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The illusion of phased withdrawal

Posted on November 29, 2005 by Team VCS

A consensus is slowly building in the United States among both congressional Republicans and Democrats that a phased withdrawal of all US forces from Iraq will begin next year. Whether euphemized as “redeployment” or described frankly as withdrawal, the new … Continue reading →

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Shake and Bake: United States should stop using white phosphorus in Iraq

Posted on November 29, 2005 by Team VCS

Shake and Bake Let us pause and count the ways the conduct of the war in Iraq has damaged America’s image and needlessly endangered the lives of those in the military. First, multilateralism was tossed aside. Then the post-invasion fiasco … Continue reading →

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Bush’s fascist Valhalla

Posted on November 29, 2005 by Team VCS

Bush’s fascist Valhalla The strategy to militarize the country is moving forward as planned despite apparent setbacks in Iraq. As the Washington Post reported on Nov. 27 the Dept of Defense is expanding its domestic surveillance activity to allow Pentagon … Continue reading →

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Up in the Air: Where is the Iraq War Headed Next?

Posted on November 28, 2005 by Team VCS

UP IN THE AIR: Where is the Iraq war headed next? by Seymour M. Hersh, New Yorker, Posted November 28, 2005 (for December 5, 2005 edition) In recent weeks, there has been widespread speculation that President George W. Bush, confronted by … Continue reading →

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Reporter’s Notebook: In Baghdad, Capital Vistas Gradually Shrink With Insecurity

Posted on November 27, 2005 by Team VCS

Reporter’s Notebook: In Baghdad, Capital Vistas Gradually Shrink With Insecurity By Robin Wright, Washington Post, Friday, November 25, 2005 BAGHDAD — Five months after the fall of Baghdad, I went to Iraq with Colin Powell. It was the first visit … Continue reading →

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Iraq War, Fallujah, and White Phosphorus

Posted on November 27, 2005 by Team VCS

A War Crime Within a War Crime Within a War Crime The revelations from Falluja are piling up By George Monbiot, The Guardian, November 22, 2005 The media couldn’t have made a bigger pig’s ear of the white phosphorus story. … Continue reading →

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‘War on terror’ tactics pull US into a legal minefield

Posted on November 26, 2005 by Team VCS

The Bush administration appeared this week to have circumvented what might have become a messy Supreme Court battle over its right to detain indefinitely US citizens it suspects of being terrorists. By filing criminal charges against Jose Padilla, a US … Continue reading →

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‘Cheney is Vice President for Torture’

Posted on November 26, 2005 by Team VCS

The devastating accusations have been made by Admiral Stansfield Turner who labelled Dick Cheney “a vice president for torture”. He said: “We have crossed the line into dangerous territory”. The American Senate says torture should be banned – whatever the … Continue reading →

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Padilla Case Tests the Patriot Act

Posted on November 25, 2005 by Team VCS

The government’s 11th-hour decision to dump the ridiculous case of accused ”dirty bomber” Jose Padilla on the criminal court to which it should have been referred nearly four years ago is Exhibit A against the Patriot Act as currently written. … Continue reading →

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Will the US Seize the Opening for Troop Withdrawal?

Posted on November 25, 2005 by Team VCS

The surprising degree of consensus reached by the main Iraqi factions at the Arab League-orchestrated Reconciliation Conference in Cairo last weekend sharply undercuts the unilateral, guns-and-puppets approach of the Bush administration to the deteriorating situation in Iraq. The common demand … Continue reading →

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