US WAR ON IRAQ

Home   2003   Jan-June 2004   July-Dec 2004   Jan-June 2005    July-Dec 2005    Jan-June 2006   July-Dec 2006    Jan-June 2007     2007      

  Times on Line- Iraq             See also Iraqi Journal
 

Do You Really Want the Truth About 9/11 and Election Fraud - - See OIL EMPIRE for much more information

 

WANTED FOR WAR CRIMES POSTER  Then click on the bottom right corner of picture to print your own large poster



  Petition to Impeach Bush and his Top Officials   For you to sign
Comment by Larry Ross
December 31, 2005
Here is a vitally important petition to the U.S. Senate to impeach George Bush and key administration officials. Bush
has committed so many impeachable offences against the U.S. Constitution and against international law. His lies to Americans to get them to support his war on Iraq is a major impeachable offence. His continuing to make illegal, unjustified war every day, resulting in the death or maiming of thousands of Americans is an impeachable offence.
  The SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 TREASON INDEPENDENT PROSECUTOR ACT   from Alfred Lambremont Webre & Leuren Moret
Please sign, post, pass around, publish and promote this action to try Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld for treason.
  VIDEO: George Bush Drunk Again
Various sources
Posted December 31, 2005
There have been rumors that Bush has been drinking again.
Here is actual footage of him talking about the Iraq elections in a very inebriated state.
And he is actually the most powerful man in the world!!! Unbelievable - He can't even control himself.
     
   
  A Call For Help And Justice
December 31, 2005
Statement of the Council of Nineveh Province Notables, Sheikhs and Uleima.
In the light of the difficult circumstance that our country and people in general and the Province of Nineveh in particular are going through, a number of dignitaries and tribal chiefs from the Nineveh Province have met to discuss the tragic condition of the people of the Province under the shadow of the deficiency and absence of legislative and executive authorities and their security and military authorities which have changed to become tools for the oppression of the people of the Province and to add further to their misery.
     
   
  Iran War Much More Horrific than Iraq War
Comment by Larry Ross
December 30, 2005
Long term C.I.A. analysts, authors of the following dire warning against a U.S. war with Iran, are saying what many others have said on our website, that Bush plans this war with Iran; that it is linked to U.S. Israeli policy; that it could become nuclear and threaten all humanity; that this war is very much against the interests of the U.S. and others; that the neocons have pushed this policy as well as initiated the war on Iraq primarily to satisfy Israel's territorial ambitions; that most Americans fear to speak out because they have been conditioned to believe that those against Israeli policy are anti-Semitic.
  It's More Important Than Halting Nuclear Proliferation
December 29, 2005
Let's Stop a US/Israeli War on Iran
The peace movements of the entire world should be in crisis mode right now, working non-stop to prevent the U.S. and Israel from starting a war against Iran. (See the James Petras article in CounterPunch on December 24, 2005 titled Iran in the Crosshairs for the best summary of the present situation.) The reckless and unnecessary dangers arising from such a war are so obvious that one wonders why normal political forces in the two aggressor countries -- both of whom love to glorify themselves as democracies -- would not prevent such a war from happening.
  Iran in the Crosshairs
by Ryan McGreal, ICH
August 24, 2005
Iran's danger to America is not its nuclear program but its plan to introduce a euro-based energy exchange.
Starting in 2006, Iran will start up an "oil bourse", or a stock exchange for trading energy, that will be based on the euro, not the US dollar. While this may seem innocuous, it will be a grave risk to continued American global hegemony.
     
   
  U.S. Public Has Adapted to Bush
Comment by Larry Ross
December 29, 2005
Robert Steinback has written an excellent analysis of how far the American public has adapted to Bushism since the 9/11
attack in 2001. Although Bush's popularity has gone down to 35%, his control over the country is not seriously challenged.
He still gets what he wants with a few modest objections. More importantly he continues to wage an illegal war based on lies, and plans for a war on Iran, perhaps with nuclear weapons. Remarkably few object. Even the Democratic Party don't oppose him, and refused to tell the American people the truth about Bush's Iraq war lies. They actually support that illegal war based on a litany of lies They refuse to expose and fight Bush's electronic voting machine fraud in the 2004 election, that gave him another term in the Whitehouse. There is no longer a real opposition party in the USA.
  Fear destroys what bin Laden could not
December 27, 2005

If, back in 2001, anyone had told me that four years after bin Laden's attack our president would admit that he broke U.S. law against domestic spying and ignored the Constitution -- and then expect the American people to congratulate him for it -- I would have presumed the girders of our very Republic had crumbled.
Had anyone said our president would invade a country and kill 30,000 of its people claiming a threat that never, in fact, existed, then admit he would have invaded even if he had known there was no threat -- and expect America to be pleased by this -- I would have thought our nation's sensibilities and honor had been eviscerated.

     
   
  WAR WITH IRAN CANCELLED?
Comment by Larry Ross
December 24, 2005

...The U.S. has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in a totally criminal enterprise - one of the greatest cons in history. ...

  Iran's Victory Revealed in Iraq Election
by Robert Scheer
December 21, 2005

For the Bush White House, the good news from Iraq just never stops. But the joy that President Bush has expressed over the country's latest election, though more restrained than his infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech, will similarly come back to haunt him.
Soon after Bush spoke of the Iraqi election as "a landmark day in the history of liberty," early returns representing 90 percent of the ballots cast in the Iraq election established that the clear winners were Shiite and Sunni religious parties not the least bit interested in Western-style democracy or individual freedom -- including such extremists as Muqtada al-Sadr, whose fanatical followers have fought pitched battles with U.S. troops.

     
   
  Bombing Civilians in Iraq
Comment by Larry Ross
December 20, 2005

The great increase in U.S. bombing in Iraq does not help the U.S. win their illegal war.
It does make many more Iraqi casualties and many more opponents of the U.S. occupation and war making. The U.S. then calls them "terrorists", thereby attempting to justify even more bombing.
......It is not a war on terrorism in Iraq. The U.S. makes terrorists where there were none before. It is a war on civilians.

  Ignoring the Air War
December 14, 2005

The American media continues to ignore the increasingly devastating air war being waged in Iraq against an ever more belligerent Iraqi resistance -- and, as usual, Iraqi civilians continue to bear the largely unreported brunt of the bombing.
When the air war shows up at all in our press, it is never as a campaign, but as scattered bare-bones reports of individual attacks on specific targets, almost invariably based on military announcements.

     
   
  If America Left Iraq
by Nir Rosen, Atlantic Monthly
December 12, 2005

At some point—whether sooner or later—U.S. troops will leave Iraq. I have spent much of the occupation reporting from Baghdad, Kirkuk, Mosul, Fallujah, and elsewhere in the country, and I can tell you that a growing majority of Iraqis would like it to be sooner.
....Would the withdrawal of U.S. troops ignite a civil war between Sunnis and Shiites?

     
   
  Rumsfeld's Insanity Accurately Reflects U.S. Policy
Comment by Larry Ross
December 11, 2005

People may not be aware of how deeply the criminal neocon system of beliefs have permeated the Bush Administration. It is very pervasive, very committed, criminally insane, and convinced they are right. They have also committed themselves to the potential pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear states they decide to claim are 'suspected of having WMD and suspected of plotting to attack the U.S.'

  Donald Rumsfeld Is Mad As a Hatter
December 6, 2005

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is mad. No, I mean seriously ill. Mentally ill. Demonstrably so.

     
   
  On the Trail of the CIA
December 10, 2005

By Manfred Ertel, Erich Follath, Hans Hoyng, Marion Kraske, Georg Mascolo and Jan Puhl
Since Sept. 11, the CIA has played a vital role in the war on terror. But what role is it? Operating in the shadows, American secret services have been given wide-ranging powers by the Bush Administration. And they include murder, abduction and torture.
It's Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001, four days after the terror attacks in New York and Washington. US President George W. Bush withdraws with his closest advisors to Camp David in order to escape the chaos of the week and to develop the first plans to confront the new and unprecedented challenge facing the United States.
In the afternoon, then CIA head George Tenet distributes a file to all participants of the crisis summit. It's called "Going to War." Inside are the first rough outlines of the coming war against terrorism. In the upper left corner of the file's cover, there is a red circle inside of which is a portrait of Osama bin Laden with a black line drawn through it.

     
   
  Thugs and Criminals Rule
Comment by Larry Ross
December 9, 2005

....For the first time in history criminal leaders have nuclear arsenals to impose their will and have said they are prepared to use them. The US, UK, Israel and other 'Coalition of the Willing' nations are waging illegal, unjustified wars and have threatened opponents with nuclear weapons to achieve their objectives. It is a giant conspiracy that threatens to destroy all humanity.

  America can't take it anymore
by Mark Follman
December 5, 2005

Five days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Vice President Dick Cheney instructed the nation that the U.S. government would begin working "the dark side" to defeat its enemies in a new global war. "A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion," Cheney declared on NBC's "Meet the Press." He added, "It's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal."

     
   
  Harold Pinter's Speech on Receiving The Nobel Prize For Literature
Comment by Larry Ross
December 8, 2005

...an ideal short piece to use to help convince people that they should care about the crimes committed in the name of Democracy and Western Civilisation. More and bigger crimes are being committed every day and far greater crimes may be planned - so long as enough people don't care enough to do anything about it. Darkness, dictatorship and the destruction of endless illegal and unjustified wars loom ahead with the Bush Regime.

  Harold Pinter:  Nobel Lecture - Art, Truth & Politics
December7, 2005
     
   
  9/11 Special Documentary - "The War On Terror Is Bogus"
Comment by Larry Ross
December 7, 2005

"Was 9/11 more than just an attack? Could the Bush administration have had anything to gain from the attack? Two prominent European politicians, Michael Meacher and Andreas von Bülow, express their serious doubts about the official version of the 9/11 story."    Watch it online. Real video   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11222.htm

     
   
  Chaos In Iraq: Gross Incompetence or Sinister Policy?
December 3, 2005

....The general reaction, even among some war supporters, has been bitter derision: "Jeez, these bozos couldn't boil an egg without causing collateral damage."
But what if the truth is even more sinister? What if this murderous chaos is not the fruit of rank incompetence but instead the desired product of carefully crafted, efficiently managed White House policy?

     
   
  Formula for U.S. Wars On Islam
Comment by Larry Ross
December 1, 2005

Drefuss's article (follows) is the best I have read yet which reveals how the U.S. foments wars and makes enemies under cover of "spreading Democracy In The Middle East".
The U.S. is practising Machiavellian tactics (a hallmark of Bush's neoconservative administration) at home and abroad and using Orwellian techniques to befuddle, terrorise and ultimately sell it to the American public.

  Dreyfuss on Bush's Deadly Dance with Islamic Theocrats
compiled and edited by Tom Engelhardt
November 30, 2005

During his embattled summer vacation in Crawford, Texas, George Bush managed to launch a new promotional ditty for his war in Iraq: "As Iraqis stand up, we will stand down." Since then there has been much commentary from the administration, from military officials, and from the media on the question of how successfully the Iraqi military is actually "standing up."

     
   
  IMPEACH BUSH - Israeli Military Historian's Judgement on Bush
Comment by Larry Ross
November 30, 2005

Professor van Creveld is an Israeli military historian who agrees with most of the right-wing myths of the middle east. So his following judgement on Bush is particularly interesting.
"For misleading the American people, and launching the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 B.C sent his legions into Germany and lost them, Bush deserves to be impeached and, once he has been removed from office, put on trial along with the rest of the president's men. If convicted, they'll have plenty of time to mull over their sins.
Martin van Creveld, a professor of military history at the Hebrew University, is author of "Transformation of War" (Free Press, 1991). He is the only non-American author on the U.S. Army's required reading list for officers.

     
   
  Western Populations Enmeshed In A Cocoon of Propaganda
Comment by Larry Ross
November 29, 2005

Once again we have John Pilger at his best revealing how even the revered BBC is little more than a sophisticated propagandist for the UK State. The BBC endlessly repeats Tony Blair's and George Bush lies over their illegal and totally unjustified war on Iraq. It carefully avoids reporting damming key facts about that war, as Pilger so ably documents.
The mass media in other countries - the U.S., Australia and New Zealand is just as bad and very much the servant of Bush-Blair-Howard pro-war propaganda.

  Mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power
by John Pilger
November 25, 2005

The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection of subjugated knowledge." The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news and information and to the World Wide Web, convinced that mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power.

     
   
  Worse than Watergate?
by Judith Coburn, AlterNet
November 24, 2005

A reporter who covered Watergate says Bush has more power than Nixon's imperial presidency did in the early 1970s.
On July 31, 1973, while the Vietnam war was still being fought, Representative Robert Drinan, a Massachusetts Democrat, introduced the first impeachment resolution against President Richard Nixon. One of the grounds for indictment Drinan proposed was the secret bombing of Cambodia, ordered by the President. To Drinan, this was a crime at least as great as the domestic scandals which had already come to be known as "Watergate."
See also Worse than Watergate by Arianna Huffington  and  Excerpt from the Book "Worse Than Watergate" by John W. Dean

 

  Democrats Also Responsible for Iraq War And Similar Wars to Come
Comment by Larry Ross
November 22, 2005

......a war on Iran could become larger than the one on Iraq, with far more domestic repression in the U.S. and other states in the 'coalition of the willing'. As the US. military is now over extended, a new larger war may mean the Bush Administration will justify the use of nuclear weapons.
As the consequences could be far greater for everyone than those of the Iraq war, preventative actions should be taken by governments now, before the event. Afterward may be too late to be of much use.

  A 'Loyal Opposition' Won't End the War
by Jeremy Scahill
November 21, 2005

The refrain of the Democrats about being misled into supporting the invasion of Iraq has become really tired. And someone other than the White House smearmongers needs to say it: The Democrats cannot be allowed to use faulty intelligence as a crutch to hold up their unforgivable support for the Iraq invasion. What is DNC Chair Howard Dean's excuse? He wasn't in Congress and didn't have any access to Senate intelligence. Still, on March 9, 2003, just days before the invasion began, Dean told Tim Russet, on NBC's Meet The Press, "I don't want Saddam staying in power with control over those weapons of mass destruction. I want him to be disarmed."

     
   
  Iraq Cannot Be Won
by Rep. John Murtha, AlterNet
November 19, 2005

A conservative senior House Democrat and Purple Heart-decorated Vietnam veteran describes the U.S. presence in Iraq as an 'occupation,' and calls for immediate troop withdrawal.

     
   
  U.S. Threatens To Use Nuclear Weapons 17 Times
Comment by Larry Ross
November 17, 2005

.....The next U.S. pre-emptive war could be against Iran, and/or Syria. Both have been mentioned as potential targets by Bush, as has North Korea if it dares to try and make nuclear weapons.
...... From the following record, and George Bush's actions and statements, we know what to expect.
Hopefully this should encourage people to work to keep New Zealand nuclear-free, and encourage other countries to adopt this step toward a nuclear weapons-free world.

  A CENTURY OF U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTIONS
by Zoltan Grossman
revised September 20, 2001

U.S. military spending ($343 billion in the year 2000) is 69 percent greater than that of the next five highest nations combined. Russia, which has the second largest military budget, spends less than one-sixth what the United States does. Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Cuba, Sudan, Iran, and Syria spend $14.4 billion combined; Iran accounts for 52 percent of this total.

     
   
  Comment
November 15, 2005

We can expect the US and UK governments to seek to minimise the extent of their war crimes.
But it's time the media stopped

  The Media are Minimising US and British War Crimes in Iraq
By George Monbiot
November 8, 2005

The reporting of the Iraqi death toll - both in its scale and account of who is doing the killing - is profoundly dishonest
"The Guardian" -- -- We were told that the Iraqis don't count. Before the invasion began, the head of US central command, General Thomas Franks, boasted that "we don't do body counts". His claim was repeated by Donald Rumsfeld in November 2003 ("We don't do body counts on other people") and the Pentagon last January ("The only thing we keep track of is casualties for US troops and civilians").

     
   
  Terrorism Law Rejected - For Now
Comment by Larry Ross
November 15, 2005

Blair's bid to allow police to hold terrorist suspects for up to 90 days without charge has failed in Parliament.
..... It is very clear, that the public needs a massive educational effort by top experts and speakers using every means of modern communication on the truths of our perilous situation. I think that would motivate enough people to stop Bush, Blair and Howard from committing more and perhaps far worse war crimes. Unless quick action is taken we are unlikely to be able stop the deterioration to more wars and worse disasters.

  Blair faces terrorism vote showdown
Stuff/Reuters
November 10, 2005

British Prime Minister Tony Blair was due to risk his first major defeat in parliament overnight (NZT) in a bid to allow police to hold terrorist suspects for up to 90 days without charge.

     
   
  Failing upward, Bush-style - Bush's Wall of Shame   #1
Posted November 10, 2005

Three weeks ago, Nick Turse wrote a dispatch, The Fallen Legion, Casualties of the Bush Administration, about government officials who resigned or retired in protest, or were forced over a cliff by this administration. It was, in essence, a proposal for a Wall of Honor. At the time, we realized that it should be accompanied by a Wall of Shame. This, then, is the first of two linked pieces that attempt to apportion a little of the shame and honor. Look for Nick Turse's accompanying piece tomorrow.

   Who Had the Real Intel on the War   #2
by Nick Turse

...On February 15, 2003, at least 10 million people in 400 cities in 60 countries, across 5 continents saw what was about to happen plenty clearly. They saw that the coming war would be illegitimate, deadly, and destructive. They sensed that invading Iraq would, in the long run, be no cake-walk. They already understood that what the Bush administration so clearly planned to do was based on lies. And they knew it was all wrong -- not from the start or months or years later -- but before it ever began.

     
   
  Bush's America Today
Comment by Larry Ross
November 1, 2005

Fascism Growing In America, Britain and Australia?
It is likely that the US brand of Fascism will become much more overt and repressive, especially if given a boost along that road by new 9/11 incidents. Bush will have to act soon to reverse his declining popularity and muster public support for US attacks on Syria and Iran. A new 9/11 would allow the Bush Administration to implement the next phase of the neo-conservative US global domination plan.

     
   
  NZ Doctor Serving as RAF Officer Says "NO"
Comment by Larry Ross
October 28, 2005

to Continuing US-UK War Crimes in Iraq Now Tony Blair's military are putting Kendall-Smith on trial for refusing to serve again in Iraq because he believes the war is illegal. The evidence keeps piling up, far more than we had in 2003 and 2004 that the war is illegal and violates every law, every convention, every treaty on every aspect of waging war, that humanity has ever created. Really it is so absolutely stupefying, and I am amazed that there is so little opposition to Blair's colossal deceit. The British people seem to be as much a pushover for war propaganda and lies as the Germans were under Hitler. But it's worse, far worse.......

  The Epic Crime That Dares Not Speak Its Name
by John Pilger
October 27, 2005

The question of legality deeply concerns the British military brass, who sought Tony Blair's assurance on the eve of the invasion, got it and, as they now know, were lied to. They are right to worry; Britain is a signatory to the treaty that set up the International Criminal Court, which draws its codes from the Geneva Conventions and the 1945 Nuremberg Charter. The latter is clear: "To initiate a war of aggression... is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

     
   
  Royal Airforce NZ Doctor Says No to Iraq War
Comment by Larry Ross
October 27, 2005

It's the best news for a long time that an NZ doctor, with a postgraduate qualification in philosophy, has refused further service with the UK airforce in Iraq because he thinks it is illegal. He is a credit to his parents.
New Zealand should be proud that a New Zealander is bringing the first court case in Britain to question the constitutional legality of the Iraq invasion.

  NZer to argue UK Iraq involvement illegal
From Stuff
October 26, 2005

Two New Zealanders will effectively put Britain's involvement in the United States-led "coalition of the willing" in Iraq on trial later this week.
A British court martial of New Zealander Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith will begin on Thursday (local time), when he will become the first British officer to face criminal charges for challenging the legality of the Iraq war.

     
   
  Bush's Illusion Of Normality
by Ernest Partridge
October 24, 2005

Never in the 229 years of United States history has this government "of, by and for the people" been in greater peril. Not during the Civil War, not during the great depression, and not during the Second World War or the Cold War which followed. Until today, gross incompetence, abuse of power, corruption, corporatocracy, and federal insolvency could be checked and reversed by balanced and separated governmental powers, and at the ballot box by a citizenry informed and provoked by an alert and independent media. Now all branches of government and the mainstream media are dominated by the wealthy elites in control of a single political party. Can you believe this? .....         bushwatch

     
   
  Bush's Iraq War: Campaign Politics, Oil, Israel, And Empire
by Frank Rich
October 24, 2005

.... - American military commanders testified before Congress about their already overtaxed troops and equipment in March 2002 - the path was clear for a war in Iraq to serve as the political Viagra Mr. Rove needed for the election year.
.....For Mr. Rove and Mr. Bush to get what they wanted most, slam-dunk midterm election victories, and for Mr. Libby and Mr. Cheney to get what they wanted most, a war in Iraq for reasons predating 9/11, their real whys for going to war had to be replaced by fictional, more salable ones.
.....Mr. Libby and Mr. Cheney were in the boiler room of the disinformation factory. The vice president's repetitive hyping of Saddam's nuclear ambitions in the summer and fall of 2002 as well as his persistence in advertising bogus Saddam-Qaeda ties were fed by the rogue intelligence operation set up in his own office.        bushwatch

     
   
  Real News - Journalistic Heroes in U.S. Today
Comment by Larry Ross
October 23, 2005

Excellent Source Of Independent Journalists and News

  Before the Plamegate Deluge: Honoring Our Journalistic Heroes
by Bernard Weiner
October 11, 2005

A political and media onslaught is about to be unleashed with the indictments of a whole host of key White House officials (including you-know-who) caught up in the Plamegate coverup. The unraveling of this potentially treasonous scandal -- which began with the outing, for political reasons, of a covert CIA officer -- could well provide the tipping point that will allow the Democrats to retake the House in the next election, initiate Congressional investigations of Bush Administration crimes, and possibly even pass an impeachment resolution.

     
   
  Fighting Terror or Expanding U.S. Empire
Comment by Larry Ross
October 20, 2005

Over 350(US) billion dollars yearly finances the US Global War On Terror (GWOT).
As the following report by the Center For Defense Information shows, much of it is wasted. Some 12 billion cannot be accounted for. As pointed out in other papers on this site, the U.S. continues to create enemies in order to justify ever increasing defence budgets. These in turn help make arms corporations very, very wealthy. Naturally that assures continuing large campaign donations from the mainly republican arms trade corporations to ensure Bush and other Republican candidates and chosen Democrats get re-elected.

  Important New CRS Report on War Spending
from CDI
October 13, 2005

From Sept. 11, 2001, to last week, the federal government has spent $357 billion on the “Global War on Terror.” These expenses include military operations, reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan and security at U.S. bases and embassies overseas.

     
   
  War Bankrupting U.S.
Comment by Larry Ross
October 19, 2005

...Only by constantly inventing new enemies and justifying new wars, can Bush and his Republican allies satisfy the needs of a growing military/industrial complex. President Eisenhower warned Americans in 1960 about the growing power of "the military-industrial complex". Now this has become the military-industrial-political-scientific-academic complex, as so many Politicians, Scientists and Academics depend on this complex of interests.

       

"Never before in the history of the world has so much been spent,
so quickly and recklessly on so much wanton destruction and evil by so few."

     
   
  Some Enlightening US Journalism
October11, 2005

Bill Gallagher is one of the very few journalists, who write about the amazing and real situation in the US today.
If more journalists, newspapers, TV and radio told the truth, the Bush Administration would probably soon lose power and influence. Bush would be impeached and many in the Bush Administration would be prosecuted for war crimes.

     
   
  BUSH UNBALANCED AS POLLS PLUMMET - The Great Lie of Our Times
by Bill Gallagher
August 30, 2005

DETROIT -- With George W. Bush, a certifiable madman, in power, it shouldn't be surprising that the rest of our republic is going bonkers. Bush, our commander in sleep, has spread the virus of neo-fascist fever and the bug is gripping our nation like the flu in February. The evidence is compelling.
The national commander of the American Legion demands an end to all "public protests" and "media events" against the war. Commander Thomas Cadmus declared, at the legion's convention in Honolulu, that "it would be tragic if the freedoms our veterans fought so valiantly to protect would be used against their successors today."
I get it. Here's what's wrong with America these days: freedom of speech, the freedom to peaceably assemble, and the right of people to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Those items found in the Bill of Rights are the scourges of our nation. Get rid of those damn freedoms at home and the Iraqis will start tossing rose petals at our troops.

     
   
  Covert Operations Revealed
Comment by Larry Ross
October 5, 2005

A number of papers on this site indicate that the Bush administration commits terrorist acts, with the objectives of bringing about, a civil war in Iraq that will justify their continuing occupation and plundering of Iraq's ressources. This article is the first one I have seen that also claim UK forces are also engaging in this deadly and evil game.

  A Policy of Absolute Barbarism?
by Mike Whitney
September 24, 2005

Basra; another milestone in war on terror
"What our police found in their car was very disturbing - weapons, explosives, and a remote control detonator. These are the weapons of terrorists. We believe these soldiers were planning an attack on a market or other civilian targets." Sheik Hassan al-Zarqani, spokesman for the Mehdi Army

     
   
  Various Ways Extinction Could Occur
Comment by Larry Ross
September 29, 2005

Mankind has created a number of ways which could be used to trigger an extinction process, as assessed by this article by editors of the Bulletin Of Atomic Scientists in Dec 2004. Some factors not assessed, even more relevant today are: 1. The possibility of an unbalanced, rogue and/or ideologically-driven government gaining power and deliberately implementing a strategy of war and terror attacks which then escalate into a self-extinction process. Some suspect this may already be happening....

  Rethinking doomsday
by Linda Rothstein, Catherine Auer and Jonas Siegel
Nov/Dec 2004

Loose nukes, nanobots, smallpox, oh my! In this age of endless imagining, and some very real risks, which terrorist threats should be taken most seriously?

     
   
  Nuclear War Plans Can Lead To Extinction
Comment by Larry Ross
September 26, 2005

A search on "Pre-emptive Nuclear War" revealed there are 1,750,000 entries on Google.
They illustrate the colossal investment in designing and making various types of nuclear weapons and the strategies to use them.
Think about the hundreds of billions of dollars poured into the nuclear arms race during the last 65 years since 1945. Now think about the paltry fig-leaf sum devoted to peace and disarmament and the suspicion and rejection of those working in this field. These facts and reflections tell you something about humanity and our runaway race toward extinction.

  Six Escalation Scenarios Spiraling to World Nuclear War

A world nuclear war is one that involves most or all nuclear powers releasing a large proportion of their nuclear weapons at targets in nuclear, and perhaps non-nuclear, states. Such a war could be initiated accidentally, aggressively or pre-emptively and could continue and spread through these means or by retaliation by a party attacked by nuclear weapons. While some speak of "limited nuclear war," it is likely that any nuclear war will quickly escalate and spiral out of control because of the "use them or loose them" strategy. If you don't use all your nuclear weapons you are likely to have them destroyed by the enemy's nuclear weapons.

     
   
  Pre-emptive Nuclear War - A Road Map to Extinction
Comment by Larry Ross
September 26, 2005

This 2003 paper gives a historical record of the development of nuclear war as a tool to achieve US military objectives.
No longer were nuclear weapons to be regarded as a deterrent "last resort" type of doomsday device. There was a new doctrine to use nuclear weapons first or "pre-emptively" - supposedly before the claimed enemy had a chance to use what the Pentagon calls "weapons of mass destruction" against the US.
The Pentagon will supply the so-called "intelligence" to justify it. This would likely be a phoney doctored intelligence, similar to what they supplied to justify the war on Iraq with a litany of accusations later found to be false.
Based on what they knew to be lies, Bush for the US and Blair for the UK , nevertheless warned they might use nuclear weapons against Iraq if Iraq resisted the US-UK invasion with WMD.
The alleged WMD could be anything the Bush Administration chose to define as WMD.

  U.S. PRE-EMPTIVE NUCLEAR STRIKE PLAN
by Jeffrey Steinberg
March 7, 2003

It Keeps Getting Scarier and Scarier
...The prospect of the U.S. using nuclear weapons against Iraq adds a new, even more horrifying dimension to the threat of war in the Persian Gulf. LaRouche has already called on President Bush to renounce this madness.
The leak of the Jan. 10, 2003 document did not come in a vacuum. For the past year, the Bush Administration has been moving, step by step, to overturn a fifty year policy of keeping nuclear weapons on the shelf, as part of America's strategic deterrent. Here is a short chronology:
In January 2002, the Bush Administration issued its Nuclear Posture Review, a Congressionally mandated report on the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
For the first time, the 2002 report openly discussed the possible use of nuclear weapons, naming seven countries that could be targets of the American nuclear arsenal: Russia, China, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Libya and Syria.

     
   
  US Creates Perpetual War and Terrorism
September 20, 2005

Although written in 2002, the following article gives a blueprint on how the US can create covertly, the very terrorism they condemn and which they use to justify wars - such as the much-predicted war on Iran. It may seem puzzling and counterproductive why the so-called terrorists in Iraq seem to be attacking Sunnis and Shiites in the apparent attempt to foment a civil or religious war between the two factions. Why would they do that if the objective is to get rid of US occupation?
On the other hand if a civil war did develop in Iraq, the US would have a reason to remain rather than withdraw, thus giving them a motive to foment a civil war between the two factions.
The British used similar techniques called "divide and rule" - setting one faction against another - in building their Empire.

  Into the Dark: The Pentagon Plan to Foment Terrorism
April 15, 2005

This column stands foursquare with the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, when he warns that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large. We know, as does the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, that this statement is an incontrovertible fact, a matter of scientific certainty. And how can we and the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, be so sure that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large?
Because these attacks will be instigated at the order of the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense.
This astonishing admission was buried deep in a story which was itself submerged by mounds of gray newsprint and glossy underwear ads in last Sunday's Los Angeles Times.

     
   
  Are We Past The Point Of No Return?
September 20, 2005

Throughout human history, we have created many ingenious reasons to go to war - thousands of wars. PNAC's US Empire plans and methods may be diabolically evil, but also extremely cunning and effectively sold by all the techniques of modern communication. The US people have been carefully shielded from knowing about the myriad of lies and P2OG operations to deceive them into supporting, and believing in the validity of Bush's "war on terror". Now we are entering a new stage in the Empire building plan.

  Dark Passage: PNAC's Blueprint for Empire
by Chris Floyd
March 27, 2005

Not since Mein Kampf has a geopolitical punch been so blatantly telegraphed, years ahead of the blow.
Adolf Hitler clearly spelled out his plans to destroy the Jews and launch wars of conquest to secure German domination of world affairs in his 1925 book, long before he ever assumed power. Despite the zig-zags of rhetoric he later employed, the various PR spins and temporary justifications offered for this or that particular policy, any attentive reader of his vile regurgitation could have divined his intentions as he drove his country – and the world – to murderous upheaval.

     
   
  Ordeal of a Whistleblower
by Evelyn Pringle, AlterNet
September 14, 2005

In October 2004, Bunnatine Greenhouse, a top military official responsible for making sure the Army Corps of Engineers complies with contracting rules, came forward and revealed that top Pentagon officials showed improper favoritism to Halliburton when awarding military contracts.
The allegations made by this official were first reported by Time magazine.
Greenhouse said that when the Pentagon awarded Halliburton a five-year, $7 billion contract, it pressured her to withdraw her objections, actions which she claimed were unprecedented in her experience.

     
   
  Bush's Use Of Terror Against Opponents
September 7, 2005

As predicted, Bush is using the law enforcement apparatus of the state to terrorize critics. The 77 year old Korean vet, Don Stout, had broken no laws, but had openly criticised Bush and his policies. In other words he was exercising his democratic political right to criticise and expose the lies of his President. At considerable cost, the Bush machine helicoptered in 8 law enforcement officers who invaded the vet's property without any excuse or explanations.
This shows that America has been taken over by a lawless regime, who have already broken a number of international laws with their war on Iraq based on lies. Now they have begun to be more blatant in violating domestic American law by attacking 77 year Don Stout.
Stout made an important prediction - a new terrorist attack "that will take the heat off Bush" and allow him to declare martial law. Bush may also use it as an excuse to start a war against Iran or Syria, as he used 9/11 to justify his war against Iraq.

  Authorities Swarm 77 yr Old Vet's Property Hours After His Calling Bush A Liar
by Greg Szymanski
August 13, 2005

On Radio Station
Law Abiding Ohio Resident And Korean War Veteran Has Authorities Illegally Swarm On His Property Just Hours After He Called President Bush A Liar On A Local AM Radio Station.
Although Doug Stout, 77, won't pin illegal entry on his property to his harsh comments about Bush, but says one thing for sure "I don't smoke pot and everybody in town knows it." After hovering over his property with a helicopter, officers then swarmed on his land, looked at some shrubbery and then left without any explanation.

     
   
  Former Air Force Capt.Turned Activist Says
by Greg Szymanski
August 24, 2005

Pentagon's Actions Towards Depleted Uranium Use 'Beyond Treason'
Popular activist-broadcaster, Joyce Riley, hits government 'right between the eyes' with powerful new documentary exposing cover-up of depleted uranium illnesses, leaving Gulf War troops sick and dying.

     
   
A Breath of Reality
Comment by Larry Ross
August 23, 2005

Cindy Sheehan spells out the truth and reality of Iraq and Bushites as never before. Just what America desparately needs right now - a dose of reality to cut through tons of lies endlessly repeated by Bush's cheerleading mass media.

Hypocrites and Liars
by Cindy Sheehan
August 20, 2005

The media are wrong. The people who have come out to Camp Casey to help coordinate the press and events with me are not putting words in my mouth, they are taking words out of my mouth. I have been known for sometime as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite. Now I am urged to use softer language to appeal to a wider audience. Why do my friends at Camp Casey think they are there? Why did such a big movement occur from such a small action on August 6, 2005? .....full story

     
   
The Terrorist of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
by DOUG THOMPSON
August 22, 2005

My first reaction to George W. Bush’s all-too-obvious politicizing of the memories of September 11, 2001, in his latest lame attempt to justify his illegal and immoral war in Iraq, was anger.
Then anger gave way to sadness.
Sadness over a morality-challenged politician’s use of the deaths of 3,000 plus Americans for his own political gain.
And even more sadness because there are still people out there stupid enough to fall for this kind of crap.
Bush has pulled this stunt before. He keeps 9/11 in his bag of tricks as a last-ditch effort to save his corrupt political hide when things go bad. And, according to polls, things are bad. An increasing majority of Americans no longer buy his lies about Iraq and oppose the war along with growing numbers who finally realize the President of the United States is a liar who cannot be trusted.

     
   
  High-Ranking Army Officer - Missile Hit Pentagon
By Greg Szymanski
August 20, 2005

Radiation Expert Claims High-Radiation Readings Near Pentagon After 9/11 Indicates Depleted Uranium Used.
Two high profile radiation experts concur Pentagon strike involved use of a missile. Also Geiger counter readings right after the attack shows high levels of radiation 12 miles away from Pentagon crash site.
A radiation expert and high-ranking Army Major, who once headed the military's depleted uranium project, both contend the Pentagon was hit by missile, not a commercial jetliner, adding high radiation readings after the strike indicate depleted uranium also may have been used.
"I'm not an explosives or crash site expert, but I am highly knowledgeable in causes and effects related to nuclear radiation contamination. What happened at the Pentagon is highly suspicious, leading me to believe a missile with a depleted uranium warhead may have been used," said radiation expert Leuren Moret in a telephone conversation this week from her Berkeley, CA home.

     
   
Comment
August 6, 2005

NOTE: As Iraq descends ever deeper into chaos, especially in Baghdad, the American and European media have long since ceased reporting from its streets. Instead, they report from the safety of their hotels, citing information they get
from Iraqi runners. However, courageous American journalist Dahr Jamail has become famous worldwide for his unique "Iraq Dispatches". He continues to risk his life to interview Iraqis on the streets, and thus provides much of the world with its only accurate picture of the conditions inside Iraq. In this fascinating article, Mr. Jamail interviews American military veterans who've returned from the Iraq War.

"WHAT HAVE WE DONE?"
by Dahr Jamail
August 5, 2005

As the blood of US soldiers continues to drain into the hot sands of Iraq over the last several days with at least 27 US soldiers killed and the approval rating for his handling of the debacle in Iraq dropping to an all-time low of 38%, Mr. Bush commented from the comforts of his ranch in Crawford, Texas today, “We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq.”

     
   
Tomgram: Jim Lobe on Timing the Cheney Nuclear Drumbeat
August 3, 2005

In a recent piece, The Media's Roving Eye, trying to establish a timeline that would offer context for the Plame case, I wrote the following:
"Vice President Cheney started the administration's atomic drumbeat to war in Iraq with a series of speeches on Saddam's supposed nuclear capabilities and desires beginning in August of 2002. (The crucial role of Cheney, whose eye was first caught by a Defense Intelligence Agency report on the Niger uranium documents back in February 2002, in the events that would become the Plame case, has been poorly covered...)"

     
   

Congress Oversight Of Our Gulag A No-No, Says Bush, Cheney

Posted July 30, 2005

Last week, we wrote of the Bush Faction's increasingly successful drive to establish the principle of unlimited presidential authority -- beyond the reach of any law or constitutional restriction -- as the new foundation of a militarist American state. This relentless push toward autocracy gained even more strength in recent days, in two cases centering on what has emerged as the very core of President George W. Bush's authoritarian philosophy: torture.

     
   
Israel involved in several attacks in Iraq
Blatant Facts
July 20, 2005

Caught in the act: a revealing image, a stunning fact or an outstanding statement
...., “Mossad agents managed to infiltrate during the government of Iyad Allawi thanks to the help of former Defense Minister Hazem Salan and former Interior Minister Fallah Nagib”. “They also placed members of the Baas Party in the Iraqi security, intelligence services and in financial posts”. After the killing of 500 Iraqi scientists and academics since the beginning of the war, Israel is trying to weaken Iraq and foster popular discontent against the Resistance, and also against the current Shiite government prior to the upcoming elections. And all this is happening surrounded by the silence of the international community...

     
   
Depraved War Crime: Pentagon Thugs Destroy 5,000 Years Of History
July 13, 2005

"War crimes: Violations of the law and customs of war."
- Principles of the Nuremberg Charter and Judgment, Principle VI b (1950)
It couldn't be clearer that the American people don't realize - or don't care - that their own nation is committing numerous war crimes and is on an unsustainable collision-course with the rest of humankind. If they did, they'd be idiomatically stating the obvious: "Something's gotta give, or this planet's toast!"

     
   
Financial Basis of US Militarism, War, and the Drift to Fascism
July 11, 2005

Can you imagine that in a time of peace at the end of the cold war, with the US recognised as the only superpower, the US military takes 68 cents of every tax dollar for defence, as against only 32 cents on everything else. And it's not enough, they want more.

Two-Thirds On Defense
by Jurgen Brauer and Nicholas Anglewicz
July 10, 2005

Many Americans believe that 19 cents on defense for every 81 cents on non-defense is a reasonable way to spend a tax dollar. But by another calculation, the tax dollar splits 68 cents for defense and 32 cents on everything else. It is a common misconception that U.S. defense expenditure is equivalent to the Department of Defense outlays. Instead of $436.4 billion of defense expenditure, as Congressional budgeteers count, government statisticians in the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) counted $548.0 billion for calendar year 2004—a whopping $112 billion difference. And by our own calculations, U.S. defense expenditure is much higher than even the BEA's numbers suggest, namely $765.6 billion in calendar year 2004—about $330 billion or than the Department of Defense outlays.

     
   
Blair's Blowback
July 11, 2005

Of course those who backed the Iraq war refute any link with the London bombs - they are in the deepest denial
Shortly after September 11 2001, when the slightest mention of a link between US foreign policy and the terrorist attacks brought accusations of heartless heresy, the then US national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice got to work. Between public displays of grief and solemnity she managed to round up the senior staff of the National Security Council and ask them to think seriously about "how do you capitalise on these opportunities" to fundamentally change American doctrine and the shape of the world. In an interview with the New Yorker six months later, she said the US no longer had a problem defining its post-cold war role. "I think September 11 was one of those great earthquakes that clarify and sharpen. Events are in much sharper relief."

     
   
Paymasters Of Carnage - The ghost at Gleneagles
By John Pilger
July 9, 2005

In the orgy of summit coverage something has been overlooked: the two men at the heart of it, telling us how the world should be run, are the men responsible for Fallujah and Abu Ghraib.
Over the past two weeks, the contrast between two related "global" events has been salutary. The first was the World Tribunal on Iraq, held in Istanbul; the second the G8 meeting in Scotland and the Make Poverty History campaign. Reading the papers and watching television in Britain, you would know nothing about the Istanbul meetings, which produced the most searing evidence to date of the greatest political scandal of modern times: the attack on a defenceless Iraq by America and Britain.

     
   
Robert Fisk: The reality of this barbaric bombing
by Robert Fisk
July 9, 2005

If we are fighting insurgency in Iraq, what makes us think insurgency won't come to us?
"If you bomb our cities," Osama bin Laden said in one of his recent video tapes, "we will bomb yours." There you go, as they say. It was crystal clear Britain would be a target ever since Tony Blair decided to join George Bush's "war on terror" and his invasion of Iraq. We had, as they say, been warned. The G8 summit was obviously chosen, well in advance, as Attack Day.

Bombing of London - a fuller picture
July 8, 2005

"We will not allow violence to change our society and values.." Blair said
"Total-war not only destroys the enemy's military forces, but also brings the enemy society to an extremely personal point of decision, so that they are willing to accept a reversal of the cultural trends," Ledeen writes."The sparing of civilian lives cannot be the total war's first priority. . . . The purpose of total-war is to permanently force your will onto another people."
See the book, "Iraq's Nuclear Mirage"

Michael Ledeen Demands `Regime Change' in Iran
by Scott Thompson
July 11, 2003

We have already crossed the Rubicon. We are already in Hell. World War III in Eurasia is already ongoing. There was not an Iraq war; there is a continuing Iraq war. There was not an Afghanistan war; there is a continuing Afghanistan war. There's already an onset of a war with Iran, being run covertly, as a covert operation, from the United States, in Iran right now! You see it on the television screens here. That is not a spontaneous student movement. That is a U.S.-run destabilization of Iran, trying to set up the conditions for a war. The situation in Korth Korea; other situations I know of; we are now inside World War III. It is not something that we could prevent from happening. We're there.
Address by Lyndon LaRouche in Istanbul, Turkey, June 14, 2003

Fight Fascism, the Way Franklin Roosevelt Did
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
June 29, 2003

We are fighting a war, today, against fascism. In fact, it's exactly the same fascism, that Roosevelt fought against during World War II and before.

     
   
  So, Mr Bremer, where did all the money go?
July 7, 2005
At the end of the Iraq war, vast sums of money were made available to the US-led provisional authorities, headed by Paul Bremer, to spend on rebuilding the country. By the time Bremer left the post eight months later, $8.8bn of that money had disappeared. Ed Harriman on the extraordinary scandal of Iraq's missing billions.
     
   
What's Behind the London Attacks?
by Matt Hutaff
July 7, 2005

The bombing of the London Underground was a false-flag operation designed to keep the West mired in war. Don't believe otherwise. Only one word sprang to mind when I heard about the bombings that claimed the lives of dozens of Londoners today – convenient.

     
   
World Military Spending Topped $1 Trillion in 2004
by Peter Starck
July 7, 2005

STOCKHOLM - World military spending rose for a sixth year running in 2004, growing by 5 percent to $1.04 trillion on the back of "massive" U.S. budgetary allocations for its war on terror, a leading research institute said on Tuesday.

     
   
Will we "Survive Treason From Within"?
July 6, 2005

....Some believe his [Bush] Administration was implicated in committing the 9/11 attacks - the new 'Pearl Harbour' called for in the neocon PNAC papers. Without 9/11, his lies and war crimes would not be possible. So far, he has got away with all these crimes, consolidated and increased his power domestically and externally. He is absolutely committed to continue these crimes, and will likely increase them. There seems to be no serious and powerful opposition from the Democrats or others, such as the mass media, to Bush's administration and actions.

     
   
More Distractions! Article Assumes There Are Real Terrorists!
Posted July 1, 2005

The only terrorists that have attacked America are sitting in the White House and supported by the Congress and Press who are all bought and paid for or intimidated into complying.
Don't forget what happened to all those "investigative" reporters out there. They are dead!!!! There are also NOW, over 79 Scientists who have died since 9-11 and 11 of them died immediately between 9-11 and 12-2001.
A huge coincidence, huh???

     
   

2003   Jan-June 2004   July-Dec 2004   Jan-June 2005    July-Dec 2005    Jan-June 2006   July-Dec 2006    Jan-June 2007     2007

Home      Disclaimer/Fair Use