World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0123-01.htm

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935 LIES TO WAR
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/ad61a0032db7eb1b?hl=en

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False pretenses

Center for Public Integrity
by Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith

01/23/08

President George W. Bush and seven of his administration’s top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Nearly five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, an exhaustive examination of the record shows that the statements were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses...

http://www.publicintegrity.org/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Dead For Lies

By Cindy Sheehan

It is imperative that BushCo be impeached for past, present and future high crimes and misdemeanors. They have not only lied about the reasons for invading and occupying Iraq, but they have used their war of terror to redefine and lie about torture and commit unspeakable crimes against humanity.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19206.htm

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Bush Administration's 935 Lies to Iraq War
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/b0da7a14a63103c2?hl=en



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A failure to think

The Guardian [UK]
by Jonathan Steele

01/21/08

Five years after he launched it, George Bush’s invasion of Iraq looks even more disastrous than it did at the end of the first year. Not only did it uncover no weapons of mass destruction. The invasion has led to a collapse in millions of ordinary Iraqis’ personal security, producing a human rights nightmare and annual rates of killing that dwarf the atrocities of Saddam Hussein’s three decades of power. The damage to the United States has been enormous. As well as the loss of around 4,000 soldiers’ lives, America’s image and reputation in the Middle East have been severely harmed. For Bush and the neocons, the invasion has brought political defeat. Their project for Iraq to become a secular, liberal, pro-western bastion of democracy lies in ruins. The country is run by a narrow-minded group of Shia Islamists with close control over a sectarian army and police force. Many of them are linked to Iran...

http://tinyurl.com/2mw9b7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Beloit Daily News

01/23/08

A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks. The study concluded that the statements ‘were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses’...

http://tinyurl.com/2n8v3g


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Any talk of this war being some kind of "success" must cease before the evidence of widespread disease and want.

http://snipurl.com/1y0ci


From Information Clearing House

On the campaign trail he touts his sharp criticism of Donald Rumsfeld and the Bush administration on Iraq. But a look at McCain's record reveals a different war story.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/01/17/mccain/


From Information Clearing House



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

The editors of The Nation write: "As the election drama renewed optimism among voters disgusted with the Bush era, there was an unfortunate side effect: the war in Iraq seemed to disappear from the headlines. Perhaps it was public exhaustion over a war that is nearing the end of its fifth year, or the unwillingness of Democratic leaders and candidates to keep pressing their call for an end to the occupation.... Meanwhile, Democrats were slow to confront another conflagration--the tottering economy. We now face the prospect of an election-year recession on top of a disastrous and costly war. Some voters feel that one or the other crisis demands the higher priority: the war or the rapidly deteriorating economy. We believe both are top priorities."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011808M.shtml



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The cultivation of opium poppies whose product is turned into heroin is spreading rapidly across Iraq as farmers find they can no longer make a living through growing traditional crops.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/article3345715.ece


From Information Clearing House

TruthDig
by Joe Conason

01/16/08

As America marks the first anniversary of the troop escalation in Iraq, at least one thing has become clear. Although the “surge” is failing as policy, it seems to be succeeding as propaganda...

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080116_what_they_call_progress_in_iraq/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Cole, Bacevich refute 'myth' of successful Iraq surge
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7054/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
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Erin Emery for The Denver Post reports, "Fort Carson sent soldiers who were not medically fit to war zones last month to meet 'deployable strength' goals, according to e-mails obtained by The Denver Post."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011708T.shtml