generosity to key members of Congress came at the same time his company saw large increases in its government contracts, public records show.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20051130/ts_usatoday/contractorspendsbigonkeylawmakers

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‘Duke’ keeps his pension :

Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-Calif.) will soon relinquish many of his properties and his freedom after pleading guilty to charges of fraud and conspiracy, but he will keep his government pension and could retain the privileges enjoyed by other former members of Congress.
http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/113005/news1.html

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Abramoff Tied to Dorgan Donation, Tribe Says:

New evidence is emerging that the top Democrat on the Senate committee currently investigating Jack Abramoff got political money arranged by the lobbyist back in 2002 shortly after the lawmaker took action favorable to Abramoff's tribal clients.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051129/ap_on_go_ot/tribes_letters___donations

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