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Iraq "Last Chance Texaco"

"Newly-appointed Tasmanian governor and former weapons inspector Richard Butler says the US administration believes it can operate outside the rules "
- onya Richard, ...he spoke at Newcastle U last Tuesday, I'm trying to get a transcript. As Governator he promised to muzzle himself on Politics, but evidently he cant resist...
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more KIA since MayDay when dat ol boy Bush hit dat carrier deck dan before

Cent Com Florida. 141 post MayDay ... cf 137 from March 19 to April 30

World Bank and IMF pull out of Iraq

Watch for Médecins Sans Frontières to pull out, then we'll know the situation really is "Last chance Texaco" (apology to EmmyLou)

Swarming and the Future of Protesting
Weapons Of Mass Deception
Danny Schechter, your news dissector MediaChannel.org

Embedded: Weapons Of Mass Deception, an online book from Tony Sutton


"Big Lies..was excerpted all last week in Salon"

"Britain becomes the doormat on which the US government can wipe its bloodstained boots.
A month go we discovered that our home secretary had secretly concluded an extradition treaty with the US that permits the superpower to extract British nationals without presenting evidence before a court.Britain acquires no such rights in the US."
George Monbiot London calling

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Winston Churchill as British colonial secretary, described Iraq as an "ungrateful volcano."

David Corn's forthcoming The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception, due out from Crown Publishers in September.
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Sydney Morning Herald 18 August 03 Paul McGeough Baghdad:
"..the most frequent sound from within is an aggressive and very USAnian: "Shut the f--- up" ... the house is ransacked for documents and weapons.
And it seems, money. The Herald photographer, Jason South watches as one of the US soldiers pockets a small wad of US cash from a handbag he comes across as he goes through the contents of a wardrobe"

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Wilson's sin (in the eyes of the vengeful Bushies) was that he went public about a trip he took to Niger in February 2002--at the request of the CIA--during which he investigated the allegation that Iraq was shopping for uranium there. He concluded that the charge was "highly doubtful."

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The "New Yorker", aka "Vanity Fair and Unbalanced" can still hit hard:
Selective Intelligence by Seymour M. Hersh

Bremer: What I did on my Holiday

"...The day after Paul Bremer stood before the World Economic Forum in Jordan and announced that he would unilaterally sell off Iraq's national assets to foreign private companies, saboteurs blew the gas pipeline that cut off electricity to Baghdad and all of central Iraq"
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"The Bush administration suspended all USAnian military assistance to 35 countries today because they refused to pledge to give USAnian citizens immunity before the International Criminal Court"

.. If this was serious it would be very good news for the people, because USAnian military "aid" consists of weapons and torture methods to be used against them. Sadly it is not serious, Bush doesnt actually mean what he says "all military assistance" translates to a few million cut from the billions.
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"There are some who feel like that conditions are such that they can attack us there," Bush told .. "My answer is bring them on"
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