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GlobeandMail.com: “WASHINGTON — A contrite Donald Rumsfeld apologized yesterday to Iraqi prisoners abused by their American captors, and warned that the outrage will worsen if other images of the actions of U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison become public. “‘There are a lot more photographs and videos that exist,’ the U.S. Defence Secretary told the […]

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WAR ON TERROR REQUIRES LITTLE SACRIFICE FOR MOST AMERICANS: “As violence in Iraq ebbs and flows, American support for the occupation does as well. But the constant is this: The soldiers risking their lives rarely come from affluent families. Median income of a white recruit’s family is $35,000 a year; of a black recruit’s family, […]

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Please sign this petition. Dear Friend, The violence in Iraq is escalating beyond our control. It’s time to recognize that we need the world’s help to reach the hearts and minds of Iraqis. We’ve got to transfer management authority over Iraq to the United Nations, to enable a real transition to peaceful Iraqi self-rule. Please […]

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CNN.com – Baghdad celebrates Saddam’s capture: “After months on the run from coalition forces, a disheveled Saddam Hussein was found hiding in a hidden hole near a farmhouse and was captured without firing a shot, coalition authorities announced Sunday.” I didn’t think they’d find him alive. The rest of his natural life will no doubt […]

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Bill Maher: “I’m always rooting for our side, but how come, when we kill them, it’s war, but when they kill us, it’s terrorism? I mean, we’re all shooting at each other over there now, it does seem a little hair-splitting, especially since now it’s soldiers who are mainly under attack. Also, I thought we […]

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OK, so I know this is already all over the Web, but it’s the first I’ve seen it, so I’m posting it here (thanks, Suzanne, for passing along). George H.W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft wrote the following (page 489) in “A World Transformed,” Bush Sr.’s biography: “Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into […]

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San Jose Mercury News: “President Bush said Wednesday that there has been ‘no evidence’ that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, disavowing a link that had been hinted previously by his administration.” Am I in the Twilight Zone? Is it just me, or were the two main arguments for […]

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Toronto Star: “At home Bush took a major hit to his credibility when the White House admitted that his claim that Iraq was seeking to buy uranium in Niger to restart its nuclear program was false and based on forged documents. He made the charge in January in his State of the Union address, even […]

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Arianna Huffington on WMDs And The Psychology Of Fanaticism: “By all accounts, the behind-the-scenes battle within the Bush administration over just what information should be used, or spun, or hidden, to make the case that Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to America and the rest of the world was a knockdown, drag-out fight between […]

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Bush led this country to war because, he claimed, Iraq was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction and the country posed an imminent threat to the United States. So where are all those weapons? And why did Bush lie to us? Bush and his administration need to be held accountable for their serious actions that have […]

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