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The War on Terror

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 17:30:03 -0400

This closing sentence fom Paul Craig Roberts' latest article sums up the War on Terror perfectly.

Bush’s war is not on terror. Bush’s war is on Muslim states not ruled by American puppets.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration- ie. an honest, well informed, not bribed or blackmailed, Republican, stating clearly that the "War on Terror" is really...

Widespread Opinion: Israel is committing War Crimes

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:06:12 -0400

It is absolutely shameful that our Government is standing by while collective punishment and war crimes are meted out on the people of Lebanon. Let us be clear: if America and Britain had not given Israel the green light to do this, then it would not be happening. It is beyond horrific.

Writers from around the world weigh in on the Israel-Lebanon-Gaza crisis...

With Entire World Against US, Bush & Congress push for more war

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:06:54 -0400

Pope Benedict XVI called for "an immediate cease fire" to allow humanitarian aid to get to the innocent victims of the violence.

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Condi rules out a quick cease-fire as a "false promise" : LA Times

Are US policies creating more hatred and more terrorism?

US Vetoes World Calls for Middle East Ceasefire- Twice

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:09:33 -0400

U.S. Vetoes U.N. Condemnation of Israel, Demanding Ceasefire in Gaza

UNITED NATIONS -- The United States blocked an Arab-backed resolution Thursday that would have demanded Israel halt its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, the first U.N. Security Council veto in nearly two years.

The draft, sponsored by Qatar on behalf of other Arab nations, accused Israel of a "disproportionate use of force" that endangered Palestinian civilians, and demanded Israel withdraw its troops from Gaza.

The United States was alone in voting against the resolution. Ten of the 15 Security Council nations voted in favor, while Britain, Denmark, Peru and Slovakia abstained.

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UN team in Lebanon calls for ceasefire

BEIRUT - A UN team entrusted to negotiate a truce between Israel and Hezbollah called on Sunday for an end to hostilities, the protection of civilians and the release of Israeli soldiers captured by the Lebanese Shia militant group.

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US vetoes UN ceasefire call (Lebanon)
US against the World, two solo votes in three days... even our old ally Great Britain can't vote with us- why not?

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Light of Beirut fades on its darkest day

LEBANON has no air defences to speak of - no fighter planes or long-range surface-to-air missiles - so the Israeli Air Force can carve it up at its leisure.

The bombs come without warning, day and night, ripping through buildings, roads, offices, homes and refugee convoys.

Only afterwards do the shocked survivors hear the whisper of the jets, high above the reach of any ground fire, invisible in the summer haze.

At night you can see the fighter bombers: so confident are the pilots of their impunity that they pass over Beirut with their navigation lights on.

After four days of retaliation, the Israeli Government's tally stood at: a member of the Hezbollah militia, which started the whole business with its border raid last Wednesday, a bunch of Hezbollah offices and homes and more than 100 innocent men, women and children.

This was a reply to the deaths in action of 12 Israeli military personnel and four civilians, including a eight-year-old boy, killed by Hezbollah in subsequent exchanges of long-range fire.

ElBaradei: Iran not an immediate nuclear threat

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:17:16 -0400

Iran does not pose an immediate nuclear threat and the world must act cautiously to avoid repeating mistakes made with Iraq and North Korea, the head of the U.N, nuclear watchdog agency said on Tuesday. Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the world shouldn't "jump the gun" with erroneous information as he said the U.S.-led coalition did in Iraq in 2003, nor should it push the country into retaliation as international sanctions did in North Korea.

"Our assessment is that there is no immediate threat," the winner of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize told a forum organized by the Monterey Institute of International Studies south of San Francisco. "We still have lots of time to investigate."

"You look around in the Middle East right now and it's a total mess," he said. "You can not add oil to that fire."

Walter Cronkite: The War on Drugs is a Failure

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:19:07 -0500

Walter Cronkite: Telling the Truth about the War on Drugs

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent on this effort - with no one held accountable for its failure.

Amid the clichés of the drug war, our country has lost sight of the scientific facts. Amid the frantic rhetoric of our leaders, we've become blind to reality: The war on drugs, as it is currently fought, is too expensive, and too inhumane.

But nothing will change until someone has the courage to stand up and say what so many politicians privately know: The war on drugs has failed.

The Drug War Goes Up in Smoke

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:31:03 -0500

The war on terror may be too new to declare victory or defeat. But this nation has been fighting a war on drugs for more than a quarter-century, ever since New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller mandated harsh drug sentencing in 1973--and it may be time to announce that this is one war we've lost. More than a million people are serving time in our prisons and jails for nonviolent offenses, most drug-related, at a cost to the public of some $9.4 billion a year. Many billions more are spent by the states and the federal government on drug interdiction, drug-law enforcement and drug prosecutions.

Harsh laws that require lengthy minimum sentences for the possession of even small amounts of drugs have created a boom in the incarceration of women, tearing mothers away from their children. Much of the country's costly foreign-policy commitments--especially in Latin America and the Caribbean--are determined by drug-war priorities. And yet drug use has actually soared, with twice as many teenagers reporting illegal drug use in 2000 as in 1992.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030818/abramsky

Former CIA Officers say BushCo planning to Attack Iran

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:21:31 -0500

In Pat Buchanan's American Conservative Magazine Aug 1st 2005, former CIA Officer Philip Giraldi wrote:

In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran. The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons.

BushCo Audio + Iraq Images Slideshow

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 06:02:36 -0500

"The area in the south and the west and the north that the coalition forces control is substantial. It just happens not to be the area where weapons of mass destruction were dispersed. We know where they are, they're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and uh east, west, south and north somewhat."

General admits US began Bombing Iraq in 2002

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:07:56 -0500

Addressing a briefing on lessons learnt from the Iraq war Lieutenant-General Michael Moseley said that in 2002 and early 2003 allied aircraft flew 21,736 sorties, dropping more than 600 bombs on 391 “carefully selected targets” before the war officially started.

82% of Iraqis Strongly Oppose Presence of Occupation Troops

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:35:49 -0500

The poll, undertaken for the Ministry of Defence and seen by The Sunday Telegraph, shows that up to 65 per cent of Iraqi citizens support attacks and fewer than one per cent think Allied military involvement is helping to improve security in their country.
It demonstrates for the first time the true strength of anti-Western feeling in Iraq after more than two and a half years of bloody occupation.

82 per cent are "strongly opposed" to the presence of coalition troops;

less than one per cent of the population believes coalition forces are responsible for any improvement in security;

"This clearly states that the Government's hearts-and-minds policy has been disastrous. The coalition is now part of the problem and not the solution."