Soldiers' Families Question Rumsfeld on Deployment
The wives of soldiers whose duty in Iraq was extended to add troop strength to Baghdad peppered US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with tough questions, some that he could not answer, at a closed-door meeting in Alaska on Saturday.
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Robin Morgan | Manhood and Moral Waivers
Her birthday is August 19, her death day March 12. We cannot let this crime, too, pass into oblivion. When news surfaced that GIs allegedly stalked, terrorized, gang-raped, and killed an Iraqi woman, the US tried minimizing this latest atrocity by our troops-claiming the victim was age 25 or even 50, implying a rape-murder is less horrific if the victim is an older woman.
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Jonathan Alter | Bush Still Blind to the Poverty
"How could George W. Bush have blown the aftermath of Katrina?" wonders Jonathan Alter. "It's not as if he lacks confidence in the power of his office."
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Pipelines to 9/11
Rudo de Ruijter, POACThis article is about backgrounds of the US war against Afghanistan. It is about oil, gas and pipelines around the Caspian Sea. To transport oil and gas from the east side of the Caspian Sea, pipelines had been planned through Afghanistan. Because a US company, UNOCAL, failed to control the Afghan route, the war was prepared. When the military was ready to strike, the terrorists of 9/11 gave Bush the pretext to start this war and obtain support from Congress, the U.S. pop! ulation and the rest of the world...
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Civilian Casualties of War
NATO pilots accused of killing Afghan children
Nato pilots have been accused of killing 13 Afghan civilians, including nine children, during an attack close to the British base at Musa Kala in Helmand province.
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Palistinians, and the rest of the People of the area, Have A Voice Also, That Isn't Heard Listened To!! With the recent Devestation 'Who Is Wanting To Drive Whom Into The Sea??'!!!
Zionist state of "Israel" seems to be in moral, political, and psychiatric free fall
PalestineFreeVoice"Israel's" goals in Palestine and Lebanon are inherently irrational. They, argues Issa Khalaf*, represent a distorted rationalisation of power and create the conditions for consequences that "Israel" cannot control. As we witness the unfolding spectacle of ferocious, indiscriminate violence, destruction, and brutality in Gaza and Lebanon, it's difficult to resist the conclusion that there is something terribly ! wrong with the "Israeli" state and society. It's as though all moral and psychological constraints and boundaries have been breached, deviancy normalised...
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