"When Puppets Attack"
Robert Dreyfuss...In a long analysis of the mess in Iraq and its effects on U.S. policy, the Post quotes that Delphic oracle of the neocon right, Richard Perle, thusly: "I don't know what the new course would be. The options are extremely limited now. The new course that's necessary is new Iraqi leadership." So where would Perle find "new Iraqi leadership"? I wonder whether the neocons aren’t willing to put all their marbles on the Shiite religious right, supporting a coup d’etat of their own that would consolidate the Iraqi army, police and Interior Ministry under a single command, led by a strongman Shiite leader with ties to Dawa and SCIRI, and then throw down the civil war gauntlet to the Sunnis. The idea, then, would be to present the United States with a fait accompli, and a challenge, demanding that Washington support the Shiite side in an all-out civil war against the Sunnis...
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Today’s “not reported” developments in Iraq
Roads to Iraq...The article above continuously playing this tune that there is a conspiracy between the Ba’ath and the US against the Shiite, though, Salah Al-Mukhtar a pro-Ba’ath intellectual said today in his interview on "Hiwar" satellite channel: The people who are call themselves "Iraqi resistance" and begging on the doors of the American embassy asking for negotiations are traitors, the true resistance don’t ask for negotiations, the Americans will be forced to negotiate....
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An Open Letter to Congresswoman Pelosi: Please Reconsider Your Pledge to Take Impeachment "off the Table"
Walter C. UhlerDear Honorable Congresswoman Pelosi: In early September 2002, Vice President Richard Cheney and the Director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet, met with the Gang of Four - the four top leaders of Congress, Dennis Hastert, Richard Gephardt, Trent Lott and Tom Daschle - to brief them on the so-called intelligence that supposedly demonstrated Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction. As Michael Isikoff and David Corn write, in their new book, Hubris, "They displayed aerial photos of what appeared to be new construction at what Cheney said were Iraqi nuclear weapons sites. They showed drawings of what Tenet described as mobile biological weapons laboratories…[and] they shared snapshots of unmanned aerial vehicles…said to be capable of carrying chemical and biological weapons great distances." The Gang of Four was disturbed by this so-called intelligence...
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In Baghdad, a Force Under the Militias' Sway
Infiltration of Iraqi Police Could Delay Handover of Control for Years, U.S. Trainers Suggest
Amit R. Paley, Washington Post Staff WriterThe signs of the militias are everywhere at the Sholeh police station. Posters celebrating Moqtada al-Sadr, head of the Mahdi Army militia, dot the building's walls. The police chief sometimes remarks that Shiite militias should wipe out all Sunnis. Visitors to this violent neighborhood in the Iraqi capital whisper that nearly all the police officers have split loyalties. And then one rainy night this month, the Sholeh police set up an ambush and killed Army Cpl. Kenny F. Stanton Jr., a 20-year-old budding journalist, his unit said. At the time, Stanton and other members of the unit had been trailing a group of Sholeh police escorting known Mahdi Army members (...) "None of the Iraqi police are working to make their country better," said Brig. Gen. Salah al-Ani, chief of police for the western half of Baghdad. "They're working for the militias or to put money in their pocket." U.S. military reports on the Iraqi police often read like a who's who of the two main militias in Iraq: the Mahdi Army, also known as Jaish al-Mahdi or JAM, and the Badr Organization, also known as the Badr Brigade or Badr Corps....
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In Baghdad, a Force Under the Militias' Sway
Infiltration of Iraqi Police Could Delay Handover of Control for Years, U.S. Trainers Suggest
Amit R. Paley, Washington Post Staff WriterThe signs of the militias are everywhere at the Sholeh police station. Posters celebrating Moqtada al-Sadr, head of the Mahdi Army militia, dot the building's walls. The police chief sometimes remarks that Shiite militias should wipe out all Sunnis. Visitors to this violent neighborhood in the Iraqi capital whisper that nearly all the police officers have split loyalties. And then one rainy night this month, the Sholeh police set up an ambush and killed Army Cpl. Kenny F. Stanton Jr., a 20-year-old budding journalist, his unit said. At the time, Stanton and other members of the unit had been trailing a group of Sholeh police escorting known Mahdi Army members (...) "None of the Iraqi police are working to make their country better," said Brig. Gen. Salah al-Ani, chief of police for the western half of Baghdad. "They're working for the militias or to put money in their pocket." U.S. military reports on the Iraqi police often read like a who's who of the two main militias in Iraq: the Mahdi Army, also known as Jaish al-Mahdi or JAM, and the Badr Organization, also known as the Badr Brigade or Badr Corps....
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Unmasking the Second Palestinian Intifada
Remi KanaziOver the last five years, the Palestinian people have faced a host of obstacles in their fight for sovereignty, preventing them the opportunity to create a life those in the Western world brag about. A principal impediment facing the Palestinian struggle today is the constant reaffirmation that the Palestinian people—deemed by Israel and the US—are "terrorists," "militants," or animalistic beings lesser than those of the "civilized world." In Ramzy Baroud’s new book, The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of People’s Struggle, this myth is shattered. The propaganda that has infiltrated Western discourse has proven counterfeit; misinformation that has framed US policy regarding Israel, leading to a multitude of double standards imposed upon Palestinians. These inconsistencies have exponentially magnified the suffering of the Palestinian people and hindered their efforts to gain control of the land in which they live...
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Texas Versus Tel Aviv: US Policy in the Middle East
James PetrasThe struggle within the US power structure between the economic empire builders (EEB) and the civilian militarists/Zioncons over US Middle East and global policy is now out in the open and intensifying. The EEB now have a politically powerful organizational expression, the Baker Commission (known officially as the Iraq Study Group) led by the formidable former Secretary of State, James Baker. The EEB are backed by a group of bipartisan congressional leaders, sectors of the traditional military elite, a powerful coalition of Texas-based oil and gas groups and sectors of Wall Street financial houses and potentially a large majority of public opinion. Against them are the civilian militarists in the Pentagon, State Department and White House (Rumsfelt, Chaney, Rice, Bolton and Bush), a declining majority of Congressional Democrats and Republicans, the Presidents of the Major Jewish Organizations headed by the America-Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and their influential apparatchiks in the mass media and their numerous 'grass roots’ political fronts (political action committees)...
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U.S. arming and training PA guard against Hamas
Aluf Benn and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz CorrespondentThe Bush administration has undertaken efforts to arm and train the Presidential Guard of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in order to prepare it for a potential violent confrontation with Hamas forces in the Gaza Strip. According to information received in Jerusalem, the American security coordinator in the territories, General Keith Dayton, appeared before representatives of the Quartet in London last week and presented them with a program for bolstering the Palestinian presidential guard. The program calls for Egyptian, British and perhaps even Jordanian instructors to train the force loyal to Abbas...
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Audit: U.S. military has lost track of weapons in Iraq
NO SERIAL NUMBERS RECORDED FOR ARMS PROVIDED TO IRAQIS
James Glanz, New York TimesThe U.S. military has not properly tracked hundreds of thousands of weapons intended for Iraqi security forces and has failed to provide spare parts, maintenance personnel or even repair manuals for most of the weapons given to the Iraqis, a federal report released Sunday has concluded. The report was undertaken at the request of Sen. John Warner, R-Va., who is the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and who recently provided an assessment far darker than the Bush administration's on the situation in Iraq...
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All the President's Lies
Robert ParryMany Americans are cynical about what they hear from politicians – and often with good reason – but perhaps no U.S. political leader in modern history has engaged in a pattern of lying and distortion more systematically than George W. Bush has. Bush’s lies also aren’t about petty matters, such as some personal indiscretion or minor misconduct. Rather his dishonesty deals with issues of war and peace, the patriotism of his opponents, and the founding principles of the American Republic...
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Forced Migration I: Story of a Sunni Family
Thoughts from BaghdadWhen I left Baghdad towards the end of June, kidnapping, murder, exploding bombs were all a very regular part of the Baghdad landscape. Forced migration or 'sectarian cleansing' was not. It was still in its beginning steps. When I came back in October, this forced migration had become a very regular part of life here in Baghdad. Many different people we knew, or knew through someone else, had been forced out of their homes to a different district. Abu N was one of these people. Abu N is a simple, street-smart fifty-ish year old Sunni man who drives my husband to work and does random errands for us. He's been a part of our lives for the past couple of years...
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Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis did not win, Mr. President
Firas Al-Atraqchi...And US President George Bush tells the world "We are winning and we will win". Just what is it you are winning at, Mr. President? If it is a democracy you feel you have implanted in Iraq, you are gravely mistaken. The rule of law in Iraq is determined by those with guns, those in the militias. There is no security, no stability, no matter how much you rub Iraqi Prime Minister Nur Al-Maliki’s tussled hair for a good luck charm. Since Maliki came to power in late May and promised to disarm the militias, the latter have grown in strength, ferocity and their unwavering tenacity in carrying out barbaric murder. Iraqi streets, once filled with strolling families, are now strewn with the charred, mutilated and tortured remains of Shiite, Sunni and Christian Iraqis...
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 30 October 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice...In a bulletin posted at 2:33pm Makkah time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a mysterious car bomb had exploded a short while earlier on 20 Street opposite the Jabbar Abu ash-Sharbat soft drink store in the predominantly Shi'i al-Bayya' neighborhood of Baghdad. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that an explosives-packed car that had been parked by the side of the road blew up, killing or wounding more than 30 individuals according to a preliminary count. Then in a dispatch posted at 3:08pm Makkah time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a bomb had gone off in the middle of a gathering of laborers on 'Arus Mandali Square in the Madinat as-Sadr area of Baghdad at 6:30am Monday morning, killing or wounding 80 people. In its dispatch on the attack, Quds Press reported that some 90 people had been killed or injured in the bomb blast, which targeted a gathering of laborers in the Madinat as-Sadr area of the occupied Iraqi capital. The attack took place in spite of the fact that US forces have kept Madinat as-Sadr under an intense blockade, sealed off for about six days now from the outside world...
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 30 October 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice...In a bulletin posted at 2:33pm Makkah time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a mysterious car bomb had exploded a short while earlier on 20 Street opposite the Jabbar Abu ash-Sharbat soft drink store in the predominantly Shi'i al-Bayya' neighborhood of Baghdad. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that an explosives-packed car that had been parked by the side of the road blew up, killing or wounding more than 30 individuals according to a preliminary count. Then in a dispatch posted at 3:08pm Makkah time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a bomb had gone off in the middle of a gathering of laborers on 'Arus Mandali Square in the Madinat as-Sadr area of Baghdad at 6:30am Monday morning, killing or wounding 80 people. In its dispatch on the attack, Quds Press reported that some 90 people had been killed or injured in the bomb blast, which targeted a gathering of laborers in the Madinat as-Sadr area of the occupied Iraqi capital. The attack took place in spite of the fact that US forces have kept Madinat as-Sadr under an intense blockade, sealed off for about six days now from the outside world...
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Mile by Miles, Afghan Quagmire is Expanding
Abid Ullah JanPakistan’s military carried out yet another strike on a religious school (madrassa) allegedly used by al-Qaeda. According to Reuters, the school was being used as a militant training camp. Eighty people died in the pre-dawn assault.According to Pakistan military, ""We received confirmed intelligence reports that 70 to 80 militants were hiding in a madrassa [school] used as a terrorist-training facility, which was destroyed by an army strike, led by helicopters." Based on the available facts we come to three conclusions: 1. This was a terrorist military attack; 2. Afghanistan is expanding mile by mile into Pakistan, and 3) Pakistan military is digging a deeper grave for itself with each tactic that it copies from American and Israeli occupation forces. In other words, Pakistani army, acting like an occupation force, is alienating its own population and turning Pakistan into anther Afghanistan region by region...
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A recipe for the Greater War:
The U.S. fear of losing power which it doesn’t have
Abid Ullah JanMany analysts believe that the United State has failed in Iraq. In fact, it has not. Analysts, who measure the American success by the yard stick of Bush and Blair’s rhetoric for democracy and liberation, and the noble causes for invasion promoted by the "mainstream" media, are right in their conclusion. But the problem is that achieving those noble causes was never the objective of war on Iraq and Afghanistan. If we keep medium and long-term consequences aside, the Bush administration has been fully successful in what it wanted to achieve in Iraq. The country is occupied. Oil resources are under full control. The military threat that Iraq could pose has been fully neutralized. The country is divided. Iraqis are pitted against each other. The civil war is on and the co-opted media still limits its description to "fear of a looming civil war."...
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Voting: What is it Good for? Absolutely Nothing
Kurt Nimmo...If you trek to your voting place next week, you will be condoning thievery, endless war, continued corruption, and above all else, the destruction of the Constitution. "Being patriotic in America means being devoted to the Constitution, if not the natural rights philosophy that motivated much of it. Since neither of the major political parties has any interest whatsoever in enforcing the constitutional limitations on the state, they are all traitors to the Constitution," writes Thomas J. DiLorenzo. "Anyone who supports them is also behaving in a traitorous manner. That is, anyone who votes for any of them. Voting only allows these traitors to the Constitution to proclaim that 'the people have spoken’ and 'I am your president,’ or congressman, senator, governor, or whatever. Their legitimacy rests solely on their ability to make this claim." Howard Dean declares war to be interminable and Nancy Pelosi affirms her desire that Bush will not be impeached. Instead of a record turn-out next week, determined to throw the bums out (again, ad nauseam), it is my wish that so few people go to the polling places it sends a message...
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Since Americans Are Good People, Whatever We Do It Can't Be Called "Torture"
Normalizing Torture
BRUCE JACKSONLet's start with the definition of torture in the 1984 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, to which the United States is a party. Torture, the Convention says, is any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions...
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This Is What Waterboarding Looks Like
David CornAs Congress has debated legislation that would set up military tribunals and govern the questioning of suspected terrorists (whom the Bush administration would like to be able to detain indefinitely), at issue has been what interrogation techniques can be employed and whether information obtained during torture can be used against those deemed unlawful enemy combatants. One interrogation practice central to this debate is waterboarding. It's usually described in the media in a matter-of-fact manner. The Washington Post simply referred to waterboarding a few days ago as an interrogation measure that "simulates drowning." But what does waterboarding look like?...
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Iraq to seek extension of US troop mandate: Zebari
ReutersIraq plans to ask the United Nations Security Council to extend the mandate governing the presence of U.S.-led forces in Iraq for another year, Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Monday. He said a continued foreign troop presence under the mandate, which expires on December 31, remained "indispensable" for Iraq's security despite the government's desire to expedite the training of its own security forces. In an interview with Reuters, Zebari said there was no rift with the United States over the ultimate goals in Iraq despite the past week's tensions over how much control the Iraqi government has over its forces....
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Abramoff knew about war on Iraq a year before it happened
SirJ, Unknown News and Daily KosIsn't it just super how slime like Jack Abramoff knew there would be a war in Iraq ONE FULL YEAR before it started! When it comes to incriminating documents for impeachment, this is as good as it gets (...) Newly-disclosed e-mails from the Minority Chair of the House Government Reform Committee Henry Waxman provide new areas of insight into Jack Abramoff's closeness to the Bush administration. Most shocking of all (at least of those I've been able to read so far) is that Abramoff off-handedly mentions "the upcoming war in Iraq." The date--March, 2002..
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