Tag: iraq war
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resistance is growing against the new financial world order
people all over the world are starting to wake up & speak up against the wars & against the banksters… but is it too little too late? antiwar activist says obama’s war policies worse than bushfrom cns news: President Barack Obama’s war policies in Iraq and Afghanistan are criminal and worse than those of former…
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happy birthday iraq war! celebrating 6yrs of death & destruction
6yrs later, progress & doubt are legacy of iraq warfrom cnn: Six years ago Thursday, then-President George W. Bush appeared on television screens across America and somberly addressed the nation. “My fellow citizens,” he began his four-minute speech, “at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm…
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oregon oddities: bankbombs, embezzlement & chemwars
video: federal charges considered in oregon bank bombing from kgw: Court records obtained by KGW suggest the two Oregon men charged in connection with a deadly bank bombing in December often talked about robbing a bank and even practiced a dry-run in Woodburn in 1994. Bruce Turnidge and his son Joshua Turnidge are facing aggravated…
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ron paul: one million dead iraqis since invasion
from raw replay: Ron Paul cautioned against a hawking foreign policy while speaking before the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Paul noted the count of dead Iraqis. “So, yeah, we wanted to get rid of a bad guy in Iraq but it cost – it took another one million Iraqis got killed. Believe me, they…
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obamessiah gives team america a pep talk
here’s a couple of telling takes on the big speech: first a sports analogy, as if it’s all a big game…from time: Rarely has a pep talk come with so much pomp. The setting, for starters, was no high school locker room at halftime, with sweaty teenagers scratching their gym socks. Robed Supreme Court justices…
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bush’s final press conference: ‘things didn’t go according to plan’
from raw replay: President Bush answered questions asked by the White House press corps for the final time today. RAW STORY has more details here. This video is from CNN.com, broadcast Jan. 12, 2009. farewell to bush, the president and the manbush’s last press conference: full of disappointment bush: 9/11, 2 wars, katrina: ‘we had…
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police state int’l: tracked, traced, tortured, erased
masonic big brother is watching, but seniors don’t mindfrom jeffrey kurz: Sensors keep track of just about everything Shirley Player does in her apartment, but she’s not worried that Big Brother is watching. Far from it. “I feel very safe with it… It’s nice to know you’re being watched.” Player is one of 68 residents…
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kbr subcontractor holding 1,000 workers in iraq warehouses
from danger room: KBR, the defense services giant, and its subcontractors have been repeatedly accused of using slave labor in Iraq. But despite the lawsuits, and despite the Congressional hearings, KBR and its business partners keep getting busted for treating its workers like little more than chattel. The latest: “About 1,000 Asian men who were…
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feel the change! more neocons & hawks in obama cabinet
obama announces clinton, gates for his cabinetfrom ap: President-elect Barack Obama on Monday announced a foreign policy team led by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Bush’s defense secretary, Robert Gates — both early supporters of a war in Iraq that he opposed and will be seeking to wind down. At a news…
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newsflash! gulf war syndrome is real, says new federal report
and if you think this is bad, you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet…from cnn: An extensive federal report released Monday concludes that roughly one in four of the 697,000 U.S. veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness. That illness is a condition now identified as the likely consequence of exposure to toxic…
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pranksters distribute fake new york times declaring ‘iraq war over’
what jello biafra calls ‘monkeywrenching the new world order’… from common dreams: The US defence department yesterday declared the end of the Iraq war and the immediate withdrawal of all troops, prompting an admission from Condoleezza Rice that the Bush administration knew all along that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, according to…
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come, let us celebrate our monsters
from winter patriot: Ninety years ago today, on November 11, 1918, World War I finally ended. Of course it wasn’t called that at the time; it was called The Great War. How could anyone have known it would be the first of many? Who could have guessed that barely twenty years would pass before the…
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ron paul: obama won’t pull troops out of iraq
from raw replay: Two days after the election, top conservative leaders are meeting to discuss the best way to revive the Republican Party. Do they expect John McCain to lose? If so, who will be the new face of the GOP? Rachel Maddow is joined by former presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, (R) Texas. This…
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video may show friendly fire cover-up in iraq
from raw replay: Salon’s Mark Benjamin has uncovered a shocking video taken from a soldier’s helmet in Iraq which seems to indicate that a friendly tank caused the death of 2 U.S. troops.