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"Down with Bush!"
Uproar as Saddam returns to court
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4707626.stm
The defendants are accused of killing 148 Shia villagers in Dujail in 1982.
About 100,000 Iraqi civilians - half of them women and children - have died in Iraq since the invasion, mostly as a result of airstrikes by coalition forces!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1338749,00.html
"The remaining 58 killings (all attributed to US forces by interviewees) were caused by helicopter gunships, rockets or other forms of aerial weaponry," they write.
PLAME WAS WORKING ON IRAN, INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS SAY
Washington Note: Niger report referenced Iran...
Thousands of military personnel and hundreds of civilians would be killed if the United States launched an air strike on Iran to prevent it developing nuclear arms!
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-02-13T170124Z_01_L13774748_RTRUKOC_0_US-NUCLEAR-IRAN-STUDY.xml&rpc=22
"For the Israelis, having an Iran which is getting anywhere close to a nuclear weapons capability is simply not acceptable."
An attack could eventually lead to a lengthy confrontation involving many other countries in the region, could mean the closure of the Gulf, and would probably have a "formidable" impact on oil prices, as well as spurring new attacks by Muslim radicals on Western interests, the report said.
"A U.S. military attack on Iranian nuclear infrastructure would be the start of a protracted military confrontation," the report said.
THOUSANDS OF DEAD
Such a confrontation would probably involve Iraq, Israel and Lebanon as well as the United States and Iran, with the possibility of Arab Gulf states being involved as well.
"Military deaths in (the) first wave of attacks against Iran would be expected to be in the thousands," it said.
"Civilian deaths would be in the many hundreds at least," it added. "If the war evolved into a wider conflict, primarily to pre-empt or counter Iranian responses, the casualties would eventually be much higher."
Police Gas Students Protesting Cartoons
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/13/D8FO91NG8.html
Kind of Sleezy Rice, meanwhile, said Iran and Syria should be urging their citizens to remain calm _ not encouraging violence like the attacks on Western diplomatic missions in Iran, Syria and Lebanon. Nearly a dozen people were killed in protests in Afghanistan, BY RENT A COPS!
Four U.S. Troops Killed in Afghanistan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/13/AR2006021300596.html
A total of 214 U.S. service members have died in Afghanistan since the invasion of that country in 2001 to oust the Taliban government, which had been harboring elements of al Qaeda.
It's been 1,610 days since GWB said he'd catch UBL 'Dead or Alive!'
"If revealing classified information is illegal, then it's a crime, right?
"And George W. Bush promised that 'If somebody committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration,' right?
"Now it comes out that 'Scooter' Libby has testified that his 'superiors' authorized him to reveal classified information in an attempt to discredit Joseph Wilson's account of his trip to Africa and thus to defend the idea that the Administration had a basis for claiming that Saddam Hussein had been trying to buy uranium in Niger.
"Libby's boss was Dick Cheney; Libby was Cheney's chief of staff. His only other 'superior' would have been . . . George W. Bush.
"So either Cheney or Bush (or both) ordered the release of classified information, which according to Bush is a crime. And anyone who commits a crime has to leave the administration.
"So which is it? Is Bush going to ask for Cheney's resignation, or offer his own?"
Bush spent nearly two billion on PR ¶ 13.2.06
