tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-277577822011-11-09T11:50:22.740-08:00A blog following the US administrations attempts to take over the world.Briannoreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27757782.post-84711379720441090312011-11-09T11:17:00.000-08:002011-11-09T11:17:52.708-08:00

The evolution of humanity is an iterative process of two opposing systems, the system of war and peace and similarly of slavery and freedom. As one can see, I did not take the interrelated opposites: evilness and goodness, for the evolution of humanity requires both to exist and the synthesis (our present evolutionary and technological state) was born out of this antithesis (chaos) and thesis (

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Nearly 7,000 civilians were killed in Iraq in the past two months, according to a UN report just released - a record high that is far greater than initial estimates had suggested....With known Iraqi deaths running at more than 100 a day because of sectarian murders, al-Qaida and nationalist insurgent attacks, and fatalities inflicted by the multinational forces, the UN said its total was likely

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The United States is losing its fight against terrorism and the Iraq war is the main reason, more than 80 per cent of American terrorism and national security experts have said in a survey.One expert, former CIA official Michael Scheuer, said the war in Iraq had provided global terrorist groups with a recruiting bonanza and a valuable training ground."The war in Iraq broke our back in the war on

Briannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27757782.post-1155907538856985462006-06-10T06:25:00.000-07:002010-06-18T06:18:37.625-07:00

Iraqi Army soldier Ali Katham Hussein would have a Purple Heart if he were in the U.S. Army. But he's received no medals for valor. He can't even afford to have the shrapnel and bullet lodged in his chest removed.Neither can the Iraqi army."In Saddam Hussein's time, if you got hurt, you received compensation," he said.Three months ago, insurgents ambushed Ali Katham Hussein's unit near Abu Ghraib

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"If laws were broken there will be punishment." Really? The war itself is a violation of international law, along with the abuse and torture of prisoners, the kidnapping of alleged terrorists, their rendition to torture regimes allied with Washington, the network of secret CIA prisons, and the denial of due process and Geneva Convention rights to those swept up in America's international

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Newsweek reported this week that the U.S. military, in fact, is no longer pursuing a strategy for "victory." "It is consolidating to several 'superbases' in hopes that its continued presence will prevent Iraq from succumbing to full-flown civil war and turning into a failed state. Pentagon strategists admit they have not figured out how to move to superbases, as a way of reducing the pressure --

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Bad stuff happened in Iraq, stuff Adam Reuter doesn't want to talk about. Not with his friends, not with the line cooks in the burger joint where he worked when he first came home or the tenants in the apartment complex he manages now.He doesn't even want to talk about it with his wife, who worried because he was jumping out of bed in the middle of the night.But when he agrees to talk about the

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THE American military is planning a “second liberation of Baghdad” to be carried out with the Iraqi army when a new government is installed. Pacifying the lawless capital is regarded as essential to establishing the authority of the incoming government and preparing for a significant withdrawal of American troops. Strategic and tactical plans are being laid by US commanders in Iraq and at the US

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On the southern outskirts of Baghdad, a sewage treatment plant that was repaired with $13.5 million in U.S. funds sits idle while all of the raw waste from the western half of Baghdad is dumped into the Tigris River, where many of the capital's 7 million residents get their drinking water. Adjacent to the Karkh sewage plant is Iraq's most advanced sanitary landfill, a new, 20-acre, $32 million

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Millions Missing From Program For Rebuilding.American contractors swindled hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraqi funds, but so far there is no way for Iraq's government to recoup the money, according to US investigators and civil attorneys tracking fraud claims against contractors. Courts in the United States are beginning to force contractors to repay reconstruction funds stolen from the

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Iraqi girl tells of US attack: A young Iraqi girl has exclusively given ITV News a shocking first hand account of what witnesses claim amounts to mass murder by US troops in the war-torn country.Ten-year-old Iman Walid lost seven members of her family in an attack by American marines last November. The interview with Iman was filmed exclusively for ITV News by Ali Hamdani,our Iraqi video

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The overstressed network is producing less than half the electricity needed to meet Iraq's exploding demand. American experts are working hard to shore up the system's weaknesses as 100-degree-plus temperatures approach beginning as early as May, driving up usage of air conditioning, electric fans and refrigeration.In the first week of February, a busy maintenance period, output dropped to 3,750

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In 1962 U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson II presented proof to the Security Council of the Soviet Union's movement of nuclear weapons to Cuba. This has been referred to as the "Adlai Stevenson Moment". When Colin Powell presented his "evidence" of Iraqi non-compliance with weapons inspectors many in the corporate media likened Powells presentation to the Adlai Stevenson moment.Now,

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The Washington Post's lead story todayUS.Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in IraqAdministration Is Shedding 'Unreality' That Dominated Invasion, Official SaysThe Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for far less progress than originally envisioned during the transition due to end in

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How the war in Iraq has fueled Al Qaeda and ignited its dream of global jihad.President Bush's May 2003 announcement aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln that "major combat operations" had ended in Iraq has been replayed endlessly. What is less well remembered is just what the president claimed the United States had accomplished. "The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on

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A report in the Christian Science Monitor today displays the enormous gulf between the actions of the US House of Representatives and the state of world affairs. While the British Parliament is furiously debating (and attacking) Blair's backing of Bush's drive to war, the US House of Reps is currently debating.....whether to commemorate Lewis and Clarke's expedition on the five cent coin!!!To

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In recent days it has been stated often by polling agencies and news broadcasters that a large percentage of people believe that the US should only attack Iraq if it has a second UN mandate. Does this mean that these "people" will accept US and British aggression against Iraq even though it is obvious that the US has been strong-arming and bribing UN Security Council countries to get the

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An article from my favorite reporter, Robert Fisk of the British newspaper the Independent: "How The News Will Be Censored In This War".

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From the Feb 25, 2003 International Herald Tribune, an article by Norman Mailer. A choice excerpt:"The dire prospect that opens, therefore, is that America is going to become a mega-banana republic where the army will have more and more importance in Americans' lives. It will be an ever greater and greater overlay on the American system. And before it is all over, democracy, noble and delicate

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From a February 24 Washington Post article titled Bush Faces Increasingly Poor Image Overseas White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett said:"There is always going to be a faction of people that don't agree [with war]. But I think anybody who gives a fair look at history on this will see that this president and this administration is acting responsibly and is attempting in every way

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An excellent story from the British newpaper The Observer parodies Bush's insane reasoning for war and pre-emptive strikes. It was written by Terry Jones (ex Python?).

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On the weekend, after seeing the huge anti-war protests in London, British Prime Minister Tony Blair claimed that protestors would have "blood on their hands" if they stopped military action.Channelling Orwell.....War is PeacePeace is WarPeace protestors will have blood on their hands if they stop war.(as seen in the Daily Mirror on Feb 20, 2003)

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Here's an excerpt from a speech by Congressman Abraham Lincoln (as seen on the TomDispatch website and credited to Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, The Library of America):"Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -- and

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In Britain, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, head of 70 million Anglicans and the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cormac Murphy O'Connor, head of 4 million British Catholics issued a statement questioning the "moral legitimacy" of Bush and Blair's planned war in Iraq (as reported by Andrew Clennell in the Independent on Feb 20, 2003). In the same message they called on Saddam

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In my previous post I asked whether the massive world-wide February 15th protests would have any effect on Bush's plans for invading Iraq.Bush:"Size of protest - it's like deciding, well, I'm going to decide policy based on a focus group" Mr. Bush said in response to a reporters question at the White House. "The role of a leader is to decide policy based upon the security, in this case, the

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Today in hundreds of cities around the world, protesters marched against the morally bankrupt Bush regime and its plans to invade Iraq. In New York up to 400000 protesters packed First Avenue between 49th Street and 72nd Street despite the freezing weather and despite the police and the mayor trying to deter protesters from coming by banning a march from the United Nations to Central Park. In

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Just a few thoughts on the interesting title president Bush has given to those nations that have agreed to help the US attack Iraq."Coalition of the willing [to break international law]""Coalition of the willing [to slaughter thousands of innocent people]""Coalition of the willing [to set fire to the Middle East]""Coalition of the willing [to establish American Imperialism around the world]""

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"The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion." from The New Mirriam-Webster Dictionary.An example of terrorism:George W. Bush stated on February 7, 2003 that "Baghdad could launch an unmanned drone from a ship to spray anthrax hundreds of kilometres inland" as reported in the Toronto Globe and Mail by Paul Koring.Why is this terrorism?:The statement is absurd. To think that an

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Some great articles appearing in todays papers. The first by James Carroll of the Boston Globe links the current US/Iraq crisis with the soon to be convened International Criminal Court.In a second article, Robert Scheer of the LA Times, discusses the "link" between Iraq and Al Qaeda. Some choice comments from the piece:"Hussein, himself evil in so many ways, is the secular apostate to the

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On February 12, first lady Laura Bush was to host a Whitehouse poetry reading titled "Poetry and the American Voice." However, when she became aware that many of the poets were going to read anti-war poems she abrubtly cancelled the event (read the Nation article on the subject here). Obviously, dissenting voices are not to be heard in the Whitehouse!! In honor of the Poets Against The War and

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In his Sorry State of the Union Address on the 28th of January president Bush stated that the United States of America will "defend the peace and confound the designs of evil men." I think what he meant to say was:"...confound the peace and defend the designs of evil men."or maybe even:"...confound the peace and defend the designs of evil me. (mwahahahahaha)"

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An excellent article by Jonathan Schell in The Nation, titled The Case Against the War. It outlines the hypocrisy of the Bush Administration's drive to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction.As discussed by Schell, the real consequence of Bush's foreign policy insanity is that if you want to avoid being attacked by the US you should develop weapons of mass destruction as quickly as

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As part of my never-ending war theme I will also occasionally discuss the never-ending conflict between the highly armed Israeli "Defense" Force and the Palestinians of the Occupied Territories. While I deplore the killing of any person in this conflict be it by Palestinian suicide bomber or by Israeli bullets, it is pertinant to note that Israel receives billions of dollars in military aid from

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Yes, I know, blogging (terrible word) is all the rage right now. Writing your thoughts down for all to see (at least those that care to look). I have decided after some deliberation to start my own blog. The name says it all. This blog is about the Bush administration's ambitions to conquer the world and remake it according to their own sick idea of reality.Over the next few weeks/months/(years?)

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