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Bush Ignores CIA Evidence
President Bush has said he will decide on the basis of “the best intelligence” whether to make war on Iraq. He has gone on record assuring the nation that “we’ve got the best intelligence, thanks to the men and women … Continue reading
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Is America Turning Toward “Night”
*** Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little … Continue reading
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Anger and Fear Don’t Justify Iraq War
Perhaps the threat of war is only to force Saddam Hussein to accept inspectors. If that is what George W. Bush has been doing all along, the war resolution was a mere chess move, with Congress the pawns. One of … Continue reading
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U.S. Trained Iraqi Chemical Weapons Experts
November 22, 2002 SEATTLE — U.N. weapons inspectors should have no trouble communicating with some of the scientists in Iraq’s weapons program. After the Gulf War it was discovered that many of Saddam Hussein’s top engineers were educated in the … Continue reading
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Students Walk Out of Class, Protest Gulf War II
Sonoma County high school and college students walked out of classes Wednesday to protest a possible war against Iraq, part of a national demonstration for peace. About 300 students gathered to listen to speeches and sing protest songs at Sonoma … Continue reading
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A Call to Arms by a Gulf War Veteran
Scott Ritter, the ex-Marine and former U.N. arms inspector, peppered his Veterans Day talk at the University of Maryland with the kinds of questions and challenges that are known to fire up an audience. “The average age of a lance … Continue reading
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Depleted Uranium: America’s Military ‘Gift’ That Keeps on Giving
Despite scant coverage in the U.S. media, a controversy over depleted-uranium ammunition used in the Gulf and Balkan wars has been raging in Europe. Several governments that provided troops for these conflicts fear that a rash of unexplained illnesses in … Continue reading
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New Homeland Law Exempts “Leaky Gas Masks”
The triumphant Bush White House won a fresh victory yesterday when its homeland security bill was passed by the Senate. The Democrats had suspended their efforts to block the bill. It will implement the biggest US government reorganisation in a … Continue reading
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Gulf War II Censorship Begins
WASHINGTON – When Army Times writer Sean Naylor linked up with the 101st Airborne Division in Kandahar to cover the Afghanistan fighting, he found that instead of the traditional practice of being housed with the troops, reporters were ”quarantined” in … Continue reading
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What Bodies?
Leon Daniel, as did others who reported from Vietnam during the 1960s, knew about war and death. So he was puzzled by the lack of corpses at the tip of the Neutral Zone between Saudi Arabia and Iraq on Feb. … Continue reading
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