Liberty or Death

68-year-old man gets shock of a lifetime when Cheney comes to town
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/001665.html
Some words were exchanged, and the next thing you know Jay Saddington, of Warwick, Pa., was zapped with 50,000 volts from a police stun gun.

Oil Surges $2 on 'Super-Spike' Prediction
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=629593
Oil hurtled back up to $56 a barrel on Thursday as Goldman Sachs bank, the biggest trader of energy derivatives, said prices could ultimately surge all the way above $100!

Dollar Drops Versus Euro, Yen After U.S. Jobless Claims Rise
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=a2eMMVbkSqCk&refer=top_world_news

Iran War in June 2005
http://www.newsnation.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1665
Could it be that an Israeli-American bombing assault to disrupt Iran is the only way to counter this Iranian economic assault on the U.S. dollar?

Mr. Magoo Flying America into Disaster
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1050
And America is flying blind into mountains of disaster. As Bette Davis once said, "Hold onto your hats. It's going to be a bumpy ride."

Seymour Hersh: Bush is "Unreachable"
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/05/03/con05117.html
Hersh warned that when the price of oil reaches $68-$69 a barrel, this will be the crunch point in terms of real economic decline. If Bush wants to move against Iran, which is pumping about 3.9 barrels a day, he’s heading for trouble. According to Hersh, Iran will scuttle every ship in the Straights of Hormuz and the Malaca Straits in Indonesia. It will take months of dredging and salvaging to approach normalcy.

Bush Discusses WMD Report
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/03/20050331.html
The most solemn duty of the American President is to protect the American people.

Terri Schiavo Dies at 41
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=050331&cat=frontpage&st=frontpageterri_schiavo_obit_050331&src=abc
"Today, millions of Americans are saddened by the death of Terri Schiavo," he said. "Laura and I extend our condolences to Terri Schiavo's families. I appreciate the example of grace and dignity they have displayed at a difficult time. I urge all those who honor Terri Schiavo to continue to work to build a culture of life."

Pope Getting Nutrition From Tube in Nose
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050330/D895DHO80.html
Pope's 'Living Will' Wants Life Support to the End

Jane Fonda says her 1972 visit to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site, an incident that brought her the nickname "Hanoi Jane," was a "betrayal" of American forces and of the "country that gave me privilege."
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=050331&cat=news&st=newsd896426o0&src=ap
Fonda, whose memoir "Jane Fonda: My Life So Far" comes out next week, said she did not regret meeting with American POWs in North Vietnam or making broadcasts on Radio Hanoi. "Our government was lying to us and men were dying because of it, and I felt I had to do anything that I could to expose the lies and help end the war," she said.

Bush's plunge in polls tied to domestic issues
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050331-010648-8343r.htm
His approval rating climbed to 90 percent after September 11, which was the highest level attained by any president in the 67-year history of such polling.

Bush knew of terrorist plot to hijack US planes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,718312,00.html

Bush Knew Iraq Info Was Dubious
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/25/eveningnews/main560449.shtml
...despite objections from the CIA.

Bush Knew About Leak of CIA Operative's Name
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4629.shtml
Wilson has said he believes his wife's name was leaked because of his criticism of Bush administration claims that Iraq had tried to obtain uranium from Niger, which Wilson investigated for the CIA and found to be untrue.

Panel: CIA 'Dead Wrong' on Iraq WMDs
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050331/ap_on_go_pr_wh/intelligence_commission
Bush appointed the commission a year ago, signing on to the idea of an independent investigation only belatedly. The White House had said it wanted to give the weapons search in Iraq more time.

Bush Welcomes Results of WMD Report
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15914-2005Mar31.html
While the report dealt at length with how the United States overestimated the threat from former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Bush focused his response on the need to avoid underestimating threats.

Iraq: The Trail of Disinformation
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/trailofdisinformation.html
So, where did all this bad information come from? While the culprits would like to pin the blame on the Central Intelligence Agency, the facts point in a different direction. To cite just one example, the now-discredited claim that Saddam was trying to buy "Yellow Cake" Uranium from Niger came from the Pentagon, specifically from Paul Wolfowitz, using information the CIA stated was unreliable. Wolfowitz, and his assistant Douglas Feith, set up a special office called the "Office of Special Plans" in 2001, that fed information to the White House to urge the attack on Iraq. Shortly after the invasion, the OSP was disbanded.

FLASHBACK: Some CIA analysts felt pressure from Cheney over Iraq
http://www.detnews.com/2003/nation/0306/05/nation-184523.htm
Linked in light of today's report dumping the blame for the lies about Iraq's WMDs onto the CIA.

FLASHBACK: Report Says Cheney Pressured CIA on Iraq Report Says Cheney Pressured CIA on Iraq
http://www.here-now.org/shows/2003/06/20030605_3.asp
Linked in light of today's report dumping the blame for the lies about Iraq's WMDs onto the CIA.

FLASHBACK: Cheney's CIA visits pressured us: analysts
http://www.newshounds.us/2004/07/09/cheney_pressured_cia.php
Linked in light of today's report dumping the blame for the lies about Iraq's WMDs onto the CIA.

Four GIs Killed in Action in Iraq
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2005/20050331_381.html

Iraqis, Not Coalition, Must Defeat Insurgents, Rumsfeld Says
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2005/20050331_381.html

U.S. Holds About 10,500 Prisoners in Iraq
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/03/30/national/w050735S04.DTL
About 100 of those prisoners are under age 18!

The World Bank's board on Thursday unanimously approved the nomination of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, an architect of the Iraq war, to be the next president of the 184-nation development bank.
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=050331&cat=news&st=newsd89647pg0&src=ap
The bank's stated mission is to fight poverty and improve the living standards of people in developing countries.

Child hunger in Iraq said about double
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/03/31/child_hunger_in_iraq_said_about_double/
Malnutrition among the youngest Iraqis has almost doubled since the US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein, a hunger specialist told the UN Human Rights Commission yesterday in a summary of previously-reported studies on the nation's health.

Scientific Analysis Suggests US Presidential Vote Counts May Have Been Altered
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5637
A state-by-state analysis of the discrepancy between exit polls and official election results shows highly improbable skewing of the election results, overwhelmingly biased towards the President.

One run by ideologues and perverts.!
http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1475.htm
The dollar is in steady decline against almost all foreign currency, the balance of trade is a terrible disaster, our military policy, which exists solely to support Israeli Mideast goals, is killing both innocent Iraqi civilians by the tens of thousands and at the least over 6,000 GIs. Oil is not being sold, by nearly every producer, to the United States because they view Bush as another Hitler or Stalin and his soldiers as SS thugs and gas will eventually reach $5.00 a gallon at the pump, at least according to a Treasury Department confidential bulletin. When that happens, the pleasure-loving Americans might actually get fed up with Adolf Bush and throw him and his pseudo-intellectual thugs into the Potomac.

Nuke the Holy Land--For World Peace
http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/herman/herman9.html
I imagine a nation of dimwit leaders, who cannot even devise a life-saving plan to save one woman with a feeding tube, could hardly attain the wisdom of Solomon or the compassion of Jesus. But if someone doesn't acquire some diplomatic sense soon, we'll all be witnesses to an apocalyptic light show the world will not soon forget. Coming to a shrine or holy site near you.

Slay Goliath, sail the Ark – it will be a hell of a ride at Holyland
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1544218,00.html
Before leaving Ark Alive, billed as the place “where Disney meets the Bible”, children would also have the experience of expulsion from the Garden of Eden, being swallowed by a whale, escaping from a lion’s den and walking on water.

Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1478.htm
On August 1-2, 1946, some Americans, brutalized by their county government, used armed force as a last resort to overturn it. These Americans wanted honest open elections. For years they had asked for state or federal election monitors to prevent vote fraud (forged ballots, secret ballot counts and intimidation by armed sheriff's deputies) by the local political boss. They got no help.

Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up' http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1447863,00.html

Earth's health deteriorating, warns UN study http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200503301910.htm

The Energy Crunch to Come
http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1479.htm
Soaring Oil Profits, Declining Discoveries, and Danger Signs

Indonesia Quake Death Toll Reaches 1,000
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=050330&cat=news&st=newsd895cb580&src=ap

Pope gets feeding tube
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=36175

The War on Terror Is a War on Freedom
http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/macgregor/macgregor3.html
And the real fun starts when you say "enough!"

Sleepwalking to disaster in Iran
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1B5FCF4A-FBF6-443A-93A9-5E37C43FDE0B.htm
Why June 2005?, I asked. 'The Israelis are concerned that if the Iranians get their nuclear enrichment programme up and running, then there will be no way to stop the Iranians from getting a nuclear weapon. June 2005 is seen as the decisive date.'

While Bush is bringing the light of "democracy" to the Middle East and beyond, the forces of darkness are aiming at the soft underbelly of the American giant – and sharpening their blades on the battlefields of Iraq.
http://antiwar.com/justin/
Whether bankruptcy forces us into taking the right course, or the neocons drive us over the cliff, it seems that disaster is bound to overtake us in any event.

George W. Bush Discusses Freedom and Democracy!http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/03/20050329.html
In a democracy, the government must uphold the will of the majority while respecting the rights of minorities. (Applause.)

The Secret Service is investigating the claims of three people who say they were removed from President Bush's town hall meeting on Social Security last week because of a bumper sticker on their car that read: "No More Blood for Oil." http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050329/ap/d894ruho0.html
"They're screening the people who are allowed to come and then they're profiling them in the parking lot," he said. "It's quite extraordinary, and disappointing."

Q Scott, another question about this trip to Iowa tomorrow. And this is an issue that's come up here before, but it's back in the news today. There's a wire story from Colorado that three people were barred -- who had tickets to go to the President's Social Security conversation in Colorado were barred because of a bumper sticker that someone thought to be anti-Bush. Can you tell us what the guidelines are for local volunteers, in terms of allowing people to come in and hear their President speak?
MR. McCLELLAN: In terms of volunteers?
Q In the past you've blamed this kind of thing on over-zealous volunteers.
MR. McCLELLAN: I don't know all the specific circumstances you're bringing up regarding that event. But in terms of the events, we distribute tickets to these conversations, and they are typically given to congressional offices or institutions like -- at Notre Dame University we provided tickets to the university, and they distributed those tickets, or a congressional office distribute the tickets. In Tennessee, when we were, I believe it was Memphis -- when we were in Memphis we provided some tickets to Congressman Ford's office. And I think he had 40 or 50 tickets that he distributed. And so people came to the events, as well.
We welcome a diversity of views at the events. Obviously, the conversations that the President is participating in are designed to educate the American people about the problems facing our Social Security system, the problems that are facing it for our children and grandchildren. And so it's part of an educational effort. I think that there's plenty of people out there talking about the other side of the issue, and you see those people talking about it on a daily basis.
Q What are the marching orders that are given to the people at the door?
MR. McCLELLAN: I'm sorry?
Q What are the marching orders --
MR. McCLELLAN: I don't know. I'll be glad to look into it and see what else I can find. I don't know if there's formal marching orders, as you referred to them. But I'll be glad to look at them.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/03/20050329-1.html
Q Are you concerned that the President is not hearing a lot of different viewpoints in these conversations?
MR. McCLELLAN: I think the President hears a lot of different viewpoints every day, when we follow the news. I mean, there's plenty of viewpoints being expressed on this issue. As I said, these conversations are about educating the American people about the problems facing Social Security. That's what they're designed for, to talk about the problems that we face and to talk about possible ideas for solving it. I think the American people expect that when members of Congress and their elected officials in Washington, D.C., see problems, that they work together to find ways to solve those problems.

The president has held Social Security rallies in more than a dozen states this year. The crowds are closely monitored for possible disruptions, and protesters are quickly escorted away. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10969-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_politics/administration
Protesters often stand out because the crowds are packed with Bush supporters, who have been invited by a local GOP House member or organization. Those onstage at most of the town hall meetings are carefully screened people from the area who agree with the president's Social Security proposal. The participants typically rehearse what they will say with members of the president's advance team and rarely, if ever, say anything critical about his plan for private accounts.

Dubya's poll ratings go into free fall http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_6465.shtml
Bush doesn't care if Schiavo lives or dies. Her body -- like the bodies of the 100,000 Iraqis he has killed, like the bodies of the American soldiers being chewed up every day in his Babylonian conquest, like the bodies of the poor and working people whom he is methodically and remorselessly cutting off from medical care, financial protection against catastrophic illness, and legal redress against corporate predators -- is just a means to an end, the only end Bush cares about: increasing the power and wealth of his own rapacious circle of privileged elites.

ENOUGH
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/43506.htm
The time has come to let Terri Schiavo die with dignity - and in peace.

I have to confess...when I first heard that Laura Bush was heading for Afghanistan, the first thing that popped into my mind....they are going to "off" Pickles for the sympathy to improve W's ratings.

"It is a life issue that really does require government to be involved," Bush said aboard a plane bound for Afghanistan, where she was promoting education and women's rights.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050330/D895CS801.html
Early Wednesday, a man was arrested when he tried to bring a plastic cup of water into the hospice. Officers stopped him at the gate as he shouted: "You don't know God from Godzilla!"

Almost twice as many Iraqi children are suffering from malnutrition since the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein!
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/mar/30/033005927.html
...as many as 100,000 more Iraqis - many of them women and children - had died since the start of the U.S.-led invasion than would have been expected otherwise, based on the mortality rate before the war.

Iraqis caught a rare glimpse of their new parliament in action yesterday but were left surprised and disgusted as legislators failed to make any progress in naming a government almost two months after January's elections.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/30/wirq30.xml
Instead, the proceedings degenerated into farce and chaos before they were eventually aborted altogether. "The only difference is that we were once ruled by a dictator and now we are ruled by clowns." Inside the conference centre that is temporarily housing the assembly, legislators queued up to receive gift wrapped mobile telephones!

Pentagon has clearer view of Iraq insurgency
http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050329-122716-9273r
Horseshit

Car Bomb in Western Baghdad
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/mar/30/033005786.html
A suicide bomber on a bicycle blew himself up near a police patrol protecting pilgrims, killing two policemen.

U.S. Soldier: Killing Iraq Man Was 'Honorable'
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-eur/2005/mar/30/033005980.html
The killing was filmed by a U.S. drone surveillance aircraft.

Rice Alarms Reformist Arabs with Stability Remarks
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=3&u=/nm/mideast_stability_dc
Washington would speak out for "freedom" without offering a model or knowing what the outcome would be.

Powell: U.S. Too Blustery Before Iraq War
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005033009580001435469&dt=20050330095800&w=APO&coview=
"Some of this information was wrong. I didn't know that at the time,'' Powell was quoted as saying. "I have to live with that.''

Dissent on Intelligence Is Critical, Report Says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11145-2005Mar29.html

The US military has acknowledged it was responsible for killing two journalists working for Dubai-based satellite channel al-Arabiya who were shot close to a checkpoint in the Iraqi capital earlier this month.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/64BEFBCA-210E-4E39-B8CD-A2EC8E0EB2F1.htm
The US military initially said it was unlikely its bullets had killed them.

New memo indicates Gen. Sanchez signed off on Abu Ghraib abuses, perjured himself before Congress
http://insomnia.livejournal.com/
The ACLU today released a memo signed by Lieutenant General Ricardo A. Sanchez authorizing 29 interrogation techniques, including 12 which far exceeded limits established by the Army’s own Field Manual. More specifically, it points out that Gen. Sanchez committed purjury when testifying before Congress.

So now we know for sure what we all knew anyways: the only reason that anyone gave a happy monkey fuck about torture at Abu Ghraib is because someone blew the whistle. Because, see, now that we know about the torture of prisoners at a military base in Mosul, torture that occurred at the hands and clubs and other devices of Americans, it's pretty obvious what was already obvious except for those in deep Republican denial: torture is systematic, far-ranging, and unending for those imprisoned in the maniacal war on "terror."
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2005/03/discipline-and-punish-american-style.html
Michel Foucault, that French bondage sodomite, knew that the tortured body had been disappeared from view on purpose: in Discipline and Punish, he considers "the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle. Today we are rather inclined to ignore it; perhaps, in its time, it gave rise to too much inflated rhetoric; perhaps it has been attributed too readily and too emphatically to a process of 'humanization', thus dispensing with the need for further analysis. . .Punishment of a less immediately physical kind, a certain discretion in the art of inflicting pain, a combination of more subtle, more subdued sufferings, deprived of their visible display, should not all this be treated as a special case, an incidental effect of deeper changes? And yet the fact remains that a few decades saw the disappearance of the tortured, dismembered, amputated body, symbolically branded on face or shoulder, exposed alive or dead to public view. The body as the major target of penal repression disappeared." At Guantanamo and in the new and old dungeons of Iraq, the American state is at work, in secret, making its frustrations known on the hidden bodies of those guilty and not guilty. He is us. Goddamnit, he is us.

Jacko: I was virgin till 32 http://www.thisislondon.com/showbiz/articles/17570769?source=Daily%20Mail

Photographer Larry Clark was hot for teen decadence before the rest of the culture caught on. http://newyorkmagazine.com/nymetro/arts/art/11608/index.html

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers? – Marquis de Sade

U.S. to create list of 'unstable' nations
http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/03290004aaa00d24.upi&Sys=siteia&Fid=FRONTPAG&Type=News&Filter=Front%20Page
Every Muslim nation in the world is on that list!

Resistance shelling drives US to abandon barracks near ar-Ramadi. http://www.the7thfire.com/Iraq_War/resistance_report/mar_28_2005.html
Americans throw local families out of their homes and move in, using civilians as human shields.

The Wounded http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2005/03/24/magazine/20050327_WOUNDED_SLIDESHOW_1.html
In the cargo hold of a C-17 aircraft, soldiers treated at the Air Force Theater Hospital at Balad Air Base, north of Baghdad, await evacuation to a military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.

A Life Changed by War
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Mar/06/ln/ln05p.html

OCCUPIED BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. soldier was killed in a non-hostile incident in Iraq.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/mar/29/032903816.html
The statement said the soldier died "in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom."

President Discusses Freedom and Democracy http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/03/20050329.html
We ask for God's blessings on the brave souls of Iraq, and God continue to bless the American people. Thank you. (Applause.)

Once Again, Bush Pulls the Plug on Democracy http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CO_BUSH_COLORADO_COOL-?SITE=COCOL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
The Secret Service says it is investigating the claims of three people who claim they were removed from President Bush's town hall meeting on Social Security last week after being singled out because of a bumper sticker on their car.

DEMOCRACY REDEFINED!
http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/democracy_redefined.html
If George W. Bush were to hold up a carrot and call it a watermelon, the American news media would immediately begin calling carrots watermelons. That’s an undeniable fact. Equally undeniable is the fact that we have long passed the point when we can trust the American corporate media to report the news. But even more distressing is the fact that we now have reached the point when we cannot even trust them with the English language.

A new report says U.S. intelligence agencies haven't learned to share information, despite lessons of 9/11.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7306163/site/newsweek/
The panel was created last year to examine how U.S. intelligence could have been so embarrassingly wrong about Saddam Hussein's nonexistent WMD arsenal.

So, the trail of the lies that started a war goes from the White House, to the Pentagon, to the Office of Special Plans. But where was the OSP getting their information?http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/trailofdisinformation
So, this is the trail of the lies that started a war, beginning at the White House, and via Dick Cheney moving upstream to the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, under Wolfowitz and Feith, then from OSP to an parallel group operating out of Ariel Sharon's office in Israel.

The closest parallel I can think of to current American politics is Israel. There was a time, not that long ago, when moderate Israelis downplayed the rise of religious extremists. But no more: extremists have already killed one prime minister, and everyone realizes that Ariel Sharon is at risk.http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/29/opinion/29krugman.html?oref=login
America isn't yet a place where liberal politicians, and even conservatives who aren't sufficiently hard-line, fear assassination. But unless moderates take a stand against the growing power of domestic extremists, it can happen here.

It Can't Happen Herehttp://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2004/tst122004.htm
Those who believe a police state can't happen here are poor students of history. Every government, democratic or not, is capable of tyranny. We must understand this if we hope to remain a free people.

Jeff Gannon is back -- at the National Press Club?http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000856306Gannon, whose real name is James Guckert, resigned his job with the conservative Talon News last month after it was revealed he had used a pseudonym, had little journalism background, and had ties to male escort Web sites.

A car bomb struck a US military patrol Saturday in the Iraqi capital, killing two US soldiers and injuring two others. Earlier, the US military announced a Marine died in action in a restive central province.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1111807176282
Meanwhile, four US soldiers died when their vehicle struck a land mine in central Afghanistan on Saturday, the military said. It was unclear whether the mine was freshly laid or a leftover from the country's long wars.

Army Probe Finds Abuse at Base Near Mosul
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4893566,00.html

A Threat Greater Than Terrorism
http://goldmarkets.homestead.com/Outsourcing_the_American_economy.html
Reality has yet to penetrate the Oval Office or America's "red state" consciousness. The gratuitous invasion of Iraq, the torture and the war crimes have made America despised the world over. Our once formidable alliances are shattered.

Pentagon Will Not Try 17 G.I.'s Implicated in Prisoners' Deaths
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/26/politics/26abuse.html?hp&ex=1111899600&en=944c7841e51e4c65&ei=5094&partner=homepage
The headline says it all. If the soldiers are not being punished for killing prisoners, then killing prisoners IS officially sanctioned policy.

Reservist: Knee blows that killed 2 detainees were approved
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/nation/11235395.htm
Has it gotten through to you yet? Do you see what America has been turned into by the Neocons? The USA is the 21st Century version of the Nazis!

Iran is quietly stockpiling high-tech small arms, military equipment
http://www.detnews.com/2005/nation/0503/26/natio-129537.htm
Wouldn't you? I mean it doesn't take a genius to see that Bush is replaying the same propaganda run-up to the invasion of Iraq with Iran. Iran knows Bush is going to send your kids to invade. It is only to be expected that they will prepare to kill as many of your kids as they can to save their own kids from being killed. That's what war is; old farts sending young kids to get killed while parents sit too afraid to say "no".

Robot fires blast of water at bag belonging to customer who had a dispute about a check.
http://www.indystar.com/articles/6/231830-7186-103.html
Kevin McDermott, 44, 100 block of East Ninth Street, was booked on a preliminary charge of terroristic mischief, a felony, and was being held Thursday at the Arrestee Processing Center

Why don't the Americans just shoot Terry Schiavo in the head?

New Poll Might Make Press Re-think Massive Coverage of Terry Schiavo Case http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000854900
Bush's overall approval was at 43 percent, down from 49 percent last month. 43 % huh?

Polls Show Drop for Bush's Job Approval
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=2&u=/ap/20050325/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_polls
The Gallup poll found Bush losing support among men, self-described conservatives and churchgoers while the CBS poll found a drop among men and Republicans.

While Bush obsesses over Schiavo, Native Americans criticize his silence on bloody Minnesota school shooting
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64317-2005Mar24.html
In the hours after the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, President Bill Clinton publicly expressed his condolences and followed up a few days later with a radio address in which he proposed new gun control measures and school safety projects.

And They Call Themselves Christians?
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P1951
...the real tragedy, of course, is not the needless deaths and dismemberments of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians (as well as 1,500+ American soldiers dead and thousands more horribly injured), but the decision to show mercy to a single American woman who has been comatose for 15 years.

Soldiers Speak Out
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/outrage?bid=13&pid=2283

Bliar faces backbench backlash as pressure mounts to publish war advice
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=623450
If the war was illegal, not only would British troops be potentially liable to face prosecution under an international war crimes tribunal but legal action could be taken against the Ministry of Defence by injured soldiers or relatives of troops killed in action.

Iraq Checkpoint Killings Unchecked
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0323-35.htm
Killers must be held accountable, especially those in uniform.

Cuba to present nine counts against Washington in Human Rights Commission
http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/399/15162_cuba.html
Cuba is to counter the US by claiming that while there are wars, there are no conditions for the respect for human rights. The horrific medieval torture chambers at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay are reminders of the innate evil in Washington's foreign policy and of the callous disregard for human life shown by the Bush regime.

The United States committed “grave violations of human rights” against detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq, the Foreign Affairs Committee of Britain’s parliament said on Friday.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=7669

War with the values of a revolution
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=67105
Yes, I know war is hell and ugliness abounds in every corner. I also understand that in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, we are up against a vicious enemy, which, if it had the power, would do great harm to our country. You do not deal with such people with kid gloves. But killing prisoners of war, presumably in the act of torture, is an inexcusable outrage.

CHAIN OF COMMAND by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040517fa_fact2
How the Department of Defense mishandled the disaster at Abu Ghraib.

U.S. forces thwart major escape in southern Iraq http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/032305/escape.html
Camp Bucca is almost twice the size of Abu Ghraib, which was the scene of last year's prisoner abuse scandal that has prompted widespread changes in the handling of detainees. There are 3,243 detainees at Abu Ghraib, and another 114 after a camp near the Baghdad airport, which includes Saddam Hussein and other top officials of his deposed government.

War's effect felt across Mideast
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/217097_fisk23.html
So now they have struck in Qatar. Nice, friendly, liberal Doha, with its massive U.S. air base and its spiky, argumentative al-Jazeera television, its modern shops and expatriate compounds and luxury hotels. Ever since al-Qaida urged its supporters to strike around the maritime Arab kingdoms of the Gulf, the princes and emirs have been waiting to find out who's first. The suicide bomber -- and the killing of a Brit -- gave them their answer.

The Missing WMD Report
http://www.davidcorn.com/2005/03/the_missing_wmd.php
A President doesn't have to worry about troubling answers if no one asks the questions.

WMD report expected to blast U.S. agencies
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7294358/
In contrast to the Sept. 11 commission, the WMD commission's work has been done largely behind closed doors, with only brief press releases about witnesses who appeared.

Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2000 — The fire and smoke from the downed passenger aircraft billows from the Pentagon courtyard. Defense Protective Services Police seal the crash sight. Army medics, nurses and doctors scramble to organize aid. An Arlington Fire Department chief dispatches his equipment to the affected areas. http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Contingency_Planning.html
The Pentagon was a model and the "plane crash" was a simulated one.

On 9/11, CIA Was Running Simulation of a Plane Crashing into a Building
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/cia-simulation.htm
In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, one U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft crashed into one of its buildings. But the cause wasn't terrorism -- it was to be a simulated accident.

When bin Laden's group moves, says Hussain, they go in caravans and dress in women's clothing to avoid detection by satellite.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0325/p07s01-wosc.html
"Now I have also given orders that when every vehicle is checked, the women are asked to say something so that you can make out whether it is a male voice or a female voice," he says.

On the fast track to fascism
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/02/27/news/columnists/jacobs/18_52_142_26_05.txt
The news blackout of this juicy story is distressing. America's corporate and political elite control the news media. Freedom of information and speech are quickly becoming relics of a bygone republic. America is on the fast track to fascism.

Censor Alert
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/18/news-ireland.php
Congress considers controls for cable TV and the Internet

Opposition demonstrators pushed past riot police and seized the presidential headquarters Thursday in this Central Asian country, toppling the government in the third successful popular revolt in a former Soviet republic in 16 months. President Askar Akayev dropped from sight, and Russian news agencies reported that he had flown to neighboring Kazakhstan.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62138-2005Mar24?language=printer
In the capital, Bishkek, the supreme court quickly nullified the results of disputed elections that had sparked the uprising.

Looters in Kyrgyzstan capital have 'gone mad'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7257340/
'Unconstitutional coup' claimed

Angolans die from Ebola-like bug
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4372205.stm
The symptoms, similar to Ebola, include vomiting, bloody discharge and fever.

White House Refuses to Answer Disturbing Questions
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=6964
U.S. Dollars Fuel China Nukes

As Green as a Neocon: Why Iraq hawks are driving Priuses http://www.energybulletin.net/4251.html

Bush, Sharon Meet To Plan Iran Attack
http://rense.com/general63/warsum.htm
Why Would Iran Want Nukes?

Rice: Israel Expansion 'At Odds' With U.S.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/mar/25/032506671.html
Rice said the Israeli plan to add 3,500 housing units to the Maale Adumim settlement east of Jerusalem was "not really a satisfactory response."

U.S. Envoy Reiterates Settlements Support
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/mar/25/032506713.html
Kurtzer's remarks Friday came after the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot quoted him as telling a group of Foreign Ministry cadets that there is no understanding between the United States and Israel over future control of settlement blocs. Kurtzer angrily denied the Yediot report, saying it had "no basis in fact."

One isn't supposed to say this, but many people believe that Israel now holds the White House, the Senate, and much of the American media in its hands. This is what is known as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
http://www.giwersworld.org/holo/sobran.html
No decent American would think of reducing American Jews to the status of Palestinians in Israel. The idea is almost absurd. Yet Americans are taxed to subsidize the oppression of Palestinians, on the flimsy pretext that they are helping an "ally" in America's own self-interest to be hated and despised by the whole Muslim world.

Syria's ambassador to Washington said on Wednesday he hoped the United States and Israel would follow his country's example and withdraw from Iraq and Palestinian areas, just as Syria was leaving Lebanon.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1061917.cms
"I hope this will inspire other countries in the Middle East to withdraw their occupations from Iraq and Palestine and from Syria itself," he said.

This is a really interesting period of my life. The public is discovering that our Republic is run by fags and Jesus freaks, the President is stealing the Treasury for his retirement fund, we are losing the war in Iraq, the PRC is threatening to dump our dollars and ruin us, gas will go to $5 a gallon, our Senate is wasting time trying to pose as saviors of a brain-dead turnip in Florida, we have no oil coming in and they are going to drill everywhere possible, including downtown Houston and Arlington Cemetery, it’s very clear that Bush and Rove have perverted and bought out the media wholesale so that no one believes what any of them say anymore, the religious wierdos are trying to force their fairy tale nonsense on everyone else, there is a growing frenzy in the White House to manufacture some “terrorist” incident so that doubting Americans can return to worship at Bush’s shrine, our “allies” are leaving our Coalition in droves, we bribed the Italian Prime Minister to stay with us, ( the Poles and Ukrainians can easily be bribed with the chump change in Bush’s living room couch), thousands of soldiers are deserting, shooting themselves in the feet or fleeing to Ireland or Canada, Jeff Gannon and Ken Lay are threatening to “tell all’ if Bush doesn’t do something nice for them. Like pardon them and rehire them. This list goes on and on and now you see why I call this the Monkey Palace. If the Bush supporters in Iowa could spend one day in this place, they would reregister Communist and chase Bush, Fat Karl and others down Pennsylvania Avenue armed with farm implements. Fat Karl would be the first to collapse and the mob would be carrying bits and pieces of him around the Mall on pikes. FOX would go into mourning and the pathetic “Ann Coulter” would go back to the family pig farm in tears. Yesterday, I encountered a staffer, an older woman with sensible shoes and a cat at home named ‘Mr. Wumples’ who actually cried in my office because she discovered certain very ugly things about Her Sacred President. She may quit and take up work as a crematory operator. I always say you get what you pay for and when the Fiscal End Days come upon us and Bush is safe from extradition in his new tica in Costa Rica, that loud noise in the background is me laughing because all of my money is tied up in gold and euros.”
http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1460.htm

It's really sad that we see more coverage of the American Idol voting fiasco in the news (?) than we ever saw about the complications in Ohio and across the U.S. for the 2004 presidential election. Guess that's where the priorities lie. Beautiful country!

The 2004 US Elections:The Mother of all Vote Frauds
http://whatreallyhappened.com/2004votefraud.html
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing, those who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin

What occurred in Iraq on Jan. 30, 2005 was an American-brokered event, not an expression of Iraqi national unity. The U.S. lowering of the Shi'a vote is case in point. http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21566/
Elections have been used in the past to cover up inherently non-democratic processes. Stalin had elections, as did Hitler. So did Saddam Hussein. The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Ba'athist Iraq were not burgeoning democracies, but totalitarian dictatorships. The point here is that elections don't bring democracy. The roots of any democracy lie in a people united in their desire to govern in accordance with a rule of law that guarantees the rights of all. Such people then create conditions in which elections can certify their desire by selecting those who will govern. This produces democracy. What occurred in Iraq on Jan. 30, 2005 was anything but such an expression of Iraqi national unity.

Counter-recruitment has become a key battleground in the effort to stop the war in Iraq and prevent future military adventures by George W.M.D. Bush and a compliant Congress.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/zeese.php?articleid=5317
Rather than PR campaigns with calls to patriotism, the military needs to reevaluate its programs, and the United States needs to reconsider its war-based approach to foreign relations. The public is getting wise to their racket and may soon refuse to be fooled by their efforts.

Army Expects Recruiting to Slump Further
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/03/23/national/w111557S06.DTL
One of those new approaches is designed to persuade more parents to steer their children to the Army."We're going to appeal to patriotism," he said.That might be done through a new advertising campaign, he said. He also is encouraging more members of Congress as well as senior Army leaders and Army boosters to spend time in local communities touting the benefits of military service.

Paralyzed Iraq vet to seek experimental treatment http://www.ashlandwi.com/placed/index.php?sect_rank=1&story_id=196771
"I have to go out of the country to do it because it's illegal in the United States, because it's a stem cell procedure!"

US soldier killed in Baghdad
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=716616
Iraqi forces located two beheaded bodies believed to be of Iraqi soldiers on the main road between Baghdad and Abu Ghraib today.

Two US, two Iraqi soldiers wounded in Mosul suicide car bombing
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=39258
Attacks against Iraqi and US forces are an almost daily occurrence in Mosul, which has become a new front for the insurgency since November.

Diving Into Falluja
http://www.independent.com/cover/Cover956.htm
“Look in my eyes. I have the eyes of a former sniper. You thought you had the goods on George Bush, didn’t you? You’ve been sandbagged, boy.”

Five Killed by Friendly Fire in Iraq
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=MDFRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
In the former rebel stronghold of Fallujah, police patrolled the streets and imposed a sudden, late-afternoon curfew, shouting through loudspeakers: "Close your stores and go home!" They also set up checkpoints and searched cars in the city.

OCCUPIED FALLUJAH, Iraq - Clashes erupted Thursday between Iraqi forces and rebels in the former rebel citadel of Fallujah
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=39287
"There are clashes between the army and police and insurgents, but we don't have a toll yet," the defense ministry official said.

OCCUPIED BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed 85 militants at a suspected training camp along the marshy shores of a remote lake, one of the highest guerrilla death tolls of the two-year insurgency, officials said Wednesday. http://www.dailylobo.com/news/2005/03/24/News/Iraq-Says.85.Insurgents.Killed-901981.shtml
"This string of successes does have positive repercussions in that it may convince Iraqis not supporting the insurgents - but not supporting the United States either - to perceive that the tide is turning and not go with the insurgents?"

Accounts of Iraq Raid Rife With Discrepancies
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1581
US military officials said the camp housed between 80 and 120 insurgents who were planning attacks on Iraqi cities, and that the role of US troops was only to provide helicopter support for Iraqi forces, CNN reported.

Insurgents cling to training camp after Iraq-US assault
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/139109/1/.html
A fighter named Amer, who claimed membership in the Secret Islamic Army of Iraq, said the men had never abandoned the camp and only 11 of his comrades were killed in airstrikes on the site.

U.S. bars Italians from examining victim’s car
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-740304.php
Vowing to shed light on the incident, Washington has ordered an investigation into the shooting!

Once-Beautiful Baghdad Becomes Eyesore
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/mar/24/032404439.html
Known for centuries as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, its landscape has been marred by concrete blast walls, barbed wire, steel barricades, sandbags and crumbling buildings pockmarked by bullet holes or gutted by explosions.

BUSH: US Not Planning to Attack Iran
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=5147
Bush says speculation that the United States might attack Iran to end its nuclear program is "just not the truth," although he refuses to rule out the possibility entirely.

BLIAR: Nobody planning to attack Iran
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=13057
"I don't know of anybody planning military action against Iran," Blair said.

Israel planning to strike Iran nuke plants
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7174566/
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she was not aware of the Israeli plans.

Iraq war: The smoking gun?
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=623125
The critical paragraph of her letter, published yesterday under the Freedom of Information Act, was blanked out by the Government on the grounds that it was in the public interest to protect the privacy of the advice given by the Attorney General. But last night the contents of the paragraph were leaked, and Tony Blair was facing fresh allegations of a cover-up.

Systematic sexual abuse by both prison guards and Catholic priests? The wholesale slaughter of Iraqi children? The debasement by corporate money of both church and state? Christ would lead the non-violent charge against these cornerstones of GOP rule---until Rove killed him.
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2005/1096
But would Jesus stand for the slaughter of 100,000 Iraqis in his name merely because of oil and dubious Biblical prophecy? How would Christ view a president in love with the gas chamber and electric chair? What would Jesus, who hated hypocrisy above all, say about a Bush who scampers back to prolong the life of a brain-dead woman who wanted to die, but who gleefully executes 150 people as governor and as many more as president as he can get his hands on? How would Jesus cope with a self-proclaimed Divinity demanding the death penalty for children?

The Death of the Dollar
http://www.kitco.com/ind/Hommel/mar182005.html
Ceasar was supposed to be a god. Julias Caesar was killed on the Ides of March. (March 15th)

WHITE HOUSE STUDIES $4 GALLON 'NIGHTMARE' SCENARIO
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3gp.htm
Bush's top economic advisers have conveyed that a "nightmare" scenario of $4 a gallon is extremely unlikely in the short term.

Secret US plans for Iraq's oil - The industry-favoured plan was pushed aside by a secret plan, drafted just before the invasion in 2003, which called for the sell-off of all of Iraq's oil fields. The new plan was crafted by neo-conservatives intent on using Iraq's oil to destroy the Opec cartel through massive increases in production above Opec quotas.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm
Obviously, that plan backfired.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by accused Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, who argued he could not get a fair trial without access to al Qaeda captives who could help his defense.
http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2005-03-21T154045Z_01_N21437791_RTRIDST_0_USREPORT-SECURITY-MOUSSAOUI-DC.XML
Moussaoui is the only person charged in the United States in connection with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified."
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring

FLASHBACK: 9/11 tragedy considered Israel's "Hannukah miracle"
http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2001/msg01134.html
The Israeli political-security establishment is coming to the conclusion that the terror attacks on September 11 were a kind of "Hanukkah miracle" for Israel, coming just as Israel was under increasing international pressure because of the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.

IS ISRAEL BLACKMAILING AMERICA?
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/blackmail
The reality is that this nation's politicians and media leaders all have secrets to hide. Mistresses, drug habits, links to that airfield in Mena, Arkansas, BCCI cash sitting in that bank in Barbados, loot from ADFA in the Cayman's; in a corrupted society only the corrupt can reach the heights of power, and they all have secrets to hide. They are all vulnerable to blackmail. And being the kind of people who were willing to, and usually did, anything to get power, they are also the people willing to do anything to keep it. Look the other way when the drugs come in, spike an embarrassing news story or plant a fake one that embarrasses your enemy, alter the books, destroy a report, falsify data, destroy evidence, maybe even allow the military might of the United States and the blood of her children to be tricked into fighting someone else's war.

Israel's Blackmail Moves Into High Gear - Bush as a young man supposedly experimented with marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol. Bush was a college cheerleader, and according to Kitty Kelly his nickname was "The Fabulous Mr. Lips", for his habit of performing oral sex on men.
http://judicial-inc.biz/Gannon.htm
Bush is a psycho WHO will do whatever he is told - He believes he is gifted and God guides him.
He sat back as Israel pulled 9/11. Then he bombed Afghanistan after the Taliban threw out the Jewish drug lords. Bush closes his eyes as Israel slaughters Arabs on a daily basis, with US weapons. 10,000 Americans are maimed or killed when Bush invades Iraq for Israel. Bush said nothing about Israeli intel being the force behind Hariri's murder, and stands ready to attack Syria.

Jeff Gannon, most likely alias Johnny Gosch, was reputedly a torture expert, used as an expert by those acting as advisors to George W. Bush. telling the occupant of the White House how to circumvent and defeat the U.S. Constitution and how the U.S. could sidestep its mandatory responsibilities as signatory to the Geneva Conventions on the humane treatment of prisoners.
http://www.rense.com/general63/gan6.htm
Jeff Gannon has been an Escort Service and traveling whorehouse operative, who from time to time ostensibly stayed upstairs at the White House, at the apartment of George W. Bush. Gannon's torture expertise came from sexual perversions such as S-M. And Gannon ostensibly traveled to U.S. facilities where torture of so-called "terrorist suspect" prisoners was used. Such as at Guantamino Bay and Baghdad prison, in U.S.. foreign invader occupied Iraq. The Boston area is where deep cover operative Valerie Plame operated behind a CIA proprietary consulting firm. She had under her supevision upwards of one hundred CIA penetration agents resident and inserted in places around the globe hostile to the U.S. Some of these operatives may have been flown near to their destinations by a Red Sox jet. A Special Federal Prosecutor in Chicago, through federal grand juries, is compiling data that tends to show that Jeff Gannon, while in or near the White House with George W. Bush, was given data and documents directly by Bush himself used to blow the cover of deep CIA operative Valerie Plame. And that this was used as a reprisal against Plame because her husband, a former U.S. Ambassador, criticized Bush. The consequences are treasonous acts by Bush subject to his removal from office by Impeachment trial as well as subjecting him to severe federal criminal penalties. Quite a number of the penetration agents supervised by Plame, were murdered as a result of the unlawful public disclosure by George W. Bush as supervised by George H.W. Bush..

Red Sox partner says CIA chartered his jet
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0503210228mar21,1,1593500.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
Acknowledges craft flew to Guantanamo

Gannon/Guckert Interviewed by 'NY Times'
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000846672
NYT: Q."Jeff, you're not a whore,are you. A. "Not Really" NYT: Q. Those bloggers are lying scumbags, right." A. "Damn Right". NYT Editorial Staff Conclusion: They're you have it ladies and gentlemen. Case Closed.

After an extraordinary intervention by the U.S. Congress and President Bush, a federal judge ordered a hearing on Monday on the fate of a brain-damaged Florida woman whose feeding tube was removed late last week.
http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-03-21T172300Z_01_L21552842_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-RIGHTS-SCHIAVO-DC.XML
But a new ABC News poll on Monday showed Americans strongly disapproved of the intervention by Congress and two thirds believed lawmakers were using her case for political gain. Seventy percent called it inappropriate.

When you do not stand up and call for justice when you witness crime, you are, at minimum, an accomplice after the fact. And if you are FUNDING a criminal government that you refuse to hold accountable you are NOW, through silent consent and material support, a co-conspirator.
And in a conspiracy, ALL members are equally and fully liable for ALL crimes committed by any co-conspirators. The short version is: If you don’t uphold your personal duty to justice that all men owe, you are no longer owed justice, you have exited the civil contract and are now an animal. A dangerous one. So expect to be exterminated. Fuck ‘em!

Bush And Bald Men
http://www.rense.com/general63/bushm.htm
Now, if Terri's parents are smart, they will shave her head bald. Bush can't resist that one! Why he could even show up to place his protective Christ-like hands on her bald head, as they re-attach her feeding tube. Photo opportunity there--and an excellent picture to put in the new bible chapter about the return of Christ)The nurses should be aware that he may well, in his moment of Messianic fever, try to wrap himself (oops I mean Himself) in Terri's white bedsheets, just to complete the picture.

Israel's Blackmail Moves Into High Gear
http://judicial-inc.biz/Gannon.htm
Bush as a young man supposedly experimented with marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol. Bush was a college cheerleader, and according to Kitty Kelly his nickname was "The Fabulous Mr. Lips", for his habit of performing oral sex on men.

500 hours Guantanamo abuse videotaped...
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12613005-29277,00.html
The Government is refusing to release the tapes because of "privacy concerns".

Attacks across Iraq kill civilians
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/080/world/Attacks_across_Iraq_kill_civil:.shtml
Iraqi soldiers a day after U.S. military clashes with insurgents

Deconstructing Iraq: Year Three Begins
http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=5265
The most significant fact of our Iraq War and occupation (and war), which can't be repeated too many times, is that the Bush administration busted into the country without an exit strategy for a simple reason: they never planned to leave – and they still don't. If you have a better reason for taking a withdrawal position and pressing for it, let me know by at least the beginning of
Year Four of the Iraqi Deconstruction Era.

Why Iraq Withdrawal Makes Sense
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0317-33.htm
Only clear opposition to the war can change the terms of the national debate. Taking the paths of least resistance won't get us very far.

MI6 chief told PM: Americans ‘fixed’ case for war
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1533385,00.html

WHITE HOUSE STUDIES $4 GALLON 'NIGHTMARE' SCENARIO
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3gp.htm
Bush's top economic advisers have conveyed to the president that a "nightmare" scenario of $4 a gallon is extremely unlikely in the short term.

Two years after invasion, few are celebrating
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=296942005
"These bastards shot a cousin of mine a few weeks ago for not getting out their way," snarls one driver over the grind of frantically reversing gearboxes. "Who the fuck do they think they are?"

Two Years Later, Iraq War Drains Military
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48306-2005Mar18?language=printer
The Iraq war has also led to a drop in the overall readiness of U.S. ground forces to handle threats at home and abroad, forcing the Pentagon to accept new risks -- even as military planners prepare for a global anti-terrorism campaign that administration officials say could last for a generation.

Bush says Iraq attack made America safe?
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5613958
Bush mentioned Saddam's use of chemical weapons in the past, but not the stockpiles of chemical andbiological weapons -- a key U.S. prewar justification for military action -- that were not found after the invasion.

Around 100,000 protest in London on second anniversary of Iraq War
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/19/content_2718729.htm
It is reported that the protesters will place a coffin at the gate of the US embassy and the rally will be the first mass demonstration to pass the embassy since it became a flashpoint of anti-Vietnam War protests in 1968. Enditem

Insurgents number 20,000 in Iraq
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050318-093102-3216r.htm
Iraqi ministry of defense officials said late last year the insurgency probably numbers around 200,000, including those who provide active support to the fighters.

Syria, Iran aiding Iraq insurgents?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050317-112954-7044r
Al Qaeda or other terrorists also are attempting "to use chemical, biological, radiological, and/or nuclear weapons," he said.


The U.S. military victory against Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq gets the credit for "inspiring democratic reformers from Beirut to Tehran," Bush said Saturday.
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=050319&cat=news&st=newsd88u48400&src=ap

A car bomb explosion rocked a predominantly Christian suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut shortly after midnight, injuring at least nine people.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-03-19-voa21.cfm
Political opposition groups and many average Lebanese accused the Syrians and Lebanon's pro-Syrian government of involvement - accusations both authorities vehemently denied. But, the assassination has sparked a political crisis in Lebanon and massive street demonstrations both for and against Syria's presence in the country.

Venezuela's 'Anti-Bush' Fears Assassination
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41572-2005Mar16.html
The point is not that Washington is murderous or that Chavez is paranoid. The talk of assassination, whether idle or not, reflects the reality that the stakes are high in the power struggle between Chavez and the Bush administration.

Pentagon power play
http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=ma05prados
Turf wars and bad analysis are just two likely products of the disastrous new intelligence reform.

Oil Prices Soar Above $57 on Supply Fears
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050317/ap_on_bi_ge/oil_prices_58

Rice Says U.S. Should Not Have Abandoned Afghanistan
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/03/5eca0a74-f77d-4ca2-8ab2-d53ba1c2e061.html

A bomb blast in Afghanistan has killed at least five people as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a one-day trip, pledging long-term U.S. commitment to support the country's transition to democracy.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/17/afghan.rice/
The Taliban harbored Usama bin Laden's "al Qaeda" terror network, which attacked the United States on September 11, 2001. U.S.-led forces launched a military campaign later that year and ousted the Taliban from power.

It's been 1,277 days since G.W.B. said he'd catch U.B.L. 'Dead or Alive!'

Usama bin Laden:A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osama_dead

"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified."
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring

Senior Israeli officials expressed high satisfaction after hearing news of choosing Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, one of Bush's administration's hawks, to take over as head of the World Bank.
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.asp?service_ID=7480
Wolfowitz, a leading neo-conservative, is widely viewed as a close friend to Israel, who is quite aware of the Middle East issues. Wolfowitz, 61, is one of the most forceful officials in Bush's administration who claimed that the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. He also predicted that Americans would be welcomed as liberators rather than occupiers once they oust Saddam's regime.

Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/aboutoil.htm
"...for reasons that have a lot to do with the US government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on: weapons of mass destruction."

"There's a lot of money to pay for this that doesn't have to be US taxpayer money, and it starts with the assets of the Iraqi people," Mr Wolfowitz told a House of Representatives hearing on March 27 2003. "On a rough recollection, the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50bn and $100bn over the course of the next two or three years," he said. "We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon."
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/33aa58b6-965b-11d9-8fcc-00000e2511c8.html
In the two years since the invasion, Iraq's oil revenues have totalled $25bn (€18.6bn, £13bn), despite soaring world prices. The cost of the war and reconstruction has exceeded $200bn so far.

U.S. House backs $81.4 billion war spending bill
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N165450.htm
The bill would bring to almost $300 billion the amount Congress has authorized in emergency war spending since U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq in March 2003.

Iraq National Assembly Celebrates "Freedom"
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=050317&cat=frontpage&st=frontpageap20050317_555&src=abc
While it was a historic day for Iraqi democracy, Wednesday also served as a reminder of a scarred past the 17th anniversary of a chemical attack that Saddam ordered on the northern Kurdish town of Halabja.

US Army War College: NO PROOF SADDAM GASSED THE KURDS!
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/helms
This is serious stuff, because the US Army War College tells us that 1.4 million Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the sanctions, which is 3,000 times more than the number of Kurds who supposedly died of gassing at the hands of Saddam.

Silvio Berlusconi came under fire Thursday, a day after he clarified his announcement that Italian troops could pull out of Iraq in September, saying the possible date was no more than a "hope."
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/03/17/italy.iraq.ap/
Public opinion in Italy is strongly against the war and Italy's involvement, and the premier has been under increasing pressure to pull out the troops since the March 4 killing in Baghdad of an Italian intelligence agent who was escorting a recently released hostage to freedom. The agent was killed by U.S. troops, who mistakenly opened fire on his vehicle.

The Bush administration took specific legal steps that cleared a U.S. Special Forces assassination team in Iraq from any future criminal proceedings arising from their assassination of Italian SISMI intelligence number two man Nicola Calipari. http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031505Madsen/031505madsen.html
The U.S. hit team wanted to kill Calipari and Sgrena because they had intimate knowledge of the Iraqi resistance and how some loyalists of the U.S.-supported Iraqi regime may have cooperated with the alleged Zarqawi forces to seize Western hostages and decapitate them on videos for propaganda purposes. Many of the beheading videos show masked men who do not appear to be extremist Muslim Iraqis or even Arabs from their build, stance, sporting of jewelry, and, in one case, speaking Russian.

FLASHBACK: Berg Met with Shady Iraqi
http://info.interactivist.net/comments.pl?sid=3137&cid=1478
Before his highly visible execution, Nick Berg was partners with Aziz al-Taee in Iraq. After Nick's murder, Aziz al-Taee (despite a criminal background) became a media star, appearing at Clear Channel sponsored rallys pointing the finger of blame for Berg's death at Hussein, and assuring Americans that the people of Iraq were desperate for liberation.
Now, a new wrinkle has surfaced. Just as Aziz al-Taee was promoting the war in Iraq, Aziz al-Taee himself was being promoted by ... Jeff Gannon, White House Whore.

GANNON INTERVIEWS IRAQI CRIMINAL
http://2lucky.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/16/235859/836
So, we have Gannon the unseemly propogandist of sham news organization interviewing criminal propagandist Al-Taee of sham Iraqi-making the case for war organization.
In light of the plans of OSP to pay "foreign" journalist to spread its propaganda, this seems worth a look.

Oil Prices Shoot to New High
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050316/ap_on_bi_ge/oil_prices_34

Iraq Insurgency 'Still Very Strong'
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4258786
A US marine was killed in the western Anbar province yesterday.More than 1,500 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003.

$225 Billion and No Exit Plan
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/leaver.php?articleid=5216
With the latest request, the average household will pay nearly $2,000 in taxes. To honor the lives lost and to justify the huge budget deficits this war has caused, the American people deserve a plan.

70% of Americans Think Iraq Toll Too High
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37812-2005Mar15?language=printer
Americans rank promoting democracy abroad at or near the bottom of acceptable reasons for using military force.

Antiwar Activists Find Military Allies
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050328&s=houppert
" We've been to Iraq. We've seen it. We know it's wrong. We have to end it."

Allies Committed to Iraq, Bush Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/16/politics/16cnd-prexy.html
Mr. Bliar is also facing internal opposition to the war in his own country.

The Trials of Tony Bliar
http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=2260
British Prime Minister Tony Bliar, whose willingness to go along even with the most illegitimate and dangerous of Bush's mad schemes has made him a hero to American conservatives, is paying a high price for being what his countrymen refer to as "Bush's lapdog."

Nations Leaving Iraq Amid Anti-War Gains
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050315/ap_on_re_eu/crumbling_coalition_3
About 150,000 U.S. troops shoulder the bulk of the responsibility and suffer the most casualties.

Bush: No Timetable for U.S. Troops Coming Home
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=050316&cat=news&st=newsd88s5m4o0&src=ap
Some 14 nations have withdrawn troops since the U.S.-led March 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Syria to give Lebanon pullout timetable
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5597588
U.S. President George W. Bush has demanded that Syrian troops, along with its less visible intelligence agents,leave before Lebanon's general election due in May.

Thousands of Lebanese demonstrators, chanting "Death to America" marched on the U.S. embassy in Beirut on Tuesday, burning American and Israeli flags, and denouncing the U.S. interference in Lebanon.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=7408
"Don't interfere, leave us alone, we don't want your fake democracy that we saw ... in Iraq ... through your massacres and human rights breaches there ... and in Palestine through your support to Israeli massacres," one speaker said at the rally.

If the U.S. government doesn't plan to occupy Iraq for any longer than necessary, why is it spending billions of dollars to build "enduring" bases?http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2005/03/enduring_bases_iraq.html

US troops shoot dead Iraqi general: police
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1324274.htm
No immediate reaction
was available from the US military.

US military denies report US troops killed Iraqi general
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=38837
The gang that couldn't shoot straight.

The Bush administration took specific legal steps that cleared a U.S. Special Forces assassination team in Iraq from any future criminal proceedings arising from their assassination of Italian SISMI intelligence number two man Nicola Calipari.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031505Madsen/031505madsen.html
The U.S. hit team wanted to kill Calipari and Sgrena because they had intimate knowledge of the Iraqi resistance and how some loyalists of the U.S.-supported Iraqi regime may have cooperated with the alleged Zarqawi forces to seize Western hostages and decapitate them on videos for propaganda purposes. Many of the beheading videos show masked men who do not appear to be extremist Muslim Iraqis or even Arabs from their build, stance, sporting of jewelry, and, in one case, speaking Russian.

The Eyewitnesses Must Be Crazy
http://www.antiwar.com/whitehurst/?articleid=5194
Discrediting Sgrena and other witnesses to unfortunate incidents

Americans talking to themselves in Fallujah
http://electroniciraq.net/news/1770.shtml
"There is a good reason that the U.S. Administration would want to discourage any focus on Fallujah at this time. In the last weeks, residents who fled the fighting in the city have been beginning to return, and even those who have not lost family members are finding utter devastation of their former lives. Fallujah, under a strict dusk-to-dawn curfew, has no running water, sewage system, or electricity, and that's just the utilities."

The forgotten Fallujah- U.S. offensive continues
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.asp?service_ID=7500
The Atrocities committed in Fallujah is a clear example of the self-defeating insanity of the Bush Administration's strategy in the so-called "war on terror", which doesn't seem to differentiate between acts of resistance against foreign occupation and acts of terrorism against civilians.

Bush shrugged off a question about detainees being sent by the United States back to their home countries, where they could be tortured.
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=050316&cat=frontpage&st=frontpageap20050316_983&src=abc
"The United States must make sure we protect our people and our friends from attack. One way to do so is arrest people and send them back" to their home countries, he said. "We seek assurances that no one will be tortured."

Bush declared in his State of the Union address, "Torture is never acceptable, nor do we hand over people to countries that do torture." Considering what's come to light since then, the most charitable conclusion is that Bush is completely out of the loop.
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/latimes562.html
In recent weeks, past and present administration officials have confirmed that since September 2001 the Central Intelligence Agency has dispatched between 100 and 150 terror suspects to countries where fine points of law and human rights don't stop beatings, drugging or long isolation.

Exporting Prisoner Abuse
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/06/national/main678373.shtml
The plane made at least 600 flights to 40 countries, all of which came after 9/11, including 30 trips to Jordan, 19 to Afghanistan, 17 to Morocco, and 16 to Iraq. The plane also went to Egypt, Libya and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Torture: Bush's Nominee May Be 'DOA
'http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7169452/site/newsweek/
Could revelations of perverse sexual torture from the Guantanamo gulag deep six the nomination of torture memo author William Haynes to the federal bench?

U.S. Military Says 26 Inmate Deaths May Be Homicide
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/16/politics/16abuse.html?hp&ex=1111035600&en=943ed6fbc944e7de&ei=5094&partner=homepage
The number of confirmed or suspected cases is much higher than any accounting the military has previously reported.

Report: 108 Died In U.S. Custody
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/16/terror/main680658.shtml
The figure, far higher than any previously disclosed, includes cases investigated by the Army, Navy, CIA and Justice Department.

FLASHBACK: Paranoia grips the U.S. capital http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2005/02/06/922316.html
This week, former military intelligence analyst William Arkin revealed a hitherto unknown directive, with the Orwellian name "JCS Conplan 0300-97," authorizing the Pentagon to employ special, ultra-secret "anti-terrorist" military units on American soil for what the author claims are "extra-legal missions."Category: ASSASSINATION

Bush Seeks to Ban Some Nations From All Nuclear Technology
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/15/politics/15treaty.html?ex=1111554000&en=6448e4e628fb2a02&ei=5070
"If you thought the Americans were going to bomb you, wouldn't you bury this stuff, too?"

Photographer for White House child sex ring arrested after Thompson suicide
http://tomflocco.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=107&mode=&order=0&thold=0

The power of the U.S. presidency is so awesome these days it almost matches the lack of accountability of the office.
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=f3bc8d3ceab0a9df

Hundreds of thousands of anti-Syrian protesters flooded central Beirut Monday in what witnesses said was "Lebanon's biggest demonstration since former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri's killing exactly a month ago. "
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7893678
Organizers said a million people had joined the protest. No independent estimate was available, but witnesses said the rally looked even bigger than last week's pro-Syrian demonstration organized by Hizbollah and attended by hundreds of thousands. The authorities were pondering a ban on future demonstrations to be enforced by the Lebanese army.

It is time America understood Hezbollah for what it really is, not what the Israelis and their Zionist friends say it is. Unfortunately, our President, Bush, and Conde Rice, misunderstand, or prefer to remain ignorant of, the truth about Hezbollah.
http://www.rense.com/general63/hez.htm
Hezbollah defeated the Israelis is a fact, that the Israelis were an illegal occupying force in southern Lebanon (the area of the Shi'a) is a fact, that Hezbollah is now part of the Lebanese defense forces is a fact, that Hezbollah ever attacked American troops is an out and out lie.

Did Israel deliberately allow 241 American Marines to die?http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/beirut

Hariri reportedly assassinated to make way for large US air base in Lebanon
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031105Madsen/031105madsen.html
According to high-level Lebanese intelligence sources—Christian and Muslim—former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was reportedly assassinated in a sophisticated explosion-by-wire bombing authorized by the Bush administration and Ariel Sharon's Likud government in Israel.

UN to reveal Hariri 'cover-up'
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12550199%5E1702,00.html

Taiwan to authorize 'non-peaceful' defense
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=0458e7670fed41cf
Taiwan's ruling party responded to Beijing's anti-secession law Monday with a bill authorizing the president to use non-peaceful action in its defense.

China Law Authorizes Force Against Taiwan
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=050314&cat=frontpage&st=frontpageap20050314_537&src=abc
The United States is Taiwan's biggest arms supplier and could be drawn into any conflict over the island.

US watches China warily
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4342527.stm
The last thing America needs now - with its military already extended in Iraq and Afghanistan - is to be sucked into a conflict with China over Taiwan.

Iraqis suspect they risked their lives at the voting polls for nothing:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-frustrated13mar13,0,60126.story?coll=la-home-headlines
"We've never had any real government and now this is not a real government either; these are all the same people who came riding on American tanks."

My truth (La mia verità)
http://onlinejournal.com/Media/030605Sgrena/030605sgrena.html
I now live with no more certainties. I find myself deeply weak. I failed in my belief. I had always claimed there was need to go tell about that dirty war. And I had to decide whether to stay in the hotel or going out and chance being abducted because of my work. "We don't want anyone any more," the abductors told me. But I wanted to tell about the bloodbath in Falluja through the refugees' tales. And that morning the refugees and some of their "leaders" didn't listen to me. I had in front of me the evidence of what the Iraqi society has become with the war and they threw their truth in my face: "We don't want anyone. Why don't you stay home? What such interview can be useful for?". The worst collateral damage, the war killing communication, was falling on me. On me, who had risked it all, challenging the Italian government that didn't want reporters gong to Iraq, and the Americans who don't want our work that gives witness to what that country has really turned into with the war, despite what they call elections.
Now I wonder. Is their refusal a failure?

The only time the Bush Regime pays attention to the human rights of women is when it is trying to justify invading their countries!
http://thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050321&s=pollitt

Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged Television News
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031305Z.shtml
The Pentagon Channel, available only inside the Defense Department last year, is now being offered to every cable and satellite operator in the United States. Army public affairs specialists, equipped with portable satellite transmitters, are roaming war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, beaming news reports, raw video and interviews to TV stations in the United States. All a local news director has to do is log on to a military-financed Web site, www.dvidshub.net, browse a menu of segments and request a free satellite feed.

Control Through Television
http://www.rense.com/general63/contol.htm
We have been made sheep, one and all, some more than others, becoming, over years of conditioned receptivity, members of the army of fantasy, unknowingly conscripted from birth, our minds rewired through the tools of the airwaves, made subservient creatures dumbed down by Establishment created education and television, following the commands of our masters, bowing in eternal submission to powers both known and unknown, falling prey to their deceptions and manipulations, allowing them to do with our minds as they please. For the elite, nothing has ever been easier; nothing has ever been more successful. From cradle to grave, our minds thus become their slaves.

How Television Controls And Programs Minds
http://www.rense.com/general63/traid.htm
Turn Off Your Television

Bush pretends to hold town hall meetings, which are more carefully screened than an audience with the Queen to ensure that Bush presents a one-sided case for his scams. No doubt he is being prompted through a receiver on his back.
http://www.buzzflash.com
You can find the real news about Bush's artificial Soviet-style propaganda on BuzzFlash.com, because we are beholden to no advertisers, wealthy donors, or subscribers.

The Secret Service did nothing. The dog did not bark.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/9-11secretservice.html
Quod Erat Demonstradum, the Bush Administration was part of the 9-11 plot.

U.S. Gaining World's Respect From Wars, Rumsfeld Asserts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A25751-2005Mar10?language=printer

Rumsfeld cleared in prison abuse scandal; activists decry finding
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050311/TORTURE11/TPInternational/Americas
Some of Mr. Bush's staunchest supporters appeared to be in denial about Abu Ghraib, a year after the horrific pictures of abuse and sexual humiliation emerged.

Four U.S. officers, including a one-star general, at the detention center for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are under criminal investigation for alleged sexual misconduct, a senior defense official said Friday.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20050312/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/guantanamo_sex_probe
In its earlier announcement, Southern Command said the alleged misconduct had nothing to do with detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

Iraq War Compels Pentagon to Rethink Big-Picture Strategy
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20050311/ts_latimes/iraqwarcompelspentagontorethinkbigpicturestrategy&cid=2026&ncid=1480
"Our enemy's metric is protracting conflicts to 3,000 days or more," he said. "Prolonged insurgency, death by a thousand cuts, is their answer to 'shock and awe.' "

Home movies from Iraq show nation the real war
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2005/03/09/m14a_iraqvideoedit_0309.html

The American Taliban
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/3/11/12137/1913
Republicans, on the other hand, hate the terrorists because they're Muslim. But aside from that, they've got far more in common than they'll ever admit to themselves.

Hariri reportedly assassinated to make way for large US air base in Lebanon
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031105Madsen/031105madsen.html
According to high-level Lebanese intelligence sources—Christian and Muslim—former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was reportedly assassinated in a sophisticated explosion-by-wire bombing authorized by the Bush administration and Ariel Sharon's Likud government in Israel.

Patriot crews heading to exercise in Israel
http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=26749&archive=true
“There is absolutely no connection with this exercise and any event in the region,” Summers said. “As always, we are interested in implementing lessons learned from training exercises.”

'Pseudo-Events' Stir Mideast Pot
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hadar.php?articleid=5166

Editor,
I would like to respond to Brian V. Stacy's letter in Thursday's Daily Lobo. I am not saying this to be hateful, but Christians disgust me.

Why can't gay people get married and be miserable just like everyone else? If you want to defend marriage, just ban divorce. ,

It seems like the most homophobic institutions: The Bush Regime, The Military, The Church, are usually the queerest. Just look at the fake White House reporter/military male escort Jeff Gannon. Look at the S&M at Abu Ghraib and beyond. Look at the church abuse scandals. They should be trying to get priests to marry (women), not persecute gays for an attempt at monogamy. How can you be pro life and pro war. I love freedom so much I am pro life and pro choice.

Am I the only one who sees the hypocrisy of the crusader-in-chief calling on Syria to remove its occupation troops from Lebanon, while building American occupation bases in Iraq?

Why are we supposed to rally around our leader after he is appointed to office, ignores terrorist warnings, lies to start wars, declares "mission accomplished," loots the government, and declares freedom is on the march?

Why is it when peaceful demonstrations are held in Ukraine or Beirut, it is an example of freedom, but when peaceful demonstrations are held in front of the UNM Bookstore, we are maced, gassed, shot at with pepper balls, and herded by riot police into free speech zones? I've been arrested by the S.S. at UNM for making vague email threats against Ariel Sharon.

When do we get invaded to remove the rogue government that gasses its people, holds crooked elections, attacks other nations without cause and uses torture on innocent people?

Brian FejerUNM student

When the Hindenburg, full of gas and Nazi hubris, burst into flames, killing 35 people, no one knew why. But some present at the explosion agreed that, in a horrible way, the burning ship was really quite beautiful.
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2005/03/buh-bye-political-capital-heres-blast_08.html

For America 2005, unlike the America we knew not long ago, has become a newly dependent nation, dependent on the Gulf for oil to run our economy, on imports for the necessities of our national life, on Beijing and Tokyo to buy the bonds to subsidize our self-indulgent lifestyles. http://amconmag.com/2005_03_14/buchanan.html
The Kipling of the late Victorian era was speaking of folks like us when he wrote in his poem “Recessional”: “For frantic boast and foolish word/Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord!”

It is illegal and immoral to use incendiaries on civilians, and there is increasing anecdotal evidence that the Pentagon did just that in the assault on Falluja. It starts to get a little tiresome to hear the same quibbling about what the Pentagon would or wouldn't do, given cluster bombs, DU, 'shock and awe' bombing of civilians, and the general attack on Falluja itself. The human rights standards of the Pentagon - and thus of the United States - are so incredibly low that it is impossible to give them the benefit of the doubt on anything. It is also odd that the Pentagon has clearly been blocking access of journalists to interview civilians in Falluja - the reason Sgrena was so important is that she is one of the first to be able to do so - and that there are claims that American soldiers have been taking steps to 'sanitize' the city by removing evidence. We also know that after an initial outraged lie denying Pentagon use of napalm in the attack on Iraq, Pentagon officials eventually admitted that they did use a napalm-like substance, but it was not technically 'napalm' so their lies were not technically lies. You really can't believe anything they say. Let's face it: the Pentagon was 'going medieval' on Falluja, both as a punishment for its failure to kowtow to Empire and as a warning to others, and they were attacking Falluja without restraints. Napalm or other incendaires would have fit right in. So would killing anyone who might be 'unembedded' long enough to discover the truth.
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/03/heroic-death-of-nicola-calipari.html
There was much made of the fact that the Israelis were going to be teaching the Americans their techniques on how to deal with insurgents. I don't know about that, but the Americans are clearly using Israeli torture techniques used by the Israelis against the Palestinians, and have also been using Israeli-style collective punishment. The 'sanitization' of Falluja is the same as IDF's removal of evidence of the massacre at Jenin, where the town was closed to international journalists for a few days so the worst evidence could be hidden. Shooting journalists is just like the Israeli shooting of journalists and international human rights monitors, and the entire Sgrena incident is just another Israeli-style 'targeted assassination'. The Israelification of the United States continues.

Thanks to George W. Bush and those who follow him, America is no longer the home of the brave or the land of the free. That America is gone. Maybe, must maybe, it can be reclaimed when the goons, crooks, thieves and traitors who control our country are driven from office.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_6363.shtml
Or maybe it’s too late. Maybe we’ve sat on our collective asses too long while traitors took over our country. Maybe we've been silent too long while American citizens with Arabic last names are rounded up like cattle and sent to concentration camps at Guantanimo Bay.

The Dept of Homeland Security is consulting with an Israeli company as to ‘ Interment Camps’ in remote southern states.
http://judicial-inc.biz/interment_camps.htm

WHO IS SENDING YOUR CHILDREN OFF TO DIE IN WAR? http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/offtowar.html
Israel, the only nation in the Middle East to actually HAVE weapons of mass destruction, makes the same claims about Iran as they did about Iraq.

Intelligence about Iran for Bush is called weak http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/08/news/intel.html

In the case of Iraq, a National Intelligence Estimate completed in October 2002 was among the assessments that expressed certainty that Baghdad possessed chemical and biological weapons and was rebuilding its nuclear program. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/09/international/09weapons.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5090&en=d4758e7bac825a2e&ex=1268024400&partner=rssuserland
Those assessments were wrong, and a report last year by the chief American weapons inspector found that Iraq had destroyed what remained of its illicit arsenal nearly a decade before the United States invasion.

Iraq:The Trail of Disinformation
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/trailofdisinformation
So, this is the trail of the lies that started a war, beginning at the White House, and via Dick Cheney moving upstream to the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, under Wolfowitz and Feith, then from OSP to an parallel group operating out of Ariel Sharon's office in Israel.

"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified." http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring

Spy Agencies Fear Some Applicants Are Terrorists
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news3/latimes31.htm
Former President George Bush said it "burns me up to see the agency under fire" for flawed intelligence on prewar Iraq. He compared recent criticism to the Watergate-era congressional probes of domestic spying, assassination plots and other illegal CIA operations.

If the CIA would quit screwing around with other people's countries, there wouldn't BE any terrorists. There wouldn't be a massive drug problem. There wouldn't be money laundering and money growing operations disguised as S&L crashes. The CIA ARE the bad guys. There very existence shames America, much as the KGB shamed Russia and the Mossad shames Israel. They are all cold war relics without which the world would be a much better place for the people who live in it.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/articlescia

That "White Man's Bible" says: "We don't need the Jews, the [blacks], or any other mud people. ... We have the fighting creed to re-affirm the White Man's triumph of the will as heroically demonstrated by that greatest of all White leaders - Adolf Hitler. So let us get into the fight today, now! You have no alibi, no other way out, White Man! It's either Fight or Die!"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030905Z.shtml
So we don't have to go to Saudi Arabia to find violent religious extremists steeped in hatred for all America stands for. Wake up - they're here.

Syria: Jews use hot pokers to gouge Palestinians' eyes http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43210
The new Syrian edition was dedicated to "the shaheeds of the blessed Al Aqsa [Mosque] and all those who died the deaths of martyrs for the sake of Allah in Palestine. May Allah grant me the privilege of dying the death of a martyr for the sake of Allah in Palestine."

Hezbollah rally in Beirut a massive hoax
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43213

one and one half MILLION people demonstrate against American interference in Beirut http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4A02EB97-5B87-4F28-8B91-523CCAA3FE92.htm
Hizb Allah (Army Of God), which began as a small guerrilla force devoted to ending Israeli occupation in the south of Lebanon, has developed into a sophisticated group with political, military and welfare bodies. It has several MPs in parliament and runs several charities.

Half a million gather for pro-Syrian rally to defy vision of US
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news3/fisky.htm"
The fleets came in the past and were defeated; and they will be defeated again," Hizbollah's leader, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, said in reference to the Americans. Ironically, President Bush was to refer within hours to the killing of 241 US Marines in Beirut in October 1982, as if their deaths were the responsibility of al-Qa'ida. To the Israelis, Nasrallah said: "Let go of your dreams for Lebanon. To the enemy entrenched on our border, occupying our country and imprisoning our people, 'There is no place for you here and there is no life for you among us: Death to Israel'."

The United States has asked Israel to stop making statements about the withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/549602.html
"You don't have to be a political genius to understand that public pressure from Israel for steps to be taken against Syria on the Lebanon issue could boomerang, since it would turn the U.S. and Europe, in Arab eyes, into puppets of Israel."

Bush Calls on Syria to Pull Its Troops Out of Lebanon
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-03-09-voa24.cfm
Bush's call for greater democracy and freedom came as hundreds of thousands of pro-Syrian demonstrators gathered in Beirut, chanting anti-American slogans. The rally was organized by Hezbollah, a militant Shia Muslim group founded by Iran and backed by Syria. The rally has dwarfed other anti-Syrian protests, prompting some analysts to warn that the United States may be overestimating its ability to bring about change in Lebanon.

"Foreign Forces Must Leave Iraq as Soon as Possible," Declares the Head of the Shiite Alliance
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030705I.shtml
Permanent American bases in Iraq?

Injured soldiers evacuated to the U.S. never arrive in the light of day -- and the Pentagon has yet to offer a satisfactory explanation why.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030805J.shtml
Since 9/11, the Pentagon's Transportation Command has medevaced 24,772 patients from battlefields, mostly from Iraq. But two years after the invasion of Iraq, images of wounded troops riving in the United States are almost as hard to find as pictures of caskets from Dover. That's because all the transport is done literally in the dark, and in most cases, photos are banned.

Pentagon faces PR disaster
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12487921%255E2703,00.html

'Ramadi Madness': Scene by scene
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/news/epaper/2005/03/06/m16a_videoscene_0305.html
Nighttime outdoors. Camera pans across burned and dismembered corpses. Off-screen voice says, "There's the crater," and "That's what you get, (expletive)." A soldier points to human remains and pokes the remains across the ground with his foot. Voices: "Oh, that's part of his skull." "That's where the guy got thrown against the wall." "They were setting the explosive, and it blew up on them." Finally, "That's your brain on idiocy" is said as the camera focuses on another pile of remains.

Senior Iraqi official slain, 15 headless corpses found
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=38252
The US military was also under the spotlight over the release of a video of soldiers in Ramadi abusing at least one wounded prisoner in Iraq and showing disrespect to dead Iraqis as well as Iraqi civilians.

Police find 20 shot dead in Iraq
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4331597.stm

41 Corpses, Some Shot, Some Beheaded, Found In Iraq http://www.thenewmexicochannel.com/news/4267117/detail.html

Security Forces Find 41 Corpses in Iraq
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=050309&cat=news&st=newsd88ngpjg0&src=ap
In other violence, a suicide bomber detonated a garbage truck packed with explosives outside the Agriculture Ministry and a hotel used by Western contractors, killing at least three people, officials said. The bomber also died. In an Internet statement, "al-Qaida in Iraq" (nudge nudge wink wink) purportedly claimed responsibility for the attack on the Sadeer hotel, calling it the "hotel of the Jews."

Slain Agent Had U.S. Operation Permission
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-eur/2005/mar/09/030900962.html
"I never said that they wanted to kill me, but that the mechanics of what happened are that of an ambush."

You have to wonder what Eason Jordan thinks about last Friday's attack on the car that took Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena from her kidnapping ordeal to her close call at the Baghdad airport.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1110235811810&call_pageid=970599119419
Jordan is the CNN news chief who in January made controversial remarks about U.S. troops targeting journalists, comments which led to his resigning "to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq." Alarming indeed: at least 73 and counting.

Dead Messengers: How the U.S. Military Threatens Journalists http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405A.shtml
During one of the discussions about the number of journalists killed in the Iraq War, Eason Jordan asserted that he knew of 12 journalists who had not only been killed by U.S. troops in Iraq, but they had in fact been targeted. He repeated the assertion a few times, which seemed to win favor in parts of the audience (the anti-U.S. crowd) and cause great strain on others. The ensuing debate was (for lack of better words) a real "sh-storm."

Army Failed to Probe Its Attack on Palestine Hotel http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022805A.shtml
"There's nothing sacrosanct about a hotel with a bunch of journalists in it." Lt. Gen. Bernard E. Trainor

Mazen was filming outside Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. According to American claims at the time, rebels had staged a deadly mortar bomb or grenade attack on the prison the day before, and several journalists went to report the story. They identified themselves to U.S. troops guarding the perimeter of the prison and got permission to film from a nearby bridge.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030605A.shtml
Without warning, a soldier on the tank began firing. Mazen screamed, clutching his chest. His camera tilted forward, then fell to the ground. Mazen had filmed the story.

'Suiciding' Reporters: Hunter Thompson et al
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?ChannelID=94
Hunter Thompson was killed late last month. He was working on stories dealing with a homosexual callboy (or programmed sex slave?) ring in the Bush White House and the demolition of the World Trade Center.

Rove-Gannon Connection?http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/18/opinion/lynch/main675050.shtml
Planting or even just sanctioning a political operative in the WH press room is a dangerous precedent and Karl Rove's hope to become a respected policymaker will be hampered if the dirty tricks from his political past are more apparent than his desire to spread liberty around the globe.

Jeff Gannon was planted by the administration to disseminate their talking points unfettered by any journalism ethics or investigation shortly after the Iraq war, when the failure to find WMDs was becoming apparent. He became incredibly useful in L'Affaire Plame to continue to push the dual stories that a) Plame's name was already common knowledge and therefore `outing' her was not a crime and b) to continue to help discredit the CIA and Wilson.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/9/191334/0754
Based on the evidence, I believe the 2002 CIA memo was leaked to Gannon when Novak became unusable and when the `mainstream' reporters with CIA contacts were not pushing the WH's preferred story line. They needed cover, and they got it. And as is evidenced by his remarkable access to Scott McClellan and President Bush in the White House press room, to this day, he was rewarded handsomely...

Gannon apparently got into the White House and stayed with or visited, upstairs, with the occupant and resident, namely George W. Bush. Some contend the U.S. Secret Service, contrary to what they are required, did NOT log in Gannon.
http://www.rense.com/general63/gad.htm
Gannon alias Gosch received reportedly directly from George W. Bush in the White House and/or right nearby, the secret American CIA records used to blow the cover of CIA operative Valerie Plame. The result was that some of the 70 CIA penetration agents, supervised by Plame, operating in countries very hostile to the U.S. were identified and murdered. Blowing the cover of Plame was a reprisal against her husband, a former U.S. Ambassador who criticized George W. Bush.

With George W. Bush being totally implicated in the D.C. whorehouse mess and blowing the cover of Valerie Plame, can the highly politicized, highly corrupt FBI and Homeland Security continue their cover up?
http://www.rense.com/general63/dcwho.htm
And with the murder of two members of Judge Lefkow's family, are judges everywhere now fearful of assisting anyone, including the Special Federal Prosecutor, of identifying George W. Bush as to his treason himself blowing the cover of Valerie Plame?

The Escort Service, or whorehouse, operated by Jeff Gannon, possibly alias Johnny Gosch, reportedly used ads in the Chicago Reader as part of their activities to use sex to penetrate public officials and to spy on them for blackmail and espionage purposes. According to some accounts, Gannon stayed upstairs at the White House with George W. Bush and entered the
White House without being logged in as required.
http://www.rense.com/general63/gann.htm
The murder of the Judge's family members appear to be a political assassination. And in such, the press-fakers almost never ask the obvious question: WHO BENEFITS? This series raises questions the liars and whores of the press are fearful to ask.

Fitzgerald is astounded at the profound nature of the corruption of the various levels of the federal court system in Chicago.
http://www.rense.com/general63/gann4.htm
In recent times brought in from New York as a latter day Elliot Ness or Mr. Clean, is now U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald also named as Special Prosecutor in the CIA leak case, the Valerie Plame Affair.

Did Rove Blow a Spook's Cover?
http://slate.msn.com/id/2088471/
The White House won't say.

The Most Insidious of Traitors
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/093003A.shtml
"Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors." -- George Herbert Walker Bush, 1999

Gosch To Gannon
http://www.rense.com/general63/gtg.htm

CONFIRMED: Jeff Gannon was an adult porn webmaster
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/3/8/123054/5928
Jeff himself wrote, in an article about "rape rooms" in Iraq, "An adjacent room is where the rapist will prepare himself by viewing pornography...." (ed.... Maybe he looked at Bulldog pictures on the internet!) The issue for those of us investigating Gannon is not that he is a pornographer, but the hypocritical spectacle of a person who claims to represent the anti-pornography, anti-gay Moral Values "conservatives" being a webmaster who trades in gay pornography. This investigation is, as they say, developing.....

Homosexuals Control Bush White House
http://www.rense.com/general63/hms.htm
Gannon claims intimate connections with not only Mr. Bush himself but also with top leaders in the Republican party and most especially acting as a connection with the very powerful and controlling American Christian militant organizations.

Satanic subversion of the U.S. Military
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/satanic_subversion.htm
"Mindwar" is a permanent state of strategic psychological warfare against the populations of friend and foe nations alike. "In its strategic context, mindwar must reach out to friends, enemies and neutrals alike across the globe ... through the media possessed by the United States which have the capabilities to reach virtually all people on the face of the Earth. These media are, of course, the electronic media-television and radio. State of the art developments in satellite communication, video recording techniques, and laser and optical transmission of broadcasts make possible a penetration of the minds of the world such as would have been inconceivable just a few years ago." Above all else, Aquino argues, mindwar must target the population of the United States, "by denying enemy propaganda access to our people, and by explaining and emphasizing to our people the rationale for our national interest. ... Rather it states a whole truth that, if it does not now exist, will be forced into existence by the will of the United States."

The Way Tyranny Works
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8213.htm
Opposing It Is Unpatriotic!

Could Bush regime officials be prosecuted for 'war crimes' as a result of new measures used in the war of terror?
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4999734/
Tar and Feathers is too good for them!

U.S. used banned weapons in Fallujah – Health ministry
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=7216
U.S. occupation forces used internationally prohibited substances, including mustard gas, nerve gas, and other burning chemicals in their attacks in the war-torn city.

Weapons of Mass Destruction Employed by US to Imolate Falluja: White Phosphorus is a Chemical Weapon
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m10211&l=i&size=1&hd=0
Some artillery guns fired white phosphorous rounds that create a screen of fire that cannot be extinguished with water. Insurgents reported being attacked with a substance that melted their skin, a reaction consistent with white phosphorous burns.

Sgrena Must Be Lying Because The U.S. Government Has Never Done Anything Corrupt
http://propagandamatrix.com/articles/march2005/080305mustbelying.htm
She wrote articles condemning torture at Abu Ghraib and more dangerous to the US, articles about the use of napalm in Fallujah.

Another reporter researching Fallujah massacre "kidnapped"
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=58&story_id=17494&name=Liberation's%20Aubenas%2C%20no%20stranger%20to%20trouble%20spots
On her latest assignment to Iraq, Aubenas was reporting on the fate of Iraqis driven out of their homes after the American assault on the city of Fallujah.

Napalm Raid on Falluja? - GIULIANA SGRENA
http://www.ilmanifesto.it/pag/sgrena/en/420dd721e0ff0.html
73 charred bodies -- women and children -- were found

Sgrena had the goods on them, the whole bloody litany of crimes perpetrated by the swaggering Texas psychopath and his Pentagon goons. Her interviews with Falluja's refugees put her in a position to spill the beans on Bush's murderous farce and splatter the headlines across Europe with the real picture of what is going on inside Iraq.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=20191&mode=nested&order=0
How far would Bush's polling numbers plummet if the American people discovered that the sadistic Rumsfeld was using banned weapons on civilians?

Giuliana Sgrena is a propagandist for the Communist daily rag Il Manifesto. Her writings do not reveal a bias, they reveal that Sgrena is an enemy of the United States of America and responsible for supporting terrorists and the murder of American soldiers and civilians.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/070421.php
She accuses the US of complicity in mass murder, the use of napalm on civilians, the targetting of journalists, and the torture of children.

U.S. Army soldiers in Iraq filmed themselves kicking a gravely wounded prisoner in the face and making the arm of a corpse appear to wave, then titled the effort "Ramadi Madness" after the city where it was made.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7832369
The Pentagon did not release the video, saying it believed it had been destroyed. Soldiers depicted in the new video would not face criminal charges, the Pentagon said.

Florida Paper Obtains, Airs 'Ramadi Madness' Video
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000829000
"People see what they want to see," Shadle said. "They see abuse and want to cry foul. There was no abuse. I'd like to see these critics attacked every night, mortared every day. I'd like to see how they'd feel, how they'd react."

Clashes erupted between US Occupation troops and insurgents today in the troubled city of Ramadi, leaving at least two people dead, officials said.
http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?template=Newiraq&slug=2+killed+in+Ramadi+clashes&id=69645&callid=1
The clashes in Ramadi, 115 kilometers west of Baghdad, lasted for more than an hour. City shops were closed and streets were deserted as US troops took up sniper positions on rooftops.

Fox News Analyst Bevelacqua calls Italian Journalist's Release 'Unfortunate'
http://www.newshounds.us/2005/03/07/fox_news_analyst_bevelacqua_calls_italian_journalists_release_unfortunate.php
"It's unfortunate that she was released. She didn't deserve the faith and honor that was given to her in the death of an Italian Intelligence officer. She is supporting the animals that took her hostage and she's using the death of a fellow countryman to help push her cause. It's disgusting."

NewsMax: Real Americans would NEVER believe that Italian bitch!
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/7/93727.shtml
The claims of an Italian journalist who says U.S. troops shot her for no reason after she was released by terrorist kidnappers on Friday keep getting wilder and wilder.

New Republic Writer Calls For Anti-Bush Left-Wingers To Be Killed
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2005/030205tobekilled.htm
"Maybe sometimes you just want to be on the side of whoever is more likely to take a bunker buster to Arundhati Roy."

Right-Wing Bloggers Fake Sgrena Car Photo
http://wagnews.blogspot.com/2005/03/right-wing-bloggers-fake-sgrena-car.html
"Journalists writing for commie rags are not impervious to bullets if they disregard the American military in a war zone."

The Benefit of the Dumb
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/03/benefit-of-dumb.html
The Observer reports up to 400 rounds struck their car "from an armoured vehicle. Rather than calling immediately for assistance for the wounded Italians, the soldiers' first move was to confiscate their weapons and mobile phones and they were prevented from resuming contact with Rome for more than an hour." Sgrena's car, the US claims, is now "lost," and cannot be inspected.

Washington Post tries to dismiss Sgrena assassination attempt with the "it happens all the time" excuse
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12507-2005Mar6.html
U.S. soldiers have fired on the occupants of many cars approaching their positions over the past year and a half, only to discover that the people they killed were not suicide bombers or attackers but Iraqi civilians. They did so while operating under rules of engagement that the military has classified and under a legal doctrine that grants U.S. troops immunity from civil liability for misjudgment.

U.S.: 'Absurd' to think troops targeted Italian
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7089948/
"I mean, just think about it. The guys are sitting there in their armoured vehicle, their fingers on the firing button, and this car drives up with a sign in the windows that says 'press'..."

General: U.S. had no sign of notice from Italians
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3074547
Casey also said he was concerned by the fact that in addition to the killing of the Italian intelligence officer, a Bulgarian soldier slain last week in Iraq also may have been hit by U.S. gunfire.

Slain agent had informed US contacts in Baghdad: minister
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read.html?id=3142
Fini dismissed Washington's view that a lack of communication was responsible for the death of Calipari, who died in a hail of gunfire from US troops as he escorted a freed Italian hostage to Baghdad airport last Friday. Calipari had made "all the necessary contacts" with US authorities in Baghdad, the foreign minister said.

Rome points to disparities with US probe of Iraq shooting
http://news.inq7.net/world/index.php?index=1&story_id=29893
George W. M.D. Bush has promised a full investigation into the incident !

U.S. Expediting Probe of Italian's Death
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/mar/08/030809262.html
"It's another unfortunate incident," Casey said, adding "we'll get to the bottom of it."

Pentagon Memo Blames Italians For Iraq Shooting
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=iraq_war&Number=293434143
"This is war," said the memo as transcribed by the daily.

Pentagon Threatens to Kill Independent Reporters in Iraq
http://www.prisonplanet.com/pentagon_threatens_to_kill_independent_reporters_in_iraq.html
" I was told by a senior officer in the Pentagon, that if uplinks --that is the television signals out of... Baghdad, for example-- were detected by any planes ...electronic media... mediums, of the military above Baghdad... they'd be fired down on. Even if they were journalists ..' Who cares! ' said.. [inaudible] .."

Dead Messengers: How the U.S. Military Threatens Journalists
http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1435.htm#001
Mazen was filming outside Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. According to American claims at the time, rebels had staged a deadly mortar bomb or grenade attack on the prison the day before, and several journalists went to report the story. They identified themselves to U.S. troops guarding the perimeter of the prison and got permission to film from a nearby bridge. Mazen took the footage he wanted and got back into the car with his soundman and best friend Nael al-Shyouki. At that moment, a military convoy drove up. According to al-Shyouki, Mazen got out of the car with his camera and began filming. Al-Shyouki followed three or four meters behind. They were standing in the open in the middle of the road. Everything around seemed peaceful and matter of fact. The lead tank was at most 100 meters away, or as close as 50 meters, witnesses differ. Without warning, a soldier on the tank began firing. Mazen screamed, clutching his chest. His camera tilted forward, then fell to the ground. Mazen had filmed the story.

The Unfortunate Incident Protocol
http://www.antiwar.com/whitehurst/?articleid=5096
While so many journalists have been killed by the U.S. military that some have wondered aloud (and lived to regret it) if media personnel might actually be targeted to dissuade independent reporting on Mr. Bush's wars, it's nonetheless unusual for a just-freed journalist, held hostage for a month, to be shot, along with her rescuer, by U.S. troops.

Earlier in the year, Newsweek reported that the Pentagon is considering using the "Salvador Option" in reference to a counter-insurgency strategy of the 1980s which saw the CIA-train local secret forces to go after leftists insurgents and their sympathisers in the Central American country and which led to tens of thousands of deaths.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/732/in2.htm
"You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security."

Berlusconi has just seen what remained of his support to stay in Iraq evaporate.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/07/whost07.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/03/07/ixworld.html
What he WANTED was a dead and bloody hostage with the finger of blame pointed at the Iraqi "insurgents". What he GOT was a live but bloody hostage pointing the finger of blame at the US. And behind it all lurks the real story that the US did not want to get out, the use of banned chemical weapons against civilians in Fallujah.

I do not believe a thing Bush says or anything his military says. Ms. Sgrena makes clear in her statements that: 1. there were no warning shots; 2. the first shots at the car came from a tank; 3. the shots did not emanate from a checkpoint; 4. her car was not speeding; 5. the Italian embassy had told the Americans she would be coming out in a convoy. Yet, the American troops tried to kill her and he companions by firing over 400 rounds into her car on its way to the airport. She said she remembered upon being released, her captors told her, “Be careful of the Americans, they will try to kill you so that you cannot tell the truths you know about Fallujah.” How true, how prophetic this was...
http://www.todaysalternativenews.com/index.php?event=link,150&values%5b0%5d=&values%5b1%5d=2288
We have come to a time when no one believes America's words to the world, and no intelligent American believes what Bush or what his minions say. Decent Americans, when abroad have to apologize for the evil Bush and his cronies are doing to the world--breaking international law, killing people at will, taking people into confinement without prima facie evidence and then holding them indefinitely. Not only immmoral and unethical deeds, but also illegal actions.

Army report: U.S. lost control in Iraq three months after invasion
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453436.980555556.html
"This overly simplistic conception of the war led to a cascading undercutting of the war effort: too few troops, too little coordination with civilian and governmental/non-governmental agencies and too little allotted time to achieve success."

Explain to me how you lose $9,000,000,000.00?
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5446
Bloggers are already doing the research, where are the real reporters? Why is there a media blackout on this story?

Hunter Thompson friend confirms journalist was on to White House callboy story
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/march2005/080305callboystory.htm

GOP pedophilia and S&M trysts: A long history going back to Bush 41 and Reagan
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/030305Madsen/030305madsen.html
As with their fascist fellow travelers in Hitler's Germany, Franco's Spain, and "The Colonels'" Greece, many of the fascists associated with the Bush family have a predilection for sex with children and young recruits within the U.S. military.

Homosexuals Control Bush White House
http://www.rense.com/general63/hms.htm
Gannon claims intimate connections with not only Mr. Bush himself but also with top leaders in the Republican party and most especially acting as a connection with the very powerful and controlling American Christian militant organizations. He claims that several very famous Christian leaders are also homosexual and that these work together with others in high political circles!

The Gannon Cannon - Part 1
http://www.rense.com/general63/gad.htm
Bush Treason In Spy Whorehouse

Gannon Cannon - Part 2
http://www.rense.com/general63/dcwho.htm
Bush Treason Violence In D.C. Whorehouse Mess

Gannon Cannon - Part 3
http://www.rense.com/general63/gann.htm
Bush/FBI/CIA/IRS Role In Murders Of Federal Judge's Family

Gannon Cannon - Part 4
http://www.rense.com/general63/gann4.htm
Bush, The Russian Mafia, And The Murder Of A Federal Judge's Family

S.S. responds on Gannon inquiry, says ‘no deviation’ from ‘proper procedures’
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=161

White House Approves Pass for Phlogger
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/07/technology/07press.html?

Bush Plunging Into Syrian Swamp
http://vdare.com/roberts/050307_bush.htm
If Lebanon cannot have free elections while under foreign military occupation, how, asks the rest of the world, does Iraq have free elections when it is under US military occupation?

Bush also linked Syria with an deadly suicide attack in Israel.
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=050308&cat=news&st=newsd88mvib80&src=ap
"The time has come for Syria and Iran to stop using murder as a tool of policy and to end all support for terrorism," the president said.

"Thousands" Answer Hezbollah Call in Beirut
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=050308&cat=news&st=newsd88mvda80&src=ap
"America is the source of terrorism"; "All our disasters are from America"; "No to American-Zionist intervention"

Pro-Syria protests to take to the streets of Beirut
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=7291

US policy risking civil war in Lebanon and chaos in Syria
http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/uavnery116.htm
Every human being and every people has a right to freedom. Many of us have shed their blood for this aim. Democracy is an ideal that every people has to realize for itself. But when the banners of "freedom" and "democracy" are hoisted over a crusade by an avaricious and irresponsible superpower, the results can be catastrophic.

Pace of developments surprises even White House
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7121415/
Last week's popular uprising stemmed from the assassination of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri, widely blamed on Syria, which occupies Lebanon.

Who Killed Rafik Hariri?
http://antiwar.com/justin/
"I think it fair to conclude that the United States of America remains bin Laden's only indispensable ally."

It's been 1,268 days since GWB said he'd catch UBL 'Dead or Alive!'

You want to end terrorism? End unjust military occupations. By all means have Syria conduct an orderly withdrawal from Lebanon if that is what the Lebanese public wants. But Israel needs to withdraw from the Golan Heights, which belong to Syria, as well. The Israeli military occupation of Gaza and the West Bank must be ended. The Russian scorched-earth policy in Chechnya needs to stop. Some just disposition of the Kashmir issue must be attained, and Indian enormities against Kashmiri Muslims must stop. The U.S. needs to conduct an orderly and complete withdrawal from Iraq. And when all these military occupations end, there will be some hope for a vast decrease in terrorism. People need a sense of autonomy and dignity, and occupation produces helplessness and humiliation. Humiliation is what causes terrorism.
http://www.antiwar.com/cole/?articleid=5106


The attitude of millions of Americans is exactly that of the German supporters of fascism in the 1930s and early 1940s. They were encouraged to think of themselves as the Master Race and there were whole nations whose populations could be treated as inferiors, and they took pride in doing just that. The present wave of hysterical intolerance in the US makes the McCarthy years of persecution look benign, because the idea has been planted by Bush and his people that US citizens are superior in every possible way. There can be no admission of frailty, and no acceptance of equality. International law and treaties are ignored or treated with contempt, and human dignity has become irrelevant. Hysterical ultra-nationalism is thriving and gathering pace.
http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1433.htm#001
The director of the slippery slope to totalitarianism has beckoned his citizens, and they are responding with enthusiasm to his encouragement. War crimes are being committed by US troops and spooks on an extraordinary scale all round the world, but the biggest war crime is taking place in Washington: it is the twisting of the minds of the American people.

Neoconservatives push internment for American Muslims
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1818.shtml
... but of course, Hitler was a total asshole for doing the same thing in Germany.

A Fascist America
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5070
How close are we?

Wake up and smell the fascism
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm
It is in times of fascism rising that armies of ignorance are once more resuscitated from the bowels of a society bordering on the edge of mass psychosis. The America at the dawn of the twenty-first century is no exception...

You're a U.S. citizen landing at a major airport from abroad. You're pulled out of line at customs, arrested, thrown in jail for a month and then spirited off to a military prison.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20050304/cm_usatoday/padillasindefinitedetentionputsyourrightsatrisk
Nearly three years later, you're still there, never charged with any crime. The government claims it can hold you forever without answering to any judge or court.

More rights are being sacrificed monthly on the great satanic, neocon Zionist altar of lies, which are fed as a steady, daily diet through US 'news' outlets to the American public. Forget the Movietone news clips of WW2...which captive audiences were forced to watch (early brainwashing) for a few minutes in movie theaters before the film they had paid to see lit up the screen.
http://www.rense.com/general63/3five.htm
The electronic media of today is a light year ahead...and makes the Movietone newsreels appear, in comparison, like a Disney cartoon. Today, we don't go to the theaters for 'news' any longer. Instead, we are drenched in 'news'...sordid, dripping audio and visual images of death, lies, propaganda and corrupted 'truth' which is spewed from countless millions of radios and televisions around the clock. And beyond the sounds and images are, doubtless, embedded electromagnetic frequencies and other unregulated technologies which further program the hive mentality and abject obedience.

The coming crackdown on blogging
http://news.com.com/The%20coming%20crackdown%20on%20blogging/2008-1028_3-5597079.html?tag=sas.email
In just a few months, he warns, bloggers and news organizations could risk the wrath of the federal government if they improperly link to a campaign's Web site. Even forwarding a political candidate's press release to a mailing list, depending on the details, could be punished by fines.

Hunter Thompson friend confirms was on to White House callboy story
http://www.libertythink.com/
Hunter S. Thompson died mysteriously a few weeks ago, saying he believed the government may have been involved in 9/11, and he was concerned. He lived basically in a little armored compound... now they're saying he committed suicide.

Police heard shots as they headed to Thompson's ranch
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_3587245,00.html
Hunter Thompson, who reigned as a savage social critic and inventor of Gonzo journalism for decades, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the kitchen of his home on Feb. 20.

Ex-Ukraine minister 'kills self'
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/03/04/ukraine/index.html
Ukraine's former interior minister has been found dead of an apparent suicide on the day he was to be questioned about the killing of an opposition-minded journalist, officials said.

Venezuela detects several US battleships near its coasts
http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/368/15052_Venezuela.html
The incident came shortly after President Chavez made public intelligence reports about an alleged US plot to kill him.

According to a former top Bush administration official, Russian special forces teams moved weapons of mass destruction out of Iraq to Syria.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/3/2/230625.shtml
MOSCOW PARANOID ABOUT WMD

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/lies.mp3

Sen. Clinton urges punishment for Syria
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--clinton-syria0301mar01,0,4879807.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
"I've been particularly troubled by the Syrians' aggressive posture," said Clinton.

Syria to pull out: Minister
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12447955-23109,00.html
"Dammit dammit dammit DAMMIT! Okay, okay, let me go; I'm all right. We can save this thing. Ummmm. We'll lure Syria into a sneak attack on Hawaii. No, wait, we already did that one. We could have the USS Maine blow up in a Syrian harbor and claim they did it! No? How about if we claim Syria has Saddam's WMDs? " -- screaming heard from inside the White House.

Assad to Announce Lebanon Pullback, Bush Wants More
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7811692
Bush said "This is non-negotiable. It is time to get out ... I think we've got a good chance to achieve that objective and to make sure that the May elections (in Lebanon) are fair. I don't think you can have fair elections with Syrian troops there."

What right has President Bush or Conde Rice to dictate to the Lebanese Government?
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m10087&l=i&size=1&hd=0
Why is it that the “demonstrators” in Beirut, Lebanon, had all their signs in English?

House Republican leaders overcame earlier concerns and decided yesterday to give President Bush most of the emergency war spending money he requested last month, including $600 million for a compound in Baghdad that will be the largest U.S. embassy in the world.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A5335-2005Mar3?language=printer
The money will pay for construction of a diplomatic compound that will include housing, a cafeteria, office space and defense support facilities. The new compound will help consolidate the 1,054 trailers in Iraq that house 3,693 employees under State Department authority. Many of them are working in a former palace of Saddam Hussein, with the ballrooms divided into thousands of plywood cubicle offices.

Gas prices might increase 24 cents
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2005-03-03-gas-usat_x.htm
"It's going to be brutal, horrendous." The U.S. dollar has fallen in value recently, also, and foreign oil sellers, who control most supplies, want more dollars per barrel to compensate.

Deficits and Deceit
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/opinion/04krugman.html?hp
And the consequence of the failure of the starve-the-beast theory is a looming fiscal crisis - Mr. Greenspan isn't wrong about that. The middle class won't give up programs that are essential to its financial security; the right won't give up tax cuts that it sold on false pretenses. The only question now is when foreign investors, who have financed our deficits so far, will decide to pull the plug.

Freedom Ain't Free: It's $2.57 Trillion Per Year
http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/gregory/gregory5.html
Perish the thought. It might seem an expensive price to pay for freedom, but you get what you pay for. I’d say for all the bribery, persecution, kidnapping, torture, and murder we get, $2.57 trillion seems about right.

DOD shy $574M for 2006 Iraq death benefit
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050303-072805-9373r.htm
The military has not budgeted for the $574 million needed to pay death benefits for troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan next year, according to Pentagon documents.

Bin Laden draws rare mention from Bush
http://www.suntimes.com/output/terror/cst-nws-bin04.html
The White House has sought to play down the significance of bin Laden to the global anti-terror battle, since the trail has gone cold on him more than three years after the Sept. 11 attacks. As a result, Bush hardly ever utters the name of the man he once declared wanted ''dead or alive'' and repeatedly promised would be caught.

Bush: Laden Could be Caught in a Minute
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20050304&hn=17120
Bush recently said that Laden wants Zarqawi to form a group to organize attacks on the US.

It's been 1,264 days since G.W.B. said he'd catch U.B.L. 'Dead or Alive!'

U.S. Death Toll In Iraq Hits 1,500
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/04/iraq/main678014.shtml
U.S. troops are killed nearly every day in Iraq.

Usama bin Laden: A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osama_dead.html
When you hear a threat which is "probably" made by bin Laden, just remember that he's "probably" dead. Also think about who benefits from your believing he's alive.

Al Qaeda in Iraq launches Internet magazine urging Muslims to join jihad
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/March/focusoniraq_March17.xml&section=focusoniraq
According to the counterterrorism expert, the magazine is an indication that the group is trying to improve its recruitment efforts.

Army Officials Voice Concern Over Shortfall in Recruitment
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/politics/04recruit.html?oref=login
Top Pentagon officials acknowledged that the graphic images of casualties from Iraq and the obvious danger of serving there had caused many parents to advise their children to avoid joining the military now.

Iraq insurgents seize initiative
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4317103.stm
A spate of recent attacks in Iraq has underlined the determination of the insurgents to regain the initiative, following general elections which they had vowed - and failed - to disrupt, and which many Iraqis see as a qualified success.

Iraq is moving into its fifth month under an official state of emergency.
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/03/42844639-6364-4e6c-8f27-dd40028bdfa3.html
The emergency decree, first announced last November, gives the government the right to impose curfews and extra powers to make arrests.

American Jails in Iraq Are Bursting With Detainees
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/international/middleeast/04detain.html?ex=1110517200&en=a393485f4c84de56&ei=5065&partner=MYWAY
The growing detainee population reflects recent changes in how the military has been waging the war and in its policies toward detainees, the officials say.

Full text of Human Rights Record of the US in 2004
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200503/03/eng20050303_175406.html
In 2004 the atrocity of US troops abusing Iraqi POWs exposed the dark side of human rights performance of the United States. The scandal shocked the humanity and was condemned by the international community. It is quite ironic that on Feb. 28 of this year, the State Department of the United States once again posed as the "the world human rights police" and released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2004. As in previous years, the reports pointed fingers at human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions (including China) but kept silent on the US misdeeds in this field. Therefore, the world people have to probe the human rights record behind the Statue of Liberty in the United States.

Iraqi Health Ministry confirms use by American occupation forces of internationally prohibited weapons in its attacks on al-Fallujah
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m10078&l=i&size=1&hd=0
"The difference is that our poison gas is GOOOOOOD. Saddam's poison gas was BAAAAAD!" -- Official White House Spokes-slug

The Super Macho Patriot Brigade
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/cox3.html
What are the qualifications for the Super Macho Patriot Brigade? Candidates must 1) be a vocal advocate of current US military operations, 2) be over age 40, 3) have not served in the military in their youth – which is to say did everything imaginable to avoid service during the Vietnam or other war era, and 4) earn an above average, very comfortable living substantially in part by championing service in the Iraq War.

Iran the next nuclear threat
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,12435534^663,00.html
Israel sez so.

Iran building tunnels for arms
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/11041822.htm
Other diplomats said on condition of anonymity that such moves were clearly motivated by Iranian concerns of air attacks by the United States or Israel, which both accuse the Iranians of trying to secretly build nuclear weapons.

Iran Time Bomb: Ticking, Ticking
http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/herman/herman3.html
The unspoken problem with this latest Neocon plot, I mean, plan, is that Iran, unlike the defanged Iraq, has the capacity to respond militarily, and who would blame them?

Israeli Air Force Training for Long-Range Bombing Missions
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=691706&C=mideast
The television highlighted that the commander was referring to possible future missions against suspected nuclear facilities in Iran by showing footage of the new atomic power station that Israel’s arch enemy is completing with Russian assistance in the Gulf port of Bushehr.

In his comments Tuesday, Byrd defended the right senators have to use filibusters - procedural delays that can kill an item unless 60 of the 100 senators vote to move ahead.
Byrd cited Hitler's 1930s rise to power by, in part, pushing legislation through the German parliament that seemed to legitimize his ascension.
"We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men," Byrd said. "But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050303/D88J6OG00.html
Byrd then quoted historian Alan Bullock, saying Hitler "turned the law inside out and made illegality legal."
Byrd added, "That is what the nuclear option seeks to do."
The nuclear option is the nickname for the proposal to end filibusters of judicial nominations because of the devastating effect the plan, if enacted, would have on relations between Democrats and Republicans.

U.S. Turns Up Heat on Syria to Leave Lebanon
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A229-2005Mar2?language=printer
Lebanon has rapidly become a centerpiece of the Bush administration's effort to promote democracy in the Middle East -- as Syria has increasingly become the target of U.S. scorn and pressure.

Lebanon's Hollow 'Cedar Revolution'
http://antiwar.com/justin/
More media hype from the usual suspects

Bush Keeps Fueling the Fire
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/horton.php?articleid=5052

One in Four Americans Would Use Nukes Against "Terrorists"
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?schema=&vnu_content_id=1000819252
For example, “assassinate known terrorists” drew the support of 65% of all adults.

A top US military commander warned on Wednesday that Iran may invite attack by another regional power if it succeeds in developing nuclear weapons.
http://jang.com.pk/thenews/mar2005-daily/03-03-2005/main/main5.htm
"The US and the Zionist regime (Israel) do not have the power to confront us and we will hand them bone-breaking blows," Safavi said, adding that "Iraq is getting more unsafe everyday for America" anyway.

Army misses recruiting goal
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20050303/pl_usatoday/armymissesrecruitinggoal

U.S. Troop Deaths in Iraq Rise to 1,500
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20050303/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Since May 1, 2003, when George WMD Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 1,364 U.S. military members have died.

Pictures of Civilian Victims of the Anglo-American Aggression in Iraq
http://www.robert-fisk.com/iraqwarvictims_mar2003.htm
THIS is Bush's legacy. This is how the world will remember the United States at the dawn of the third millenium.

CIA Avoids Scrutiny of Detainee Treatment
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A2576-2005Mar2?language=printer
Afghan's Death Took Two Years to Come to Light; Agency Says Abuse Claims Are Probed Fully

CIA Director Porter Goss said he is overwhelmed by the many duties of his job, including devoting five hours out of every day to prepare for and deliver intelligence briefings to George Bush.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050303/D88J5B280.html
Goss, a CIA clandestine officer for 10 years who retired in 1972, said it takes him five hours every day to prepare and deliver the president's daily briefing, calling Bush "a voracious consumer of intelligence."

Bush Knew
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/16/attack/main509294.shtml
A U.S. intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the CIA had continuously informed policymakers throughout the summer before Sept. 11 that bin Laden and his network might try to harm U.S. interests and discussed a range of possibilities that included hijackings.

Bush Knew Iraq Info Was Dubious
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/25/eveningnews/main560449.shtml

Bush Knew About Leak of CIA Operative's Name
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4629.shtml

NBC BLAMES U.S. OFFICIALS FOR IRAQ-ASSASSINATION GOOF
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/22191.htm
With the report, anchor Brian Williams joins the list of major network news stars who have been caught up in broadcasting false information in recent months.