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Carlyle Group Wanted to Drop George W. Bush
Thu Jul 3 17:58:32 2003
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Why The Carlyle Group Wanted to Drop George W. Bush From Its Board A Decade Ago:

David Rubenstein, founder of the secretive defense contractor Carlyle Group. RECALLS HOW USELESS BUSH WAS AS A BOARD MEMBER OF CARLYLE’S FIRM CATERAIR and his surprise that George W. is now president.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3994.htm
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Jobless Rate Hits 9-Year High of 6.4 Pct in an economic slump that has added nearly a million people to jobless rolls in the past three months.
http://tinyurl.com/fye4

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>From Burgers to Baghdad – making the connection:
Never-ending consumption can never be satisfied, it just leads to more consumption. Ultimately of course, it leads directly to Baghdad or Havana or anywhere in the world that either the West depends on to maintain our addiction.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3993.htm

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Eight US soldiers wounded as Iraqi violence continues unabated
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=421343

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Bush Utters Taunt About Militants: 'Bring 'Em On':
"I never heard any military commander -- let alone the commander in chief -- invite enemies to attack U.S. troops." Lautenberg's statement said Bush's words were "tantamount to inciting and inviting more attacks against U.S. forces."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1617-2003Jul2.html?nav=hptop_tb

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Ready To Explode: Hope for future fades in Iraq.
"We've told the British today that if we're not paid by Friday, we'll arm ourselves with guns again and start killing every foreigner we see in Iraq."
http://tinyurl.com/fxxh

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'This is what the Iraqis think of us,' said the captain, cradling a charred helmet:
Yesterday’s attack in northern Baghdad was reckless and inventive, and is an alarming demonstration of how organised and determined the Iraqi resistance is becoming.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-6047-732230,00.html

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Bring the British troops home:
Resistance to the occupation of Iraq is a response to its tyranny.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,985132,00.html
 
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US offers $25 Million reward for Saddam:
$15 million was being offered for similar information about Saddam's two sons, Uday and Qusay.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3042174.stm

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Defense of Your Home Is Not Terrorism, Not Even In Iraq:
Imagine that the Iraqi army now controls your town. Imagine that from time to time for no apparent reason, they burst into homes, kicking, clubbing, and shooting the occupants and hauling some off as captives to unknown destinations for unknown reasons.
http://www.independent.org/tii/news/030702Higgs.html

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Imperial History Repeats Itself:
Once again, Indians are being asked to fight Iraqis for empire's sake.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,990022,00.html
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Pat Robertson Engages in Illegal Mining Operation in Liberia
http://www.theperspective.org/patrobertson_taylor.html

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A Problem From Hell; America and the Age of Genocide
>From Armenia to Afghanistan, journalist Samantha Power finds a pattern of deliberate U.S. inaction in the face of mass murder.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3992.htm

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Blair Warned He Will Be Election 'Target':
TONY Blair has been told he must distance himself from President Bush. The prime minister was given the warning yesterday at a meeting with Sidney Blumenthal, an aide to former US president Bill Clinton.
http://tinyurl.com/fy0o

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Israel Defies Peace Plan With Land Grab On West Bank:
The Israeli government has confiscated hundreds of acres of Palestinian land on the West Bank this week - for the purpose, Palestinians allege, of building settlements - in flagrant breach of commitments under the US-led road map to peace.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,989844,00.html

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Defiant Israel Blind To What It Has Become:
Is it not possible that the basis upon which Palestinians have been treated by successive Israeli governments is centred on racist ideology? One has only to recall the openly racist comments of some Israeli prime ministers.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3990.htm

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Israel Makes Cosmetic Show of Peace as it Builds Bethlehem Wall
http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=723012003

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Enough playing games: The dismantling of outposts episode is turning into
a parody. For every "unauthorized outpost" ostensibly dismantled by the IDF, two others are constructed by settlers.
http://tinyurl.com/fxsg

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How the Neo-Cons Operate:
Connected to the important role played by elites as the protectors of truth is the notion that "philosophers need to tell noble lies not only to the people at large also to powerful politicians [whom they serve]."
http://www.mediamonitors.net/zogby94.html

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American Injustice:
No less than other nations, the United States has the strength to fight terrorism effectively without abandoning our commitment to constitutional government.
http://www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.liberties03jul03,0,3262172.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines

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A Costly Friendship:
Nothing in the history of the US-Israel alliance has equaled the accession by "friends of Israel" to key posts in the current Bush Administration, and their determined and successful struggle to shape America's foreign policy, especially in the Middle East--including the destruction of Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3991.htm

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No more " soft landing" says ex-US negotiator with Pyongyang:
Washington even considered a "surgical attack" on the suspected North Korean nuclear arms facility in Yongbyon in February.
http://www.prolog.net/webnews/wed/aw/Qnkorea-nuclear-us.R0DD_Dl2.html

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US Intel Report Draws Skepticism in South Korea:
A U.S. intelligence report about a North Korean nuclear testing site drew skepticism Wednesday from South Korean experts.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2861890,00.html

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Polish Troops Leave To Head Force In Iraq Zone:
The advance guard of the 9,200-strong multinational stabilisation force Poland will command in central and southern Iraq left on Wednesday.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L02329116.htm

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Bush Administration Building A Motley Posse To Keep Peace In Iraq
''The more (foreign troops) there are, the fewer of U.S. troops we have to have,'' Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said this week.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap07-02-130928.asp?reg=MIDEAST

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US Hires 20,000 Mercenaries Costing $250 Million To Patrol Iraq
http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3906.htm&e=1043

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Add Up All Numbers To Appreciate Cost Of War:
It is vitally important that we consider all of these deaths to gain a realistic appreciation of the horrific cost of this war.
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Does God Want You to Pay Higher Taxes?
What does the Bible have to do with tax policy? For Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, a lot.
http://transfer.go.com/cgi/transfer.pl?goto=http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Politics/religion030702.html&name=ALSO_ON&srvc=nws

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U.S. Envoys Besieged by ‘ bully’ charges for demanding that their host governments sign a bilateral agreement with Washington that would exempt US troops from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/abs_news_body.asp?section=World%20&oid=27240

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Bush Sending Troops To Liberia
http://tinyurl.com/fvj0

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Another Marine Killed In Iraq
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6692748^1702,00.html

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Poll: Majority In US Believes Bush ' Stretched Truth ' About Iraqi Weapons Of Mass Destruction Or Told Outright Lies, according to a new opinion survey.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3989.htm

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