- "If we have to, we just mow the whole place down,
see what happens." Ð Trent Lott
When Europeans decided they wanted to steal the Americas from the Native
populations in North and South America, they engaged in the most heinous
genocide in human history, cutting a swath through man, woman, and child
using guns, alcohol, and deliberate smallpox infection as their methods
of war. These settlers held that white Christian lives were of value, and
all others were created to serve them.
Never mind that Jesus himself was, in fact, a brown Semite from the Essene
region, and not a Caucasian. White made right.
To this day, those same family values are held by the Republican Party
in Washington DC. Consider the words of Trent Lott regarding Iraq:
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5098.htm
- The Hill
Asked whether he favored any policy changes in Iraq, Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.)
responded: "We need to have a different mix of troops, is the key.
We may need to move some troops around."
- Lott suggested moving more troops from the relatively
stable south closer to the region around Tikrit, where attacks on U.S.
forces have been common. He said there was a need for more trained military
police, adding that his comments were not a criticism.
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- "Honestly, it's a little tougher than I thought
it was going to be," Lott said. In a sign of frustration, he offered
an unorthodox military solution: "If we have to, we just mow the whole
place down, see what happens. You're dealing with insane suicide bombers
who are killing our people, and we need to be very aggressive in taking
them out."
Jesus, whether the Jesus in the Bible or the true Jesus whose words are
found in the Nag Hamaddi transcripts or Dead Sea Scrolls, teaches us to
judge others not by their words, but by their deeds: by their fruits, ye
shall know them.
Mr. Lott wants America to engage in the same kind of genocide it perpetrated
against the Indians, against the Vietnamese, and against the Cambodians
when America Supported Pol Pot. And there are millions of Americans who
continue to elect men like Mr. Lott, because they share this same view
of colored people.
By their fruits, ye shall know them.
Consider the actions of GW Bush. Bush is on a visit to the UK, where he
has refused to give a speech to parliament, afraid of hearing any dissent
from the elected representatives of British citizens. He has even tried
to put a ban on protests, and to make London into an exclusionary zone
during his visit, to prevent any shots on TV of Bush's presence in England
being protested.
- http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=462900
Anti-war protesters claim that US authorities have demanded a rolling "exclusion
zone" around President George Bush during his visit, as well as a
ban on marches in parts of central London.
The Stop The War Coalition said yesterday that it had been told by the
police that it would not be allowed to demonstrate in Parliament Square
and Whitehall next Thursday - a ban it said it was determined to resist.
The coalition says that it has also been told by British officials that
American officials want a distance kept between Mr Bush and protesters,
for security reasons and to prevent their appearance in the same television
shots.
The Metropolitan Police banned the Parliament Square and Whitehall route
by the use of Sessional Orders - which can be enforced for such a purpose
when Parliament is in session.
MPs supporting the protests saydemonstrations have been allowed while Parliament
was sitting, and, in any case, it was unlikely it will be doing so on the
day of the proposed march.
The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, said yesterday that Mr Bush should
not be shielded from public anger about the Iraq war, and Londoners should
not have to pick up the £4m policing bill. He said: "To create
a situation in which perhaps 60,000 people remain unseen would require
a shutdown of central London which is just not acceptable."
Typical of an American President, Bush does one thing and says another.
Even as he tries to ban all protests, he goes to his constituency and says
something else entirely
www.drudgereport.com/flash1.htm
President George Bush today told critics of war in Iraq they were "lucky"
to be free to protest when he comes to Britain.
-
- Mr Bush arrives in England on Tuesday on the first state
visit by an American President.
-
- It comes after security services were placed on their
second highest state of alert following information that al Qaida supporters
in north Africa could be planning an attack.
-
- The alert is said to be unrelated to the President's
visit but will further tighten security on what was already described as
an "unprecedented" policing operation.
-
- Five thousand officers and hundreds of security agents
will protect the President during the series of protests planned to mark
his stay, including a mass national rally on Thursday.
-
- The White House say Mr Bush is "not fazed"
by the prospect of mass demonstrations.
-
- And today he told campaigners: "Aren't you lucky
to be in a country that encourages people to speak their mind?"
Lucky indeed. Despite the best efforts of Herr Bush and the SS (Secret
Service), people in England WILL be protesting his presence, in droves.
Two faces, forked tongue, and all, Bush is set to address an "invitation
only" event where he will not be heckled, because all war dissenters
will be locked out. There is no room for opposition to Herr Bush in the
New World Order.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13631331_method=full_siteid=50143_
headline=-BUSH-PULLS-OUT-OF-SPEECH-TO-MPS-name_page.html
GEORGE Bush was last night branded chicken for scrapping his speech to
Parliament because he feared being heckled by anti-war MPs.
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- The US president planned to give a joint address to the
Commons and Lords during his state visit to Britain.
-
- But senior White House adviser Dr Harlan Ullman said:
"They would have loved to do it because it would have been a great
photo-opportunity.
-
- "But they were fearful it would to turn into a spectacle
with Labour backbenchers walking out."
"The only speech Mr Bush, who will stay with the Queen at Buckingham
Palace, is now due to give will be to an "invited audience" at
the Banqueting House in Whitehall"
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- BOMBS R US
Then there's Cheney, Halliburton, and the endless bottomless contracts
Bush is handing out to campaign contributors, while veterans in veterans
hospitals back home, injured in Iraq, can't even get medical treatment.
No further comment is necessary. The new clippings speak for themselves.
www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20031029-020609-6750r
FORT KNOX, Ky., Oct. 29 (UPI) -- More than 400 sick and injured soldiers,
including some who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom, are stuck at Fort
Knox, waiting weeks and sometimes months for medical treatment, a score
of soldiers said in interviews.
The delays appear to have demolished morale -- many said they had lost
faith in the Army and would not serve again -- and could jeopardize some
soldiers' health, the soldiers said.
The Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers are in what the Army calls
"medical hold," like roughly 600 soldiers under similar circumstances
waiting for doctors at Fort Stewart, Ga.
The apparent lack of care at both locations raises the specter that Reserve
and Guard soldiers, including many who returned from Iraq, could be languishing
at locations across the country, according to Senate investigators"
""They are treating us like second-class citizens," said
Spc. Brian Smith, who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom until Aug. 16 and
said he is having trouble seeing doctors at Fort Knox. The Army evacuated
him through Germany for stomach problems, among other things. "My
brother wants to get in (the military). I am now discouraging him from
doing it," Smith said.
"I have never been so disrespected in my military career," said
Lt. Jullian Goodrum, who has been in the Army Reserve for 16 years. His
health problems do not appear to be severe -- injured wrists -- but he
said the medical situation at Fort Knox is bad. He said he waited a month
for therapy. "I have never been so treated like dirt."
Copyright © 2001-2003 United Press International
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- www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/29/1067233251576.html
A former Pentagon officer turned whistleblower says a group of hawks in
the Bush Administration, including the Vice-President, Dick Cheney, is
running a shadow foreign policy, contravening Washington's official line.
"What these people are doing now makes Iran-Contra [a Reagan administration
national security scandal] look like amateur hour. . . it's worse than
Iran-Contra, worse than what happened in Vietnam," said Karen Kwiatkowski,
a former air force lieutenant-colonel.
"[President] George Bush isn't in control . . . the country's been
hijacked," she said, describing how "key [governmental] areas
of neoconservative concern were politically staffed".
Ms Kwiatkowski, who retired this year after 20 years service, was a Middle
East specialist in the office of the Undersecretary of Defence for Policy,
headed by Douglas Feith.
She described "a subversion of constitutional limits on executive
power and a co-optation through deceit of a large segment of the Congress",
adding that "in order to take that first step - Iraq - lies had to
be told to Congress to bring them on board".
Ms Kwiatkowski said the pursuit of national security decisions often bypassed
"civil service and active-duty military professionals", and was
handled instead by political appointees who shared common ideological ties.
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- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20031029/ts_alt
_afp/us_oil_iraq_halliburton&e=1&ncid=1480
HOUSTON, United States (AFP) - US oil industry services giant Halliburton
said Thursday its Kellogg Brown and Root unit's profits rose four-fold
and sales leapt 80 percent, boosted by work in Iraq
Profits from the unit's operations soared to 49 million dollars in the
three months to September from 12 million dollars a year earlier, helped
by "government services activity in the Middle East," Halliburton
said.
KBR, the engineering and construction division that netted a no-bid government
contract to help rebuild Iraq's shattered oil industry, also posted an
80-percent jump in sales to 2.3 billion dollars.
Iraq-related work by KBR produced revenue of 900 million dollars in the
three-month period and delivered an operating profit of 34 million dollars,
it said.
KBR's results boosted the entire Halliburton group, of which Vice President
Dick Cheney was chief executive from 1995 to 2000.
Halliburton sales rose 39 percent to 4.1 billion dollars in the third quarter.
"This increase is largely attributable to additional activity in Engineering
and Construction Group government service projects, including work in the
Middle East," Halliburton said.
But net profit at the group fell to 58 million dollars or 13 cents a share
from a year-earlier net profit of 94 million dollars or 22 cents a share,
the group said.
The profit was hit by a 34-million-dollar net loss from discontinued operations
and by a 77-million-dollar charge related to a Texas court finding against
a subsidiary for breaching confidentiality agreements.
Overall, US government contracts for Iraqi reconstruction given to Halliburton
are now worth some two billion dollars and could go higher, the army said
last month.
The deals have been sharply criticized by some members of Congress, especially
because some were awarded without competitive bids.
The contract to rehabilitate Iraqi oil fields has been revised upward to
948 million dollars, army spokesman Dan Carlson said.
A separate 10-year army field support contract to Halliburton awarded in
2001 has been boosted to one billion dollars, the spokesman added.
Halliburton chief executive David Lesar, meanwhile, is fending off Democratic
lawmakers' accusations that the group overcharged the US government for
imported gasoline in Iraq.
The US government pays Halliburton between 1.62 and 1.70 dollars for each
gallon of gasoline it imports from Kuwait, including a 91- to 99-cent transportation
fee, according to Democratic representatives Henry Waxman and John Dingell.
But Waxman and Dingell said they had been assured by industry experts it
was possible to bring gasoline from Kuwait into Iraq for between 15 cents
and 25 cents a gallon.
"The overcharging by Halliburton is so extreme that one expert has
privately called it 'highway robbery,'" the lawmakers said.
Lesar has rejected the allegations, arguing that Halliburton had become
a "political target" because of Cheney's past involvement with
the company. Cheney has denied any role in Halliburton's Iraq contracts.
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- www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031029/API/310290908
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued wars could still be fought
without boosting the number of soldiers by outsourcing just about everything
except battlefield gunning.
-
- Under U.S. employ in Iraq, American companies turn profits
while operating missile defense batteries, piloting unmanned aerial vehicles
and snapping satellite pictures of bombing targets.
-
- The machine-gun toting guards who shadow Afghan President
Hamid Karzai and L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, are private-sector
workers, as are those who built and operate the cavernous white mess tent
on the base of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Baghdad.
-
- There, a $3 million contract with Kellogg, Brown &
Root paid for the tent's construction and the Bangladeshi and Indian cooks
who feed 4,000 troops daily. One soldier breakfasting inside the tent,
a nine-year veteran, said she's been sent to patrol Baghdad since contractors
took her job as a cook.
-
- With Kellogg, Brown & Root handling everything from
mail delivery to bug control on U.S. bases in Iraq and around the world,
plenty of other soldiers are finding themselves on the front lines.
-
- Peter W. Singer, a Brookings Institution military analyst,
estimates there is one contractor for every 10 foreign soldiers in Iraq
- 10 times the private involvement in the Gulf War.
-
- Worldwide, private military companies earn about $100
billion in yearly government contracts, Singer believes. Ninety private
military companies are listed on the Web site for the Center for Public
Integrity. In comparison, the U.S. defense budget is about $380 billion
this year, excluding emergency spending, and is expected to rise to more
than $400 billion.
-
- Some of the firms working in Iraq are huge, politically
connected conglomerates like Halliburton - corporate parent of Kellogg,
Brown & Root and formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney. Others
are little known, like Erinys, a security firm chocked with former South
African special forces that will train 6,500 Iraqis to guard oil installations.
-
- The world of military contracts is a murky one.
-
- In Iraq and Afghanistan, important buildings in the capitals
bristle with gun-toting Americans in sunglasses. They favor khaki photographers'
vests and a few military accoutrements, but lack the name tags and identifying
patches of a soldier.
-
- Ask who they work for and one often hears "no comment"
or "I can't tell you that."
-
- Contractors' deaths aren't counted among the tally of
more than 350 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq. No one is sure how many private
workers have been killed, or, indeed, even how many are toiling in Iraq
for the U.S. government. Estimates range from under 10,000 to more than
20,000 - which could make private contractors the largest U.S. coalition
partner ahead of Britain's 11,000 troops.
"The connection between companies and politicians in Washington raises
the specter of executives lobbying for a hawkish U.S. foreign policy since
they profit from war, Avant said.
-
- Iraq contractors DynCorp, Bechtel and Halliburton donated
more than $2.2 million - mainly to Republican causes like the 2000 Bush
presidential campaign - between 1999 and 2002, according to the Center
for Responsive Politics.
-
- In the case of Halliburton, the U.S. government hired
the company in Iraq without a competitive bid, after the company recommended
itself in a study. Halliburton's Iraq oil services contract, worth $1.59
billion so far, will be extended until December or January. The company
reported Wednesday that its government work in Iraq and elsewhere helped
boost yearly third-quarter earnings by 39 percent, to $4.14 billion."
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- www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40708-2003Oct30.html
The Center for Public Integrity matched companies with political donations
to conclude that dozens of companies that won contracts had contributed
to national political campaigns, with President Bush receiving more money
than any other candidate since 1990--about $500,000.
The winners of the top 10 contracts for work in Iraq and Afghanistan contributed
about $1 million a year to national political parties, candidates and political
action committees since 1990, according to the group, which studies the
links between money and politics.
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- http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=143-10312003
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The final version of the $87 billion
spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan is missing provisions the Senate
had passed to penalize war profiteers who defraud American taxpayers. House
negotiators on the package refused to accept the Senate provisions.
The Senate provision was authored by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Sen. Dianne
Feinstein (D-Calif.), and Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.). It was one of the
last major sticking points this week as negotiators worked through the
compromise appropriations bill. The conferees narrowly defeated the amendment
after lengthy debate, with House negotiators offering no substitute and
no willingness to compromise, despite repeated offers from Senate conferees
to negotiate the language. Republican and Democratic Senate conferees consistently
supported the provision, which had been unanimously accepted during Senate
Appropriations Committee markup of the bill"
"When the Senate Appropriations Committee considered this supplemental
request, Senators Leahy, Feinstein, and I joined together to criminalize
war profiteering -- price gouging and fraud -- with the same law that was
passed during World War II. Yet this amendment, was stripped out of the
final bill," said Durbin. "I fail to understand how anyone can
be opposed to prosecuting those who want to defraud and overcharge the
United States government and the American taxpayers."
U.S. fraud statutes protect against waste of tax dollars at home, but none
expressly prohibit war profiteering and none expressly confer extraterritorial
jurisdiction overseas. The Leahy-Feinstein-Durbin amendment would criminalize
"war profiteering" -- overcharging taxpayers for any good or
service with the specific intent to excessively profit from the war or
reconstruction efforts in Iraq. The bill also prohibits fraud and false
statements in any matter involving a contract or the provision of goods
or services in Iraq. These new crimes would be felonies, subject to criminal
penalties of up to 20 years in prison and fines of up to $1 million or
twice the illegal gross profits of the crime. Leahy described it as "strong
and focused sanctions" that are narrowly tailored to criminalize and
create tough criminal penalties for fraud or excessive profiteering in
contracts, here and abroad, related to the war or reconstruction efforts
in Iraq"
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- www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40948-2003Oct30.html - Center for Public Integrity Report on War Profiteers
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/WindfallsofWar_TheCenterforPublicIntegrity.pdf
www.nytimes.com/2003/11/04/politics/04COST.html?pagewanted=print&position=
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 - The Senate gave its final approval on Monday to President
Bush's request for $87.5 billion to occupy and rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan,
completing Congressional action on the largest emergency spending bill
ever sought by a president.
The Senate's action came on a voice vote with only six members present,
meaning that the decisions of individual members on the administration's
vision for Iraq were not recorded. Not voting on the record appealed to
both Republicans nervous about explaining the amount to their constituents,
and Democrats who did not want their patriotism questioned for opposing
the bill. On Friday, the House voted 298 to 121 in favor of the bill. The
bill now goes to the president for his signature.
Senator Robert C. Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat who has been the loudest
Congressional challenger of the administration's Iraq policy, was the lone
voice shouting no during the vote, a contrast to the 12 senators who opposed
the emergency spending bill, known as a supplemental, in a preliminary
vote last month.
WORDS OF WISDOM FROM SENATOR BYRD
www.senate.gov/~byrd/byrd_newsroom/byrd_news_nov/byrd_2003_
novemberlist/byrd_2003_novemberlist_1.html
"The dictionary definition of victory is simple and straightforward:
success, conquest, triumph. Within the constraints of that simplistic definition,
I suppose one could construe this package to be a victory for the President.
But I believe there is a moral undercurrent to the notion of victory that
is not reflected in the dictionary definition. I believe that most Americans
equate victory more closely with what is right than with simply winning.
It is one thing to win, and the tactics be damned; it is quite another
to be victorious. Victory implies doing what is right; doing what is right
implies morality; morality implies standards of conduct. I do not include
arm-twisting and intimidation in my definition of exemplary standards of
conduct.
Moreover, we should not forget that not all victories are created equal.
In 280 BC, Pyrrhus, the ruler of Epirus in Northern Greece, took his formidable
armies to Italy and defeated the Romans at Heraclea, and again at Asculum
in 279 BC, but suffered unbearably heavy losses. "One more such victory
and I am lost," he said.
It is to Pyrrhus that we owe the term "pyrrhic victory," to describe
a victory so costly as to be ruinous. This supplemental, and the policy
which it supports, unfortunately, may prove to be a pyrrhic victory for
the Bush Administration.
The conference report before the Senate today is a flawed agreement that
was produced by political imperative, not by reasoned policy considerations.
This is not a good bill for our troops in Iraq. This is not a good bill
for American taxpayers. This is not good policy for the United States.
Victory is not always about winning. Sometimes, victory is simply about
being right. This conference report does not reflect the right policy for
Iraq or the right policy for America. I oppose it and I will vote No on
final passage"
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- AFGHANISTAN, S.C. PRECEDENT BUSH, AND DRUGS
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=458600
Afghanistan produces three quarters of the world's illicit opium - the
raw material for heroin - and two thirds of all opiate users take drugs
of Afghan origin, according to a report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
The UN said yesterday that unless the problem was tackled the country could
be over-run by violence, corruption and terrorism. High prices for opium
had recruited more farmers, spreading poppy cultivation to 28 of Afghanistan's
32 provinces, from 18 four years ago.
The alarming report by the UN's drugs and crime agency based in Vienna
found that Afghan opium farmers and traffickers took home about $2.3bn
(£1.4bn), or about half of the country's legitimate GDP in 2003.
Afghanistan has re-established itself as the world's biggest opium producer
after the fall of the Taliban regime, which banned cultivation. Drug agencies
in Britain and other western European countries are alarmed at the quantities
of heroin from Afghanistan, which is thought to produce 90 per cent of
heroin sold in Britain.
These fears were reinforced byyesterday's UN report. The 2003 harvest of
3,600 tons was the second biggest recorded since the agency began surveying
the country in 1994. The biggest harvest, of 4,565 tons, was recorded in
1999. The area devoted to opium poppy cultivation was the third largest
since 1994, and is comparable to the area used before 2001, when a Taliban
ban on cultivation reduced it to 8,000 hectares.
Mullah Omar reduced opium production to record lows for the last century
in 2000. Only 75 tonnes of opium was produced. Bush and Karzai have gotten
production back up to record levels, almost all of it being grown in Northern
Alliance, Bush Buddy territory, while Bush ensures the flow of cheap heroin
by waiving all sanctions against Afghanistan as an opium producing nation,
and by refusing to use American soldiers to wipe out the opium crops.
By their fruits, ye shall know them.
And I'm not the only one calling Bush a corporate whore and a lying piece
of shit.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=461946
"The intelligence process is a bit like virginity," says Ray
McGovern, who worked as a CIA analyst for 27 years. "Once you prostitute
it, it's never the same. Your credibility never recovers.
"Watching what has happened with Iraq over the past several months
has been like watching your daughter being raped."
Such is an indication of the extraordinary depth of feeling within the
US intelligence community as the Bush administration's basis for the war
in Iraq - the weapons of mass destruction, the dark hint of links between
Saddam Hussein and al-Qa'ida - has been shown to have been built on air.
Mr McGovern worked near the very top of his profession, giving direct advice
to Henry Kissinger during the Nixon era and preparing the President's daily
security brief for Ronald Reagan. Now he is co-founder of a group of former
CIA employees called Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, or
Vips for short.
What the Bush White House has done, he believes, is far worse than the
false premise that dragged the United States into the Vietnam War - a reported
second attack on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin which later turned
out not to have taken place. "The Gulf of Tonkin was a spur-of-the-moment
thing, and Lyndon Johnson seized on that. That's very different from the
very calculated, 18-month, orchestrated, incredibly cynical campaign of
lies that we've seen to justify a war. This is an order of magnitude different.
It's so blatant."
Mr McGovern accuses Mr Bush of an extraordinary act of chutzpah - taking
advantage of his authority as President of the United States to make people
believe there must be something to his insistent allegations that Iraq
possessed potentially devastating weaponry.
"Many of us felt there had to be something there ... If this had been
another country, one would have written a convincing analysis that this
guy is lying through his teeth, that there are no weapons in Iraq. But
people thought, the President can't say he knows something if he doesn't.
That was persuasive, in a way.
"Now we know that no other President of the United States has ever
lied so baldly and so often and so demonstrably ... The presumption now
has to be that he's lying any time that he's saying anything."
WHAT'S GOING ON?
Years ago, Marvin Gaye sang those words to make us reflect on the state
of America. The portrait of a divided, racist, double standard nation has
not changed. In fact, it's getting worse, not better.
The ignorance, racism, and insensitivity of Americans is reaching all time
highs. Their latest fiascos include offering Pork to Muslims during Ramadan,
and the return of the all too familiar "no coloreds on the bus"
thing that we've seen from white America in the past.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$QJJEYVAKAM2CJQFIQMFSF
FOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2003/10/29/wlynch29.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/10/29/ixnewstop.html
"A journey to the home town of Jessica Lynch by the Iraqi lawyer who
helped to free the young American soldier ended in embarrassment for all
concerned when she snubbed him"
"Local people laid on an impressive spread at a reception to greet
the al-Rehaiefs, only to discover that the family was fasting for Ramadan.
Even if the guests had been hungry they would have been unlikely, as Muslims,
to tuck into the ham sandwiches on offer"
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/0A3D3E55-E513-4BE1-B8E0-729B44723787.htm
"A school bus service in Florida has refused to carry Iraqi and Afghani
refugee students for a second time in a week.
Some 27 students aged between 10 and 14 were abandoned outside Jacksonville
last Wednesday, over eight miles away from home.
A substitute Duval County school bus driver Ð "Mrs Boston"
Ð singled out hijab-wearing girls and "foreign-looking" boys,
ordering them to get out.
Ali al-Hamad said his children, along with as many others from Fort Caroline
Middle School, were kicked off their bus because they were Muslim.
"We feel so sorry" that the situation happened, said Zahra Diya
al-Din, a 14-year-old student who was on the school bus.
"Why did [the bus driver] put us down on the bus? We weren't doing
anything."
Some of the students were even fasting, but nevertheless had to walk the
whole distance home under the Florida sun.
Avoiding responsbility
Concerned parents contacted the school, which informed them that nothing
could be done other than to make sure the driver was not given responsibility
for these particular students again.
But students were stunned two days later when a school bus with a different
driver stopped briefly at 08:30 to pick up two white students and left
all the others at a busy intersection.
Angry parents contacted the school to be told that a second bus would pick
the children up, which eventually turned up at 10:00.
Many have decided to keep their children at home until a trustworthy service
can be provided"
To even further demonstrate the ignorance, insensitivity, and inability
of American leadership to understand that not everyone wants to be like
them or think like them, observe what their own expert is telling them
about what's going to happen with self government in Iraq
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5099.htm
- Daily Telegraph
"The end constitutional product is very likely to make many people
in the US government unhappy. It's not going to look the way people imagined
it looking," said Dr Feldman.
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- "Any democratically elected Iraqi government is
unlikely to be secular, and unlikely to be pro-Israel. And frankly, moderately
unlikely to be pro-American."
-
- While these predictions are spreading alarm inside the
administration, Dr Feldman advocates dealing with Islamic democrats.
-
- He argues that Islamic parties will rise anyway, and
are most dangerous when forced underground by secular autocrats. Such views
led Pentagon officials to accuse Dr Feldman of being "soft on Islam".
-
- "When I tell them these things [Islam and Islamic
law] are going to be in the constitution, people are very concerned about
it. They want to know what can be done to avoid these things. There's still
a hope that the country will be as secular as possible.
-
- "But frankly nothing in Iraq is going to look the
way people imagined. Maybe if people had taken that on board, they might
have felt differently about the plan for an invasion."
-
- The hawkish idealists who pushed hardest for regime change
in Iraq saw the fall of Baghdad as the first step towards remaking the
Middle East.
-
- In their vision, Iraq would rise up as a democratic,
secular, free market capitalist beacon to its neighbours - guided, at least
initially, by such exiled leaders as Ahmad Chalabi, a secularist and Pentagon
favourite.
-
- Pentagon officials sent Dr Feldman to Baghdad for his
knowledge of Islamic law. In many ways he was an unlikely candidate: he
is a Democrat, Jewish and still only 32.
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- One senior administration official declared before the
war that the first foreign policy of a democratic Iraq would be to recognise
Israel.
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- "I don't know what he was smoking when he said that,"
said Dr Feldman. He argued that Iraqi-Israeli relations were off the radar,
as Washington struggled simply to keep Iraq from slipping into disaster"
It's not that they're on crack, Dr. Feldman. It's just that they have a
plan. Force vote after vote, again and again, declaring any vote they don't
like null and void, until they get the government they want. And if anyone
objects, "we just mow the whole place down, see what happens",
as Mr. Lott would say.
To those who think I'm exaggerating, take a look at Serbia. Some of you
will recall when Milosevic was ousted. They held an election, which according
to the Serbian constitution was null and void because no candidate received
the proper number of votes. The Americans didn't like this result, and
arranged for Milosevic's removal.
They wanted DOS in power, and Milosevic out. Three years later, the sham
continues, and elections continue to be null and void. Except now, the
same process of voiding elections which would have kept Milosevic in power
is being honored without complaint by the Americans, because it's keeping
DOS in the race.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/17/wserb
17.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/11/17/ixworld.html
Serbia was plunged into constitutional crisis yesterday after its third
presidential poll in a year failed because of voter apathy.
Two previous polls were also invalidated because fewer than the required
50 per cent of voters cast their ballots.
The result means that Serbia has been without a president since its former
premier Milan Milutinovic surrendered to the United Nations war crimes
tribunal in The Hague last December.
It has also left the country in a political void, as the Serbian parliament
was dissolved last week after a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister
Zoran Zivkovic's reformist government.
Now the country, without a speaker who has to call fresh presidential elections,
will have to wait until a parliamentary poll on Dec 28 to launch the presidential
race again.
Though yesterday's vote was annulled, its results were grim for the DOS
pro-democracy coalition that ousted Slobodan Milosevic in 2000. The race
boiled down to a run-off between the DOS candidate Dragoljub Micunovic
and the nationalist Tomislav Nikolic.
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- But with only 38 per cent of Serbia's 6.5 million voters
visiting polling stations, Mr Micunovic was well beaten, winning only 35
per cent while Mr Nikolic claimed 46.5 per cent.
This is the plan for Iraq also, as it was in Afghanistan, when Bush declared
the election of Rabbani null and void. Keep forcing votes until AmeriKKKa
gets the desired result.
None of this should surprise anyone. After all, lying, cheating, stealing,
and genocide is the American way. Observe how one of their leading journalists,
Zionist Tom Friedman, twists things.
www.nytimes.com/2003/10/30/opinion/30FRIE.html
"Since 9/11, we've seen so much depraved violence we don't notice
anymore when we hit a new low. Monday's attacks in Baghdad were a new low.
Just stop for one second and contemplate what happened: A suicide bomber,
driving an ambulance loaded with explosives, crashed into the Red Cross
office and blew himself up on the first day of the Muslim holy month of
Ramadan. This suicide bomber was not restrained by either the sanctity
of the Muslim holy day or the sanctity of the Red Cross. All civilizational
norms were tossed aside. This is very unnerving. Because the message from
these terrorists is: "There are no limits. We have created our own
moral universe, where anything we do against Americans or Iraqis who cooperate
with them is O.K."
Mr. Friedman neglects to mention that these "civilizational norms"
were first tossed out by Ronald Reagan and G H W Bush, and that the Arabs
are doing nothing more than mirroring US Foreign policy. They are simply
living within the confines of the moral universe created by Americans,
and by Israeli Jews who are trying to steal Palestine from the Arabs.
Who has blown up more Red Cross stations? Arabs or America and Israel?
Who did it first? Many of you will recall the US bombing of Red Cross stations
in Afghanistan. There IS a precedent for such action a precedent set by
G W Bush.
"What to do? The first thing is to understand who these people are.
There is this notion being peddled by Europeans, the Arab press and the
antiwar left that "Iraq" is just Arabic for Vietnam, and we should
expect these kinds of attacks from Iraqis wanting to "liberate"
their country from "U.S. occupation." These attackers are the
Iraqi Vietcong.
Hogwash. The people who mounted the attacks on the Red Cross are not the
Iraqi Vietcong. They are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge - a murderous band of Saddam
loyalists and Al Qaeda nihilists, who are not killing us so Iraqis can
rule themselves. They are killing us so they can rule Iraqis"
Iraqi Khmer Rouge indeed, Mr. Friedman. What you neglect to mention to
your readers when you invoke the Killing Fields of Cambodia while spinning
your Zionist lies is that the US GOVERNMENT WAS ALLIED WITH POL POT AND
THE MURDEROUS KHMER ROUGE, just as America was allied with Saddam, and
that you are killing the Iraqi resistance so America and Israel can rule
Iraqis.
But like I said, lying and distorting the truth isn't considering lying
in this context.
It's the American way.
Peace
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