Free Iraq

Words can't describe just how awful this is.

I have heard it said that Americans are anti-abortion. I wonder if any "Pro Life" campaigners will even care about this.
 

Wayne Madsen, "Locals from Lakeview subdivision of New Orleans report that after Katrina passed a loose barge struck levee causing breach that flooded city.

"WMR has just been informed by evacuees in Baton Rouge from Lakeview, a well-to-do New Orleans neighborhood, that the flooding of the city was caused by a loose barge striking the levee on the 17th Street Canal. The breach was not caused by rising flood waters as reported by FEMA and other agencies. Lakeview is some 1.5 miles down Veterans Boulevard from the 17th St. Canal breach.

"Distraught evacuees want to know why the Coast Guard or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not secure the barge. The evacuees who witnessed the barge striking the levee also want to know why the major media is not covering this story. It is not known what company owns the barge but if it is a major campaign contributor to the GOP, the answer is self-evident. "
 

Is the US military preparing another massacre in Tal Afar?: "The details of what is taking place in Tal Afar since last Friday are shrouded in secrecy. The few available reports indicate, however, that at least 5,000 US and Iraqi government troops have sealed off the old centre of the city—an area known as Sarai—and are preparing for an assault against an estimated 400 to 500 resistance fighters who are said to be entrenched in the narrow streets of the district.

"The US push into the city was preceded by airstrikes and artillery shelling, and spearheaded by Abram battle tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles. The Al Jazeerah website reported on Monday that at least four mosques have been bombed. F-16s destroyed alleged “insurgent safe-houses” with 500 and 1,000-pound bombs. The Iraqi newspaper Azzaman reported: "Eyewitnesses, refusing to be named, spoke of ‘scores of casualties’ due to indiscriminate bombing.”

"The events unfolding in Tal Afar have all the makings of another horrific crime against the Iraqi masses, paralleling the atrocities committed in Fallujah last year. In just nine days, thousands of Fallujans were killed and their bodies left to rot in the streets or to be consumed by dogs. US snipers murdered desperate civilians trying to get water for their families."
 

Abu Ghraib abuse: new revelations of top-level involvement
 

Check it out - FEMA's Blocking Relief Efforts - An Amazing List (11 linked articles)
 

30 Die Abandoned At Nursing Home (Midway down page)
 

"The Katrina disaster provided the cover for the Pentagon to launch military operations against US citizens for the first time in modern history.

"The zeal with which the Defense Dept approached the siege of New Orleans is impressive. Journalist Wayne Madsen reports that the military was involved in jamming New Orleans's communications. 'The emitter is an IF (Intermediate Frequency) jammer that is operating south-southwest of New Orleans on board a US Navy ship, according to an anonymous source. The jamming is cross-spectrum and interfering with supereterodyne receiver components, including the emergency radios being used in New Orleans relief efforts.'

"Madsen's report coincides with another report from Democracy Now's Sharif Abdel Kouddous in New Orleans:

"'Well Amy, Saturday and Sunday, there was a large number of troops here: Marines, U.S. Coast Guard, National Guard, there's hummers everywhere, everyone is armed with assault rifles. And I think that what many people don't realize is that New Orleans has really become a militarized zone. I think this is the fault and the major error that has occurred with many of the relief operations here is that they weren't relief operations. They were militarized -- you know, there's a curfew set at 6:00 p.m. in New Orleans and especially in the poorer neighborhoods. If you walked out after 6:00 p.m., you would get shot.'

"Kouddous report provides an alarming insight into the reality of the New Orleans siege. The operation currently taking place is only slightly different from similar maneuvers in Baghdad or Kabul; the fundamental principles are the same. If we were to see some indication of coordinated resistance, like an armed uprising of New Orleans drug addicts firing on troops, the situation would quickly degenerate into a Falluja-type scenario, with Rumsfeld closing down the entire region to the media and devastating vast swaths of the city to crush the 'indigenous terrorists'.

"There's nothing accidental about the current developments on the ground.

"The orders are clear: 'Empty the city, Cut off communications between the citizenry, and Protect private property.' The result is a massive ethnic cleansing operation that will displace tens of thousands of poor, black residents and pave the way for Halliburton and other major Bush contributors to rebuild the city at taxpayer expense. This is the clearest illustration of class-based warfare we have seen to date, but we expect more will follow."
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I'm now wondering about the National Guardsmen stationed in Iraq being released, supposedly to help with New Orleans disaster relief. For what purpose?
 

Like I said, it warms my heart seeing them treating their own citizens to a small measure of how they treat the peasants in the "official" Third World.

Not that it will change the attitudes or the voting patterns of the large majority of affluent, white, suburban, conservative voters who continually elect the Republican Party. There is only one thing that will:

Violence, applied in massive amounts.

It's the only way that the Palestinians got the attention of the Israelis, or how the ANC got the attention of the South African whites, how the Chechens got the attention of the Russians, etc., etc.

No conservative, ruling elite -- much less one as racist, well-funded, well-armed, religiously-motivated, reactionary, selfish and entrenched as America's is -- has ever been "convinced" to give up power by well-meaning appeals to their (sic.) "better natures".

They only listen when they start to bleed, die and get blown up.

If you don't hurt an occupying, entrenched elite, cause them pain, then they have absolutely no incentive to ever accommodate your concerns -- why would they? They have everything they want and you have nothing. That situation suits them just fine and they're happy to have it continue indefinitely.

There is endless historical precedent to support this position and just wishing that people would "be nice" isn't going to change it one bit.

How I wish that Martin Luther King and Gandhi were right.

Unfortunately, they were (pun intended) in both cases, "dead wrong".

Let's hope that America's bloody, race-based intifada happens sooner rather than later.
 

MadAsHell, I understand much of what you say and agree that power, except under circumstances of the most extraordinary duress, is not relinquished. My point of departure: Nothing about what people (and the rest of life) are experiencing right now warms my heart. The total reality, I find absolutely heartbreaking. The well protected ruling cabal suffers but a bit of PR discomfort. They'll get over it.

As for South Africa, while the ANC (and other liberation) forces played vital (and heroic) roles in bringing about change, sanctions of various kinds were equally important. I would argue that related measures might here be equally applicable.
 

US changes position on Cuba's weapons: "[T]he first time that the US has 'publicly softened' its charge that Cuba had biological weapons, which has been 'controversial from the outset.'"

??????
 

Helicopter Pilots Get Shit On For Rescuing Hurricane Victims: Pissed Sailors Cut Off Their Search/Rescue Patches
 

Raed in the Middle announces closure of blog "Comments" in response to this article.

"The bush administration destroyed saddam's 'republic of fear', but created a global one. Welcome to the 'global village' of fear."
 

MadAsHell, I believe we (and probably most other site visitors) agree about the extent of present horrors and the nature of the perpetrators. Kurt Nimmo's excellent article, "FEMA and Katrina: REX-84 Revisited", underscores the point. The way forward, if, indeed there is one, will be staggeringly difficult.
 

THIS IS MY COUNTRY

EXTRACTS from the above article. (I've inserted no additional "" marks.)

FEMA has only spent about 6 percent of its budget on national emergencies, the bulk of their funding has been used for the construction of secret underground facilities to assure continuity of government in case of a major emergency, foreign or domestic," writes Harry V. Martin. "General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a 'new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis.'"

What came out of the critical look was that FEMA was spending 12 times more for "black operations" than for disaster relief. It spent $1.3 billion building secret bunkers throughout the United States in anticipation of government disruption by foreign or domestic upheaval. Yet fewer than 20 members of Congress, only members with top security clearance, know of the $1.3 billion expenditure by FEMA for non-natural disaster situations.

REX-84 (Alpha Explan, or Readiness Exercise 1984), exposed by the Miami Herald on July 5, 1987, and described as "a secret government within a government." Iran-Contra criminal Oliver North "worked closely with FEMA to redraw national contingency plans dealing with nearly everything from nuclear attack to civil insurrection," explains totse.com (FEMA: Blueprint For Tyranny). "FEMA's action plan included the declaration of martial law, suspension of the Constitution and aggressive moves against dissenters. A trigger could be 'violent and widespread internal dissent.'

It appears Hurricane Katrina has provided FEMA with an excuse to "dry run" its unconstitutional powers in New Orleans, rounding up "refugees" (now called "evacuees") and "relocating" them in various camps. "Some evacuees are being treated as 'internees' by FEMA," writes former NSC employee Wayne Madsen. "Reports continue to come into WMR that evacuees from New Orleans and Acadiana [the traditional twenty-two parish Cajun homeland] who have been scattered across the United States are being treated as 'internees' and not dislocated American citizens from a catastrophe. Some FEMA facilities are preventing these internees from leaving on their own. Reports of mandatory registration and the issuing of FEMA ID cards suggest that FEMA, an agency that is rife with right-wing security goons and severely lacking in humanitarian workers, has other motives in treating poor and destitute American citizens as prisoners in their own country." Call it REX-84 revisited.

. . . [T]here is also strong evidence that aid was deliberately withheld by the White House and the Pentagon as part of a strategy for asserting unfettered military control over the city.... the US ruling elite and both major parties have used September 11 as the pretext for implementing far-reaching attacks on democratic rights and breaching legal barriers -- such as Posse Comitatus -- against the use of military force against the American people." Van Auken mentions "that US military's Northern Command had developed a series of 'war plans' for the military 'to take charge' in domestic crises" allegedly in response to "supposed terrorist attacks, including the detonation of a nuclear device in a major American city" and "the catastrophe that struck New Orleans provided ideal conditions for testing the plans out."
 

Iran offers US Katrina oil relief
 

Bush rejects Chávez aid (Surprise!)
 

Pat Robertson's Katrina Cash
 

Cindy Sheehan, "What Kind of Extremist Will You Be?": Dr King and Casey were murdered by the same malevolent entities: People and ideologies that say that we have to be mortally afraid of the "ism" du jour and we, as Americans who have the "moral high-ground" in the world can send our innocent children to invade innocent countries and kill innocent people to fight the "ists" that go with the "isms."
 

Let the Dead Teach the Living: "What have the dead taught the living? Responsible and effective government matters. At this moment, we have neither. We are, simply put, on our own."
 

Listening to Your Neighbors Die: "I heard her die. . . She cried for two nights, 'Help. Someone help me please!' Then the last time I heard her call it turned into a gurgle. That was her last cry. I wish I could have saved her. There wasn't nobody there to save her."
 

UC Regents lose control of nuclear weapons program (If you can't guess the name of the state to which the program has been transferred, read the article.)
 

Project Censored presents the 10 stories the mainstream media ignored over the past year (See article for details)

1. Bush Administration Moves to Eliminate Open Government
2. Media Coverage Fails on Iraq: Fallujah and the Civilian Death Toll
3. Another Year of Distorted Election Coverage
4. Surveillance Society Quietly Moves In
5. U.S. Uses Tsunami to Military Advantage in Southeast Asia
6. The Real Oil-for-Food Scam
7. Journalists Face Unprecedented Dangers to Life and Livelihood
8. Iraqi Farmers Threatened by Bremer's Mandates
9. Iran's New Oil Trade System Challenges U.S. Currency
10. Mountaintop Removal Threatens Ecosystem and Economy
 

Truly Shocking Eye Witness Account from New Orleans - it's looong
 

200 Suspected Insurgents Arrested in Iraq

US 'approved' oil smuggling: "The largest oil consignment smuggled out of Iraq took place with US approval just weeks before the April 2003 invasion, according to a United Nations report."

The youngest Iraqi killed by American soldiers, SHOT BEFORE BIRTH: "8 month old foetus shot through the chest" (Article includes photo)

U.S. mulls "decisive" attack on Iraqi rebel town (And a rebel town would be defined as. . .?)
 

VIDEO (very short): Some choice words for Dick!
 

Chris Floyd, "Let's be clear about one thing. Nothing that happened last week -- the mass destruction in the Mississippi Delta, the obliteration of the city of New Orleans, the murderous abandonment of thousands of people to death, chaos and disease -- will change the Bush Administration or American politics at all."
 

UN raises alarm on death squads and torture in Iraq: Blamed "pro-government militias and urged the authorities to look into reports of systematic torture in police stations."
 

Blair: The stench of hypocrisy: "Blair has lost the public debate with the terrorists and the bombers because he lost the moral high ground by invading Iraq and killing innocent Iraqis in the first place. If Blair and his government were in a morally secure place (ie not having invaded Iraq) then the arguments about the value of British democracy and freedoms and liberties would have real weight."
 

Wayne Madsen, September 8, 2005 -- "German state minister says Bush should be 'shot down.' Christian Democratic Social Minister Andreas Renner of the German state (land) of Baden-Wurttemberg said today that George W. Bush 'ought to be shot down' for his handling of the poor response to the hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans."

"Some evacuees are being treated as 'internees' by FEMA. Reports continue to come into WMR that evacuees from New Orleans and Acadiana who have been scattered across the United States are being treated as 'internees' and not dislocated American citizens from a catastrophe. Some FEMA facilities are preventing these internees from leaving on their own. Reports of mandatory registration and the issuing of FEMA ID cards suggest that FEMA, an agency that is rife with right-wing security goons and severely lacking in humanitarian workers, has other motives in treating poor and destitute American citizens as prisoners in their own country.

"Meanwhile, WMR is receiving reports that mercenary private military contractors (PMCs) are now operating in the New Orleans metropolitan area. These may include foreign nationals with questionable human rights records in their native South Africa, Israel, Colombia, El Salvador, Britain, and Australia. PMCs have been extremely active in occupied Iraq, especially under the aegis of massive Pentagon omnibus contracts awarded to Halliburton and its Kellogg Brown & Root subsidiary. Joseph Allbaugh, the former FEMA director under Bush and current FEMA director Michael 'Brownie' Brown's college roommate, is currently a registered lobbyist for disaster relief business for Kellogg Brown & Root. Allbaugh's lobbying firm is called the Allbaugh Group. Halliburton has recently been awarded lucrative contracts to repair U.S. Naval bases damaged by Katrina.

"The presence of PMCs is worrisome. There are unconfirmed reports of mercenaries shooting residents of New Orleans and that mercenaries are involved in burning the bodies of victims in makeshift crematoria set up throughout the city. Three mercenary companies have been reported to be in the Nedw Orleans area: Blackwater USA, Steele Foundation, and Wackenhut. The reported burning of bodies could be an attempt by the White House to suppress the total death count to an 'acceptable,' 'manageable,' and 'spinnable' level."
 

Iraq rebuilding under threat as US runs out of money (How about this idea: "Stop breaking things?")
 

9/11-PNAC, 9/11-PNAC SHOULD BE THE #1 TOPIC OF DISCUSSION
A WAKE-UP CALL THE ALTERNATIVE AND LIBERAL MEDIA: TO STOP IGNORING 9/11 AND THE PROJECT FOR A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY
 

Riverbend is back ! I confess I was getting worried.
 

WOW! (Thanks, Claude)
 

Riverbend (9 Sept.)
 

Israel's "Disengagement": The Day After

(First 2 paras) - The trouble with the West: "That there is a serious disconnect between Islam and the West is not in doubt; what is hotly contested is whose fault it is. Each side blames the other but, given that the Western media dominate almost all discourse, Islam and Muslims are blamed for everything that goes wrong in the world. There is little or no admission that much of the mayhem in the world is caused primarily by Western policies that affect others in profoundly negative ways.

"Before proceeding further let us clarify what we mean by the West. It is neither a geographic entity nor has it to do merely with people. Many people living in North America and Europe, for instance, are as much victims of Western policies as people living in Africa and Asia. Similarly, most rulers in the Muslim world would come into the category of belonging to the West. Thus, it is more accurate to say that the West is an ideological construct that transcends physical boundaries. In this sense, the West is global, but only insofar as others submit to its policies and advance its interests. It neither wishes to share the material benefits it enjoys nor wants others to acquire the rights as it claims for itself."
 

10,000 told to leave or die (New Orleans)

Second Amendment Nixed in New Orleans: "Not only are soldiers allowed to break down doors (as they do in Iraq) in violation of the Fourth Amendment and even 'shoot to kill' if they believe they are threatened (as soldiers in Iraq 'shoot to kill' grandmothers and kids at Israeli-styled checkpoints), now the Second Amendment no longer exists.

"Our neolib rulers plan for the new New Orleans to serve as a template for the rest of the nation where the Constitution now hangs precariously by a frayed thread. In the event of a 'terrorist attack' and the imposition of martial law, we can expect the lessons learned in the new New Orleans to be practiced elsewhere—shoot to kill for 'looting' food and water, doors kicked in by jackbooted troops who ignore the desperate pleas of hungry and thirsty citizens . . ."
 

"We Were Not Too Keen On Getting Killed For Some Bullshit Reason"

Final draft of Iraq's constitution not in sight: UN: "Confusion reigned in Baghdad about the circumstances surrounding the failure to deliver a final copy of the draft charter to the United Nations, with some negotiators suggesting different parties were seeking to present different texts."

Iraq govt orders airport reopen
 

"Now, the dusty beige surface of the mosque wall is nearly invisible under the black of death announcements. The eye can barely take it all in. The most disquieting thing about the banners is that many of them no longer carry a single name- after the bridge stampede, the banners now announce the deaths of two, three, four members of the same family.

"I’ve been reading and re-reading the draft constitution. It’s alarming. At times it feels like only a summary of what a constitution should be with articles that don’t seem very well thought out- a cut and paste job if there ever was one. It doesn’t seem complete and while in some places it comes across as too vague, in others it comes across as disturbingly elaborate. I’ll have a whole blog about the draft constitution tomorrow- or at least what I’ve understood of it."
 

Robert Jensen, "The Fears of White People": "It may seem self-indulgent to talk about the fears of white people in a white-supremacist society. After all, what do white people really have to be afraid of in a world structured on white privilege? It may be self-indulgent, but it's critical to understand because these fears are part of what keeps many white people from confronting ourselves and the system.

"The first, and perhaps most crucial, fear is that of facing the fact that some of what we white people have is unearned. ..."
 

Disengagement Invigorates Israeli Apartheid: "When the international community was faced with the specter of apartheid in South Africa, it boycotted the regime until it was replaced by a political system that ensured political equality between whites and blacks. After almost sixty years of Israel’s brutal treatment of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants, it should do the same now."
 

Interview with Howard Zinn, The Outer Limits of Empire
TD: I wanted to turn to the issue of war. You've written about the possible end of war not being a purely utopian project. Do you really believe war could end or is it in our genes?

Zinn: Although lots of things are unclear to me, one thing is very clear. It's not in our genes. Whenever I read accounts, even by people who have been in war, that suggest there's something in the masculine psyche that requires this kind of violence and militarism I don't believe it. I say this on the basis of historical experience; that is, if you compare the instances in which people, mostly men, have committed violent acts and gone to war to those in which people have not gone to war, have rejected war, it seems people don't naturally want war.

(Final para)
I also came to the conclusion that, given the technology of modern warfare, war is inevitably a war against children, against civilians. When you look at the ratio of civilian to military dead, it changes from 50-50 in World War II to 80-20 in Vietnam, maybe as high as 90-10 today. Do you know this Italian war surgeon, Gino Strada? He wrote Green Parrots: A War Surgeon's Diary. He was doing war surgery in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other places. Ninety percent of the people he operated on were civilians. When you face that fact, war is now always a war against civilians, and so against children. No political goal can justify it, and so the great challenge before the human race in our time is to solve the problems of tyranny and aggression, and do it without war.
 

No Gas, No Food, No Lodging: "Hurricane Victims Get a Taste of Life in Occupied Iraq"

The End Of The New American Century: "This unmasking has been accomplished by the triple catastrophes of the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and the presidency of George W. Bush."

"Iraq was supposed to have been America’s warning shot to the rest of the world. It was supposed to have said, “We are the top dog now. Mess with us and this is what you will become, a country reduced to rubble and run by our corporate thugs.”

"But the Iraqis ignored the memo. They’d been down this route before with the British, and they weren’t any more willing to abide the new kid on the block. Two years after pulling down the statues of Saddam Hussein, American soldiers are stuck in the latest made-in-the-Pentagon quagmire and sinking fast. The same military that steamrolled Saddam’s weakened and bribed forces can’t make any headway against a shadowy insurgency that gets stronger every day."
 

Guardian, "The chasm between us": "The hollow superpower stands exposed, but it may take a little while for the world to readjust its set to this new reality."

"Yesterday's UN Human Development Report confirms a growing volume of international research showing that extreme inequality within nations does great damage whatever a country's overall wealth. Poorer countries sharing more fairly get better health, crime, education and social results than richer but more unequal countries."

"But before we get too piously smug about America . . . "

Bush's dream of democratic Middle East may rest on engaging with Islamists
 

After Katrina, America's Political Crisis: "The political crisis now confronting the United States can be viewed as a nail-biting thriller in which a harrowing truth slowly dawns on a community, as the threat builds toward a calamity. In movies, the final disaster is usually averted; but in real life, the recognition of the danger sometimes comes too late.

"That is the political significance of the public outrage over the Bush administration’s inept response to Hurricane Katrina – as well as the growing recognition that America finally must confront the threat of global warming, that the Iraq War is a death trap, and that the massive budget and trade deficits are mortgaging the nation’s future."
 

Iran takes over Pipelineistan: "Geopolitically, as a key energy supplier to China as well as India's major supplier, Iran will be in a more than enviable position. Its political relations with both China and India are excellent. Its trans-Caspian alliance with Russia is iron-clad, as both countries are dead-set, in diplomatic language, not to allow "other great foreign powers" to penetrate the Caspian. And Tehran will do all it takes to position itself, long term, as a key supplier to Western Europe as well. This means a peaceful, non-confrontational solution to the nuclear issue will be in the interest of all players involved. But not necessarily in the interest of Washington."

War on Bush's anti-terror tactics: "The American empire will cease to be a target when it ceases directly or indirectly to oppress weaker people or to support those who oppress them. The motives for Muslim terrorists directed against America are no secret."
 

Hunger strikers pledge to die in Guantánamo: "More than 200 detainees in Guantánamo Bay are in their fifth week of a hunger strike."
 

Wayne Madsen, September 9, 2005 -- "Yesterday, the editor participated in a phone interview with the Sahar TV network in Tehran, Iran. I referred to the criminal negligence by the Bush administration that resulted in possibly tens of thousands of deaths in New Orleans, Acadiana, and the Gulf Coast as an "American Holocaust." Since Condoleezza Rice was pre-occupied with a shoe shopping spree in New York and cuddling up to her "husband," the editor took the opportunity to thank Iran's government and people for their offer of disaster recovery teams and money for the people of the Gulf Coast. That offer, like many others from around the world, was rejected by the neo-cons in the Bush administration. They are too busy planning war against countries that offered America assistance (Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba)."
 

The US government agency leading the rescue efforts after Hurricane Katrina said on
Tuesday it does not want the news media to take photographs of the dead as they are
recovered from the flooded New Orleans area.

This is not a surprise when this government lives in a Fantasy land.
They just rate the reality like USgov-PG.
And they claim to be THE model of Freedom, Free Speech.
A country who can face the reality is simply a Joke.
 

I would say " a country who can NOT face the reality is a Joke"
 

Google 'failure', and see the first entry out of 226,000,000 !!

Why does Google hate America??
 

Adib: You mean this??!!!
 

"He's no failure. He's not dead yet."
(George, William Lloyd)
 

Name the author -

"Nothing he [Saddam Hussein] has done has convinced me - I'm confident the Secretary of Defense - that he is the kind of fellow that is willing to forgo weapons of mass destruction, is willing to be a peaceful neighbor, that is - will honor the people - the Iraqi people of all stripes, will - values human life. He hasn't convinced me, nor has he convinced my administration."

 

Being farsighted, he also said this -

"There's no cave deep enough for America, or dark enough to hide."
 

Evelyn

I believe Adib meant this, maybe this and certainly that.
 

Thanks, Dr. Khadduri. I needed that! Especially the last one. (I try to stay hopeful.)
 

Wayne Madsen, September 9, 2005 -- Dallas meeting plans reconstruction of New Orleans without poor African Americans: "According to well-informed New Orleans sources, New Orleans' wealthiest families . . . are meeting in Dallas today with Bush administration officials, New Orleans city officials, wealthy Texas oilmen, and bankers to plan for the reconstruction of New Orleans. . . .

"The Dallas meeting focused on rebuilding and re-zoning New Orleans without the 'criminal element,' a code word for the city's poor African American community.

"These New Orleans residents have been scattered across the United States and are now under the control of FEMA. There is an understanding by the wealthy New Orleans elite the poor will never be able to return. . . . New Orleans sources report that public transportation was purposely not used to evacuate the poor New Orleans residents as a means to depopulate the poorer and more flood-prone sections of the city. In fact, after the properties in New Orleans poorer communities are razed many of the deed records of the poor and middle class contained in government offices and title companies of Orleans Parish and neighboring Jefferson Parish may end up being casualties of the flood. As one New Orleans source put it, 'people will not have proof they ever owned anything.' As for renters and residents of public housing, they will be prevented from returning to their native city, according to New Orleans sources. Louisiana's Republican House member Richard Baker, a strong Bush ally, may have tipped his hand about the future plans for New Orleans when he told a group of lobbyists, 'We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did.'"
 

Tal Afar Residents Send Out SOS: "Residents of the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar has sent out an SOS to the international community to interfere with the US occupation authorities to stop their continuing bombing of their devastated city, revealing a terrible humanitarian situation.

"'US and Iraqi forces are still besieging Tal Afar amid ongoing intensive bombing, ordering residents of Hassan Kawi and Sarray neighborhoods to evacuate immediately,' a Tal Afar tribal leader told IOL over the phone Thursday, September 8.

"'The Americans are seemingly bombing the city with chemical weapons,' he said, adding Tal Afar residents are speaking of suffocations and other health problems upon exposure to any hit area.

"Residents told IOL over the phone that they saw an ambulance driver trying to evacuate 10 corpses on a Hassan Kawi street. When he tried to move them to the morgue, US forces refused and ordered him to speed away.

"US and Iraqi troops have been besieging the city since Saturday, September 3, and were reportedly gearing up for a large-scale offensive."
 

Ex-Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has accused the UK of "state-initiated terror" in a speech: "'The British and American bomber pilots came, unopposed, safe and cosy in their state of the art aircraft, pressing buttons to drop bombs, to kill and maim.'

"'Who are the terrorists? The people below who were bombed or the bombers? Whose rights have been snatched away?'

"Dr Mahathir also turned on Western human rights campaigners, who he said had ignored the plight of the Iraqi people during a decade of sanctions that followed the first Gulf war.

"Half a dozen European diplomats joined the British High Commissioner, Bruce Cleghorn, in walking out."
 

Apartheid America and the Right of Return
 

AN ARTICLE THAT CONNECTS THE DOTS (The first 4 paragraphs follow)
The 911 Pentagon Engine Story

Several months ago, Karl Schwarz got the 9/11, Iraq War Truth ball rolling when he discovered that Bridas Corporation of Argentina beat out Unocal Corporation to build a pipeline across Afghanistan to the rich Caspian Sea oil deposits. (This is oil that costs less than $5 a barrel to bring to market. A barrel is 55 gallons.) The Bush Administration claims, of course, that they invaded Afghanistan to hunt down Osama Bin Laden living in a cave who the Afghanistan government would not give up without proof that he did 9/11. World citizens still waiting for that proof!

http://smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=18312&mode
=thread&order=0&thold=0

The Iraq Petroleum Company was nationalized in 1972 eliminating US-UK oil company control. (Iraqi oil costs $1 a barrel to bring to market and is high quality.) Just before the Gulf War (1990-91), Japanese companies negotiated for production-sharing contracts in Iraq and were said to have concluded a deal for the large Majnoun field, but that deal collapsed due to the US-led war and the subsequent sanctions.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/2002/12heart.htm

SEE THE PATTERN: Invade countiies that deal with nonUS-UK oil companies.

Brit George Galloway and Wayne Madsen reported that the Bush Administration was allowing UN sanction busting by U.S.oil companies with long-standing connections to the Bush family and their largest corporate benefactors, including Condoleezza Rice's employer, Chevron.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/UN%20oil%20for%20food.htm

George Galloway was rewarded for that report when the CIA targeted his district in the London Bombing:

http://www.respectcoalition.org/index.php?ite=821
 

Iraqi forces launch attack on Tal Afar: "Thousands of Iraqi and U.S. troops launched an assault on the northern city of Tal Afar on Saturday to rid it of insurgents and Iraq's government said it planned attacks on rebels in four other towns.

"Beyond any military value, the political importance of an operation in which Iraqi forces are shown on television taking the lead role is considerable; in power for five months and facing an election in December, Jaafari's much-criticized government is keen to show it is capable of restoring security.

"For Washington, anxious to persuade American voters that it can bring troops home soon as Iraqi forces are trained up, the operation is also a useful showcase for the new Iraqi army.

"U.S. forces which have taken the lead in all similar major offensives in the past, such as that on Falluja last November, had previously taken Tal Afar but subsequently pulled out again.

"Jaafari stressed the lead role played by Iraqi troops. U.S. military spokesmen declined comment. Iraqi television showed repeated film of Iraqi troops in Tal Afar with no sign of U.S. soldiers."
 

Iraqi president rules out immediate ties with Israel
(Make of this story what you will.)

Despite armor, more Iraq troops dying in Humvees
 

Kurt Nimmo, Katrina and the Constitution: the Rules Have Changed: "In due course, the rules will change for all of us as the Bush crime syndicate chips away at the Constitution and erects piecemeal its global forced labor gulag and commences with its thievery of natural resources and undertakes imperial wars designed to shock and awe (or starve and dehydrate) the recalcitrant into submission."

Kurt Nimmo, Business Elite Ethnically Cleanse the Poor in New Orleans: "Is it possible the 'business elite' in New Orleans deliberately sabotaged the levees, thus flooding poor areas of the city and ethnically cleansing thousands of poor people, most of them African-American? It wouldn’t be the first time.

"Is it possible the 'business elite' in New Orleans engineered a new 'Great Migration of African-Americans' because the city is to become a Las Vegas on the Mississippi? If so, as history demonstrates, it wouldn’t be the first time."
 

The Green Zone: "In the future, I believe September 11, 2001 will become identified with peak oil. While oil production did not actually peak on that particular day, it’s close enough for government work. Our entire civilization, with its quaint middle classes and obsolete Geneva Conventions and Bill of Rights, is based on the false assumption of unlimited access to cheap oil.

“'Peak oil' means that we have used half of all the available, non-renewable oil deposits in the world. It means that production will drop from this point on. But it’s much more than that. It means we’ve already used all the oil that is easily extracted and pure. From here on out, the going gets rough.

"What we’re fighting for in Iraq and all around the globe is the Green Zone, a rarefied bubble of corporate privilege and private wealth so great that its possessors can create a separate, unaccountable reality for themselves."
 

A New Constitution: "Iraq's new leadership is in a Catch-22: It can't survive without a huge U.S. presence but until it asks the Americans to leave, millions of Iraqis will consider it illegitimate.

"The most gaping hole in the Constitution, the one that virtually guarantees a healthy insurgency for years to come, is the one around Article 108 where there should have been a clause stating that no foreign troops are allowed to maintain long-term or permanent bases on Iraqi soil. Such a clause is the absolute sine qua non for the termination of the Sunni insurgency and the pacification of Muqtada' al-Sadr's unruly forces. Without it, the violence will certainly continue for the foreseeable future."
 

Rabbi: Hurricane punishment for pullout: "Hurricane Katrina is a punishment meted out by God as a result of U.S. President George W. Bush’s support for the Gaza and northern West Bank disengagement, Shas spiritual leader and former Chief Sephardic Rabbi Ovadia Yosef said Tuesday.

"Notably, the rabbi chose to openly declare what many ultra-Orthodox believers have said for a while now, namely that recent naturally disasters in the U.S. are a direct result of American support for the pullout."
(Trusting readers to understand the spirit in which this is posted.)

Suicide car bomb kills Iraqi woman, wounds 3
 

SALAH AL-MUKHTAR SPEAKS (Part Four)
 

How United States Intervention Against Venezuela Works (Part 1 of 3): "It is no secret that the government of the United States is carrying out a program of operations in favor of the Venezuelan political opposition to remove President Hugo Chávez Frías and the coalition of parties that supports him from power. The budget for this program, initiated by the administration of Bill Clinton and intensified under George W. Bush, has risen from some $2 million in 2001 to $9 million in 2005, and it disguises itself as activities to 'promote democracy,' 'resolve conflicts,' and 'strengthen civic life.' It consists of providing money, training, counsel and direction to an extensive network of political parties, NGO’s, mass media, unions, and businessmen, all determined to end the bolivarian revolutionary process. The program has clear short, medium, and long-term goals, and adapts easily to changes in the fluid Venezuelan political process."

(Only $9 million in 2005 for this worthy cause? Can't begin to buy off enough "civic leaders" for such a paltry sum. Probably lots more hidden away.)
 

Food and the US Arsenal: "In New Orleans food aid is provided only to those who leave the city and in the Astrodome US military recruiters are attempting to recruit young men and women without too many alternatives into their wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Meanwhile overseas, Jay Lefkowitz, the new US envoy on human rights, is suggesting that the paltry food aid provided to northern Korea by the US should be tied to its human rights record. Of course, the government of Colombia was recently recertified by the United States State Department for continued military and other US aid-aid that primarily goes to continuing that government's appalling record of human rights abuse in its battle against labor activists, rural reformers, and antigovernment rebels. Then again, doesn't the US provide billions of dollars to the government of Israel, most of it for use by the Israeli Defense Forces in their continued repression of the Palestinian people? And doesn't that repression include torture, mass imprisonment without charges, and the intentional destruction of Palestinian homes and infrastructure? In addition, the 200,000 prisoners in northern Korean prisons is proportionately about the same as the more than 2,000,000 in prisons and jails across the United States. While there may be more northern Koreans in prison for crimes against the government, I'm certain that there are more prisoners in US prisons for the crime of being poor."
 

THE AMERICAN 'CORRECTIONS' SYSTEM AS 'FREE ENTERPRISE' (seriously)

U.S. Prison Population Grew by Some 900 Inmates Per Week Between 2003, 2004: "[T]he nation's prisons and jails held 2.1 million people, or one in every 138 U.S. residents. ... While the crime rate has fallen over the past decade, the number of people in prison and jail is outpacing the number of inmates released. ... [T]he United States has a higher rate of incarceration than any other country, followed by Britain, China, France, Japan and Nigeria."
 

October 2004, "National Geographic" (Read it and weep)
 

Our leader says -

"I think we agree, the past is over."
 

US could leave Iraq in two years, says president: "Iraq President Jalal Talabani on Friday warned that an abrupt withdrawal of United States forces from his country 'could lead to the victory of the terrorists in Iraq' and make Iraq more vulnerable to interference from neighbouring countries.

"But in a speech at the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington, Talabani hinted that if all goes well, the US-led coalition could leave within two years."

(Note the operative modifier.)
 

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In The Mirror Of The Water: "New Orleans as a portrait of ourselves and our future"

"9/11 taught us that our government will sacrifice 3,000 of its own best and brightest without blinking an eye. New Orleans is the message that the number eligible in this category, especially if they’re black, is much, much higher.

"And it is a confession that a real population control program is moving into high gear.

"Where will your dreams be then? Floating on the bayou, baby, with all the other dead birds."
 

World summit on UN's future heads for chaos: "Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, has made a personal plea to his American counterpart, Condoleezza Rice, for the US to withdraw opposition to plans for wholesale reform of the UN. He has asked Ms Rice to rein in John Bolton, the US ambassador to the world body.

"The British government, in a rare divergence from the US, is fully behind Mr Annan's reforms and fears the summit will fail to build on the agreements on aid reached at the G8 summit at Gleneagles.

"Aid agencies and other international groups monitoring the talks expressed fears yesterday that ambitious goals on aid, protection of civilians and curbs on the arms trade will be lost."
 

Security Contractors in Iraq Under Scrutiny After Shootings: "Ismael, his older brother Bayez and their driver had just pulled into traffic behind a convoy of four Chevrolet Suburbans, which police believe belonged to an American security contractor stationed nearby. The back door of the last vehicle swung open, the brothers said in interviews, and a man wearing sunglasses and a tan flak jacket leaned out and leveled his rifle.

"'I thought he was just trying to scare us, like they usually do, to keep us back. But then he fired,' said Ismael, 20. His scalp was still marked by a bald patch and four-inch purple scar from a bullet that grazed his head and left him bleeding in the back seat of his Toyota Land Cruiser.

"Private security companies pervade Iraq's dusty highways, their distinctive sport-utility vehicles packed with men waving rifles to clear traffic in their path. ..."
 

(Note: Wayne Madsen's articles, packed with info. often unavailable elsewhere, are not date linked.)
Wayne Madsen, September 10, 2005; Disaster disinformation. How the United States lied about its military casualties from the Indian Ocean tsumani: According to informed sources in Thailand, the Bush administration largely succeeded in covering up at least 300 U.S. military and paramilitary deaths from last December's Indian Ocean tsunami. The American deaths resulted from the destruction by the surging sea of a joint U.S.-Thai Naval Intelligence Command on Phi Phi island, just north of Phuket on the Indian Ocean coast. A focus of the joint command was Thailand's indigeneous population of Chao Le ("sea gypsies') who are about 90 percent Muslim. The Chao Le, a Malay people, ply the Andaman Sea and maintain commerce with fellow Chao Le along the coasts of Malaysia and Myanmar (Burma). The intelligence command also provided protection for increased (and secretive) U.S. and British oil and gas exploration activity in the Andaman Sea off Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, and east India. A number of private military contractors (PMCs) working with the U.S.-Thai command and oil companies, were also killed by the tsunami but there are no hard figures on their total death count.

Immediately after the destruction of the U.S.-Thai naval installation, three U.S. 7th Fleet Navy ships were dispatched from Hong Kong, where they were docked for Christmas, to the area off Phi Phi island. For three days, U.S. helicopters airlifted the bodies of foreign military personnel to the three offshore Navy ships. In addition, Israel immediately sent a military medical team to Krabi to identify the bodies of Israeli frogmen recovered from Phi Phi. It is believed that Israel lost a large number of frogmen in Thailand since just after the tsunami, it warned Egypt to keep all ships away from its Gulf of Aqaba coast, a sign that its naval defenses were weakened by the loss of the frogmen. Britain also sent a team of divers to search for British military personnel lost at the Phi Phi base and the surrounding region. CIA personnel zealously guarded the body storage areas holding the bodies of the American and foreign military personnel not airlifted to the Navy ships.

Although the U.S.-Thai base was secret, the foreign military presence (including mercenaries) was very noticeable to the non-fundamentalist Muslims, because of the physical and verbal abusive tactics of the Americans and other foreigners, especially their harsh treatment of local businessmen and their drunkeness and patronage of prostitutes, notably in Patong Beach. The Bangkok Post reported that a large number of "farangs" (ex-patriates) were secretly buried in Takua Pa and it is believed these included some of the U.S. military and mercenary forces in the Phuket region. The paper also reported that 300 U.S. military personnel were killed in the tsunami, although the story was not picked up by the foreign major media. U.S. "missing in action" (MIA) teams were sent from Hawaii, Laos, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina to exhume the bodies from Takua Pa to identify missing U.S. Special Operations Command personnel. The Bush administration largely succeeded in censoring this story. As for the military deaths, it is common Pentagon practice to label the deaths of military members on covert operations as "training accidents" or "non-combat related deaths."
 

What can we do ? An e-mail campaign, telling the Pentagon "we demand to know what is going on in Tal Afar - can UN observers or something be sent ?"
 

Claude,
Thanks for raising the question. Impossible to judge what would get their attention. Media focus would be great, but what would it take? I don't know. But people must do what they can. Anyone with links for significant agencies / individuals / contacts worldwide, perhaps leave info / links here. One individual, of course, with world wide credibility, is Nelson Mandela. Feedback, please.

In the meantime, Department of Defence
(1) Fax: (703) 697-9080 (which I understand is most productive form of communication).
(2) Complete list of email links

Congress.org (Message Recipient: Donald Rumsfeld)

Also, conservativeusa.org! Check it out. Masses of contact info provided.

(If you find above links don't work, please leave a message. I've not checked them out.)
 

German plane with 15 tons of aid turned back from U.S.
 

POLICE STATE IN AMERICA: Now Bush can lock up anyone forever without charge; The final levee has given way...
 

Iraq: A study in violence
Five-fold violence - The political scientist Fred R von der Mehden, a former professor at the University of Wisconsin, says that there are five kinds of violence that apply to different countries, during different times. If allowed to get out of hand, all of them lead to revolution. In Iraq, every single one of the five forms of violence applies today.

The first violence, called primordial, is that which erupts due to conflict among different people living in the same community. This conflict is born from differences in ethnicity and religion. These people carry the same national identity, but are competing over power and privileges in their country. This is what the Kurds, Shi'ites, and Sunnis have been doing, thanks to the Americans, since 2003.

The second violence is separatist violence. Most of the time, this results from primordial violence. This violence has one objective: a separation movement that demands independence for specific territory. This is what the Kurds will be doing if their status is not maintained in Iraqi Kurdistan.

The third violence is revolutionary violence. This violence aims at overthrowing, or toppling, an existing regime and replacing it with a new one. This is something that the Sunnis would love to achieve at this stage.

The fourth kind of violence is coup violence, which results after a military takeover. This, too, is very likely to happen in Iraq, given the high number of disgruntled officers in the Iraqi army. The new army is created mainly from Shi'ites, who are combating the Sunni insurgency, further dividing the fractured communities.

The fifth violence is "violence over issues". Historically, this violence can be over unemployment, war, security, corruption or simply objection to clauses in a constitutional draft.
 

Interestingly, the above article begins with the two following paragraphs:

"In 1990, the late Indian premier Rajiv Gandhi went to Iran to discuss problems in the Middle East with Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Gandhi asked the president who would, should or could replace Saddam Hussein as president of Iraq.

"After thinking for a moment, Rafsanjani replied, 'Saddam Hussein'. Only someone as strong (and ruthless) as Saddam could rule a country as divided, diverse and complicated as Iraq. Until very recently, such an idea was unacceptable to the millions of people who had celebrated the downfall of the Iraqi dictator in March 2003. Iraq was free of dictatorship, these people argued, and would now embark on a new path of democracy and prosperity."
 

Are things going from bad to worse? Several months ago, President Bush appointed his trusted confidante, Karen Hughes, to make people in the Middle East (or was it the "Muslim Nations"?) love us. This article asserts Hughes was to "be responsible for kick-starting America’s diplomatic marketing effort in the Muslim world."

Something seems not to be working according to script. Now this poor lone highly-paid Republican puppeteer is commissioned with fixing our image worldwide!

"Ideological commandos and rapid-response teams will be assisting in this endeavour."

(Strange, but there is this simplistic notion floating around amongst the simple minded people of the world that if we would just stop killing people everyone could get on with their lives.)
 

Kurds first, Iraq second
(My ignorance is too great to know which portions of this article to extract. Read it and make up your own minds. The article goes to the heart of much of the anger generated at this site.)
 

"Our Neighbor - The Enemy", by Carlos Herrera, a Bolivarian grass roots activist living in Venezuela.

"The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq should not be a surprise for anyone. But what differentiates them from the list of historical invasions listed below is the public’s knowledge of the mass butchery, violation of human rights, torture, drug running all of which infringe the international conventions to which the U.S. has agreed. All this is carried out in the name of national security of the US and the ability to fill up an SUV in Manhatten with cheap gasoline whenever one has an itch. (Albeit that pleasure may be changing as I write). The obvious question: "Is it really worth it when it is a matter of time that the war will eventually come home as it did in Madrid and London?"

"The world now knows that impeaching President Bush and prosecuting Rumsfeld, Powell and the rest who lied their way into war will be the only way for the U.S. to gain any international credibility. Lies, lies topped off by more lies and disinformation has been the recipe of this neo-fascist administration in order to achieve its geopolitical, geoeconomic and geostrategic goals. It is imperative that the people of the United States push forward an agenda of impeachment and adjudication for war crimes via the antiwar movement. Get organized and just do it! By acting on this initiative on September 24th, you will be doing your neighbors to the South a huge favor, especially for those of us in Venezuela - obviously a tempting target for the Neocon oil guzzlers.

"Readers can clearly see from the long list of invasions, interventions and wars in Latin American, beginning in 1846 by the U.S. - that past administrations have been just as aggressive in terms of foreign policy as the current one. Please note that we are only referring to Latin America, - not other adventures in other parts of the world (Vietnam, Philippines or Kosovo, for example); nor are we including the slaughter and theft of lands from the indigenous peoples of the North American continent, after to the arrival of the Europeans.

"U.S. citizens should know: There is no confusion on our part about who the enemy is. Our enemy in Latin American is the United States government: US imperialism, the CIA and DEA and the U.S.-led global corporate empire - all of which are represented by the Neocons in Washington. They are the danger and it was no surprise when China and Russia recently held joint military exercises for the first time in history, in order to send a clear message to the Bush administration to 'keep their nose out' of their interests.

"With their present stance, the Neocons are not just the enemies of poor Latin Americans and Muslims, they are in fact the enemy of the people of the United States ... and the enemy of mankind. They will gradually destroy the planet, exploit its resources both human and material unless they are stopped. Then people will wonder why the oceans are rising, there is no ozone layer, threatening most life forms with extinction - all due to the lust for money, power, profits to satiate the diabolical greed of a 'few good men'.

"They have to go and I can assure US citizens and readers that 500 million Latinos will do everything we can to help you get these people out of government for the good of everyone.

"Please take a few moments to read the list of atrocities we in Latin America have had to deal with by US actions in our region. Perhaps it will help you better understand what will happen to your homeland, your sons and daughters and grandchildren as your civil and human rights continue to gradually erode, 'legally', by the establishment of 'Homeland Security' and the Patriot Acts."

History of US invasions and interventions in Latin America 1846 - 2004

(Note: Over 90 Latin American invasions and interventions are listed / discussed. As a rule, when taught in U.S. history classes, these interventions and the justifying "policies" are presented as some sort of "necessity" or "divine right" (though, of course that term is not used). They are "inevitabilities" required by our government to protect us from the evil "other". Always it is "us" vs. "them", the latter never enjoying quite the same human qualities as ourselves. Transcending this rote learning is nothing short of a miracle - or very fortunate circumstance. What price ignorance.)
 

Iraq PM approves all-out assault on rebel town: "Iraqi Defence Minister Saadun al-Dulaimi said Saturday that 141 insurgents had been killed and 197 captured in the previous two days.

"Jaafari insisted that the offensive was not aimed at any particular ethnic group in the town, which is divided between Sunni Arabs and Shiite Turkmen, some of whom have fled the town in recent months complaining of persecution by the Sunni rebels.

"Iraqi and US troops were acting 'on behalf of all the different religious and ethnic elements in Tal Afar and in response to their appeals for help.'

"But the town's Sunni Arab mayor, Mohammed Rasheed, disagreed, tendering his resignation in protest at what he described as a sectarian operation.

"'The operation is targeting Sunni neighbourhoods,' he complained, adding that he did not believe the assault would solve the town's problems.

"'The problem is sectarian,' he said. 'It cannot be solved through military operations. It should be done through negotiations and cooperation with the leaders of Sunni and Shiite tribes.'"
 

Hell in Iraq, US soldiers speak out: "Soldiers describe pulling 48- to 72-hour shifts and being out on patrol or guarding the base when sleep deprivation clouds their judgment. They describe equipment shortages — of everything from flashlights to laser-sighted scopes to medicine for insect bites. And they describe a frenetic pace coupled with shifting missions that they believe has needlessly endangered their lives and left them soured on the military.

"When the 216th Air Defense Artillery Echo Battery left Cloquet, Minn., in August 2004, it left as one unit ready to join Operation Iraqi Freedom.

"What the National Guard unit couldn't know is that they would soon be split — with half the soldiers sent to guard an American contractor's compound in Saudi Arabia and the other half sent 'to hell,' according to soldiers now guarding the Daura oil refinery near Baghdad."
 

Insurgents Vanish From Stronghold in Iraq

Iraq families flee as US-led forces raid rebel town
 

Who Murdered Arafat?: "Most of the doctors interviewed by Haaretz testified that the symptoms point towards poisoning, and, in fact, are incompatible with any other cause.

"In the absence of symptoms of any known disease, and since clear indications of poisoning were present, the highest probability is that Yasser Arafat was indeed poisoned while having dinner four hours before the first symptoms appeared.

"If he was poisoned - by whom was he poisoned?

"First suspicion falls, of course, on the Israeli security establishment.

"But if not the Israelis, who? The US intelligence services also have the necessary capabilities. President Bush never hid his hatred for Arafat, an obstinate leader who did not submit to his dictates.

"There are many people in Israel who hoped that without him the Palestinian society would break apart, that anarchy would destroy its very foundations, that armed factions would kill each other and the national leadership. They are certainly glad that Arafat is dead and pray for the failure of Mahmoud Abbas.

"Arafat assured me once that we would both see peace in our lifetime. He was prevented from seeing the day. He who caused this - whoever he is - has sinned not only against the Palestinian people, but also against peace, and therefore against Israel."
 

"In Bushzarro world, it is apparently 'free speech' to threaten people with violence and summary execution. Apparently it is perfectly normal in the current political climate in America to make such threats and not be arrested and confined for psychological observation."
 

"Unless this probe starts and ends in the White House, unless it hangs Bush himself up by his monkey ears and dangles him over a river of toxic Louisiana sewage, it's merely useless and insulting."

"[T]he new American motto: Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, and we'll let them die in a filthy and decrepit storm-ravaged American football stadium while our president languishes on vacation and ponders his oil futures and fondly remembers his good ol' days of getting drunk at Mardi Gras before going AWOL from the military. God bless America."
 

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