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Maya Schenwar, of Truthout: "At first glance, it seems like a shocking triumph for the antiwar movement: After five years of war, the House of Representatives finally voted down a war funding bill on Thursday afternoon, while simultaneously passing a provision to set a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq. The catch? The 'triumph' was engineered by House Republicans, most of whom voted 'present' on the funding bill, which would have provided $168.4 billion for operations for Iraq and Afghanistan. If the Republicans had voted for the funding, as they usually do, the 85 Democrats who voted 'yea' would've easily tipped the boat in the war funds' favor."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051608J.shtml



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Los Angeles Times

05/15/08

Republican John McCain, in a speech forecasting what the country would look like after his first term in office, said today that he expects the war in Iraq to be won and most troops to be home by January 2013. The prediction marks a major departure for McCain, who railed against rival Mitt Romney shortly before the Florida primary for his remark in April 2007 that he thought President Bush and Iraqi leaders should privately discuss a timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq. At the time, McCain suggested that the comment would embolden America’s foes in Iraq. The Arizona senator leveled the same criticism at Democratic Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, stating that their advocacy for withdrawing troops from Iraq amounted to setting a date for ’surrender’...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Mark Benjamin and Christopher Weaver

Why would these elite American soldiers kill an unarmed prisoner in cold blood? The answer: pressure from their commanding officers to pump up a statistic straight out of America's last long war against an intractable insurgency.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19928.htm



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/nicholas/nicholas48.html



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„Lügen haben kurze Beine", besagt eine Volksweisheit. Aber mehr als fünf Jahre - bis zum 7. Mai 2008 - hat es immerhin gedauert, die während des Irak-Krieges amtierende Bundesregierung einer schamlosen Täuschung der deutschen Öffentlichkeit zu überführen. Hatte Kanzler Schröder stets hoch und heilig versichert, man sei nicht an einem unter US-Kommando geführten Krieg gegen den Irak beteiligt, urteilte nunmehr das Bundesverfassungsgericht: "Mit der Luftraumüberwachung der Türkei in AWACS-Flugzeugen der NATO haben sich deutsche Soldaten an einem Militäreinsatz beteiligt, bei dem greifbare tatsächliche Anhaltspunkte für eine drohende Verstrickung in bewaffnete Auseinandersetzungen bestanden."..“ Artikel von Jürgen Rose in Freitag vom 16.5.08 http://www.freitag.de/2008/20/08200101.php

Siehe dazu auch:

Grundgesetz bindet die Bundeswehr an die Verteidigung des Landes. Das Verfassungsgericht bricht die Verfassung

“Merkel, Schäuble & Co. waren sicher nicht glücklich über das jüngste Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts. Ob aber die Entscheidung zum Awacs-Einsatz vor und während des Irak-Krieges im Jahr 2003 in der Türkei so „dankenswert“ war, wie der Verteidigungsexperte der LINKEN im Bundestag und der FDP-Sprecher nach dem Erfolg der Klage seiner Fraktion meinten, wird im folgenden Beitrag widerlegt…“ Artikel von Ulrich Sander in NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Online-Flyer Nr. 146 vom 14.05.2008 http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=12383


Krieg ist illegal - War is illegal

Internationale Erklärung, die in mehreren Sprachen verbreitet wird, auf der Aktionshomepage http://www.war-is-illegal.org/


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Mai 2008

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0513-15.htm



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In order to once again approve hundreds of billions of dollars to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, while posturing as opponents of "Bush's war," the Democratic leadership in Congress has crafted an elaborate legislative charade that is set to begin unfolding this week.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/dems-m13.shtml


From Information Clearing House



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Anne Flaherty of The Associated Press writes: "The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051208S.shtml



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Matt Renner Interviews Fraud Investigator Dina Rasor

Matt Renner, of Truthout: "Dina Rasor and Robert Bauman present firsthand accounts of fraud, deception, negligence and treachery by contractors during the privatized invasion and occupation of Iraq. This is the first war that was designed to rely on contractors - private companies with profit as their top priority - for transportation, food, water, spare parts and even protection."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051208J.shtml



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