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Arrogance, Racism Or American Exceptionalism? You decide.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19262.htm



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By DS

Out of the 31 people detained only nine survived and they claim they were subjected to torture.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19253.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0201-11.htm



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Nicht nur politisch, sondern auch wissenschaftlich streitet man über die Zahl der Opfer seit der Invasion im Jahr 2003.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/27/27181/1.html

Common Wonders
by Robert Koehler

01/31/08

‘Many in this chamber understand that America must not fail in Iraq, because you understand that the consequences of failure would be grievous and far-reaching …’ There it is again, that choking lie, so smoothly administered — with just enough fear to help America gag down all that righteousness. President Bush told it again in his final State of the Union address the other night, of course. What choice did he have? The truth, coming from him at this point, would be … too weird, too offensive, impossible to comprehend...

http://commonwonders.com/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=State+of+the+Union
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Consortium News
by Ray McGovern

01/31/08

Finally, the truth is seeping out. Contrary to how President George W. Bush has tried to justify the Iraq war in the past, he has now clumsily — if inadvertently — admitted that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was aimed primarily at seizing predominant influence over its oil by establishing permanent (the administration favors ‘enduring’) military bases. He made this transparently clear by adding a signing statement to the defense appropriation bill, indicating that he would not be bound by the law’s prohibition against expending funds ‘(1) To establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq,’ or ‘(2) To exercise United States control of the oil resources of Iraq’...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/013108a.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Weapons the U.S. provides to Iraqi security forces still might be ending up in the hands of terrorists, insurgents and criminals, the Defense Department inspector general told Congress on Tuesday.

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=188966


From Information Clearing House

A legal order which had stopped the media from reporting allegations of torture by British troops in Iraq has been lifted by the High Court.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7220486.stm


From Information Clearing House



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The last complete census in Iraq conducted in 1997 found 4.05 million households in the country, a figure ORB used to calculate that approximately 1.03 million people been killed as a result of the US war, the researchers found.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL3048857920080130?rpc=401&


From Information Clearing House

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Deadly hubris

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

02/01/08

A million dead — and for what? So that the neoconservatives could strand astride Washington and the world, bellowing threats and beating their chests in the wake of 9/11, braying that everything — everything — had changed, especially the basic rules of human decency. Because it was ‘doable,’ as Paul Wolfowitz put it. Because our foreign policy is in large part built around the concept of making the Middle East safe for Israel. And, most of all, because of the sheer hubris of those who thought themselves above the laws of God and man — who thought they were gods, and let loose American thunderbolts with reckless abandon, with deadly consequences...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12296


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hubris
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