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Zionist Neocons Pushed Iraqi Invasion

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:44:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Joe Klein Suggests Jewish Neocons Pushed Iraq War to `Make World Safe for Israel`

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Joe Klein Suggests Jewish Neocons Pushed Iraq War to `Make World Safe for Israel`

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Now Joe Klein has raised the issue of dual loyalty around the neoconservatives' motivation for "plump"ing for the Iraq war:

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Beautiful. A war to make the world safe for Israel. (Though I'd note that Klein needs to paste on the figleaf of the oil men having dual loyalty too. Dubious.) And note why Klein is saying this now: the overheated rhetoric re Iran. The realist view of the Israel/Palestine issue is coming inside.

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Three of the five Israeli agents appeared on Israeli television in November 2001 and admitted that their purpose had been to document the 9-11 attacks.

The Israeli military intentionally attacked the USS Liberty in June 1967, killing 34 and wounding 171.

Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister in 2001, has a long history of committing large-scale terrorist crimes.

Yerucham Bzozowitch (a.k.a. Eitan Livni), chief terror planner for the Irgun. Livni,

went to Britain in the 1940s to kill British leaders.

Tags: israel, 9/11, neocons, iraq, invasion

Boy 14 Forced into Oral Sex on another Prisoner!!!

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:46:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mazin Younis, of the Iraqi League, who has travelled in Basra collecting witness statements of allegations of abuse, says he now has "more than 80" cases involving allegations against British troops.

"Every single time I uncover a personal story of torture and humiliation in Iraq, I think to myself that I have seen the worst there is," Mr Younis added. "Then I hear the next story.

"Hassan shook with emotion and humiliation as he described to me the treatment he suffered at the hands of British soldiers five years ago. It had taken constant prompting and repeated reminders about the importance of detail before Hassan felt brave enough to describe how he was forced to engage in oral sex with his friend Tariq while their British captors laughed raucously and took photographs."

Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

British soldiers accused of sickening sex assault on Iraqi boy, 14

Just days after the MoD has to pay out millions to the father of a man UK soldiers beat to death, fresh claims of abuse emerge

British soldiers forced a boy of 14 to carry out an act of oral sex on a fellow male prisoner in Iraq

Hassan, says he was rounded up with a friend while trying to steal milk cartons from a food distribution centre. He was whipped, beaten and forced to strip naked.

"They made us sit on each other's laps," he said. "They were enjoying humiliating and abusing us, I wished I was dead at this moment. Then they made me sit with Tariq... where I was forced to put Tariq's penis in my mouth. The other two were made to do the same."

Court action is ongoing over a series of allegations surrounding the British base Camp Breadbasket and incidents that took place there in May 2003

There have been allegations of simulated sexual abuse of Iraqis by British troops, but this

be the first example of actual sexual abuse

Tags: iraq, youth, sex, crimes, uk, soldiers, prisoners

Yellowcake Uranium Found In Iraq, Bush Was Right! Well, Not So Much

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:42:26 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: And guess what:

Top recommended post at Redstate:

Yellowcake uranium found in Iraq, Saddam’s legacy, Bush was right!

Reading comprehension?

FAIL!

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This article from the AP was posted yesterday, reporting the sale and transport of 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium from Iraq to Canada. Some of the leading right wing blogs were quick to hail the find as a significant victory for the Bush administration and proof of Saddam’s WMD program, but as Daniel De Groot at Open Left Points out, their celebrations may be a bit premature, if not dishonest:

I noted last night that a supply of uranium from Iraq had been successfully moved to Montreal in secrecy.

If you check into this, you’ll quickly find that the uranium a) was not weapons grade and b) was well known to the UN and IAEA and was being stored legally by Saddam’s government. It was legally in Iraq according to international law.

I wondered if the right wing echo chamber would use this as “proof” that the WMD claims were true after all. I got even better than I hoped, as not only do they use it that way, but they reveal how dishonest they are by the way they have done this.

Tags: yellowcake, iraq, wmds, the, lie, nukes, saddam

USA: Drowning in Pretend Patriotism?

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:56:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Any doubts as to this later governing impulse of our imperial ambitions were shattered with the recent news that U.S. advisers to our puppet government in the Green Zone of occupied Iraq have worked out agreements for American oil companies to gain control of Iraqi oil fields. But, then again, what did we expect when we elected a Texas oil hustler, and a failed one at that, to be our president?

... AlterNet

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The U.S. Is Drowning in Pretend Patriotism

This Fourth of July, let's remember that it's not our God-given American right to reorder the world to our liking.

Washington's "Farewell Address" to the new nation was a warning about the threat of American imperial ambitions

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"In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels

that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. ..."

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We are drowning in the "impostures of pretended patriotism," used to cover the lies that got us into Iraq, the defense of torture and the violation of our basic liberties.

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n the name of patriotism, we presume a God-given American right to reorder the world to our liking, masking the vice of unfettered greed as an obligation of national security

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our imperial ambitions

out agreements for American oil companies to gain control of Iraqi oil fields

when we elected a Texas oil hustler

to be our president?

Tags: usa, patriotism, iraq, history, fuel

For WHAT? One Man! And the Next WAR?

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:46:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And all for the lack of one assassins bullet. Where is Mossad when it's needed? "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" If he was such a bad man could no one be found to "judicially assassinate" this 'turbulent' ruler? Keeping the rules has NOT been the hallmark of this administration, so why not 'eliminate' Saddam?

The truth is that he was never the target. Assassination would not have produced occupation. It would have save 4,000+ US lives but we have learnt that these didn't matter either. The out of sight, out of mind, no presidential presence at funerals worked for AWOL Bush. However the broken in mind and body will not go away so easily. Until they are swamped by the next lot.

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El soldado David Rozelle. The soldier David Rozelle.

David Rozelle. David Rozelle.

Tags: photos, iraq, war, usa, bush

Washington's War: From Independence to Iraq: an interview

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:49:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Great stuff here!

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[Video]

Tags: war, u.s., history, iraq, conquest, empire

New GAO Report: Who would you believe about IRAQ?

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:26:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

US agency disputes claims from Pentagon report on Iraq

The audit released by the independent Government Accountability Office (GAO) painted a starkly different picture of the war than another report issued yesterday by the Pentagon, which touted the decrease in violence and called the Iraqi political landscape "positive" but "fragile".

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"The goals and objectives of" the surge strategy that George Bush announced in early 2007, GAO auditors wrote, "are contained in disparate documents rather than a single strategic plan."

The GAO appeared to take a dim view of the administration's top-secret Joint Campaign Plan (JCP) -- described by the New York Times as a "detailed document" that projects a major US commitment to Iraq through next year.

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Walker, Fiscal Ranger

Walker's GAO sued Vice President Dick Cheney for refusing to reveal the members of his energy task force

he put GAO in the thick of the bitter Pentagon debate over changing course in Iraq

"Fiscal Wake-Up Tour,"

e Blackstone Group,

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June 24

Tags: gao, pentagon, iraq, lies, deception, report

WAR PROFITEERS being Protected by GAG ORDERS?

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:41:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Whistleblowers are the ones in danger of being criminalised while the REAL criminals are protected by the law! US contractors screwed the American and Iraqi people for BILLIONS, with White House blessing.

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Select

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$23 Billion Gag Order

Whistle blower lawsuits are automatically sealed for a couple of weeks after they are filed in order to give the DOJ a chance to decide whether to pursue the matter.

reporters think they know where $23 billion missing and misspent Iraq war dollars went, but they can't tell us:

US gagging order is preventing discussion of the allegations

The order applies to 70 court cases against some of the top US companies

A lot of war profiteering scandals come to light through whistle blower lawsuits

If the article is literally accurate, and a single gag order covers 70 cases, a whistle blower might have brought a very big case

It's not clear whether that's what's going on with the 70 cases the BBC alludes to

I interviewed an attorney who specializes in representing whistle blowers. He told me that it's not unusual for gag orders to be imposed in these cases

$23bn (£11.75bn) may have

been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq.

Tags: whistleblowers, gag, court, usa, iraq, oil, contractors

War Profiteering

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:45:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What a surprise

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BBC uncovers lost Iraq billions

A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq.

For the first time, the extent to which some private contractors have profited from the conflict and rebuilding has been researched by the BBC's Panorama using US and Iraqi government sources.

A US gagging order is preventing discussion of the allegations.

The order applies to 70 court cases against some of the top US companies.

War profiteering

While George Bush remains in the White House, it is unlikely the gagging orders will be lifted.

To date, no major US contractor faces trial for fraud or mismanagement in Iraq.

The president's Democrat opponents are keeping up the pressure over war profiteering in Iraq.

Henry Waxman who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said: "The money that's gone into waste, fraud and abuse under these contracts is just so outrageous, its egregious.

Tags: iraq, profiteering, money mismanagement, war

Before & Now! Leave?

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:30:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: BEFORE: free healthcare, free education, better electricity and water services, security of law and order
INVASION: No health, little education, power by the hour, some water, no law, no order.

US; 4,000 dead military plus 10s of 1,000 of broken in mind and body.
Iraq; 100,000 dead, displaced?
Both America and Iraq broken for how long?

Why again? WMD? Oil? Israel? Democracy? Regime change? Why not a Mossad assassins bullet if Saddam was ever the problem? CIA had no qualms before although Castro shows their incompetence at illegal regime change.

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before American and British soldiers illegally invaded

free healthcare, free education, better electricity and water services, and most importantly, the security of law and order

Bombs dropped by pilots and personnel who cannot see their targets continue to be a significant cause of civilian morbidity and mortality

only American

an end to American-run prisons

estimated that 70-90% of those incarcerated in these jails have been arrested “by mistake.”

imprisoned, tortured, raped, and/or murdered by American prison guards is the raison d’etre of the resistance

end to U.S.-run death squads

Latin American countries with American CIA involvement

disappearances, torture, murder

Iraqi society today

an end to the rape, torture, and murder of Iraqis by Americans

Americans will stop dying in Iraq and Afghanistan,

made Iraq a failed state.

legitimate resistance will bring an end to our illegal occupation

withdraw troops from Iraq

Tags: cia, iraq, war, regime, death, usa, cuba, israel

US issues threat to Iraq's $50bn foreign reserves in military deal

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:07:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Iraqi sovereignty...HA!

Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

The US is holding hostage some $50bn (£25bn) of Iraq's money in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to pressure the Iraqi government into signing an agreement seen by many Iraqis as prolonging the US occupation indefinitely, according to information leaked to The Independent.

US negotiators are using the existence of $20bn in outstanding court judgments against Iraq in the US, to pressure their Iraqi counterparts into accepting the terms of the military deal, details of which were reported for the first time in this newspaper yesterday.

Iraqi critics of the agreement say that it means Iraq will be a client state in which the US will keep more than 50 military bases. American forces will be able to carry out arrests of Iraqi citizens and conduct military campaigns without consultation with the Iraqi government. American soldiers and contractors will enjoy legal immunity.

Tags: iraq, war, conquest, empire, why

'When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?'

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:06:17 GMT

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Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

Fisk: So al-Qa'ida's defeated, eh? Go tell it to the marines

Last week the head of the CIA claimed it was winning the battle. Nonsense, argues Robert Fisk. The extremists in the Middle East are growing stronger

Six thousand dead in Afghanistan, tens of thousands dead in Iraq, a suicide bombing a day in Mesopotamia, the highest level of suicides ever in the US military – the Arab press wisely ran this story head to head with Hayden's boasts – and permanent US bases in Iraq after 31 December. And we've won?

General Peter Pace

aid of the American war in Iraq that "we are not winning but we are not losing"

Gates, said he agreed with Pace that "we are not winning but we are not losing".

James Baker

"I don't think you can say we're losing. By the same token, I'm not sure we're winning."

Bush

"We're not winning; we're not losing."

Am I alone in finding this stuff infantile to the point of madness?

The hell-disaster of the Middle East is now spread across Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, even Lebanon

Tags: lies, usa, iraq, war, afghanistan, death, suicide, soldiers

Bush: 'God told me'. ...BBC TV program

Fri, 23 May 2008 09:38:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Where's his god now? What a nut. Don't they lock up religious freaks like this in America? Surely a snake-oil salesmen have more credibility now. When will they ever learn? I'm embarrassed every time I hear him speak. What must it be like to have been a one time Bush-lover? God!

More from the BBC program...
Bush is quoted as telling the two, "I feel God's words coming to me: 'Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East.' And by God, I'm gonna do it."

Mr Abbas remembers how the US President told him he had a "moral and religious obligation" to act.
...BBC

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Bush: God told me to invade Iraq

President 'revealed reasons for war in private meeting'

Bush has claimed he was told by God to invade Iraq and attack Osama bin Laden's stronghold of Afghanistan as part of a divine mission to bring peace to the Middle East, security for Israel, and a state for the Palestinians

made the assertion during his first meeting with Palestinian leaders in June 2003, according to a BBC series which will be broadcast this month

Bush launched an impassioned attack yesterday in Washington on Islamic militants, likening their ideology to that of Communism, and accusing them of seeking to "enslave whole nations" and set up a radical Islamic empire "that spans from Spain to Indonesia"

programmeElusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, which starts on Monday

President: "I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.' And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq,' and I did."

Tags: religion, bush, iraq, invasion

Destruction of Iraq's past

Wed, 21 May 2008 03:10:11 GMT

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Director of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum says the US presence in Iraq is destroying the country's keys to its past.

"The destruction of Iraq's past has the potential of being one of the longest-lasting legacies of the US presence in Iraq," Geoff Emberling said.

An exhibit on the pillaging of Iraq's heritage titled "Catastrophe!" is currently running at the Chicago museum, along with seminars from Iraqi experts and delivered to US troops deploying in the region, The Christian Science Monitor reported.

Qais Hussein Rashid, director of research and antiquities excavations for Iraq's Board of Antiquities and Heritage, also says that "the looting of ancient sites is an old problem, of course, but this phenomenon has accelerated since the invasion of Iraq and the general insecurity that has left so many sites with no protection."

"We feel we are losing many of the keys to our past and the many pieces that together make up our heritage," the Iraqi official added.

Tags: iraq, united states

One Great Man, one good one, one Ok. One shite

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:21:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: GULLIBILITY: "The art of swallowing the belief that one side in a two party kleplocracy is not going to screw you over like a drunken virgin at a Roman orgy"

So, if you'll swallow shit(e) you get a shite runt like George, who has disgraced the Bush click forever. He's in his own unique group with Stalin and Mao in the number of deaths he is personally responsible for.

Now will you elect another man killer, or a female who wants to, or another man of peace - black.

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'One Great Man'

USA/Bush WAR Machine

Economic Apocalypse

Stephen King latest

Clueless Bush

Putin 'The Red Machine'

Napoleon Sarkozy

Condi Rice Witch

General Washington

Tarzan Blair

Tags: bush, stalin, mao, iraq, deaths, election